PRS Astryx Limited Edition: Everything We Know About Dany Villarreal’s First Signature Guitar

PRS Guitars has built Dany Villarreal a signature model. It is called the Astryx Limited Edition, there will be 200 of them and no more, and it is the first signature instrument of her career.

For a guitarist who has played PRS instruments in a three-piece band for years, a signature model is the gear world’s version of a nameplate on the door. This is what the guitar actually is, what it is not, what the names on it mean, and what I can and cannot tell you about buying one.

What was announced, and when

PRS unveiled the Astryx Limited Edition in late August 2026. I want to be precise about the date rather than confident about it: the PRS product page carries no publication date, and the earliest coverage I can put a date on is Premier Guitar’s, dated August 29, 2026. Our own research notes put the announcement a few days earlier. If you need the exact day, PRS has not published one.

The headline facts, all from PRS:

• Model: PRS Astryx Limited Edition, 2026
• Artist: Dany Villarreal, lead guitarist and co-founder of The Warning
• Run: 200 instruments, made in 2026
• Finish: Ocaso
• Extra: every guitar ships with an autographed backplate
• Status: her first signature model

PRS describes it as “a Custom 24 turned signature model”. That phrasing is doing real work, and the next section is about why.

The specs, and the short list of what is not a Custom 24

Here is the specification list as PRS publishes it.

A correction worth making explicitly, because the guitar press got it wrong. Several outlets, Premier Guitar and Guitar World among them, summarised this instrument with a maple neck. PRS’s own spec sheet says Neck Wood: Mahogany, one-piece. Guitar Center’s listing says mahogany too. When a spec summary and a manufacturer’s spec sheet disagree, the spec sheet wins. The neck is mahogany.

Now the part people actually want: what makes this different from an off-the-shelf Custom 24.

PRS names exactly one functional difference, and it is the fretboard. Their words: the core specifications stay true to the Custom 24, “with one notable difference being the ebony fretboard”. Everything else in the electronics and hardware column is Custom 24 spec.

The rest of the differences are identity, not engineering:

1. The Solecito inlay, a sun at the twelfth fret, in place of the inlay a stock model carries.
2. The Ocaso finish, a fade through purple, pink, orange and yellow, made for this model.
3. The autographed backplate, one per instrument.
4. The signature headstock logo, inlaid rather than printed, and a truss rod cover that reads Dany Villarreal.
5. The 200-unit ceiling. A Custom 24 is a production instrument PRS will build you next year. This one has a number attached to it.

I think that is a more honest framing than “signature model” usually gets. This is not a redesigned guitar. It is the guitar she already plays, with an ebony board and her name on it, built 200 times. Whether that is worth the premium is a question about what you want from an instrument, and I am not going to answer it for you.

What Dany said about it

PRS published two quotes from her on the product page. Both in full, because the fragments that circulated cut the interesting halves.

On why she plays PRS at all:

“One of the most important things for me in a guitar is that it feels like an extension of my body and that I can trust it and just do my thing. Ever since I tried my first PRS guitar, it’s been an inseparable relationship. With PRS, I feel powerful and confident — and that’s a feeling that once you find, you don’t want to let go of.”

On the instrument itself:

“It has such a beautiful sustain, which I really like. The neck also feels so comfortable, and it’s not that heavy. As the only guitar player in the band, I love how my PRS takes up a lot of space sonically. It did wonders for our three-piece band.”

That second quote is the one that explains the guitar. The Warning are a three-piece. There is no rhythm guitarist behind her filling the gap when she takes a solo, which means her instrument has to hold the middle of the mix by itself. “Takes up a lot of space sonically” is not marketing copy there, it is a job description.

Separately, in her interview with guitar.com, she said the Astryx took about a year of production, and that she visited the PRS factory in Maryland to watch it being built. Her verdict on the finished instrument: “I’m completely in love, and it’s my favorite guitar.”

Astryx, Solecito, Ocaso: what the three names mean

All three names carry meaning, and two of them are Spanish. For readers outside Mexico, a short explanation, because the naming is not decoration.

Astryx comes from the root word for star. PRS says it alludes to divine guidance and a connection to something greater than ourselves. It is the only one of the three names that is not Spanish, and it sets the celestial frame the other two sit inside.

Solecito is the name of the fretboard inlay: a sun at the twelfth fret. It is the Spanish diminutive of sol, sun, and it translates as “little sun”. Diminutives in Mexican Spanish are not primarily about size. They are about affection. Solecito is the word you would use for something warm you are fond of, and applying it to a guitar inlay is closer to a nickname than to a product name. PRS frames the choice as honouring her Mexican heritage, and it does, but the specific flavour of it is the tenderness in the ending.

Ocaso is the finish: a fade of purple, pink, orange and yellow. It means sunset. Put the three together and the guitar tells one small story from top to bottom, from the star in the model name to the little sun on the neck to the sunset across the body.

The Warning are from Monterrey, in the north of Mexico, and the band has written and sung mostly in English while staying visibly and specifically Mexican in everything around the music. A signature guitar with two Spanish words inlaid and painted into it is a compact version of the same choice.

Her history with PRS, and the rest of the rig

A signature model usually follows a long relationship, and this one does. In the quote above she describes an “inseparable relationship” with the brand from her first PRS onward, and her Pit biography has had “her beloved PRS guitars” in it since long before any of this was announced.

The guitar.com interview is the best inventory of what else she owns, and a few items are worth knowing:

• A PRS Orianthi, given to her by Orianthi at PRS’s 40th anniversary event. She played it at sold-out shows in Mexico City.
• A Manson Oryx VI from Matt Bellamy, received after The Warning supported Muse in 2023. She no longer tours with it; it was lost in airports in transit and she stopped risking it.
• A white Gibson Explorer from Lzzy Hale, given during a 2022 performance in Texas. Hale was passing forward a tradition of gifting guitars.
• A Gibson Les Paul from early in her career, kept for nostalgic studio use, and a Taylor GS Mini, her first acoustic.

And here is the detail that surprises people: the PRS is not what carried the newest record. For Everything’s Falling, the primary instrument was a custom twin-humbucker Fender Stratocaster Baritone. In her words: “We went fully with the main guitars being the baritone guitars.” A Telecaster handled delicate studio arrangements and a Fender Acoustasonic is what she writes on.

So the Astryx is not the album guitar. It is the live instrument and the one she calls her favourite, which is a different and arguably more meaningful thing for a signature model to be.

Price and availability, sourced honestly

This is where most coverage gets vague, so here is exactly what I know and how I know it.

PRS does not publish a price. The product page has a “Find a Dealer” button where a price would be. That is normal for their limited editions and it means there is no manufacturer figure to quote.

Guitar Center listed it at $5,800.00 USD and shows it as sold out. I read that listing directly on September 20, 2026. That is a dealer price, not an MSRP, and it is one dealer.

Sweetwater blocked our fetch today with a 403. A 403 is Sweetwater’s bot wall and says nothing about whether they have stock; search results for that page also show it sold out at $5,800, but I did not read the page myself, so I am attributing the stock claim to Guitar Center only.

Update, September 26, 2026: Brian’s Guitars took preorders for the Astryx at the same $5,800, with delivery expected in September or October 2026. When I read that listing on September 26 it also showed sold out. That makes two dealers read directly, Guitar Center on September 20 and Brian’s Guitars on September 26, and both show it sold out.

What I have not done is survey every PRS dealer. Two hundred guitars distributed worldwide means some retailers received allocations and some did not, and independent shops do not always update their listings the moment a run clears. If you want one, a dealer search on PRS’s own site is a better use of your time than trusting a single article, including this one.

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If you missed it: what “limited edition” actually means here

Two hundred units, built in 2026, then the run closes. There is no announced second batch, and the guitar’s whole premise, an autographed backplate and a numbered ceiling, argues against one.

A few honest observations for anyone disappointed:

PRS will keep building the Custom 24. The Astryx is a Custom 24 with an ebony board and different cosmetics. The instrument underneath it is a production model you can still order.

There is no PRS SE version. A cheaper SE variant of the Astryx has been talked about online. No such model has been announced and no such model exists. If PRS announces one, that will be news, and it will come from PRS.

We will not link resale listings. Limited runs end up on the secondary market at whatever people will pay. That is between you and the seller, and pointing traffic at it is not something a fan site should be doing.

If you just want to see one played, the band headlines Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City on February 5, 2027, which we covered in full here. Whether the Astryx is in the touring rig that night has not been announced, and I am not going to promise you it will be.

FAQ

What is the PRS Astryx? A 2026 limited-edition electric guitar built by PRS as Dany Villarreal’s first signature model. It is based on the PRS Custom 24, with an ebony fretboard, a sun inlay called Solecito, a purple-to-yellow fade finish called Ocaso, and an autographed backplate. Two hundred were made.

How much does the PRS Astryx cost? PRS publishes no price. Guitar Center listed it at $5,800.00 USD, read on September 20, 2026. Other dealers may differ.

Is the PRS Astryx sold out? Guitar Center shows it sold out as of September 20, 2026. Only 200 were built, so availability anywhere is a matter of leftover dealer allocation rather than ongoing production. I have not checked every dealer.

Is the Astryx neck maple or mahogany? Mahogany, one-piece, per PRS’s own specification list, and Guitar Center’s listing agrees. Several guitar-press summaries said maple. They are wrong.

What does Solecito mean? “Little sun” in Spanish. It is the name of the fretboard inlay, a sun at the twelfth fret. The diminutive ending carries affection rather than size, which is why it reads warmer than a literal translation suggests.

What does Ocaso mean? “Sunset”. It is the name of the finish, a fade through purple, pink, orange and yellow.

How many PRS Astryx guitars were made? Two hundred, all in 2026, each with an autographed backplate.

What guitar does Dany Villarreal use on Everything’s Falling? Mostly not the Astryx. She told guitar.com the record’s main instruments were baritone guitars, specifically a custom twin-humbucker Fender Stratocaster Baritone, with a Telecaster for finer studio parts.

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