Detail 01
Hormigo neck
The neck uses hormigo, an exotic tonewood also used for marimba keys.

Independent shopping perspective
A limited-edition PRS electric guitar built around John McLaughlin’s design preferences, with a hormigo neck, African blackwood fingerboard, and passive mini-toggle high-pass filters.


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What matters in use
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Detail 01
The neck uses hormigo, an exotic tonewood also used for marimba keys.
Detail 02
The fingerboard is African blackwood.
Detail 03
The switches act as tuned high-pass filters for added clarity and note separation.
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Product questions
Straight answers to the questions shoppers most often ask about this product.
It is the PRS Private Stock John McLaughlin model and is associated with guitarist John McLaughlin.
It has a custom maple top, mahogany body, hormigo neck, and African blackwood fingerboard.
It has a slim, unfinished hormigo neck, a 25-inch scale length, and 22 medium-jumbo frets.
They are tuned high-pass filters that remove low frequencies while allowing treble through.
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