My post was more at "my customized stuff and PRS guitars are both good". I have incorporated a few PRS wiring bits here and there. Dude makes wonderful guitars. But, so do others, with a few pickup/wiring mods....
I am also non-fanatically positive about the Grateful Dead.
Final word and I’m done.
What guitar is that that was $2500 new?
PRS Swamp Ash 513. They did a semi limited run of them in 2010. I got it at the PRS Experience that year. I was never 100% sure how it worked, but at the experience PRS would have new never left the factory guitars for dealers to choose and a person would buy it from the dealers at the factory. Ironically I think this one was through a Guitar Center. There were possible discounts to be had, but these guitars made it out to the dealers afterwards and I’m pretty sure they sold for the same price or close. I haven’t check Reverb lately, but they pop up and sell for about this money.
Because if you think $2500 with hard shell case for an American made guitar I posted is overpriced than you’re out of touch. However as you bounce back and forth, in the final analysis it’s not about price. I think people are seriously getting confused by the rapid change in the market and the glut of lower cost Asian guitars. I have a Schecter “super strat” type guitar I purchased in 2021 for $1249 new. It’s now selling for $1649 new from the same place. I got it because I wanted a Floyd and I was willing to accept the areas it is lacking from my PRS’s. It’s a nice guitar and perfectly playable but not as nice as my PRS Custom 24 with solid rosewood neck and real Gabon Ebony fretboard. You may laugh because I say real Gabon Ebony, but there’s a difference. First it’s solid black with no stain and the grain is so freaking tight that it’s smooth as butter. The Schecter has an “Ebony” fretboard, but it’s no where as nice.
I'd love a knaggs
No I build my own guitars (all super strat style partscasters), and I have some very nice vintage instruments. I also have a few Japanese Ibanez's and a Canadian guitar made by Godin. I own one Schecter Sun Valley Shredder, and 1 Sterling 7 String Majesty.
Yeah that's the $5000 range I was talking about.
You love to put words in my mouth. I never said it didn't sound good - I said it didn't sound any better and was not as versatile. As far my playing ability that might be the one subject I am way too humble about. You are right I suck
If you were any good back then you would have sounded just as fabulous on your Ibanez. Some guitar players can pick up any guitar and sound amazing. Also the upper fret access on my 2 Ibanez shredders and my Gibson M3 blow away the upper fret access on any PRS I have ever picked up. Their necks get pretty chunky up there.
And yet every time I point out my opinion that PRS has an inferior value proposition you go off the rails. Nice display of rational, objective, unemotional attachment!
They are a bargain compared to PRS prices. Here's my first swing on Joe's side of the guitar world...
Where I live knaggs are not readily available though I discovered one small guitar shop that sometimes carries them from time to time. I'd be interested in trying out a Kenai
Beautiful!
I have no heated loyalty. I just happen to love mine. However, I have other brand guitars and play and love them as well!I pointed out the "everyone is entitled to their opinion" thing like 20 posts ago in multiple threads on PRS's less than stellar value prop. But PRS owners get scrappy and emotional when you belittle their girlfriends. I don't date my guitars I'm married.
