We weren't expecting one of the best PRS SE guitars of 2025 to be reduced for Black Friday – now it's $200 off

PRS SE NF53
(Image credit: Phil Barker / Future)

You'll often see older electric guitar stock in the Black Friday deals as retailers make way for new models – great deals but not the latest specs. So imagine my surprise to see this year's PRS SE NF53 not just get a decent reduction over at Sweetwater, but a whole $200.

All four finishes are included with Pearl White and three distinctive Doghair options; Black, White and Purple. The swamp ash PRS SE NF53 is a highly-rated guitar for good reasons, and another testament to the high quality of the company's more affordable models.

PRS SE NF 53
Save 20% ($200)
PRS SE NF 53: was $979 now $779 at Sweetwater Sound

The SE NF 53 is PRS’s distinctive spin a T-Style guitar, and with $200 off at Sweetwater, it's an incredible opportunity to get a 2025 guitar for a very good price indeed. The Narrowfield DD “S” pickups manage to blend the strengths of single-coils and humbuckers, but the swamp ash body and sublime build matches their class.

PRS SEs are consistently some of the very best set up guitar I encounter as a reviews editor, but the pair of Narrow Field DD 'S' humbuckers here are what makes this sounds unlike any other T-style guitar out there. They are a best of both world's blend of single-coil focus and humbucker muscle and breadth. It makes for a guitar that has wide potential appeal.

PRS SE NF53

(Image credit: Phil Barker / Future)

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Rob Laing
Reviews Editor, Guitar World & MusicRadar guitars

Rob is the Reviews Editor for GuitarWorld.com, Guitar World magazine and MusicRadar guitars, heading up our in-house reviews team to give you in-depth and honest tests of the latest guitar gear. He eats and dreams reviews.

Rob has 20 years of experience writing, reviewing, interviewing and editing for guitar magazines and websites, including Guitarist and Total Guitar.

Over the years he's interviewed artists including Metallica, Black Sabbath, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, but he's lost count of all the guitar gear he's tested.