I have just hand picked this exotic PRS 'Wood Library' Rosewood Neck 513 Limited Edition model to enhance our fabulous selection of PRS guitars - Part of a limited run of only 15 guitars commissioned exclusively for the UK with hand picked woods from the PRS Private Stock 'wood library' - Furthermore note the charcoalburst finish, which looks so seductive - So all in all, a very attractive package that delivers a guitar that is easy on the eye coupled with superior tones and playing performance
The new V12 finish is the result of a 12 year process that allows PRS to blend the traditional nitro finish with the modern acrylic finishes - The finish should enhance the look, feel and sound of the guitar without hindering its natural resonance, so with this in mind, the V12 finish is ultra thin, yet still clear and hard, to ensure that special PRS glass like finish is every bit as good as it has has been
Regular 513 spec includes:- One piece hand selected 'wood library' ribbon mahogany body - Hand selected 'wood library' solid Rosewood neck with a 25 1/4" scale length - Hand selected 'wood library' 22 fret rosewood fingerboard with pearloid 513 inlays - The headstock features a '513' engraved truss rod cover as well as the gold PRS signature logo - Hybrid gold and nickel hardware throughout including a set of PRS 14:1 ratio locking tuners plus the PRS patented modern fulcrum tremelo system, incorporating a set of 6 machined brass bridge saddles and a solid/milled brass tremelo block - 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 - For more info on the playing and tonal character of a 513 see below or click here, click here and click here to see 3 PRS you tube demo clips of the 513 - The solid rosewood neck/fingerboard feels so slick and silky in the palm of your hands - It already ready feels natural and played in - Furthermore it adds a rich texture to the overall tone of the guitar coupled with plenty of warmth and character

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PRS 513 Performance Charcteristics

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.