
It seems a blindingly obvious thing to say, but first and foremost PRS is a company that makes guitars. The craft has always been the foundation, and now – nearly 40 years since Paul Reed Smith and his small team started out in Annapolis – this new SE Custom 24 Semi‑Hollow upholds everything that PRS has built its empire on: quality.
Our review sample has already travelled huge distances to get to us: from Indonesia (where it’s made in partnership with CorTek), across the seas to PRS’s USA HQ, and then back to PRS Europe’s base in Cambridge before the relatively short UK courier drop-off.