PRS Artist IV 1997 Teal Black

Very Rare PRS Artist IV- Only 66 made, Excelent condition

Comes with OSHC and certificate of autenticity

Ships direct from Brazil

The PRS Artist lV was only made in 1996 in a limited edition of "under 70"… 

"The Artist lll and Artist iV replaced the Artist ll and Artist Limited, and completed the company's mid-1990s high-line production lines, harmonising with the similarly up-scale Rosewood Ltd and earlier 10th Anniversary models. Both these new Artists were 22-fret guitars, with the Artist lll closer in design to the previous Artist guitars with its inlaid-signature headstock logo, open-coiled Artist pickups and five-way rotary switch… The Artist lV, however, seemed more in line with the 10th Anniversary and Rosewood Ltd models: it used gold-plated nickel-silver covered McCarty pickups, as well as electronics that, of course, included a three-way toggle pickup selector switch. Pearl Works excelled themselves when inlaying the lV,s solid 14-k gold fingerboard birds, headstock eagle and purfling. "The engraving found on the solid-gold bird inlays of the Artist lV is extraordinary," said Smith. "The headstock bird alone contains over 3,900 lines." Pearl Works' Larry Sifel reckons that in fact the headstock bird contains nearer 5,000 engraved lines - and from his point of view the Artist lV was by no means plain sailing. "The first one had gold purfling, but that was a nightmare to do and it was switched to agoya, in laminate form. Without our Abalam laminate technique, agoya would have been too small a shell to use. But it's actually a fine pearl substitute." Listing for $4,800, the Artist lll with gold-plated locking tuners and stop-tail bridge. The Artist lV, an altogether more up-scale piece, listed for $7,600. It too used the gold-plated stop-tail, but featured McCarty vintage-style non-locking tuners." (Dave Burrluck. The PRS Guitar Book, p. 92)