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PRS SE CUSTOM 24 + 24-08

To kick off 2021, PRS has chosen to launch three additions to its SE line: our two review models and a classy makeover of the consistently-selling Zach Myers with its semi-hollow body construction. Our SE Customs are refined and, in the case of the 24-08, tweaked. Both feature what PRS calls a “shallow violin carve” to the maple tops, which we first saw on 2019’s SE Paul’s Guitar and which moves the appearance slightly closer to the more heavily dished USA-made Core models.

And if the 24-08 looks familiar, yes, it’s already a Core model and it’s also pretty similar to last year’s SE 35th Anniversary Custom. Custom Style While it might be the guitar that launched PRS back in 1985, this latest SE version (now made by Cor-Tek in Indonesia) is considerably different.

That glued-in maple neck, with its natural headstock, actually looks more like the

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