Description

The PRS Core Santana Retro features carved figured maple top and mahogany back. The mahogany neck has 24.5″ scale length and 24 fret on a rosewood fretboard with bird inlays. The PRS Core Santana Retro is powered by PRS Santana and 58/15 pickups. His signature model has one volume and one tone controls, and a 3-way toggle pickup switch. Topped off wih PRS Patented Tremolo, Gen III. It’s kept in tune by PRS Phase III locking tuners. This Core model has nickel hardware and comes with a PRS hardshell case.

The PRS Core Santana Retro pays homage to the early “Pre-Factory” guitars Paul built for Carlos in the early 1980’s. Several unique design elements are reintroduced on this model, including a deeper body carve, original style heel, and the original headstock shape and nut placement. The Santana Retro blends history and modern manufacturing to create a highly musical guitar good enough for the man himself.

UPGRADE OPTIONS
10-Top Grade Maple Top
Hybrid Hardware

AVAILABLE COLORS:
Blood Orange and Santana Yellow

CORE ELECTRICS
Since 1985 they have aimed to push musicians’ expectations of what a guitar can be. USA-Made modern, vintage, and specialty stylings, each model built to exact specifications to feel right in your hands & sound great to your ears.

CARLOS SANTANA
Carlos Santana is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana. They pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music. The band’s sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin. Also African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. In 2003 Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at number 20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards in addition to three Latin Grammy Awards. Check out www.santana.com

About PRS:
Located in Stevensville, Maryland, Paul Reed Smith Guitars is one of the world’s premier guitar and amplifier manufacturers. Since our humble beginning in 1985, PRS Guitars has always strived to create the highest quality instruments possible. Guitar and amplifier building are very personal things here, as most of us are dedicated players, refining our craft as builders, musicians, and artists of all kinds. Our deep commitment to the craft and our culture of quality are what drives PRS in the workplace and the marketplace. www.prsguitars.com