PSA: GC mislabeled a PRS Starla as an S2. It's the "Core" version before the S2 was created in '12/'13. (link in post)

[golem]

Giveaways are the year, no S2 in the serial, using Kluson style tuners: https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/PRS/Used-2009-PRS-S2-Starla-VINTAGE-MAHOGANY-Solid-Body-Electric-Guitar-122337338.gc

The pickups will be USA made rather than their import pickups (G&B?). 

It's somewhat underpriced but having just bought a '74 LPC Custom and a Santana 10 Top I'm not feeling like picking this up. I personally feel like Bigsby's need a Vibramate and a Reverend Spring to improve the sound, feel, and extent the travel a bit further to get the best out of them. 

I believe the carve might be slightly different but I hardly study those details and it's hard to make it out from low quality pics online. 

Edited Tuesday at 01:30 PM by golem

[bruce919]

you can find mistakes on CG site every day. They have AI doing some of the work and people just no paying attention. 

[golem]

1 hour ago, bruce919 said:

you can find mistakes on CG site every day. They have AI doing some of the work and people just no paying attention. 

Indeed my Santana retro was several hundred dollars cheaper than your averate retro 10 top typically is. I realized I forgot to mention that they listed it as the wrong type of Santana.... a Santana II. Which, honestly, probably should be more expensive given that it has a brazilian rosewood fretboard, but can go for cheaper. 

Edited Tuesday at 03:41 PM by golem

[DaveL]

With guitar center still around,  it’s as if Daddy’s Junky Music never went away.    (Overpricing, underpricing, mis marking, losing the case, getting a case that wasn’t listed, getting a guitar with another guitar’s COA,  never cleaning the grime off a guitar which would reveal a pretty much mint guitar) 

 

    Never gets old

  
 

 

 

 

[cynic]

Those early Starla and Mira guitars punch well above their weight.

And speaking of weight, they're light as a feather and perfect for whiney old bastards.

And speaking of bastards...

Shorter scale (24.5") on at least some of them.