My B-day is coming up next week, and my anniversary was a week ago, so as a combination gift, this is what I received.
This Paul Reed Smith CE-24 Custom LTD is numbered 79 of 200, weighs 7.48 lbs. and is drop dead purdy (to me). It supposedly has custom wound pickups called 59/09 that are supposedly really limited availability.
I've never owned a PRS before, so I was a bit anxious to learn as much about them as I could while waiting for the delivery truck (it was ordered on Wednesday and arrived on Thursday and has already been gigged twice since then). While conducting my research, I came aross a youtube video showing how they route the bodys of these guitars. I was quite surprised (and pleased) to determine that the guitar body used in the video is MY guitar. I can tell from the very unique grain patterns in both the front and back of the guitar, then verified with the date stamp in the neck pocket (as shown in the video).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4FV-L-3t_A
While this is not really a Fender clone, it's also not really a Gibson clone, but incorporates so many features of both and sounds quite similar to a Les Paul in HB mode (neck and bridge selections), a Strat on the bridge and again on the neck, and then a Tele with both the bridge and neck in single coil mode, that it could be easily described as a clone.
I'd like to thank the good folks at Wildwood Guitars (a forum sponsor) for everything they did in helping me get this guitar (and others in the past). If it hadn't been for their professionalism, I probably would have passed this beauty up, never knowing what I missed.