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  1. Very cool! I think I'm right around where you are in the process. Exciting stuff, for sure...
    7 points
  2. Aside from the collector part, my experience as well. Great guitars that I just never seem to really dig in my hands. Oh, and I get "the email" last night. My build is finally on deck!
    6 points
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  4. Getting started. I believe the glueing of the top is scheduled for the weekend.
    1 point
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  6. I tried hard to find a PRS I liked. To me, they were like "Carvins for people with more money than sense." Folks go on and on about about "tonewoods", "figured tops", and all of that fanboi BS. Fact is, I've yet to meet a PRS "collector" that could play their way out of a paper bag. That doesn't mean they don't exist, I know they're out there. Finally purchased a DGT goldtop...VERY high-quality guitar, but it was just, meh. They are just not a good fit with me.
    1 point
  7. I still have the PRS 10-Top Custom that I bought in the '80s - that finish is super thin like most '80s PRS guitars I've encountered over the decades - the pores in the mahogany back started showing some "sinking" by the mid-90s, which I always thought was cool because it looked like a '50s Les Paul. The finish on top also seems to track the grain, which, again, isn't a problem for me, as it just makes it look like 50's vintage piece more than an almost 30 year old "modern" guitar. I think that PRS guitars have always suffered in the tone department for a few reasons. First, they were really born in the era of rackmounted gear and had more of a "hi-fi" sound (my description, yours may vary!). I don't think mine has ever been something I'd plug into a Marshall, an old Bassman or a Deluxe Reverb and love the sound. It always sounded great with my Boogie, but more stratty than LPish. I think the pickups are the culprit there maybe more than anything. Secondly, the bodies are really pretty thin. Like SG thin almost. Hard to get a thick, woody tone without some meat in there, I'd guess. There's no doubt that my guitar has quality Honduras Mahogany, Brazilian RW board, and a great top, but if those exact pieces of wood had been made into a Les Paul instead, I'd probably have that one guitar only. Like django49, I really wasn't moved to be interested in another PRS after mine until I played the first ME run. THOSE are stellar guitars. I'm also a fan of the DGTs, but other than that, as much as I dig my PRS and despite the fact that I've been to the factory at least 30 times and have friends there, I haven't run into a PRS that I just had to have. In fact, I left a PRS event at the factory once after miles and miles of cool new guitars...I bought a Hamer on the way home.
    1 point
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