PRS shopping today - I picked one!

Chewie5150

Chewie5150

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Took the day off to go down to one of the local shops that has an impressive array of PRS guitars. I've long lusted for a PRS model. No idea what will happen later today. What i've been considering for well over a year: CE24 (though less likely now) , S2 SC594, HBII piezo. I'll be also looking at a core Tremonti, some nice CU24's etc.

I'll add some PRS porn pics from store later when I'm there. If you were me and was likely to throw caution to the wind today...what would you grab?!
 
Chewie5150 said:
Took the day off to go down to one of the local shops that has an impressive array of PRS guitars. I've long lusted for a PRS model. No idea what will happen later today. What i've been considering for well over a year: CE24 (though less likely now) , S2 SC594, HBII piezo. I'll be also looking at a core Tremonti, some nice CU24's etc.

I'll add some PRS porn pics from store later when I'm there. If you were me and was likely to throw caution to the wind today...what would you grab?!
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I have the CE Waring and love it
A core Tremonti is great , the thing with many PRS I don’t love is the pickups , The Warings are pretty good though and I hear good things about the Tremonti
 
Chewie5150 said:
Took the day off to go down to one of the local shops that has an impressive array of PRS guitars. I've long lusted for a PRS model. No idea what will happen later today. What i've been considering for well over a year: CE24 (though less likely now) , S2 SC594, HBII piezo. I'll be also looking at a core Tremonti, some nice CU24's etc.

I'll add some PRS porn pics from store later when I'm there. If you were me and was likely to throw caution to the wind today...what would you grab?!
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update: I didn't buy anything today but I had loads of fun trying out about 10 different guitars in 2 shops. First let's talk PRS> most of the PRS have finished necks and today really cemented in for me that I just don't gel with finished necks. If i had really bonded with one I know they can be sanded. The 594's have a really chunky neck, wow. Also tried the Tremonti core. beautiful guitar but it has a baseball bat neck for my tastes. Tried a number of PU24 cores also and the HBII piezo which by the way feels like it weighs 5lbs its incredibly light! To my surprise, my favorite neck of the PRS' today was the CE Waring. I think cuz it's in my comfort zone of what I'm used to.

Some surprises today: LSL guitars. I have heard of them but until today never took close look or had chance to play. I fell in love with this LSL Tbone One Black Tele (in pic below). The neck was absolutely butter and it felt 95% like my EBMM Axis neck. No wonder I bonded with it right away. I was very tempted to take this home then though it'd be great to try out a Suhr Tele as I've often been curious ..so off to the other guitar shop

enter Suhr: at this shop tried a Suhr Tele (pic below) which was fantastic but I preferred the LSL neck better. My surprise at this shop was a Suhr Ian Thorney Classic S (pic below). Man what a versatile instrument!!! I loved everything about this guitar but was only about 85% bonded with the neck. Perhaps some slight tweaks on action would have closed that gap for me. I could see this guitar replacing my Fender /strat and my Charvel pro mod dk24 easily. It's like a hybrid of both. This remains on my radar now along with the LSL or something similar.

Two easter eggs for me personally were spotting the new EBMM Kaizen and Steve Stevens Friedman (pics below)
 

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I tried a Tremonti a few years ago, liked everything but the godawful wide-thin neck profile, bummer.
 
Chewie5150 said:
update: I didn't buy anything today but I had loads of fun trying out about 10 different guitars in 2 shops. First let's talk PRS> most of the PRS have finished necks and today really cemented in for me that I just don't gel with finished necks. If i had really bonded with one I know they can be sanded. The 594's have a really chunky neck, wow. Also tried the Tremonti core. beautiful guitar but it has a baseball bat neck for my tastes. Tried a number of PU24 cores also and the HBII piezo which by the way feels like it weighs 5lbs its incredibly light! To my surprise, my favorite neck of the PRS' today was the CE Waring. I think cuz it's in my comfort zone of what I'm used to.

Some surprises today: LSL guitars. I have heard of them but until today never took close look or had chance to play. I fell in love with this LSL Tbone One Black Tele (in pic below). The neck was absolutely butter and it felt 95% like my EBMM Axis neck. No wonder I bonded with it right away. I was very tempted to take this home then though it'd be great to try out a Suhr Tele as I've often been curious ..so off to the other guitar shop

enter Suhr: at this shop tried a Suhr Tele (pic below) which was fantastic but I preferred the LSL neck better. My surprise at this shop was a Suhr Ian Thorney Classic S (pic below). Man what a versatile instrument!!! I loved everything about this guitar but was only about 85% bonded with the neck. Perhaps some slight tweaks on action would have closed that gap for me. I could see this guitar replacing my Fender /strat and my Charvel pro mod dk24 easily. It's like a hybrid of both. This remains on my radar now along with the LSL or something similar.

Two easter eggs for me personally were spotting the new EBMM Kaizen and Steve Stevens Friedman (pics below)
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Fun!

I wish the Thornley didn't have that ridiculous belt-sander-burst finish. Haven't played one, but functionally it's pretty great.
 
I have two 513s, two McCarty Hollowbody Spruces, a 594 Soapbar Limited, a NF3, a 594 Hollowbody II, and a Silver Sky. I might have to get a few more to decide if I like PRS. You don’t want to rush into these decisions!

With your neck preferences, you might want to find a Pattern neck carve in rosewood. Both if my 513s have Brazilian rosewood necks, and they feel like home from first touch.
 
Chewie5150 said:
Also tried the Tremonti core. beautiful guitar but it has a baseball bat neck for my tastes.
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That's surprising, the core Tremonti started with the Wide-Thin neck profile and migrated to the Pattern Thin when they changed the names of their neck profiles.
 
Dave Merrill said:
Fun!

I wish the Thornley didn't have that ridiculous belt-sander-burst finish. Haven't played one, but functionally it's pretty great.
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Totally agree. I'm not one of those relic'd kind of guys and would hate to drop 5K on guitar with that finish but who knows...maybe it'd grow on me...maybe
 
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