The First 'Frostbite' Color PRS

2010 Paul Reed Smith DG-S Private Stock 'Frostbite'

This PRS Private Stock 'David Grissom DG-S' weighs 8.60 lbs., and has a one-piece, PRS-shape offset asymmetrical double-cutaway 13 inch wide, 1 5/8 inches deep, 'figured' Sipo mahogany body with an amazing 1/2 inch thick, sculptured, two-piece, highly figured East Coast Curly Maple top. There is a 1/4 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' Black East Indian Rosewood PRS-shape, DGT carve, glued-in neck with a nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches, a wonderful medium-thick profile and a scale length of 25.00 inches. Single-action truss rod. Back angled three-on-a-side blackwood veneered headstock with etched Mammoth ivory Private Stock Eagle inlay. Blackwood truss-rod cover, secured with one screw. Individual PRS tuners with half-moon shaped faux bone buttons. On the back of the headstock is the serial number "10 165155" and "Private Stock #2871 with "Paul Reed Smith" and "Paul Miles" signatures and date "8.26.10", all written in gold marker. Blackwood fretboard with 22 medium-jumbo frets and etched Mammoth Ivory "Bird" inlaid position markers. One PRS "57/08" bass humbucker in the neck position and one PRS "57/08" treble humbucker in the bridge position, with matched outputs of 8.43k and 8.46k respectively. Cream plastic pickup surrounds. Two volume controls, one push/pull 'coil-tap' tone control, and one three-way pickup selector switch. Clear plastic barrel-shape control knobs. Combined nickel and gold-plated PRS bridge and stoptail. On the back of the guitar the triangular black plastic control cover is secured by four screws. All hardware gold and nickel-plated. This amazing guitar is in mint, as new (9.50) condition. Complete with the original Paul Reed Smith letter of authenticity, signed by Paul Reed Smith, Paul Miles and the final assembler, inspection card, warranty, truss-rod adjustment tool etc. Housed in the original three-latch, rectangular 'deluxe' brown leather hardshell case with black leather ends and brown plush lining (9.50).

"David Grissom has played PRS (Paul Reed Smith) guitars for most of his professional career. He played a modified PRS McCarty Trem for over a decade. In 2007, after a 25 year relationship working with Paul on the design and improvement of PRS guitars from a touring/session player's perspective, his collaboration with Paul Reed Smith resulted in the DGT (David Grissom Trem) signature model. Its innovations include special pickups developed by Grissom, Dunlop 6100 fretwire, a nitrocellulose finish and two volume knobs to allow the blending of both humbucking pickups. Grissom has noted that this feature was inspired by the sounds Jimmy Page created on the early Led Zeppelin albums. (Wikipedia).