PRS Rosewood Limited 1996
Overview
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- electric guitars
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Dates of manufacture:
1996
100 PRS Rosewood Limited guitars were made in 1996 only. These guitars had the McCarty style mahogany body with a curly maple top. They were the first PRS guitars with rosewood necks and also featured a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard with intricate etched tree-of-life inlay. The Pearl Works designed inlay uses mammoth ivory, mother of pearl, abalone, mother of pearl, paua, coral, and gold. The inlay continues on the headstock, the rosewood truss rod cover was inlaid with "Rosewood Limited". Hardware is gold plated, most had the PRS wrap-around bridge but tremolo bridge was also an option. Some were semi-hollow bodied.
Specifications (20)
Body
| Body shape features | carved top, double cutaway |
| Body top material | maple body top |
Hardware
| Bridge | PRS tremelo bridge, PRS wraparound bridge |
| Hardware color | gold hardware, gold-plated hardware |
| Tuners | PRS locking tuners |
Fretboard
| Fingerboard inlay material | abalone fingerboard inlay material, coral fingerboard inlay material, gold fingerboard inlay material, mammoth ivory fingerboard inlay material, mother of pearl fingerboard inlay material, paua fingerboard inlay material |
| Fingerboard material | rosewood fingerboard |
| Fingerboard position markers | vine fingerboard position markers |
General
| Finish colors | amber finish, black finish, purple finish, red finish |
| Finish effects | sunburst finish |
| Made in | USA |
| Number of strings | 6 strings |
Neck
| Headstock inlays or logos | signature on headstock |
| Neck material | rosewood neck |
| Number of frets | 22 fret |
| Tuner layout | three-each-side |
Controls
| Pickup selector controls | 3-way selector switch |
| Tone controls | 1 tone control |
| Volume controls | 1 volume control |
Electronics
| Pickups configuration | 2 humbucker pickups |
