The new 2013 PRS Price list shows the Hollowbody at £3249 for the basic model with the 10 Top/Back version now costing £4188 - We can offer this pre 2013 model for a remarkable £2999

Days upon days of endless pleasure await any potential customer who will be seduced into buying this delectable PRS Hollowbody 11 - I should know, as I own one and use it almost on a daily basis

Check out the spec of this Hollowbody 11 and you'll quickly realise that it is fully loaded with every just about every single option that is available on the current the price list - 'Double 10' carved flamed maple top and back, bird inlays, 57/08 humbuckers and a piezo acoustic system, all of which provides you with a full retail price that is well over £4188 - Thankfully Guitars4You can offer a healthy discount and as such our price is £3299

I hand picked this example, partly due to the highly figured maple top/back and partly due to the new V12 gold burst finish - The body is constructed from a solid carved maple '10' top and back with just a centre support block under the bridge/tailpiece, to give you a 'true' semi acoustic instrument - Incidentally the maple top and back are both carved on the front and underside in the true traditional manner - The mahogany neck is topped of with a bound rosewood fingerboard and impeccably graced with a set of bird inlays, along with 22 highly polished and correctly profiled jumbo frets - Fitted with a complete set of nickel hardware, including the new PRS Phase 111 locking machine heads - The wrapover bridge/tailpiece is fitted with 6 adjustable bridge saddles, which also incorporate the LR Baggs piezo system (more on that later)

Playing performance :- As with any PRS guitar the playing performance is outstanding with a fluid easy playing action throughout the length of the fingerboard, even with the factory set-up with a set of 11's - To any guitarist familiar with the old fashioned Gibson style jazz boxes such as the classic L5 or ES175 models, you'll find this guitar just a pure pleasure to play with a more modern design and of course the legendary PRS fluid playing action, yet to a regular guitarist who has spent years playing a solid body instrument and now wishes to stick a toe into the chilled blues/jazz arena, then you'll discover that the Hollowbody 11 performs and feels like any other solid body PRS guitar - Whilst the Hollowbody 11 will have great attraction to any jazz/blues or fusion based guitarist, or indeed any virtusos style solo guitarist, it will more than hold its own for any gigging musician in a function band or top 40 covers/pub outfit and maybe somewhat surprisingly, it will deliver a great warm tone with bags of sustain in a rock overdriven situation, but granted it is not a die hard bombastic rock machine - On a scale of 1 to 10 whereby Joe Pass and Wes Montomgomery are 1 and Santana sits at 10, then the Hollowbody performs well from 1 to 5, 6 or even 7 , with 5, 6 or 7 being very much the land of Robben Ford, Larry Carlton and Steely Dan

Tonal options - With the Hollowbody 11 having both a pair of PRS 57/08 humbuckers as well as the LR Baggs patented piezo system, with individual string voicing and real acoustic modelling, the tonal options are vast - You have the option of running both the piezo and regular humbuckers down one guitar lead into your existing amp set-up - However to get the best out of the piezo system, it is suggested that you run this into a more dedicated amp (electro acoustic amp, pa desk, recording package etc,) with the humbuckers still going into your regular guitar amp - Therefore you have 2 separate outputs, if required, to allow you to take advantage of this option - The little 3 way mini toggle switch allows you to select humbuckers only, piezo only, or both - The three control knobs are volume and tone, whilst the 3rd knob allows you to blend in the level of piezo that you require to work inconjunction with the humbuckers - Very easy to use and very flexible - I for one, would never have put the piezo option as a must have item on the top of my shopping list, but once you have played around with it, you realise it has some great voicings available to enrich your perfotrmance - The humbuckers produce a full bodied, smooth and warm tone with good articulation and loads of rich natural harmonics - For a blues/rock player dabbling in jazz, or a jazz player dabbling in blues/rock, this has to be an instrument worth investigating, yet for a solo virtuoso guitarist it is a must have instrument - Offered for sale complete with the PRS deluxe hard shell case

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Every guitar in stock at Guitars4You has been personally selected, inspected and approved by me, with particular attention paid to the set-up and playing performance - Every sale, phone call, mail order transaction or e-mail is handled my me - Mark Hopkin, the owner, Managing Director, cleaner and coffee maker (Jo, my wife helps with the coffee) - A 35 year journey has fuelled my knowledge, experience, love, devotion and passion for exceptionally fine guitars - This reflects in every aspect of our business

I have no desire to run an Amazon style 'click to buy' guitar shop, that lacks any soul or passion, or indeed to fill a showroom with a selection of dirty, shop soiled or dusty guitars that are in need of a set-up