Very cool, vintage PRS Standard 24 with birds inlay option. Don’t see many Standards with birds. Set neck. Standard Treble and Standard Bass pickups. 5-way rotary switch plus the aforementioned “sweet switch”. Guitar is a player with a few dings, but nothing so deleterious as to make the guitar look like Stevie Ray Vaughn's, and still presents nicely overall. This is a fairly early PRS—only about the 8000th set-neck PRS ever produced sequentially by PRS. 1990 was the last year of PRS using Brazilian rosewood for the fretboards and abalone for the birds—versus the still-cool but less-exotic mother-of-pearl and less-attractive Indian rosewood used on the 1991s.
Pickup compliment for the 1990 Standard and Custom (amongst other models) were the HFS in the bridge and a Vintage Bass in the neck position, but you could order different pickups for a $50 dollar “pickup charge charge” and I’ve never taken them out, so I really don’t know what I have here, but I promise to have a look-see for your benefit.
I usually play through a Mesa Dual Rectifier Rackmount, with the gain cranked up, and I’m afraid that this guitar’s talents are being wasted on a guy like me, who’s better off with anything with EMG 81/85s in it, at least while playing on a modern, high-gain amp. Years ago, I used to have a 1965 Fender Bassman and my friend loaned me his 1990 PRS Custom 24 once and that is really this guitar’s mission in life: to be played on a nice, vintage Fender or Marshall and turned way up.
I appreciate your interest!
