Danville Music is an Authorized PRS Dealer, you can buy with confidence and the instrument comes with the full PRS lifetime Warranty. Comes with the Private Stock Certificate of Authenticity and the Private Stock Black Paisley Hard Case. Features 58/15 LT pickups, Pattern Thin neck, and hybrid smoked black/gold hardware and stainless steel frets. And did we mention that the neck/board look INSANE? Love how it looks like lightning hitting the cooper's hawk on the 12th fret. From the swamp ash back with dark grainfill to the Ebony birds with a kiss of abalone outline for pop. Everything was designed with the pale moon ebony neck/board in mind.so beautiful black accents throughout. FYI - I play through a Friedman Dirty Shirley combo.For sale is an absolutely incredible PRS Private Stock Custom 24 in Beach Cross Fade with a Pale Moon Ebony Neck and Fingerboard. Ultimately in my approach, my fingers provide the tone to the amp and the amp does the rest. Others might hear a difference in the woods, but it’s an action and feel thing for me. In the end, I prefer ebony and rosewood to maple necks. One was a “midnight blue” Strat and the other was a black Strat with a black/white humbucker in the bridge position. Dave Onorato puts the guitars on his Facebook page (Dojo Guitars) if you want to see them. It took a couple of months to get them built, but has been worth it for the 2 guitars I’ve had done. However, the jumbo frets, narrow nut width, and flat radius provide a super smooth and glassy action. I don’t recognize any tonal difference between the ebony and rosewood on my other Strats. Dave walked me through different neck configurations and I ended up with: - Flame maple neck - Ebony fretboard - 1 5/8 nut width - 12 inch radius - Stainless jumbo frets (6105) When I was younger I heard some fancy guitar had an ebony fretboard and always had it in the back of my mind it was preferable. Rick Beato’s buddy Dave Onorato did the work - he’s freaking awesome to work with and I highly recommend him! It started with a Strat with a rosewood neck that I thought needed a fret job, but was actually warped. I have had two Partscasters built over the past couple of years. Giving it a swag name like "pale moon ebony" helps the marketing machine too haha. Plus you can market yourself as providing top notch product WHILE you're saving the planet by buying downed cast-aside "flawed" ebony. It was only in recent global conservation and stewardship years that builders realized you can "scavenge" that perfectly good ebony with cosmetic challenges for pennies on the dollar compared to the solid black stuff. Harvesters have to cut a tree to reveal if it has pure black ebony, and they used to leave the 19 "bad" ebony trees in the wild to rot. That's also why when you play an under-$1K Asian "ebony" fingerboard guitar, your fingers will turn black for the first few months. Nowadays to get pure undyed solid black on your guitar, you're going to be buying a $2K and up guitar, or a replacement neck of that caliber. Because that's what the typical consumer wants, manufacturers have been dying random brown streaks in mostly-black ebony boards for ages now. Only one in 20 trees harvested can produce jet black ebony. The vast majority of ebony trees in the wild produces board feet with varying degrees of black and chocolate streaking and striping.
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