McCarty 594 electric guitar from the PRS SE series
High gloss Charcoal finish
Set-neck construction with 24.594" scale length (624.7 mm)
Mahogany body
Maple top with curly maple veneer and natural binding
Glued mahogany neck
22-fret rosewood fingerboard with bird inlays
"Pattern Vintage" neck profile
One PRS 58/15 LT "S" humbucker in neck position
One PRS 58/15 LT "S" humbucker in bridge position
Passive electrics with 3-way pickup switch and individual volume and tone controls for each pickup
Push/pull switch for splitting the humbuckers in the tone pots
PRS Two Piece Bridge
PRS Vintage-Style machine heads
PRS SE gig bag included
PRS SE guitar at a glance
With the PRS SE McCarty 594 CH Charcoal, the authentic Vintage appointments and flexible sounds of Paul Reed Smith's ingenious McCarty 594 Core Model have found their way into the affordable SE series. In terms of construction, the guitar naturally relies on the well-known set-neck design with a sound-defining 24.594" scale length (624.7 mm), a comfortable"Pattern Vintage" neck and a beautiful flame-maple veneer on the maple top of the mahogany body. PRS 58/15 LT "S" low-turn humbuckers with moderate Output elicit authentic vintage tones with high warmth and airy transparency, bringing both clean and overdrive sounds to life. Of course, Paul Reed Smith Guitars completes the SE McCarty 594 Charcoal electric guitar with reliable Hardware in the form of the PRS Two Piece bridge system and tuning-stable Vintage-Style tuners.
I already exchanged this guitar for the second time for a new model, and both guitars I owned had similar quality issues in the fretboard. Rough finishes around the frets, glue marks over various frets and around the frets, holes around the inlays, this guitar simply does not meet the quality expectations for the 950€ price tag.
Everything else on the other hand is pretty good, the guitar looks beautiful with a nice finish and the maple veneer top. It also sounds amazing, with a nice warmth sound ideal for clean tones but can also give very nice overdriven and distorted sounds, off course, these are vintage pick ups so they are not meant for high output like metal sounds. The guitar was set up perfectly from factory with very good playability.
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