PRS has a long history of attention-grabbing and luxurious Private Stock guitars, but with its latest Private Stock model, the "Snarling Tiger," the company has truly outdone itself.
This custom McCarty 594 model features a one-piece curly maple top and a figured mahogany back, plus a curly maple neck and fingerboard with ebony binding and mother of pearl bird inlays and side dots.
The guitar's curly maple headstock features ebony binding, while the model is also anointed with PRS Phase III set-screw locking tuning pegs with curly maple buttons, a gold/nickel PRS two-piece stop-tail bridge, a bone nut, figured mahogany backplates and a curly maple truss rod cover.
Sonically, the guitar snarls with PRS 58/15 LY humbuckers. These are controlled by two volume and two push/pull tone controls, plus a three-way toggle.
Of course though, the elephant (or, tiger) in the room is that top, which was hand-carved by veteran wood carver Floyd Scholz. According to Scholz, the tiger was carved out of "very hard maple," with alternating, contrasting grain patterns making the carving "a challenging process."
The PRS “Snarling Tiger” Private Stock guitar is available now - in a Satin Nitro Antique Natural Smoked Burst finish - for an even $21,990.
For more info on the guitar, head on over to willcuttguitars.com and/or floydscholz.com.
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