Name |
35th Anniversary Dragon |
Top Wood |
Figured maple top |
Back Wood |
African ribbon mahogany with CNC Backplates |
Color |
High Gloss Nitro Finish in Frostbite Dragon’s Breath |
Number of Frets |
22" |
Scale Length |
25“ |
Neck Wood |
Chalteccoco |
Fretboard Wood |
Ziricote |
Fretboard Inlays |
35th Anniversary Dragon Inlay |
Side Dots |
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Fretwire |
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Neck Shape |
Pattern |
Nut |
Bone |
Headstock |
Ziricote |
Headstock Veneer Inlay |
Abaloid/Black Raffir Private Stock Eagle Inlay with Ripple Abalone Outline |
Bridge |
Smoked Black PRS Stoptail |
Tuners |
PRS Tweaked Phase III Locking Tuners with Ziricote Buttons |
Hardware Type |
Smoked Black Hardware |
Treble Pickup |
TCI treble and bass pickups |
Bass Pickup |
TCI treble and bass pickups |
Middle Pickup |
none |
Controls |
Volume and Push/Pull Tone Control with 3-way Toggle Pickup Selector |
Case |
Private Stock Black Paisley Case with 35th Anniversary Private Stock Logo |
Strings |
10 - 46 D´Addario. 010 |
Weight |
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Serial Number |
#8809 |
Date |
2020 |
Specials |
Paul Reed Smith Dragon model guitars are among the most coveted PRS models ever developed. PRS is proud to celebrate this historic model in honor of the company’s 35th anniversary in 2020. |
The visual star of the guitar is the elaborate, fantastical dragon inlay designed by Jeff Easley, a fantasy artist famous for some of Dungeons & Dragons rulebook covers. PRS Guitars engaged Aulson Inlay, to decon- struct Easley’s artwork and recreate it for the fretboard of the guitar. The design concludes with the dragon’s breath of fire extending onto the truss rod cover. The finished inlay is fashioned from a wide array of materi- als including: Green Ripple Abalone, Green Abalone Select, Black Mother of Pearl, Stabilized Sand-Shaded Holly, Red with Gold Vein Recon Stone, Raffir Striped Black, Black and Red Raffir Aluminum Wave, Abaloid Acrylic, Nocturne Corian, as well as Blue Pacific, Citrine, and Flame Synthetic Opal. |
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The 35th Anniversary Dragon is based off of the PRS McCarty model, featuring a thicker back, PRS Stoptail bridge, and a classic volume, push/ pull tone control, and 3-way toggle electronics layout, but with TCI model pickups from the Paul’s Guitar and tweaked Phase III Locking tuners for a unique balance of vintage and modern specifications. The extraordi- nary Private Stock grade tone woods were hand selected for this limited series and include a curly maple top, African ribbon mahogany back, and a chaltecoco Pattern neck with a 25” scale length, 22 fret ziricote finger- board. |
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35th Anniversary Dragons will come finished in Frostbite Dragon’s Breath. A Private Stock’s Dragon’s Breath style finish was the perfect choice for this run, with the stain sporting a lighter color (or “glow”) toward the belly of the guitar that mimics the shape of a flame shooting out of a dragon’s mouth. The smoked black hardware brings a fierce elegance to the instru- ment. |
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“Looking at the final 35th Anniversary Dragon, I am incredibly proud. This guitar is PRS through and through from the fingerboard design to the pickups. I think it’s one of our most elegant Dragons yet.” – Paul Miles |
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The Private Stock 35th Anniversary Dragon will be limited to 135 pieces worldwide. Shipping between February and June 2020. |
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