It's Time For A PRS Thread

This is Kinghawk, an '09 Starla. Nice workhorse guitar, good thick neck, solid sustain and really nice feel in the hand. The neck profile on these was supposed to be Wide-Fat but it doesn't feel the same as my other Wide-Fat; might be a slightly modified carve just for this model. Or maybe it's just the geometry of the guitar that makes it feel unique.

The unusual humbuckers have magpoles on one side as well as a screw bobbin on the other, so they split really well to true singlecoil voicing. There's a bit of Gretschiness in their series tone - great for blues and roots music but the guitar absolutely can rock too. Reminds me a little of a Les Paul Special. Yes, it's no-frills. But it's also solid, capable, and reliable.

I bought a Duesenburg Les Trem for this guitar, but that wound up going onto one of my Firebirds instead. Still might transfer it over to this one someday. I like the Les Trem much more than I like Bigsbys. It can do the subtle rockabilly warble but it also can behave like an actual vibrato bar. Maybe not quite as much range available as with a Strat trem, but there's enough to do real bends when you want them.

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For those who may have played both - how does the PRS wide thin compare to the Epiphone slim taper D?
the Epi is somewhat wide , and certainly thin.
 
jtcnj said:
For those who may have played both - how does the PRS wide thin compare to the Epiphone slim taper D?
the Epi is somewhat wide , and certainly thin.
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The Epiphone necks that I had on two G400 were similar to my Gibbo 61RI, but were a tad fatter front to rear.
Very D shaped with a pronounced shoulder.
The PRS wide thin is rounder in profile. More of a thin C shape, without a hint of a shoulder.
Just smooth & round like a voluptuous woman's... Uh nevermind...
To me it's perfect.
 
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Here's my 1989 Custom 24/10Top w/boids. Played hundreds of gigs, also never broke a string, never gets out of tune, always comes back in tune whatever I do to the trem arm, and never let me down. I also had a '87 but thought there is absolutely no reason to have 2, an extra sunburst one, I bought out of a trunk of a car after some guy decided to close his store. Had 10 to pick from too, well, that guy turned out, years later, to be one of the biggest VG dealers. I don't need two so I took it to a guitar show { Philly, I think } , and every dealer was all over me like a cheap suit!hysterical.gif I made 4x's my money back as it turned out the pre 1990's ones commanded a premium as they are so desirable, and I had no freekin idea at all about that, and they never knew that I didn't since they were swamping me with offers one on top of the other I knew to Clam Up. Second day of the show about 6 dealers gave me the finger when I walked past their booths hysterical.gif

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jtcnj said:
For those who may have played both - how does the PRS wide thin compare to the Epiphone slim taper D?
the Epi is somewhat wide , and certainly thin.
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I don’t have and Epi to compare too, but that could change in the future with all the Epi GAS floating around lately. :run:
 
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Here's my 1989 Custom 24/10Top w/boids. Played hundreds of gigs, also never broke a string, never gets out of tune, always comes back in tune whatever I do to the trem arm, and never let me down. I also had a '87 but thought there is absolutely no reason to have 2, an extra sunburst one, I bought out of a trunk of a car after some guy decided to close his store. Had 10 to pick from too, well, that guy turned out, years later, to be one of the biggest VG dealers. I don't need two so I took it to a guitar show { Philly, I think } , and every dealer was all over me like a cheap suit!View attachment 40884 I made 4x's my money back as it turned out the pre 1990's ones commanded a premium as they are so desirable, and I had no freekin idea at all about that, and they never knew that I didn't since they were swamping me with offers one on top of the other I knew to Clam Up. Second day of the show about 6 dealers gave me the finger when I walked past their booths View attachment 40884

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Nice guitar! I kinda wish they'd bring back the sweet switch as an available option. Really cool feature, along with the out-of-phase position 2 that they did away with on rotary models after about 1990.
 
My other McCarty, Miss Scarlet.

She's all korina including the neck, really nice elastic feel. Her fretboard is 50-year-old Brazilian rosewood gifted to Paul by the folks at CF Martin. I'm told fifteen of these guitars were built in '07 but they languished in the warehouse for eight years due to legal issues with the old growth wood. Finally sold as NOS in 2015, marked "custom built for USA only."

Great guitar. I love korinas and have a bunch of them including a McNaught, a few Gibsons & Epiphones, and my Zerberus. But this is my only korina PRS.

She has the standard A4 McCarty humbuckers. Nice rich vintage voicing, crisp without a hint of harshness, and full but never tubby. A4 pickups tend to be very transparent to the tone of the wood they're in, and this axe has really good bones. There are some who find these pickups a bit polite & restrained, but they really wake up at volume. I think in this case the extra midrange snap of korina gives them a little extra bounce and cut.

Very pretty transparent cherry finish - in the right light it's downright luminous. This batch was made with the original 80s style abalone birds too.
The original dealer photos are better than anything I can get with my cellphone.

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She is a 2009 McCarty that the previous owner installed Thornbuckers in. The pictures don't seem to capture the depth of the flame very well. She sounds and plays fantastic. My dream guitar.
 
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