PRS Tekton: Four Models, Three Bridge Options and a Seven-String

PRS has given its modern bolt-on platform four distinct routes: a hardtail, a two-point tremolo, a Floyd Rose and a longer-scale seven-string. Announced on October 20, 2026, the Tekton family puts the practical differences between those options ahead of simply offering another finish on the same guitar.

Which Tekton is which?

The six-string Tekton uses a PRS hardtail bridge and a 25.5-inch scale. Its figured mango top sits over a mahogany back, with a maple neck and ebony fingerboard. The Tekton T keeps that basic material recipe and scale length, but substitutes a PRS two-point tremolo with a steel plate and brass saddles.

The Tekton “Floyd” takes a different route again: a Floyd Rose tremolo and an alder body, rather than the mango-and-mahogany combination. Its scale remains 25.5 inches. For players choosing between these six-strings, the bridge and body construction are concrete differences, not merely cosmetic distinctions.

The Tekton SVN adds a seventh string and extends the scale to 26.5 inches. It combines a seven-string PRS hardtail with figured mango over mahogany and dedicated Stylus SVN pickups. PRS lists standard B-to-E tuning and a 10–59 string set for this model.

Shared hardware, deliberately different priorities

The family uses 24 stainless-steel frets, a 16-inch fingerboard radius and offset dot inlays. Maple necks are bolted to the bodies, with ebony boards and Modern D profiles; the SVN has its own seven-string version of that neck shape.

On the six-string models, PRS describes the new Stylus humbuckers as having a flatter output than many other humbuckers while explicitly stopping short of calling them flat-response pickups. That is the manufacturer’s design claim, not a hands-on verdict. The controls offer a three-way blade selector and push/pull tone control for coil splitting.

The useful starting point is therefore not “which finish?” but which bridge, string count and scale length suit your playing. This is a specification-led look at the October launch, not a review or a claim of new November availability.

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Photograph: PRS Guitars, from its October 20 launch press release. Cropped and resized for this editorial coverage.