PRS Custom 24 Quilted Artist Top Electric Guitar - Faded Indigo (with Natural Back)

PRS Custom 24 Quilted Artist Top Electric Guitar – Faded Indigo | No Limit Guitar Co, Idaho Falls

The PRS Custom 24 with Artist Grade Quilted Maple Top in Faded Indigo is one of the most stunning and tonally exceptional guitars in PRS's Core lineup — a specification upgrade that bridges the gap between the standard Custom 24 and Private Stock luxury. Built in the USA in 2026, serial number 26 0427127, weighing 7.27 lbs., finished in Faded Indigo over a Natural back in High Gloss Nitro — this is a guitar whose visual impact is matched by its tonal capability at every turn. An Artist Grade quilted maple top — a figuring grade generally reserved for PRS's Private Stock models, ranking one step above a 10-Top — sits over a warm, resonant mahogany body. A Cuban mahogany set neck in the Pattern Thin profile with a 24-fret rosewood fingerboard and awabi "old school" birds inlays delivers effortless playability. Dual PRS DMO (Dynamic, Musical, Open) humbuckers with a 5-way blade switch cover an extraordinary range of vintage-to-modern tonal territory. PRS Gen III Patented Tremolo and Phase III Locking Tuners with wing buttons complete the hardware. A collector-worthy instrument that doesn't ask you to choose between beauty and performance.

Product Overview

The Artist Grade quilted maple top is the specification that immediately sets this Custom 24 apart from the standard Core lineup and places it in conversation with Private Stock instruments. PRS grades their figured maple tops on a scale that reflects the density, uniformity, and visual drama of the figuring — standard tops, 10-Tops, and Artist Grade, with Artist Grade representing the most intensely figured examples that are typically reserved for the Private Stock program's one-of-a-kind creations. Looking at this guitar's top in person reveals a quilted maple figure of remarkable depth and three-dimensionality — the Faded Indigo finish saturates the figure in a shifting blue-to-purple-to-teal color that changes character in different lighting conditions, the natural back contrasting warmly against the richly colored top. Under stage lighting or a well-positioned room light, this guitar's visual impact is genuinely extraordinary.

The mahogany body beneath the quilted maple top provides the warm, resonant, sustain-rich tonal foundation that has defined the Custom 24's sonic character across its entire history. Mahogany's strong midrange presence, natural sustain, and harmonic richness interact with the maple top's brighter attack and note definition to produce the balanced, full-frequency tonal character that the mahogany/maple tonewood combination is celebrated for. The Cuban mahogany set neck is the tonal and structural complement that completes the picture — Cuban mahogany is prized for its specific density and resonance characteristics that contribute to the neck's tonal contribution and long-term stability. The set neck joint maximizes resonance transfer between neck and body for the sustained, flowing note character that PRS guitars are specifically known for.

The PRS DMO (Dynamic, Musical, Open) humbucker pickups represent the current leading edge of PRS's pickup development — Paul Reed Smith and the PRS New Products Research team utilized advanced signal analysis and tuning technologies to study the tonal characteristics of the finest vintage humbuckers and translate their most desirable qualities into a modern pickup design. The result is a transparent, vocal-like tonal character with shimmering precision and clarity in every register — neither the compressed, saturated character of high-output modern pickups nor the looser, somewhat unpredictable character of actual vintage examples, but a refined, contemporary interpretation that captures the best of both. The 5-way blade switch on a dual-humbucker guitar provides pickup combinations beyond the standard 3-way toggle — positions 2 and 4 split the pickups into single-coil mode for Strat-adjacent tonal territory that conventional humbucker guitars can't access.

The Pattern Thin neck profile is PRS's contemporary take on the Wide Thin — a profile that maintains a comfortable nut width for open-position and lower-register playing while widening gracefully as it moves toward the body, with a depth that increases by only approximately one millimeter from the 1st fret to the 12th for remarkable consistency across the full neck length. Phase III Locking Tuners with wing buttons provide smooth, reliable tuning stability and string changes, and the PRS Gen III Patented Tremolo is one of the finest production tremolo systems available — expressive, reliable, and designed to return to pitch consistently through repeated use.

Ideal For

• Collectors and serious players who want an Artist Grade quilted maple top Custom 24 — a figuring grade typically reserved for PRS Private Stock — in the Faded Indigo finish's extraordinary color over natural back
• Tone enthusiasts who want the DMO pickup's transparent, vocal, Dynamic-Musical-Open character across the full 5-way switching range including single-coil split positions
• Players who want the Pattern Thin Cuban mahogany set neck's effortless playability, 25" scale, and rosewood fingerboard with awabi bird inlays
• Guitarists who want a High Gloss Nitro finished USA-built Custom 24 with Gen III Patented Tremolo and Phase III Locking Tuners in a complete premium package
• Guitarists in Idaho Falls looking for a PRS Custom 24 that approaches Private Stock visual quality at a Core lineup price point — one of the most beautiful guitars to pass through No Limit Guitar Co

Key Features

Artist Grade Quilted Maple Top — Faded Indigo over Natural Back
The highest figuring grade PRS applies to Core lineup instruments — typically reserved for Private Stock — the Artist Grade quilted maple top's intense three-dimensional figure under the Faded Indigo High Gloss Nitro finish is visually extraordinary from every angle and in every lighting condition.

PRS DMO Humbucker Pickups — 5-Way Blade Switch
Dynamic, Musical, Open — PRS's most advanced humbucker design captures the finest qualities of vintage humbuckers through state-of-the-art signal analysis and tuning technologies, delivering transparent, vocal, shimmering clarity with a 5-way blade switch that adds single-coil split positions.

Cuban Mahogany Set Neck — Pattern Thin Profile
Cuban mahogany's specific resonance characteristics and set neck construction provide maximum tonal transfer and sustain, in the Pattern Thin profile that increases only ~1mm in depth from the 1st to 12th fret for exceptional consistency and effortless playability.

Mahogany Body — Classic PRS Tonewood Formula
Warm, resonant mahogany provides the tonal foundation that interacts with the quilted maple top's brighter attack and note definition to produce the balanced, full-frequency tonal character that defines the Custom 24.

24-Fret Rosewood Fingerboard with Awabi Bird Inlays
PRS's signature bird inlays in awabi mother-of-pearl adorn a 24-fret rosewood fingerboard at a 10" radius — the classic Custom 24 playing specification that has defined the model's playability reputation for decades.

High Gloss Nitro Finish — Body and Neck
Nitrocellulose lacquer on both the body and neck provides the resonance-allowing thinness and vintage tonal character that nitro is prized for — thinner and more permeable than polyester finishes, allowing the wood to breathe and resonate more naturally.

PRS Gen III Patented Tremolo and Phase III Locking Tuners
PRS's Gen III Patented Tremolo provides expressive, reliable pitch manipulation with consistent return to pitch, and Phase III Locking Tuners with wing buttons ensure stable, accurate tuning through tremolo use and extended performance.

What's Included

• PRS Custom 24 Artist Grade Quilted Top Electric Guitar (Faded Indigo / Natural Back)
• PRS Hardshell Case
• Free standard shipping

Technical Specifications

Get Your Hands on This PRS Custom 24 Today

This PRS Custom 24 Artist Grade Quilted Top in Faded Indigo is available now at No Limit Guitar Co in Idaho Falls. Stop in to experience the Artist Grade top and DMO pickup character in person — or reach out online to arrange your purchase. A Custom 24 of this visual and tonal caliber won't be in Idaho Falls for long.