Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Twinfan on June 17, 2008, 09:51:52 AM
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Just found these pics on the PRS forum - loving the blue one!
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r312/Teasme4764/NewMira009.jpg)
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r312/Teasme4764/NewMira010.jpg)
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r312/Teasme4764/NewMira004.jpg)
(http://www.trailblazemedia.com/prs/mira-maple02.jpg)
(http://www.trailblazemedia.com/prs/mira-maple03.jpg)
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now I need a new house as sold mine to buy one....thanks Twinfan
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shame about the mingin' pick guard
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^ Agreed
But the blue/blackburst is really nice looking.
Pity that they don't come with a rosewood neck option...
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Pickguard looks $hite!
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When you mentioned the maple top Mira I didn't like the sound of it, but the blue looks really good (I could do without the birds though).
Don't like the 3-tone burst though, the scratchplate stands out too much against the light finish. Might look OK with a white scratchplate though - it would give it almost a Mosrite vibe!
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Shall I not say my positive comment on the pickguard then? >_>
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Err, well, no.....
Unless your name is Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder
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Shall I not say my positive comment on the pickguard then? >_>
each to their own fella, there must be a lot of people out there who like it because they seem to be seling plenty of them.
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Not bad, but I prefer the solid colours.
The turquoise one is still my favourite. Mmmm.
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they had them at the london guitar show.
There were two colours at the show. They said there was a blue and possibly others to come. They didnt want to comment on the cost yet.
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they had them at the london guitar show.
There were two colours at the show. They said there was a blue and possibly others to come. They didnt want to comment on the cost yet.
Did they say anything about (and Dave knows what I'm going to say here....)
.... a 22-fret version?
Shall I not say my positive comment on the pickguard then? >_>
Say it, Jonny! I think it suits the blue one just fine.
But I still think they should have had a 5-way switch rather than a 3-way plus mini-switch (which is effectively the same as the normal toggle switch plus push-pull arrangement).
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I believe there are 22 fretters and P-90 versions in the works, but nothing confirmed as yet. I don't even know if the maple tops are new standard production guitars or a special run.
Re. the scratchplate, it's the way it is as apparantly PRS may dabble with the configuration in the future. They then don't have to worry about body routing etc as it's all on a scratchplate.
I like the Mira just as it is, no maple top and all. But that blue one does look incredibly tasty to my eyes...
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that's quite nice actually. like philly i didn't like the sound of it, but it looks pretty good. need to try one, and a 22 fret version would be nice... i like my shredder guitars to have 24, but my more vintage-orientated guitars to have 22 for the slightly sweeter neck pickup tone...
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Meh. I'm really not into maple tops that aren't carved. It still looks kinda cheap but it's robbed of the simplicity that made it cool.
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It looks dated like some cheap Hondo. I'm sure the quality is fine but looks-wise meh. I think the opaque ones look better such as the sonic blue.
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I didnt ask about a 22 fret version.
I personally didnt like them as much as the plain wood finishes.
The carved tops and the larger bodies on the main PRS's look nice with the special finishes.
If they do add this finish to it + birds your getting into Custom pricing and id rather have a custom.
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Why would anyone get a nice maple top like that, then cover half of it with a pants pick guard :?:
St00pid.
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Now I hate PRS anyway, so just in terms of looks, I think they've taken a kinda quirky, retro-ish workman horse guitar and made it look like a cheap piece of rubbish trying to look expensive. Just like all the horrible £179 PRS clones on ebay.
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Looks cr@p, but i would take a normal one any day! :D
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Looks cr@p, but i would take a normal one any day! :D
Me too. I really liked the one in the transparent red finish that they had in Guitarist a while ago.
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I prefer the original ones to be honest. The standard Mira had a great, workhorse vibe to it, which the maple top kinda ruins for me.
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Love the top.
Love the finish.
Love the pickguard.
So shoot me.
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Its funny - I am an indie child so these guitars are angled at my market, but there is something about them that looks cheap. If they had SE on the headstock I wouldn't have been suprised lets put it that way!
The maple top does help but if I was buying a PRS I would go for a Singlecut or CU24. :?
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Y'see I don't know about PRS's, I like the basic SE models and the 'boring' Mira; but the flashy pants quilted jobbies do absolutely nothing for me. Pretty and all- I just dislike them. Though a plain top with p90s sounds niiiiice.
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I think it looks yuk :/
The shape, the pickguard, and even the colour. Not my thing i spose.
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Y'see I don't know about PRS's, I like the basic SE models and the 'boring' Mira; but the flashy pants quilted jobbies do absolutely nothing for me. Pretty and all- I just dislike them. Though a plain top with p90s sounds niiiiice.
What about this? Not a flame or quilt (or even a flammable quilt) in sight:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/PRS_McCartyKorina_m.jpg)
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Y'see I don't know about PRS's, I like the basic SE models and the 'boring' Mira; but the flashy pants quilted jobbies do absolutely nothing for me. Pretty and all- I just dislike them. Though a plain top with p90s sounds niiiiice.
What about this? Not a flame or quilt (or even a flammable quilt) in sight:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/PRS_McCartyKorina_m.jpg)
It's red. I don't like red guitars. The only PRS shape i really like is the Mira, the McCarty and it's ilk look to wonky to me. Though saying that, I saw a SE Custom thing yesterday that was tasty- semi hollow, 2 p90s and a natural finish with a twinge of a flamed cap. Still rather take a solid colour over a burst any day.
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(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/PRS_McCartyKorina_m.jpg)
Nice looking guitar that, Phil ;)
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It's red. I don't like red guitars.
It is so not red! It's vintage sunburst.
Nice looking guitar that, Phil :wink:
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It's red. I don't like red guitars.
It is so not red! It's vintage sunburst.
Nice looking guitar that, Phil :wink:
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It freaking well is red! look at the edges! RED! Not a fan of sunbursts at all these days- I can only stomach my Epi Les Paul due to the tone and feel. As soon as i have a garage/garden at my disposal i'm sanding that biznatch down and clear coating the hell out of it :wink:
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No, it really isn't red - reddish golden brown maybe, I'll grant you that.
It's a transparent faded/vintage sunburst on korina, so on the darkest bits it looks almost like natural finish mahogany. I'd call it a maple syrup colour!
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They have managed to make an ugly guitar even uglier. Plus a maple-top defeats the whole affordable idea surley? PRS used to mean something but now with SE's and Mira's they are just diluting the brand.
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I'm not sure the Mira could be accused of diluting the brand - it's still a US made PRS, and isn't exactly cheap. As for the SE models, they are incredibly well built guitars for the money, and they while some might argue they dilute the brand, my take would be that they help introduce people to it.
I've had an SE Singlecut for about 18 months now, and it helped me to begin to 'get' PRS guitars. I now also own a US made Tremonti Signature, and I will buy more as soon as I can afford it. I think the only way the SE range could do any damage to the brand is if the quality control were to slip.
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They have managed to make an ugly guitar even uglier. Plus a maple-top defeats the whole affordable idea surley? PRS used to mean something but now with SE's and Mira's they are just diluting the brand.
I don't think being affordable is exclusively what the Mira is about. And as far as I'm aware you can still get them without the maple-top anyway.
And I'm not quite sure what you mean by diluting the brand. SE's are great guitars for the money, and by all accounts Mira's are fantastic too.[/i]
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I think if anything the SE range strengthens the brand - it stops PRS being seen as "unaffordable" and perhaps encourages new customers to take that next step up. And they use the SE range to make models available which aren't in the USA range - like the Custom Semi-Hollow and SE One.
It's also very clearly aimed at a different price bracket, with no attempt to blur the edges and confuse the customer (unlike, say, Fender, who no longer make it at all clear in their literature exactly which guitars are made in the USA, Mexico, Korea, China...).
And as for the main USA line, PRS seem to be quite brutal in not letting it sprawl too much. Almost every time there's a new model, something else gets the chop to make way - no more Singlecuts, no more McCarty (at least not in their original form).
The Mira is very much a PRS - just a slightly different PRS which, in fact, goes back to the models which inspired Paul Reed Smith in the first place (even though the Mira is Joe Knaggs' design!).