PRS’s ultra-versatile Private Stock Modern Eagle V takes flight

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PRS Private Stock Modern Eagle V
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PRS has unveiled the latest luxurious electric guitar to grace its Private Stock collection: the Modern Eagle V Limited Edition.

This marks the fifth incarnation of the Modern Eagle and promises to “push the boundaries of guitar design” with a huge variety of tones.

PRS Private Stock Modern Eagle V

(Image credit: PRS Guitars)

An HSH pickup configuration is altered via two paired mini-toggles, which transform the humbuckers into true single coils.

Meanwhile, a push/pull tone control can activate both humbuckers, allowing all three pickups to operate at once.

Finally, a third mini-toggle changes the volume pot value from 500k to 250k for fine-tuning pickup output.

PRS Private Stock Modern Eagle V switching

(Image credit: PRS Guitars)

Elsewhere, the guitar’s mahogany body is complemented by a curly maple top in a high-gloss nitro finish, while the curly maple neck wood features a 25” Brazilian rosewood fretboard.

Just 120 Private Stock Modern Eagle V Limited Edition guitars will be made worldwide - head over to PRS Guitars for more info.

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Michael Astley-Brown
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Mike is Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com, in addition to being an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict. He has a master's degree in journalism, and has spent the past decade writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as a decade-and-a-half performing in bands of variable genre (and quality). In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock under the nom de plume Maebe.