PRS Guitars and their F’ing 10” radius fretboards

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squank said:
I'm a long time PRS player. When I first picked up their guitars, I found the 10" to be perfect, so no complaints here.
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Same, it just feels normal to me at this point. If you go play vintage fender radiused guitars, 10 feels REALLY flat lol
 
There's really not a difference between a 10" radius and 16" radius. I switch between 10, 12, 14, 16, and compound radius guitars all the time and can't imagine needing to have one over the other.
 
Recently got a lawyer guitar (594) and had concerns about the 10” radius. Was able flatten out the action better than I expected. I have 12 (gibsons/charvels) and 20” (Holcomb) and while I notice a difference it gets out of the way when I’m locked in to playing. I have some 9.5 fenders as well that I came up on chicken picking so that might explain why I seem to play faster and maybe more accurately on the PRS. Of course, there’s a lot more to it than just the radius but it’s not been a deal breaker for me, and I’m pretty OCD with some ‘tism. Everyone’s different though in what they prefer but just my 2-cents!
 
I usually prefer a flatter 12" Gibson radius. but the PRS 10" wide-thin always played very well for me and was very comfortable and fast.
The 10" PRS is very comfortable and faster playing than a 9.5" Fender neck.
I have had even flatter radius than 12" (Ibanez Prestiges) and I was OK with them and they were very easy to play fast, but I can make do with anything from 9.5"+.
 
The problem with a round radius is with really low action and bigger bends. The physics just won't allow too much of a bend before the string frets out against the higher frets. 12" is usually flat enough for me and I have really low action. But 9.5" definitely is not.

Not sure if the PRS board can be flattened to 12" without sanding through the bird inlay?
 
itsgoodnow said:
They won’t even do a different radius for a model on private stock. Or stainless frets. It’s definitely annoying. I was debating doing the 16” re radius and a stainless refret to one of mine and I think this convinced me
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They wouldn't even build a custom 22 for me because it was "out of production"...as though they dont already have the cnc programmed for a 22 fret guitar. For $13k I was pretty annoyed but I caved and built a custom 24 and it sounds like every other custom 24 I owned and ultimately sold lol

They build a custom single pickup 22 fret pickup for the 3rd guitarist in Wolfies band though...so I dont understand why they wouldn't build a normal one for private stock. Im also really confused by the Herman Li guitar lol
 
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