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Kinda surprised that a title search didn't turn up a whole bunch of them.
I'm a big fan of the PRS neck profiles; they feel great in my hand. Their ranges of tones & other features all combine to make them some of my favorite guitars. IMO the line definitely deserves its place alongside Gibson & Fender. And, while Fender & Gibson have been known to falter sometimes in terms of quality, PRS seems to have been able to maintain consistently high build quality. Even the import SE line, while not the equal of the core models, is pretty great at the price and eminently upgradeable.
So, here's my longtime #1, Midnight Angel. The first PRS I ever bought, and still a favorite more than thirty years later. Amazingly lively - the early production guitars were still using wood that Paul had hand-selected one piece at a time using his notorious rubber hammer. The guys at the supplier reportedly though he was half crazy, but the proof of the wood is in the finished products. I've never played a guitar from those first couple of years that wasn't stellar.
Coupla years ago I wrote a post to the thread "How did you first learn about PRS" on the PRS Forum, about the day this guitar found me - link is here.
I used to feel it was corny (or at best, vain and egotistical) for players to name their guitars. But after I encountered this guitar I changed my tune. She has so much personality that it became obvious that she deserved a name. Within a year or so, all my guitars had names to suit their character. I don't feel funny about it anymore, and as I often say, it helps me differentiate between them for models that I have a number of, like Les Pauls and Strats. And PRSs.
Midnight Angel - not fancy to look at, but man, does she sing!
coupla late 80s/early 90s action shots, back when she was still new
I'm a big fan of the PRS neck profiles; they feel great in my hand. Their ranges of tones & other features all combine to make them some of my favorite guitars. IMO the line definitely deserves its place alongside Gibson & Fender. And, while Fender & Gibson have been known to falter sometimes in terms of quality, PRS seems to have been able to maintain consistently high build quality. Even the import SE line, while not the equal of the core models, is pretty great at the price and eminently upgradeable.
So, here's my longtime #1, Midnight Angel. The first PRS I ever bought, and still a favorite more than thirty years later. Amazingly lively - the early production guitars were still using wood that Paul had hand-selected one piece at a time using his notorious rubber hammer. The guys at the supplier reportedly though he was half crazy, but the proof of the wood is in the finished products. I've never played a guitar from those first couple of years that wasn't stellar.
Coupla years ago I wrote a post to the thread "How did you first learn about PRS" on the PRS Forum, about the day this guitar found me - link is here.
I used to feel it was corny (or at best, vain and egotistical) for players to name their guitars. But after I encountered this guitar I changed my tune. She has so much personality that it became obvious that she deserved a name. Within a year or so, all my guitars had names to suit their character. I don't feel funny about it anymore, and as I often say, it helps me differentiate between them for models that I have a number of, like Les Pauls and Strats. And PRSs.
Midnight Angel - not fancy to look at, but man, does she sing!
coupla late 80s/early 90s action shots, back when she was still new
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. This is my first PRS, bought new at GC Fountain Valley, CA in 1997. It's a custom 22, stock except I changed the tuners. I never got the knack of using their tuners.
