1996 PRS Custom 22 Tobacco Sunburst "10" Top with Bird Inlays.

1966 Paul Reed Smith Custom 22 Tobacco Burst 10-Top.

This PRS 'Custom 22' weighs 8.60 lbs., and has a one-piece, PRS-shape offset asymmetrical double-cutaway 13 inch wide, just under 2 inches deep, mahogany body with an amazing sculptured, two-piece figured-maple top. There is a 3/16 inch 'band' of plain maple which starts at the tip of the treble-horn and goes all the way round to the neck on the bass side. One-piece mahogany PRS-shape glued-in neck with a nut width of 1 11/16 inches, a very fast thin-to-medium profile and a scale length of 25.00 inches. Single-action truss rod. Back angled three-on-a-side non veneered headstock with gold "Paul Reed Smith" signature logo on face. Black plastic truss-rod cover secured with one screw. Individual Schaller/PRS 'Rotamatic' locking tuners with half-moon metal buttons. On the back of the headstock, written in gold marker is the serial number "6 29335 / 10". Ten inch radiused Indian rosewood fretboard with inlaid Abalone 'bird' position markers and 22 jumbo frets. One PRS "double-black" Dragon 'Bass' Humbucker in the neck position and one PRS "double-black" Dragon 'Treble' Humbucker in the bridge position with outputs of 7.70k and 17.81k respectively. Cream plastic pickup surrounds. The pickups are uncovered as usual. One volume control, one tone control, and one five-way pickup selection rotary control. Gold plastic barrel-shape "Speed" control knobs. PRS Tremolo system with six individually adjustable metal saddles. Inside the neck pickup cavity are the letters "RD" in black marker and inside the bridge pickup cavity, written in black is "29335 / Tobacco / Sunburst / CUZZ FWTTR "10"". On the back of the guitar the triangular black plastic control cover is secured by three screws. This amazing guitar is in mint (9.50) condition. Complete with the original tremolo arm with black plastic tip, hang-tag, inspection card, warranty, truss-rod adjustment tool and two case keys. Housed in the original three-latch, rectangular black hardshell case with black leather ends and black plush lining (9.25).

This guitar has the optional bird-inlays and wide-thin neck.

Produced from 1993 onward the Custom 22 model features a "one-piece mahogany wide-fat set-neck, rosewood fingerboard, moon inlays, 22 frets, signature logo on headstock; chrome-plated locking tuners. Solid mahogany PRS-shape body with figured maple top; sunbursts or colours. Two humbuckers (Dragon Treble and Dragon Bassuntil 1998: Dragon ll Treble and Dragon ll Bass from 1998) with nickel-plated covers. Three controls (five-way rotary pickup selector, tone, volume). Nickel-plated PRS Stop-Tail. Options include… bird-inlays; wide-thin neck." (Dave Burrluck. The PRS Guitar Book, p. 150).