PRS McCarty 594 - 10 Top Aquamarine 0333892

Paul Reed Smith/PRS McCarty 594 10 Top Hybrid Hardware USED Mint shape super clean just traded back to us.

The McCarty 594 is a versatile, vintage-inspired instrument that is effortlessly playable. Featuring a bound 22-fret Pattern Vintage neck and slightly thicker back for more enhanced tone and sustain, the McCarty 594 plays in tune, is intonated the entire length of the neck, and feels like a guitar you’ve been playing forever. Whether you are looking for rich, authentic humbucking tones or nuanced, sweet single-coil sounds, the McCarty 594 can seamlessly master both sonic territories thanks to its 58/15 LT pickups, which have now been through the TCI (tuned capacitance and inductance) process, and dual volume and push/pull tone controls. A zinc two-piece bridge and vintage-style tuners anchor this guitar and stay true to the promise of the McCarty family.

“One of my sayings is that everything that touches the string is God – well, that’s really the bridge, the nut, and the tuners. The updates to the McCarty family make a huge difference in their tone. The guitar sustains longer and the tone has more character,” said Paul Reed Smith.

For 2020, PRS has updated this model with TCI-tuned pickups and nitro over celluose (CAB) finish.

In the late 1980’s, Paul Reed Smith called on Ted McCarty to consult with him on guitar design and production techniques. He not only served as a mentor but became a great friend of Paul and everyone he met at PRS. In 1994, PRS released the first McCarty, an instrument that incorporated the full spectrum of techniques and knowledge Paul had gained from Ted as well as his own experiences as a guitar builder. 

A 24.594” scale length, just slightly longer than 24.5” and where the model gets its name.

58/15 LT pickups. LT, meaning low turns, which give the guitar a warm, clear tone.

2 volume and 2 tone controls positioned so players can roll off both volume knobs at the same time.

The added versatility of push/pull coil taps for each pickup for more tonal options

A Pattern Vintage neck carve, which shares the same width measurements as PRS’s Pattern neck but is slightly thicker front to back and features an asymmetrical carve with a little less meat on the treble side and a little more meat on the bass side of the neck.

Tweaked Phase III tuners have an added set screw that pulls the tuner’s gear and worm together (while “locking” over the worm to prevent slipping) to promote tone transfer from the string directly into the guitar with as little energy as possible being detracted. (The tuner functions identically to standard Phase III tuners for re-stringing. Set screws must NOT be adjusted outside of the PRS factory. Making any adjustments to this feature may cause the tuner to stop functioning properly.)

"The 594 is the best new guitar I've played in years. It has a vintage heart and soul but without the technical limitations that usually come along with an old instrument. What good is an old guitar if you can't get all that feel out of the upper frets, or the intonation is off? To hear that old PAF sound but be able to articulate the notes in a way that only modern manufacturing could allow is so exciting." – John Mayer

"I think a lot of people know PRS as a company that is looking to history, innovating, and improving all at the same time. The McCarty 594 is a great example of that culture. I believe it to be a great musical instrument… quality, playability and tone. It is also, as the ad says, subtly very different. When we were developing the 594, we examined everything: the scale length, the tuners, the bridge materials, the nut material, the pickups, the neck shape...... every piece of this instrument was designed to be exactly what we thought it needed to be to add up to the best instrument we could make. The final guitar, in my experience, is more than the sum of its parts. My hope is it is a source of joy and real musicality for everyone who picks one up. So far, it seems to be doing its job in that regard" – Paul Reed Smith

SPECIFICATIONS

BODY

Top Wood

Carved Figured Maple

Back Wood

Mahogany

NECK

Number of Frets

22

Scale Length

24.594"

Neck Wood

Mahogany

Neck Shape

Pattern Vintage

Fretboard Wood

Rosewood with Faux Bone Binding

Fretboard Inlay

Birds

HARDWARE

Bridge

PRS Two-Piece, Cast Zinc

Tuners

Phase III Locking Tuners

Hardware Type

Hybrid Hardware

ELECTRONICS

Treble Pickup

58/15 LT Treble

Bass Pickup

58/15 LT Bass

Controls

Two Volume and Two Push/Pull Tone Controls with 3-Way Toggle Pickup Switch on Upper Bout

Strings

10's

10-Top Maple (Defaults To Hybrid Hardware)

 WEIGHT : 7.6 lbs