A Mint 1998 PRS Custom 24 with Turquoise Quilt Top and Translucent Turquoise Body.

1998 Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 Turquoise 'Quilt' 10-Top with Translucent Back.

This PRS 'Custom 24' weighs 7.90 lbs., and has a one-piece, PRS-shape offset asymmetrical double-cutaway  mahogany body with an amazing sculptured, two-piece quilted-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. The back, sides, neck and headstock are all finished in translucent turquoise. 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 "8 35385 / 10". Ten inch radiused Indian rosewood fretboard with inlaid Abalone 'bird' position markers and 24 jumbo frets. One PRS "double-black" Vintage Bass' Humbucker in the neck position and one PRS "double-black" 'HFS' (Hot, Fat and Screams) Treble Humbucker in the bridge position with outputs of 8.28k and 13.97k respectively. Cream plastic pickup surrounds. One volume control, one tone control, and one five-way pickup selection rotary control. Black plastic barrel-shape "Speed" control knobs. Nickel-plated PRS cickel-plated six-saddle vibrato unit. Inside the neck pickup cavity written in blue ink is "C   BTQWT / 18171-27" and also a small circular white label with "KD / 3-24". Inside the bridge pickup cavity, written in black ink is "35,385 / Turquoise / W/Translucent Bk. / CU24 FQWT "10"". On the back of the guitar the triangular black plastic control cover is secured by three screws. This amazing guitar is in mint, as new (9.50) condition. Complete with the original hang-tag, inspection card, warranty, truss-rod adjustment tool, allen key (for the tailpiece) 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, wide-thin neck and uncovered pickups.

Produced from 1995 onward the Custom 24 model features a "one-piece mahogany regular set-neck, rosewood fingerboard, moon inlays, 24 frets, signature logo on headstock; chrome-plated locking tuners. Solid mahogany PRS-shape body with figured maple top; sunbursts or colours. Two humbuckers (Standard Bass and Standard Treble until 1991: HFS Treble and Vintage Bass from 1991) with nickel-plated covers. Three controls (five-way rotary pickup selector, tone, volume). Nickel-plated PRS Vibrato. Options include tune-o-matic style bridge and stud tailpiece: 10-top or quilted maple top… bird-inlays; wide-thin neck." (Dave Burrluck. The PRS Guitar Book, p. 150).