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The 594 is the closest PRS veers towards the classic ‘vintage-aimed’ Gibson recipe. Introduced back in 2016 in PRS’s Core range, the £3.5k-plus guitars remain out of reach for many of us. But at the start of this year, this trio of S2 models slashed the prices by pretty much 50 per cent. But let’s backtrack a little…
The guitars are named after their scale lengths of 24.594 inches (625mm), the slightly-shorter-than-24.75-inch (629mm) scale actually used by Gibson in its golden days. PRS’s standard scale length, as used on the Custom or the McCarty, is 25 inches (635mm), very nearly halfway between that Gibson scale and the longer Fender scale length of 25.5 inches (648mm). PRS fans will also know of its shortest scale of 24.5 inches (622mm), currently used on the Santana Core and SE models and the SE 245s. Apologies for all the maths, but clearly this
