Let's see some PRS pics and share your stories about them

[dr_rbg]

So if you are not a fender Stratocaster follower with all the legends behind and iconic shapes, would a silver sky be a better option?

 

[VonBonfire]

So if you are not a fender Stratocaster follower with all the legends behind and iconic shapes, would a silver sky be a better option?

A Gibson ES335 makes a better blues guitar and the shorter scale makes easier bending. I had strats for decades but in all that time I've only tried two that were really slinky feeling and they were expensive strats that belonged to other guys.

@NeubyWanKaneuby I'm noticing a repeating pattern in this thread. Many of the guys with PRS guitars have many PRS guitars. Seems to indicate they are well loved instruments worth buying more than once. Nice guitars you have there!

 

[NeubyWanKaneuby]

So if you are not a fender Stratocaster follower with all the legends behind and iconic shapes, would a silver sky be a better option?

my understanding is that the silver sky is supposed to be close to a vintage strat. I'm not the biggest strat guy, so I honestly can't say if that's really true or not. I do like my SS, though, so it works for me.

 

[NeubyWanKaneuby]

A Gibson ES335 makes a better blues guitar and the shorter scale makes easier bending. I had strats for decades but in all that time I've only tried two that were really slinky feeling and they were expensive strats that belonged to other guys.

@NeubyWanKaneuby I'm noticing a repeating pattern in this thread. Many of the guys with PRS guitars have many PRS guitars. Seems to indicate they are well loved instruments worth buying more than once. Nice guitars you have there!

I like my CU24 and double cut 594 the most. The others are nice, but if I had to pare down, I'd keep those 2 and move the rest.

 

[VonBonfire]

I like my CU24 and double cut 594 the most. The others are nice, but if I had to pare down, I'd keep those 2 and move the rest.

What do you like most about those two models? Anything specific or just two that were more magic than the others?

 

[dr_rbg]

I love my DGT, like everything about that guitar is great, but it is not a single coil guitar. No matter what people say. single coil is a single coil and if you want that sound you need to get a guitar with those pickups. I would just imagine that the build quality os a river sky is better than a fender

 

[NeubyWanKaneuby]

What do you like most about those two models? Anything specific or just two that were more magic than the others?

They're the most comfortable to play. I don't like fighting the guitar. I already suck enough without having to work even harder.

 

[VonBonfire]

I love my DGT, like everything about that guitar is great, but it is not a single coil guitar. No matter what people say. single coil is a single coil and if you want that sound you need to get a guitar with those pickups. I would just imagine that the build quality os a river sky is better than a fender

I don't mind the sound of coil splits but I never would use them and no, they don't sound the same as a single coil. I like HB's best.

I know this sounds like some pretentious BS but the easiest playing strat I've laid hands on was a heavily relic'ed Masterbuilt. About six months ago at a jam a player I respect lended me his axe when I snapped a string. It was like playing on rubber bands. I told him those must be 9's on it and he said 11's. I asked him was he was pulling my leg but he said no, he wasn't, and he is someone I trust when it comes to gear and tone. It was actually amazing. I don't care for relics and especially not relic'ed sunbursts ala SRV but damn that thing absolutely ripped. But I don't have 10k for a Mississippi vacation shack let alone a strat, lol.

 

[VonBonfire]

They're the most comfortable to play. I don't like fighting the guitar. I already suck enough without having to work even harder.

If you had to pick one of the two which one do you like the most? Or it's a tie?

 

[NeubyWanKaneuby]

If you had to pick one of the two which one do you like the most? Or it's a tie?

The CU24 would be my favorite of the 2. Even though the necks are very different profiles, they work well for me.

 

[VonBonfire]

The CU24 would be my favorite of the 2. Even though the necks are very different profiles, they work well for me.

I'm guessing the CU24 is wide-thin? I wanna say the couple singlecut 594's I tried were more like a classic LP shape (not a slim taper tho) but I tried a load of guitars around that time and can't recall.

 

[NeubyWanKaneuby]

I'm guessing the CU24 is wide-thin? I wanna say the couple singlecut 594's I tried were more like a classic LP shape (not a slim taper tho) but I tried a load of guitars around that time and can't recall.

CU24 is pattern thin and the 594 is pattern vintage. The vintage is fatter, but feels just as comfortable.

 

[peterc52]

PRS Artist II 1994 CU 22

So damn good!

 

[NVicious]

Current two that i own:

PRS Tremonti Wood Library with a gloss 10 top, ebony fretboard, swamp ash body and rosewood neck:

PRS Custom 24 Wood Library with a satin 10 top, ziricote fretboard, mahogany body and a stained flame maple neck:

 

[Jimty]

PRS Custom 22 from the “Dirty Dozen II” run. Original pickups swapped out for a Rewind A3 Bloomfield Bridge and a Rewind A2 Neck. The neck carve is the Wide Thin carve.

 

[VonBonfire]

Original pickups swapped out for a Rewind A3 Bloomfield Bridge and a Rewind A2 Neck.

Bloomfield as in Mike Bloomfield?

 

[Jimty]

Bloomfield as in Mike Bloomfield?

Yep - apparently they were wound to replicate his LP’s pickups, but the reason I bought the set is because I wanted a neck pickup that retains a lot of clarity on the bass strings for one of my LPs. That left me with a spare bridge pickup, so I popped it into the PRS to add some brightness, clarity and punch which the stock PRS pickup didn’t have. I also had a spare Rewind A2 neck pickup (because the LP already had the A2 bridge pickup in it) so I dropped the A2 neck unit into the PRS too. Pleased with the result - I went from not playing the PRS all that much to it being one of the guitars I play the most at the moment.

 

[VonBonfire]

Anybody got any thoughts about how the swamp ass bodies compare to the mahogany? I was kind of interested in the hog cause it's kind of a LP but better fret access but have been running across a few swamp ass models, which might pair better with a Texas summer.

 

[Holy-diver]

I got 2, a SE Mark Holcomb 7 which has been excellent and has a really nice flame to it and a S2 McCarty I found used at the local GC in a finish I really liked that I haven’t seen, metallic blue black burst edges and black back.

 

[VonBonfire]

Still waiting for @JackBootedThug to post up that mean green machine.

@griff10672 that is a stellar gift from your wife man and quite awesome looking with the dUbbEL kReeMz on green I might add.