Yea, I'm with you. I could pair it all down to the Silver Sky, the McCarty 594 semi-hollow and my homemade Telecaster and I'm very certain I'd be completely happy forever more.
I won't.
But I could.
Yea, I'm with you. I could pair it all down to the Silver Sky, the McCarty 594 semi-hollow and my homemade Telecaster and I'm very certain I'd be completely happy forever more.
That's awesome... I love green guitars, and bursts/fades. Rosewood neck?
Yes- rosewood fingerboard over mahogany neck/body and a maple top.
Ah, cool. I saw the veneer on the headstock and wasn’t sure if the entire neck was made of solid rosewood [as opposed to just the fingerboard, specifically.]
Man, I love a good SAS. We used to put a Seymour Duncan Vintage Rails in that middle pickup position. I honestly hadn't even realized they went back into production in '11 and '12. I'm not at all surprised that Paul chose to switch to his own pickup when they did though. (I used to work on the night neck sanding team there many years ago, and always thought it was odd that we wound our own pickups, but outsourced for that one specifically.) How does the Narrowfield sound in that middle position? (Before the Silver Sky, I always considered the SAS the "spankiest" PRS in the lineup.) Does the NF do those chimney tones justice?
I understand the comment, but don't agree. It's certainly a more mellow tone than I get from the MM guitars or my old Ibanez that's loaded with a Duncan Distortion and Hot Rails. Flipping the toggles reveals a more subtle tone change than I'd normally expect from tapping a regular humbucker. They do a pretty nice tone demo of all 9 possible settings on the PRS page for this particular model:
Those look so good with a ton of natural wear on them.Scored a mint limited run CE24 Standard Satin from 2016 recently. Love the stripped down vibe.
Id be lying if i said it did chime. Its kinda there but theres so much low mids that it feels almost too full unless youre into a marshall style gained up amp. I primarily live more in the fender/american territory and its pretty boomy. But for rock music man it slams. I toyed with the idea of putting a full 57/08 in the bridge and routing it, but im gonna play around with it for a while longer.
this 509 is ticking a bunch of boxes for me.....unfortunately i'm not familiar with the PRS product history, but did they ever issue a 509 or 513 w/ 24 frets or a CU24 with 509 or 513 switching?
