NGD PRS SC245

[stratjacket]

Never owned a Gibson or a Les Paul style guitar, but decided to try one. About a month ago I picked up a PRS SC 594 McCarty and really liked it. The shorter 24.594 inch scale length felt so comfortable I started wanting the try the SC245 which is the 24.5 inch scale length, not that .094 inch made a big difference, but wanted to try the SC245 none the less. This came up on Reverb and was within driving distance to pick up locally. Got a good price.

Feels and plays great. Loving it. This pic is from the seller, but about as good as I could take anyway.

 

[ST.KTULU]

Damn, love that top. I had a 06’ sc that I miss.

 

[DrewJD82]

That looks GREAT!

I’ve been eyeing these lately as well as I find myself wanting a single cut more and more. Yours is certainly one of the nicer tops I’ve seen pop up. I’m torn between one of these and an Edwards, Burny or Epiphone. I *really* love ebony finger boards and there are a few Epi LPC’s out there with them and the full, thick bodies. Once this coronacocksucker is done with I’m going to try out a few 245’s to see how the neck feels. I know my chances of scoring a great playing/sounding PRS are MUCH higher than scoring a killer Epiphone.

 

[stratjacket]

You can get good prices on the SC245 since PRS stopped making them and replaced with the 594 model. Reverb currently starts around $1200 and goes up from there. If you go SE (made in Korea) 245, they start pretty low at a couple hundred bucks on Reverb.

 

[technomancer]

Nice!

 

[fek]

That looks great! Love the vintage type burst in the teardrop.

 

[Beandust]

You can get good prices on the SC245 since PRS stopped making them and replaced with the 594 model. Reverb currently starts around $1200 and goes up from there. If you go SE (made in Korea) 245, they start pretty low at a couple hundred bucks on Reverb.

I must have missed the 1200 dollar deals on em. Been eyeing for a couple months. 16 hundo was the lowest I saw on on the terdverb site Congrats on the sweet axe !!!
trade ya a WL for it lol

 

[stratjacket]

You can get good prices on the SC245 since PRS stopped making them and replaced with the 594 model. Reverb currently starts around $1200 and goes up from there. If you go SE (made in Korea) 245, they start pretty low at a couple hundred bucks on Reverb.

I must have missed the 1200 dollar deals on em. Been eyeing for a couple months. 16 hundo was the lowest I saw on on the terdverb site Congrats on the sweet axe !!!
trade ya a WL for it lol

This was the lowest I saw, it does not have the birds on the fretboard, but looks like it was reduced from $1200 to $1000 (I have no affiliation with seller).

https://reverb.com/item/32051027-paul-reed-smith-sc-245

 

[PBGas]

That is a beauty! Many congrats!
I wish that PRS would make a single cut Floyd. Man, I would buy one instantly!

Is there a particular reason why they don’t to the nice wood edge binding on the body of the black/gold guitars? I rarely see one with that.

 

[ewill52]

Congrats! Killer guitar and it sounds like you got a smoking deal!

 

[errrrrl]

Nice score man! I came close so many times with SC245's but end up chickening out last minute. Usually I can't make up my mind on the top.

 

[napalmdeath]

I had one I bought new for $2400 as an NOS. The thing that I couldn't justify was the hype of the pickups. It was a 2015 and had the highly coveted 58/15's. However, I found nothing amazing at all. I found them bland, kinda like '57 Classics, or other PAF wannabes.

Here's the insane part.. People are selling them for $500 a set, (and people eat them up like candy).

I sold the guitar, but in hindsight, I should have put Duncans in it, and made a killing on selling the pickups.

 

[Beandust]

You can get good prices on the SC245 since PRS stopped making them and replaced with the 594 model. Reverb currently starts around $1200 and goes up from there. If you go SE (made in Korea) 245, they start pretty low at a couple hundred bucks on Reverb.

I must have missed the 1200 dollar deals on em. Been eyeing for a couple months. 16 hundo was the lowest I saw on on the terdverb site Congrats on the sweet axe !!!
trade ya a WL for it lol

This was the lowest I saw, it does not have the birds on the fretboard, but looks like it was reduced from $1200 to $1000 (I have no affiliation with seller).

https://reverb.com/item/32051027-paul-reed-smith-sc-245

Cool man! I'll check out. HNGD! That's a sweet axe

 

[Rex Rocker]

I didn't know they used the two-piece bridge on 245's. I always thought they used their standard wraparounds.

 

[errrrrl]

I didn't know they used the two-piece bridge on 245's. I always thought they used their standard wraparounds.

Their regular single cuts are the usual wraps but the 245 and 594 are the two-piece bridges. I wish they did the knob wiring like Gibsons.

 

[ErikT]

That is gorgeous dude! I love that style of burst and a tobacco style too.

 

[rickenbacker198]

I had one I bought new for $2400 as an NOS. The thing that I couldn't justify was the hype of the pickups. It was a 2015 and had the highly coveted 58/15's. However, I found nothing amazing at all. I found them bland, kinda like '57 Classics, or other PAF wannabes.

Here's the insane part.. People are selling them for $500 a set, (and people eat them up like candy).

I sold the guitar, but in hindsight, I should have put Duncans in it, and made a killing on selling the pickups.

Have an MC58 with 57/08’s. They are beautiful for cleans and light crunch , not so much for high gain .. the way I like it anyways.
Much prefer the old PRS treble / bass pickups as they hold together better as the gain increases.

 

[Rex Rocker]

I didn't know they used the two-piece bridge on 245's. I always thought they used their standard wraparounds.

Their regular single cuts are the usual wraps but the 245 and 594 are the two-piece bridges. I wish they did the knob wiring like Gibsons.

Which are the "regular single cuts", then? Because the 250's are not around anymore, are they? I mean, other than the Tremonti which has the trem (which always looked way off in a SC IMO) and the Tremonti Baritone (which is 25.5" and not very "regular SC"-y), I don't think there's anything else being made with the SC shape, is there? In the core line, I mean.

 

[stratjacket]

Seems like I read somewhere during my research that the earlier 245’s had the single piece bridge, they changed it somewhere around 2013, maybe 2010 or so.

 

[stratjacket]

Thanks everyone for the HNGD wishes. Pretty cool guitar, kind of a world (singleCut) I never explored until recently.