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Paul Reed Smith McCARTY 594 HOLLOWBODY II

THE NOTION OF a Paul Reed Smith hollowbody first crossed my path in the mid ’90s, before such a model existed, when British guitarist and early PRS adopter Brinsley Schwarz — a gifted guitar and amp tech in his own right — showed me an Artist model that he’d modified with f-holes and a chambered interior. Crazy, right? The results were enticing, and they were even more so just a couple years later, in 1998, when PRS released its Hollowbody model, later called the McCarty Hollowbody.

Since then,

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