Now Available at Northeast Music Center!

PRS McCarty Trem Wood Library Artist Flame Maple Bahamian Blue (Northeast Music Center Exclusive) (s/n: 0433031)! Guitar comes with PRS D1 Molded hardshell Case!

Celebrating 30 Years of Jack Gretz & PRS

This exceptional McCarty 594 Trem commemorates a particularly meaningful milestone: 30 years of Jack Gretz selling PRS Guitars, along with 15 years of Northeast Music Center representing PRS.

To commemorate the milestone, this guitar features a special anniversary tremolo cover, giving this already distinctive an additional connection to that history.

That history represents decades of firsthand experience with PRS instruments—from exceptional Core guitars and limited editions to Wood Library and Private Stock creations—and a relationship with the brand that extends well beyond the history of Northeast Music Center itself.

It's not simply another exceptional PRS—it represents a milestone three decades in the making.

There are PRS guitars—and then there are instruments created through the PRS Wood Library, where carefully selected tonewoods, distinctive appointments, and dealer-curated specifications transform an already exceptional guitar into something far more individual.

This PRS McCarty Trem Wood Library was commissioned by Northeast Music Center as part of a highly limited five-guitar run, combining the soulful character of the McCarty platform with the expressive versatility of a PRS tremolo and an extraordinary dealer-selected Artist Grade Flame Maple top.

For players and collectors who understand what makes the PRS Wood Library program special, this is exactly the type of guitar the program was created to produce.

Dealer-Selected Artist Flame Maple

The visual centerpiece is its exceptional Artist Flame Maple top, specifically selected at the dealer level for this Northeast Music Center Wood Library run.

Artist-grade maple occupies a special place within the PRS tonewood hierarchy, offering the dramatic figuring and visual character appropriate for a guitar conceived well beyond ordinary production specifications.

That remarkable maple cap is paired with a mahogany back, preserving the warmth, resonance, and musical midrange response that have helped define the McCarty family for decades.

The combination is unmistakably PRS: articulate without becoming sterile, powerful without sacrificing nuance, and capable of moving effortlessly from rich clean passages to singing overdrive.

The McCarty Formula — With Tremolo Expression

At the heart of this instrument is the McCarty philosophy: vintage-inspired musicality interpreted through PRS precision and consistency.

For this special Wood Library configuration, the traditional McCarty platform is paired with a PRS tremolo, adding another dimension of expression to an instrument already known for touch sensitivity and dynamic range.

From subtle chord shimmer and expressive vibrato to more dramatic pitch movement, the tremolo expands the McCarty vocabulary while retaining the fundamental character that makes the model so compelling.

McCarty III Pickups

A pair of covered PRS McCarty III pickups provides the voice of this Wood Library instrument.

Designed to deliver clarity, dynamics, and vintage-informed character, the McCarty III set beautifully complements the mahogany and maple construction. Notes retain definition within complex chords, clean tones remain open and dimensional, and driven sounds develop harmonic richness without losing articulation.

A volume control, push/pull tone control, and three-way toggle provide an intuitive control layout with additional tonal flexibility available through the push/pull function.

This is a guitar capable of moving comfortably between blues, classic rock, jazz, roots, contemporary music, and virtually anything that rewards a responsive, highly expressive instrument.

Premium Wood Library Appointments

The mahogany neck is carved to PRS's comfortable Pattern profile and paired with an East Indian rosewood fingerboard, continuing the guitar's classic tonewood foundation.

Its fingerboard is adorned with particularly beautiful J-Birds with Centers, combining Green Standard Abalone outlines with Paua centers. The contrasting shell materials provide a distinctive Wood Library detail that changes character as the instrument moves through the light.

An East Indian rosewood headstock veneer, customized truss rod cover, ivory pickup rings, switch tip and tuner buttons, and elegant Hybrid hardware complete a specification that is sophisticated without becoming excessive.

Every element feels intentional.

Five Guitars. Five Distinctive Finishes.

Northeast Music Center commissioned this Wood Library run as just five instruments, with each guitar receiving its own carefully selected finish:

• Private Stock Bahamian Blue *(This Guitar)*
• Private Stock Dirty Blonde
• Private Stock Frostbite
• McCarty Sunburst
• Dark Cherry Burst

Rather than ordering multiple identical examples, Northeast Music Center chose to give each guitar within the run its own identity.

Combined with the natural individuality of each dealer-selected Artist Flame Maple top, every instrument becomes its own interpretation of this special McCarty Trem specification.

The Northeast Music Center Wood Library Experience

Wood Library guitars have long represented one of the most exciting opportunities within the PRS Core program: the ability for experienced dealers to combine exceptional woods, colors, hardware, inlays, and electronics into instruments that simply don't exist in the standard catalog.

That philosophy is particularly meaningful at Northeast Music Center.

Our relationship with PRS and decades of experience selecting exceptional PRS guitars allow us to approach Wood Library runs from a player's and collector's perspective. The objective isn't simply to add options. It is to create combinations worthy of the woods being selected and guitars that will remain special long after the original run has sold.

This five-piece McCarty Trem Artist Flame Maple collection embodies exactly that approach.

For the player searching for the musical soul of a McCarty with the expressive freedom of a tremolo—or the collector searching for a genuinely distinctive Northeast Music Center Wood Library specification—this is an opportunity to own a PRS created well outside the ordinary.

Wood Library Specifications

• Model: PRS McCarty Trem
• Program: PRS Wood Library
• Wood Library Run: WL_02817
• Run Size: 5 Guitars
• Top: Dealer-Selected Artist Flame Maple
• Back: Mahogany
• Neck: Mahogany
• Neck Profile: Pattern
• Fingerboard: East Indian Rosewood
• Headstock Veneer: East Indian Rosewood
• Inlays: J-Birds with Centers
• Inlay Outlines: Green Standard Abalone
• Inlay Centers: Paua
• Bridge: PRS Tremolo
• Pickups: Covered PRS McCarty III
• Controls: Volume, Push/Pull Tone & 3-Way Toggle
• Hardware: Hybrid
• Pickup Rings / Switch Tip / Tuner Buttons: Ivory
• Truss Rod Cover: Customized
• Finish: Gloss
• Case: PRS D1 Molded Hardshell Case
• Made in: Stevensville, Maryland, USA

A dealer-curated PRS Wood Library McCarty Trem created for Northeast Music Center—combining exceptional Artist Flame Maple, classic McCarty tonewoods, McCarty III pickups, premium appointments, and the expressive versatility of a PRS tremolo.