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About a month or so ago, I traded one of my guitars (A Suhr Guthrie Modern that I wasn't playing. Great guitar, just never bonded with it for some reason) straight up for a dead mint PRS Modern Eagle II Quatro, a great deal for me value-wise. They are beautiful guitars and I'd been interested in them for awhile and I'd recently gotten to play a couple of nice ones that I really liked playing. They sounded kind of like nice Les Pauls, but played much easier for me. As I've said here before, I'm a Custom Shop Charvel guy mostly and while I like how Les Pauls sound, I hate playing them. They are just not comfortable to me...
Anyway... I made the trade and when I got the guitar I was really blow away at how it looked and sounded, but I didn't say anything here because I wanted to make sure this guitar was one I would enjoy playing long term and keep for awhile. Well... after playing it for the past month or so, I'm now sure it is going to stay. It sounds HUGE and is even really loud acoustically. What really mattered most to me though is that I really love how it plays - not like a Les Paul at all. It certainly isn't what I'm used to with my Charvels and the neck is fatter and quite wide (although I will say my favorite Charvel is 1 3/4" nut and fatter neck profile), but it plays much more "shreddy" than Les Pauls feel to me. The shorter scale length definitely helps with my f'd up left hand as well... I usually play trem guitars and don't like stop tails, but I'm surprisingly comfortable on this guitar. Forces me to come up with something when jamming instead of just grabbing the bar when I run out of ideas... which is quite often...
I like it so much, I've made some customizations... Replaced the stock plastic truss rod cover with a rosewood one with an abalone tribal sun inlay... I've also ordered from exotic wood pickup rings and a backplate I think will look cool. Yeah I know... very lawyerly...
Here's some pics the previous owner took for me. Came with a real snazzy looking paisley case too! I'll post more pics when my customizations are done. I'd definitely recommend these for players that play more shreddy guitars but dig the LP sound... One of our own has a really nice one for sale in the classifieds for $3800 - good price. My 2 cents anyway... maybe 10 cents with all this typing...
Steve
Anyway... I made the trade and when I got the guitar I was really blow away at how it looked and sounded, but I didn't say anything here because I wanted to make sure this guitar was one I would enjoy playing long term and keep for awhile. Well... after playing it for the past month or so, I'm now sure it is going to stay. It sounds HUGE and is even really loud acoustically. What really mattered most to me though is that I really love how it plays - not like a Les Paul at all. It certainly isn't what I'm used to with my Charvels and the neck is fatter and quite wide (although I will say my favorite Charvel is 1 3/4" nut and fatter neck profile), but it plays much more "shreddy" than Les Pauls feel to me. The shorter scale length definitely helps with my f'd up left hand as well... I usually play trem guitars and don't like stop tails, but I'm surprisingly comfortable on this guitar. Forces me to come up with something when jamming instead of just grabbing the bar when I run out of ideas... which is quite often...
I like it so much, I've made some customizations... Replaced the stock plastic truss rod cover with a rosewood one with an abalone tribal sun inlay... I've also ordered from exotic wood pickup rings and a backplate I think will look cool. Yeah I know... very lawyerly...
Here's some pics the previous owner took for me. Came with a real snazzy looking paisley case too! I'll post more pics when my customizations are done. I'd definitely recommend these for players that play more shreddy guitars but dig the LP sound... One of our own has a really nice one for sale in the classifieds for $3800 - good price. My 2 cents anyway... maybe 10 cents with all this typing...
Steve
