It sounded naïve—borderline nuts. But it worked. Smith managed to get through to Ted Nugent after a show the Motor City Madman put on here in 1975. Nugent commissioned Smith to make him a guitar.

When it comes to making guitars, one name has become synonymous with Maryland: Paul Reed Smith.What has become a global brand still has its roots in Annapolis and on the Eastern Shore.John Mayer ...

But really it can be framed around the two 1984 sample guitars he took on the road to get the company up and running, and in the latest episode of PRS’s From The Archives YouTube series, Smith does ...

Paul Reed Smith has offered his latest hot take on guitar building: he doesn’t think where a guitar is made matters. The country in which an electric guitar or acoustic guitar is made has a huge ...

— Until recently, Paul Reed Smith Guitars sold only American-made instruments for more than $2,000 and Korean-made guitars retailing for about $700. To fill the gap — and with something… ...

The novelty that has brought a journalist to the room, though, is that Smith is not an espionage-world figure. He’s a rock guy—better known as the founder and CEO of PRS Guitars, which he launched in ...

Smith caught a break in 1975 when, a guitar under his arm, he managed to get backstage to meet Ted Nugent and told him, “If you don’t fall in love with the guitar, you get your money back ...

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The guitars evolved into the PRS Standard and Custom 24 but in '84, these prototypes scored the orders that got the brand up and running. Here Smith discusses their evolution When you purchase through ...