Private Stock Angelus Acoustic Guitar - Carpathian Spruce w/ Ebony Binding (New)

PRS Guitars come out of Stevensville, Maryland — a 420-employee shop better known for electrics, with an acoustic line that's been quietly running since 2009. Paul Reed Smith founded the company in Annapolis in 1985, peddling early prototypes to touring guitarists backstage (Carlos Santana and Al Di Meola both said yes), and grew it into the third-largest US electric guitar maker. The acoustic side came out of a specific engineering theory: an acoustic guitar should behave like a speaker cabinet, with back and sides braced down and the top freed via a hybrid X/classical bracing pattern Paul derived after studying a Torres nylon-string. The result is three shapes — the Angelus Cutaway, the Tonare Grand, and the Tonare Parlor — that project boldly and sound articulate, balanced, and unmistakably engineered. Seventeen years in, the acoustic line remains a small fraction of PRS output and an unusually thoughtful one.