Pictured face-on, the SE Custom looks every bit a PRS, a visually close cousin to the Maryland-based company's original model: the Custom. Because of its 22 frets (like all SEs), it aims to replicate ...

and now – nearly 40 years since Paul Reed Smith and his small team started out in Annapolis – this new SE Custom 24 Semi‑Hollow upholds everything that PRS has built its empire on ...