1996 PRS McCarty 'Employee' Guitar Specially Built For Seth Henderson - The CFO of PRS.

1996 Paul Reed Smith McCarty Model 'Employee Guitar'

This 'Employee' PRS McCarty guitar weighs just 7.40 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 book-matched highly-figured, tiger eye 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 'fretted' East Indian Rosewood PRS-shape glued-in neck with a nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches, a wonderful medium profile and a scale length of 25.00 inches. Single-action truss rod. Back angled three-on-a-side veneered headstock with "Paul Reed Smith" and "r" signature in gold marker and Paua purfling on top edge. Black plastic truss-rod cover, secured with one screw. Individual 'McCarty' [Kluson Deluxe] tuners with single-ring Keystone plastic buttons. On the back of the headstock written in gold marker is the serial number "6 25011 / Employee Guitar Custom Built For / Seth Henderson". Ten inch radiused Indian rosewood fretboard with and 22 jumbo frets and inlaid Paua 'bird' position markers and purfling. One PRS McCarty 'bass' humbucker in the neck position and one PRS McCarty 'treble' humbucker in the bridge position with outputs of 7.75k and 8.81k respectively. Cream plastic pickup surrounds. One volume control, one tone control with pull-push coil-tap operation and a three-way pickup selector switch. Gold plastic barrel-shape "Speed" control knobs. PRS Wrap-over, pre-compensated stud bridge/tailpiece. Inside the neck pickup cavity is "McCarty" in black marker and inside the bridge pickup cavity, written in black ink is  "25,011 / See Joe K[naggs] For / Stain / Seth H Emp. Gtr. / McCarty SA. 22F". On the back of the guitar the triangular black plastic control cover is secured by three screws. All hardware gold-plated. This amazing guitar is in mint, unplayed (9.50) condition. Truss-rod adjustment tool, and allan key. included in the original three-latch, rectangular 'deluxe' black leather hardshell case with black plush lining (9.25).

"PRS staff have the opportunity after one or two years and then again after seven years with the company to request an employee guitar, specially made for them and supplied more or less at cost." (Dave Burrluck. The PRS Guitar Book, p. 84).

Seth Henderson is the CFO of Paul Reed Smith Guitars