PRS McCarty SC56 BT

PRS McCarty SC56 BT review

The PRS McCarty SC56 BT is a U.S.-made, single-cut electric guitar with a weight-relieved mahogany body, a maple top, and two humbucking pickups. Listed as model SC594, it is a limited edition in the Black Top finish. The specifications describe a set-in mahogany neck, a rosewood fingerboard, a two-piece bridge, and a supplied case. The listed price is 3799, with no currency specified in the provided information.

This review is based on the supplied specifications only. No customer reviews or hands-on test results are available, so claims about comfort, tuning stability, tone, or construction quality cannot be verified here. The published details do, however, make the instrument's design and control layout clear.

Body, neck, and dimensions

The body combines mahogany with a maple top. PRS identifies it as weight-relieved, meaning material has been removed from the body to reduce its weight. No finished instrument weight or description of the relief pattern is provided, so the actual reduction and the guitar's balance cannot be assessed from the specifications.

The set-in neck is also mahogany and has a Pattern Vintage profile. Its listed thickness is 22 mm at the first fret and 25 mm at the twelfth fret. Those measurements give a useful reference for the neck's dimensions, but they do not establish how the profile will feel in a player's hand. A binding runs along the neck and the top of the body.

The rosewood fingerboard has a 254 mm radius, also listed as 10 inches, and carries Old School Birds inlays. It has 22 frets. The scale length is 625 mm, or 24.6 inches, and the nut width is 42.9 mm, or 1.69 inches. A bone nut is specified. Taken together, these figures describe the playing surface and string length, without indicating fret size or the factory setup.

Pickups and controls

The pickup set consists of a PRS McCarty III Treble humbucker at the bridge and a PRS McCarty III Bass humbucker at the neck. The listing also identifies the pickup configuration as HH. That establishes the two-pickup layout, but no output measurements, magnet details, or wiring options are given. The pickup names alone are not enough to make a reliable prediction about the guitar's sound.

Controls comprise two volume knobs and two tone knobs, with a three-way toggle switch. This is a separate volume and tone arrangement for each pickup, according to the listed control count. The specifications do not state whether the knobs have push-pull functions or whether the pickups can be split, so neither feature should be assumed.

Bridge, tuners, and included equipment

The bridge is a PRS two-piece design, and the guitar has no tremolo. The tuning machines are PRS Phase III non-locking units. Nickel is specified for the hardware. These details identify the main components, but the listing supplies no information about adjustment range, tuning performance, or the particular string gauge used at the factory.

A case is included; a gig bag is not. That distinction matters when planning storage or transport, since the package is specified with a hard case rather than a gig bag. The available product information does not identify the case type beyond calling it a case.

What the specifications establish

The SC56 BT's defining details are its Black Top limited-edition finish, single-cut body, weight-relieved mahogany construction, maple top, and McCarty III humbucker pair. Its 625 mm scale, Pattern Vintage neck dimensions, bound rosewood fingerboard, and conventional two-volume, two-tone control layout provide concrete points for comparison with other guitars.

The model has been listed as available since December 2025, with item number 632756 and a sales unit of one piece. For a buyer considering it, the most important unanswered questions are practical ones: the finished weight, setup, pickup response, and neck feel. Those require a verified instrument measurement or an in-person evaluation. On the supplied data alone, the PRS McCarty SC56 BT can be assessed as a U.S.-made, fixed-bridge single-cut guitar with a clearly specified materials package and included case, while its playing character remains unconfirmed.