PRS Private Stock Limited Edition McCarty 594

John Mayer has been playing with one of these recently, as seen around the 19 minute mark in the embedded video below, and to quote John word for word, he's excited about this new model:

"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. Ths one's going all over my new record, because it sits so nicely between all of the sonic identities we all know and love. And it plays like a dream."

This model features several top notch appointments that proudly make this private stock something a little special.

The February's guitar of the month from PRS, it's named the McCarty 594 to honour Paul's mentor Ted McCarty, it's attempts to pay its respects to vintage 'Golden era' instruments but with a modern build techniques that you've come to expect from their top shelf work.

Featuring a 24.594" scale length, just a touch longer than normal, and this is where the model gets it's 594 name.

Loaded with a pair of '58/15 LT' pickups, where LT means low turns, this takes the incredibly successful 58/15's and turns them down a touch to a lower output tone.

The 594 has 2 volume and 2 push/pull tone controls and they're set in places that let players roll off both volume knobs at the same time, plus the coil splits provide a load of tonal setups that can be dialed up on the fly.

Another huge feature of this model is a new neck carve called 'Pattern Vintage', this is the same width as the full pattern neck, but a little thicker front to back, with an asymmetrical carve with a touch more on the bass side of the neck, and a touch less on the treble side.

Also sporting fancy new 'Tweaked phase III' tuners that allow you to take the tuners out of play when not in use.

Only 26 of these will be made in total, buy while you can as we suspect we'll not get another of these.

Other specs include:

• Curly maple top
• Lightweight African ribbon Mahogany back.
• Madagascar Rosewood fingerboard with curly maple binding.
• Mother of pearl birds with Paua outlines.
• Madagascar Rosewood headstock veneer and more curly maple binding.
• PRS private stock 20th Anniversary Vox Fawn Tolex hardcase.