The covered Dragon II humbuckers appeared in 1997, and by the following year had replaced the pokier-sounding uncovered Dragon pickups on the core 22-fret PRS guitars like the CE, Standard and Custom.

PRS Guitars announced this week that it had today launched "five new three-pickup, 22-fret models across the S2 and SE series ...

While his 24-fret guitars, such as the Custom, had certainly grabbed the attention of serious guitar players, not all of them were taken by its sound. So Smith re-designed his soon-to- be-calling card ...

Mandolins are more expensive, by and large. It all goes back to guitars, though, at The Fret Shop, founded in 1979. The original location was above a barber shop on Wellman Avenue in Five Points.