PRS Guitars

PRS Guitars had a humble beginning, built up from one man's ambition. After making his first guitar as a challenge to his college music professor, musician Paul Reed Smith developed his unique brand of PRS guitars with decades of testing, rethinking and reinventing.

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These impressive standards of excellence have been maintained, as the company has grown into a major industry presence, through strict quality control at every stage of the process and the pride and knowledge of the craftspeople in the workshops. PRS guitar production relies on a carefully considered combination of automated processes and hand crafting in order to produce instruments of the highest quality.

Paul Reed Smith set up a partnership to create a factory in Annapolis, Maryland and set off work on producing guitars. The company's first outing was for the 1985 NAMM Show where they debuted the PRS Custom. Featuring a mahogany neck set into a mahogany body with a maple cap, a patented vibrato, customized tuning pegs, and custom rotary pickup switching with high quality electronics, the guitar represented influences from both old and new; something striking in the midst of an industry that was producing “high tech” guitars. Exerpt from Wiki