PRS S2 Vela Sprayer's Choice Electric Guitar - Custom Black Rainbow Holoflake

PRS S2 Vela Sprayer's Choice Electric Guitar – Custom Black Rainbow Holoflake | No Limit Guitar Co, Idaho Falls

The PRS S2 Vela is already one of the most distinctive and tonally versatile guitars in the S2 lineup — an offset mahogany body with vintage personality, USA-made pickups, and a specification that covers far more tonal ground than its straightforward control layout suggests. This particular example, serial number 26 S2086612 weighing 6.70 lbs., is something considerably more special than a standard S2 Vela: it is a Sprayer's Choice finish — Custom Black Rainbow Holoflake — one of the rarest and most coveted designations a PRS guitar can carry. The Bird inlays, Pattern Regular neck carve, PRS Narrowfield neck and DS-01 bridge humbucker with coil tap, PRS plate bridge with brass saddles, nickel hardware, and Phase III non-locking tuners are all present and correct — but the finish elevates this guitar from an exceptional instrument to a genuinely one-of-a-kind collector's piece.

What Is a Sprayer's Choice?

A Sprayer's Choice is one of the most exclusive designations in PRS guitar production — and understanding what it means is essential to appreciating what makes this guitar extraordinary. At PRS's Stevensville, Maryland factory, the finish department's painters are among the most skilled and experienced artists in the lutherie world. Occasionally, when a painter has a moment of creative inspiration, access to a special custom material, or simply the desire to create something beyond the standard catalog, they will apply a completely custom, non-catalog finish to a guitar that is otherwise being built to standard production specifications. That guitar is then designated a Sprayer's Choice — a finish that was never offered in any PRS catalog, that cannot be ordered by any dealer, and that will never be replicated exactly. Every Sprayer's Choice is a singular event — the direct creative expression of the painter who applied it, documented and acknowledged by PRS as a unique, one-off finish.

The Custom Black Rainbow Holoflake finish on this S2 Vela is exactly that — a deep black base coat with holographic rainbow flake embedded throughout the finish that shifts, scatters, and explodes with color as the guitar moves through different lighting conditions. Under direct light the flake produces prismatic rainbow bursts across the body's surface. Under stage lighting it becomes a living, moving light show. The offset mahogany body's contoured shape catches and redirects light differently at every angle, and the result is a guitar that behaves visually more like a piece of kinetic art than a production instrument. In a world where most guitars are finished in the same catalog of colors, this S2 Vela is genuinely, categorically different — and it will never be made again.

Product Overview

Beyond the extraordinary finish, the S2 Vela's design is one of PRS's most inspired departures from their traditional double-cutaway formula. The offset mahogany body shape gives the guitar a visual personality that stands apart from both the standard PRS double-cut and the single-cut aesthetic — the contoured, asymmetrical silhouette combines vintage-inspired character with the ergonomic comfort of a well-designed offset body that sits naturally against the player's body and remains balanced on a strap. Mahogany throughout — body and neck — provides the warm, full-voiced, sustain-rich tonal foundation that mahogany is universally prized for, and the gloss nitrocellulose finish allows the wood to breathe and resonate more freely than polyester alternatives.

The USA-made pickup combination is where the Vela's tonal versatility becomes apparent. The PRS DS-01 bridge humbucker is a brighter, punchier, more cutting humbucker than the standard PRS 85/15 — designed to produce a bright, punky, bell-like quality that suits the Vela's vintage aesthetic and vintage-influenced tonal territory. The PRS Narrowfield neck humbucker is one of PRS's most sophisticated and tonally nuanced pickups — a mini-humbucker format that captures and combines the most desirable characteristics of a standard humbucker, a P-90, a traditional single-coil, and a mini humbucker into a single pickup with a unique voice that doesn't directly replicate any of them. The push-pull coil tap provides access to single-coil tones from both pickups, dramatically expanding the tonal range available from a single guitar.

The PRS plate-style bridge with compensated brass saddles provides accurate intonation and the sustain characteristics of a solidly coupled bridge-to-body connection. Phase III non-locking tuners provide reliable tuning stability with easy restringing — the PRS-designed tuner that balances vintage visual character with modern mechanical reliability. Bird inlays on the rosewood fingerboard are the classic PRS visual signature, executed here in the standard S2 bird inlay format against the dark rosewood fingerboard at a 10" radius across 22 frets.

Ideal For

• Collectors and tone enthusiasts who want a genuinely one-of-a-kind PRS Sprayer's Choice finish that cannot be ordered, replicated, or found anywhere else in the world
• PRS enthusiasts who want the S2 Vela's exceptional tonal versatility — DS-01 bridge, Narrowfield neck, coil tap — in the most visually extraordinary version of the instrument possible
• Players who want a lightweight (6.70 lbs.) offset mahogany guitar with vintage character and modern PRS reliability in a truly singular Custom Black Rainbow Holoflake finish
• Performing musicians who want a stage instrument that is as visually commanding under lights as it is tonally versatile
• Guitarists in Idaho Falls looking for a PRS S2 Vela that stands completely apart from every other guitar in the room — a Sprayer's Choice that represents the creative expression of PRS's finest painters

Key Features

Sprayer's Choice — Custom Black Rainbow Holoflake
A non-catalog, one-off finish applied by a PRS factory painter — a deep black base with holographic rainbow flake that explodes with prismatic color under any light source. This finish was never in any PRS catalog, cannot be ordered, and will never be exactly replicated.

Offset Mahogany Body with Gloss Nitrocellulose Finish
The S2 Vela's distinctive contoured offset shape in mahogany delivers warm, full-voiced, sustain-rich tone with comfortable ergonomics — finished in gloss nitrocellulose for tonal transparency and visual depth.

PRS DS-01 Bridge Humbucker and Narrowfield Neck Humbucker
The DS-01 delivers a bright, punky, bell-like bridge voice, while the Narrowfield captures the best characteristics of a humbucker, P-90, single-coil, and mini humbucker simultaneously — a combined voice range that few two-pickup guitars can approach.

Push-Pull Coil Tap
Splits both pickups into single-coil mode for spanky, clear, vintage-style tones that complement the full humbucker voices — a complete tonal arsenal from one pull of the tone knob.

Pattern Regular Mahogany Neck with Rosewood Fingerboard
PRS's Pattern Regular carve — a comfortable, versatile neck profile — on a mahogany neck with 22-fret rosewood fingerboard at 10" radius and Bird inlays.

PRS Plate Bridge with Brass Saddles and Phase III Tuners
Compensated brass saddles for accurate intonation and sustain, with Phase III non-locking tuners for reliable pitch stability and easy restringing.

What's Included

• PRS S2 Vela Sprayer's Choice Electric Guitar (Custom Black Rainbow Holoflake)
• PRS Premium Gigbag
• Free standard shipping

Technical Specifications

Get Your Hands on This PRS S2 Vela Today

This PRS S2 Vela Sprayer's Choice in Custom Black Rainbow Holoflake is available now at No Limit Guitar Co in Idaho Falls — and there is exactly one of them in existence. Stop in to see the finish react under the lights in person, or reach out online to arrange your purchase before it's gone. A guitar like this doesn't come through twice.