Prisma Toledo Semi-Hollow Guitar, McNelly Pickups, Brazilian Walnut Fretboard

Music Store Live is proud to present this totally rad Prisma guitar for sale!

Locally built, right here in California, this guitar wails! Of course, the first thing you'll notice is cool multi-color design from the combined skateboard decks that make up the top, back, and sides. It's essentially an all-maple body since maple is what skateboards are made out of. Where the trucks for the skateboard used to be, they have filled in the holes with mother of pearl for a subtle, but super cool extra touch.

The pickups are McNelly SparkleTron and Stagger Swagger. While the names sound like characters from My Little Pony or The Care Bears, they are really awesome pickups conveniently housed in P90 shapes. As the name suggests, you get some great clarity, brightness, and twang out of the SparkleTron. The Stagger Swagger is basically a noiseless P90. It truly sounds like a single-coil pickup and has that airy shimmery top end but without any of the annoying 60-cycle hum. All of that crisp brightness of the pickups is wonderfully balanced out by the semi-hollow build which scoops out a little bit of the mids to add some warmth and roundness to the tone.

The combination of the pickups and the Emerson paper-in-oil cap electronics creates a sound that is full while having a vocal-like quality to it. It's got plenty of snap and bite to it and is still very full-bodied at the same time. The Brazilian walnut fretboard is unique in appearance but familiar in tone. It sounds very similar to rosewood with some nice warmth to it. Also adding to the cool factor of this guitar is that the fretboard is reclaimed wood from New York's very own Coney Island. So you've got a piece of American history while rocking a very innovative and modern design.

Whether run through a clean channel or saturated with some overdrive, this bad boy really wails and has absolutely left a solid impression on everyone here at the shop... Plus it looks really cool and unique!

Prisma Guitars creates one-of-a-kind guitars made from the wood of used and broken skateboards. Every skateboard is made with seven color-dyed plys of hard rock maple pressed together. Once the material is worked with, the guitar's color pattern emerges. Each guitar is handcrafted in San Francisco, CA. Our most popular shape loaded with McNelly Pickups, Emerson guts, and Mastery Hardtail Bridge.

MCNELLY PICKUPS

Soap Bar SparkleTron

SparkleTrons are finally available in P90 size. The internals are borrowed from the originals and give you all the humbucking twang you could ask for.

Tasting notes: Clear and bouncy. The bridge has a full range bite, while the neck is smoother with an airy high end. Hints of cherry and juicy plum.

1 15/16" string spacing.

Soap Bar V2 Stagger Swagger

The beloved tone of our V2 Stagger Swaggers, but made to install in P90 routs. It's about time!

Since their introduction, we keep hearing from customers that Stagger Swaggers are the best sounding pickups they have ever heard.  ---  Gosh, thanks! :)

That's a little vague, though. Here's what you can realistically expect: They do away with the old "have your cake and eat it" dilemma. They have all the dynamics and sizzle of true single coil pickups. Crisp and clear with beautiful depth in the low end. The V2s have a little more output than before, but they keep the chime that has made them so popular. They also happened to be noise-cancelling. Go ahead, eat up!

1 15/16" string spacing

Our in-house guitar tech will inspect, test, set up, and clean all of our instruments on site prior to shipping. All of our instruments are guaranteed to be fully functional upon arrival.