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Product Details :- We never get many used PRS 513 models in stock, so it always a pleasure to see them, as and when they become available - Yes it is used, but even after a few minutes of letting your eyes roam over the classic McCarty sunburst sunburst finish, you'll find very little evidence to support this fact, as overall it is in excellent condition - A very slight nick on the rear of the body, a pin point nick on the top and a touch of 'haze' around the picking area on the flamed maple top are the only obvious indications to show that this is indeed a used guitar

The nicely figured maple top sits proudly on a one piece mahogany body - One piece mahogany neck with a 25 1/4" scale length and a '513' neck profile - The 22 fret rosewood fingerboard is impeccably embellished with a set of special 513 mother of pearl bird inlays - The headstock is finished in a translucent cherry finish, matching the rear of the body and neck, and features a '513' engraved truss rod cover - Nickel hardware throughout including a set of PRS 14:1 ratio locking tuners plus the PRS patented modern fulcrum tremelo system, incorporating a set of 6 machined brass bridge saddles - The easy to use integrated electronics package delivers 13 modern + vintage tones via the 5 proprietary pickups - The 5 way switch is a regular pick-up selector, whilst the 3 way 'mode' switch allows you to select between single coil, clear /vintage humbucking and modern heavy humbucking modes - More on the playing and tonal performance below - And yes the price includes the deluxe PRS case and tags

513 Performance characteristics :- The esay way to sum up a PRS 513 is that in an instant you can go from SRV to Santana and EVH and back again, thanks to the combination of the pick-ups and switching system - The 513 has a fairly unique neck profile within the PRS product range, with a nut width of 42.4mm ie just a tad slimmer than the best selling PRS wide/fat or wide/thin neck profile, which puts it firmly in the Strat territory, albeit with the slightest hint of some additional meat on the rear of the neck - With a Fender-esq style 25 1/4" scale length and factory set-up with a set of 10's, the 513 has a slightly more positive or stiffer feel about it than other PRS models, yet the action is still just as fluid and easy going throughout the length of the fingerboard - String bending and controlled vibrato are effortless, due in part to the 10" fingerboard radius + medium jumbo frets, so no choking when ripping into some of those big blues bends

The combination of the PRS tremelo system and locking tuners ensures trouble free tuning for all but excessive use of the trem arm - The tremelo itself has a nice, smooth, positive feel about it for both up and down movement - The guitar is worth its selling price alone, just on the tonal options that are possible from a 513 - The single coil tones that are available on the 513 are amazingly Strat-like, more akin to the warmer and darker tones found on a rosewood fingerboard 60's Strat, with crystal clear sparkling highs - Are they exact DNA replicas of a Fender Strat tone? - Probably not, just different and I mean different in a good sense as there is not a definitive Strat tone anyway, as different periods have a slightly different flavour, but think Stevie Ray Vaughan and/or Dave Gilmour and your getting pretty close - Move the 3 way 'mode' switch to the middle position, then the 2 sets of single coil pick-ups that are perched next to the neck, plus those next to the bridge become 2 different vintage humbuckers - The tone perhaps leans towards the direction of a semi acoustic 335 style with plenty of articulation, warmth and depth with less moody mids than can be found on a Les Paul - Rich and warm in the neck position with a tad more bite and sustain in the bridge position with excellent clarity - Even playing chords around or above the 12 fret area, you have great string separation with a piano like chime - Remember that even with the 'mode' switch set in position 2 or 3 to deliver humbucking tones, by changing the 5 way pick-up selector switch to position 2 or 4, you can still get the classic 'out of phase' tones when used inconjunction with the middle single coil pick-up - Finally when you move the 3 way 'mode' switch to position 3, the humbuckers now are hotter with more windings - This is the screaming more modern humbucking option, often prefered by contemporary or modern guitarist - Whilst you can use this tone on clean amp settings, it can sound a bit hard, yet add the overdrive on your amp or pedal and screaming lead tones, full of rich harmonics become appararent

This is not a jack of all trades, master of none, it is a very flexabile professional tool which should give any guitarists years of pleasure - On either of the tonal positions that you select on the mode switch, you'll find the volume and tone pots very efffective and linear, in that if you back off on the volume pot the tone will stay nice and clear and not go all mushy on you - This is very useful on overdriven amp settings, giving you different levels of expression as it allows an overdriven amp setting to clean up - All controlled via you and the guitar - Endless options, limited only by your imagination

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