Description
Lovies Guitars is excited to offer up this 2022 PRS Special 22 Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar HSH with a Cobalt Smokeburst Finish! The PRS Special Semi-Hollow is an irresistible package for the tone-savvy guitarist who demands the ultimate in playability and sonic versatility. It all starts with a resonant chambered mahogany body and a gorgeous carved maple 10-Top graced with a single F-hole. The Special Semi-Hollow is fitted with a trio of high-performance PRS pickups and flexible switching that provides instant control over a formidable tone arsenal — giving you a total of 12 pickup combinations that will cover any genre, from classic rock to edgy fusion. And of course, being a PRS, the playability is flawless.
The PRS Special Semi-Hollow is all about tonal dexterity, thanks to its complement of proprietary PRS pickups and versatile switching scheme. Stationed at the bridge and neck are 58/15 LTs, which produce a rich, organic vintage tone. This is the warm and clear sonic elixir that propelled the original 58/15 pickups to the top of many guitarists’ favorite PAF-style humbucker lists. The 58/15 LT is based on that successful design, but it’s wound with fewer wire turns for even more clarity and nuance. Cranked through a good tube amp, the 58/15 LT can produce raging overdrive with fat, snarling tone that nevertheless maintains crystalline note separation within chords.
PRS’s Narrowfield, deployed in the middle position of the Special Semi-Hollow, is a remarkable pickup that delivers the best characteristics of a humbucker, a P-90, a traditional single-coil, and a mini humbucker. Technically, the Narrowfield’s dual coils classify it as a humbucking design, while its svelte form factor is reminiscent of a mini humbucker (with which, perhaps not surprisingly, it shares certain tonal characteristics). Mini humbuckers have long been prized for their ability to maintain clarity in overdrive conditions while bucking the hum.
The Special Semi-Hollow is equipped with two mini-toggle switches that split the pickup coils for sparkly single-coil tones, while a 5-way pickup selector switch serves up spanky reverse-polarity tones in positions 2 and 4. The immense flexibility of the Special Semi-Hollow’s unique pickup and switching arrangement gives you an instrument that can serve up any electric guitar sound you could ever need for a live gig or a special studio session.
The PRS Special Semi-Hollow is spec’d with PRS’s Pattern profile neck. A hallmark of PRS quality, neck shapes are, of course, critical to your playing experience. Perfected after years of prototyping, the Pattern neck is an updated Wide Fat PRS neck style based on neck shapes Paul Reed Smith designed in the 1970s and 1980s for Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton, and Howard Leese of Heart. Fast and comfortable, the Pattern profile always feels just right. In reality, most electric guitarists employ a combination of thumb-over and thumb-behind fretting-hand positions in their playing, and the Pattern profile lets you switch seamlessly between the two. This guitar is in great shape with a couple tiny finish checks at the treble cutaway and a few minor indents and marks, rated at 8.5/10. All original and free of any breaks, cracks or repairs. Included with this guitar is a hard-shell case, a complimentary sample of Fret-Not, our preferred fretboard cleaner, check it out at fretnot.net and a complimentary Cooper Standard Fin guitar pick—our favorite for enhanced control and reduced movement! Thank you for considering this exceptional instrument from Lovies Guitars.
Features:
Chambered mahogany body; flame maple 10-Top
Mahogany neck, Pattern profile
22-fret rosewood fingerboard with Bird inlays
Neck pickup: 58/15 LT
Middle pickup: Narrowfield
Bridge pickup: 58/15 LT
5-way blade pickup selector
Master volume and Tone controls
2 mini-toggle coil-split switches
PRS Gen III Tremolo vibrato bridge
Designed and crafted by PRS luthiers in Maryland, USA
WEIGHS in at: 6.80 lbs
1st Fret: .875”
12th Fret: .955”
Nut Width: 1 11/16”
Serial: 22 0339268
SKU: 8136
We offer a 14-day money-back return policy. Buy with confidence.
All guitars are guaranteed to arrive in the condition as described, and a full refund will be issued if not. Additionally, all our guitars are fully insured, and we will assist with any claims that may arise.
Lovies Guitars holds a CITES Master File, and we can provide certificates when and where they are required. We are also declaration-friendly, ensuring a smooth experience for international shipments.
