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Jonathan Horsley

“They’re humbuckers but have an amazing, almost Dumble harmonic range”: Keith Urban offers first look at his Tele-inspired PRS signature model

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Keith Urban plays a semi-hollow PRS onstage in Nashville, 2024. He is currently developing a new signature model with the Maryland-based high-end guitar company.

Keith Urban has given the world the first close-up of his forthcoming signature guitar that he is developing with Paul Reed Smith – and while it might be inspired by his favorite Telecaster, this looks like it is going to be something completely different.

Come on, how could it not be? It is a semi-hollow electric inspired by a Custom Shop three-pickup Telecaster named Clarence that survived the Nashville floods, and its f-hole is inspired by Urban’s tattoo. That’s right, in September 2024, Urban told Guitar World that he actually sent Smith a picture of his tattoo and asked him to design the f-hole from that.

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