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 July 7 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 July 7 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.

[mrjamiam]

On 7/8/2026 at 3:50 PM, cynic said:

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.

I still have your Anniversary Mira with the P-90s.  It's still great.

[soli'd]

On 7/7/2026 at 9:44 AM, bruce919 said:

you can find mistakes on CG site every day.

I see what you did there.

[joshoowah]

55 minutes ago, soli'd said:

I see what you did there.

But you missed the second part -  or maybe you were just making the point!

On 7/7/2026 at 9:44 AM, bruce919 said:

They have AI doing some of the work and people just no paying attention. 

Gotta love AutoCorrupt!

[Ham Rex]

On 7/8/2026 at 1:19 PM, DaveL said:

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

  
 

 

 

 

You nailed GC!

I bought two of PAFs guitars from GC.

The Mark YOUNGER-SMITH arrived in a Hamer Rectangle case with a Registration SN card.

I reached out about getting the correct case, and they never replied.

About two weeks later, I purchased the TLE Elite from the Book, Bound w Boomers and it arrived in a Shaped Case with MYS in Sharpie on the Case.

In the end, luckily, I received the correct case for each guitar.

[a.bandini]

Very cool, Rex.  Those are both spectacular.  

 

[DaveL]

2 hours ago, Ham Rex said:

You nailed GC!

I bought two of PAFs guitars from GC.

The Mark YOUNGER-SMITH arrived in a Hamer Rectangle case with a Registration SN card.

I reached out about getting the correct case, and they never replied.

About two weeks later, I purchased the TLE Elite from the Book, Bound w Boomers and it arrived in a Shaped Case with MYS in Sharpie on the Case.

In the end, luckily, I received the correct case for each guitar.

 

 

 oh nice,   I've always felt that all the aggravation and whatnot,  you can absolutely pull some below market

gems out of there...    you make your own luck.   if the don't send the right case,  call,  they'll at least try to

look for it.     

[cmatthes]