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Product Details: Yet another hand picked PRS 513, finished in burnt almond arrives at guitars4you - Spectacular, ravishing or breathtaking are 3 adjectives that quickly spring to mind, when you first set your eyes upon this 513, finished in burnt almond with a stupendous flamed maple '10' top - One piece mahogany body - One piece mahogany neck with a 25 1/4" scale length and a '513' neck profile - The 22 fret rosewood fingerboard is impeccably embellished with a set of special 513 mother of pearl bird inlays - The headstock features a '513' engraved truss rod cover as well as the gold PRS signature logo - Nickel hardware throughout including a set of PRS 14:1 ratio locking tuners plus the PRS patented modern fulcrum tremolo system, incorporating a set of 6 machined steel bridge saddles - The easy to use integrated electronics package delivers 13 modern + vintage tones via the 5 proprietary pickups - The 5 way switch is a regular pick-up selector, whilst the 3 way 'mode' switch allows you to select between single coil, clear /vintage humbucking and modern heavy humbucking modes - More on the playing and tonal performance below - List price on this 513 including deluxe case is �4,094.

513 Performance Characteristics: The 513 has a fairly unique neck profile within the PRS product range, with a nut width of 42.4mm i.e. just a tad slimmer than the best selling PRS wide/fat or wide/thin neck profile, all of which puts it more firmly in the Strat territory, albeit with a touch more depth - With a Fender-esque style 25 1/4" scale length and factory set-up with a set of 10's, the 513 has a slightly more positive or stiffer feel about it than other PRS models, yet the action is still just as fluid and easy going throughout the length of the fingerboard - String bending and controlled vibrato are effortless, due in part to the 10" fingerboard radius + medium jumbo frets, so no choking when ripping into some of those big blues bends - The combination of the PRS tremolo system and locking tuners ensures trouble free tuning for all but excessive use of the trem arm - The tremolo itself has a nice, smooth, positive feel about it for both up and down movement

The guitar is worth its selling price alone, just on the tonal options that are possible from a 513 - The single coil tones that are available on the 513 are amazingly Strat-like, more akin to the warmer and darker tones found on a rosewood fingerboard 60's Strat, with crystal clear sparkling highs - Are they exact DNA replicas of a Fender Strat tone? - Probably not, just different and I mean different in a good sense as there is not a definitive Strat tone anyway, as different periods have a slightly different flavour, but think Stevie Ray Vaughan and/or Dave Gilmour and your getting pretty close - Move the 3 way 'mode' switch to the middle position, then the 2 sets of single coil pick-ups that are perched next to the neck and bridge become 2 different vintage based humbuckers - The tone perhaps leans more towards the vibe of a semi acoustic 335 style in that they have more clarity and less moody mids than is found on a Les Paul - Rich and warm in the neck position with a tad more bite and sustain in the bridge position with excellent articulation - Even playing chords around or above the 12 fret area, you have great string separation with a piano like chime - Remember that even with the 'mode' switch set in position 2 or 3 to deliver humbucking tones, by changing the 5 way pick-up selector switch you can still get the classic 'out of phase' tones when used in conjunction with the middle single coil pick-up - Finally when you move the 3 way 'mode' switch to position 3, the humbuckers now become hotter with more windings - This is the screaming modern humbucking option, often preferred by contemporary or modern guitarist - Whilst you can use this tone on clean amp settings, it can sound a touch hard, yet add the overdrive on your amp or pedal and screaming lead tones, full of rich harmonics become apparent - This is not a jack of all trades, master of none, it is a very flexible professional tool which should give any guitarists years of pleasure - On either of the tonal positions that you select on the mode switch, you'll find the volume and tone pots very effective and linear, in that if you back off on the volume pot the tone will stay nice and clear and not go all mushy on you - This is very useful on overdriven amp settings, giving you different levels of expression as it allows an overdriven amp setting to clean up - All controlled via you and the guitar - Endless options, limited only by your imagination.

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