History
Paul Reed Smith was a guitar player who began building guitars while he was in college. Early guitar players to use his hand-built guitars were Derek St. Holmes (of Ted Nugent's band) and Howard Leese (then with Heart), but Smith's big break came when Carlos Santana began playing the still hand-built guitars, which at the time looked like a Gibson Les Paul with a double cut-away and were made of expensive woods like curly maple. Larger-scale production began in 1985 with the Custom, with a different body design.
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