PRS
Angelus Cutaway 25th Anniversary Emma, 2010, Natural
2010 · Listed at Carter Vintage Guitars · Nashville, TN · Dealer ref #11
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Carter Vintage Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Madagascar Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Brazilian Rosewood
- Body shape
- Angelus
- Scale length
- 25.25"
- Nut width
- 1.774"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2010
PRS
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.
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Carter Vintage Guitars
Carter Vintage Guitars sits at 606 8th Avenue South in Nashville, opened November 2012 by Walter and Christie Carter — each with twenty-five years in the vintage guitar business before they put their names on a shop. Walter spent a decade as Gibson's in-house historian and has authored a dozen books on vintage instruments, including "Gibson: 100 Years of an American Icon" and "Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars"; Christie's focus was the high-end vintage market. The shop's reputation is built on full-disclosure transparency around condition, originality, and provenance — a standard set early and still held to. The catalog leads with vintage — pre-war Martins, original-finish Gibsons, vintage Fender — but the new-boutique acoustic side runs deep alongside it: Collings, Bourgeois, Santa Cruz, Huss & Dalton, Goodall, McPherson, Lowden, and Furch are anchor brands, with a rotating long tail of smaller US luthiers (Boucher, Pre-War Guitars Co., Beauregard, Sexauer, Tippin, Kevin Ryan, and others) passing through. Carter became part of TNAG Global in 2022 — the parent holding company that also acquired Norman's Rare Guitars in early 2026 — but day-to-day curation has stayed centered on the original Carter team. Worldwide shipping; in-person browsing on 8th Avenue South.