Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Jonny on March 09, 2009, 02:32:27 AM
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I was over at my girlfriend's place, and whilst looking at closed shop windows, popped over to the music store that's there.
Hello!
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It's dented, etc. but it's still a PRS PS.
And the shop being closed and me only seeing it on the day I was leaving I was quite saddened but excited, hoping it might be there next time I'm back!
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You'll have to get in there quick before Twinfan sees it.... :lol:
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That's not a Private Stock. Looks like a Custom 24 with an Artist Pack. A shot of the headstock would explain it all - Private Stocks have an Eagle in place of the "Paul Reed Smith" signature ;)
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That's immediately what i thought, but didn't want to look foolish and waited until someone more knowledgeable came along.
Can't be Private Stock... way too ordinary for that! I'd barely even call it a 10 top, though it is pretty.
The only thing on it that might make me think it's a Private Stock from the pictures is the rather blueish birds, though that could easily be a reflection of the sky.
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The only thing on it that might make me think it's a Private Stock from the pictures is the rather blueish birds, though that could easily be a reflection of the sky.
That would be paua shell, again an Artist Pack feature.
FWIW, it also has non-original saddles - those are Graphtech Ferraglides.
Having said all that, is £2,000 a good price for a s/h Cu22 with Artist Pack? I have no idea.
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It's a CU24 Philly ;)
As Phil says, the blueish birds are the Artist Pack Pau shell. Depending on the year, it may also have a Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard. Looks like it's a fairly new guitar to me, and I think it might be one of the rarer ones with an ebony board.
Artist Packs have 10 tops Adam, and the uniform flame across the top looks good enough for a 10 designation to me.
I'd say the price was about right. Here's similar one for £1899: http://www.guitars4you.co.uk/guitars/1856.htm
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Asking price on the Bay appears to be around the £2200 to £2300 - only one that I can see that sold went for £1850 but that was a non-trem model and a 'burl' top.
Where is the shop?
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Meh.
No, I mean it this time.
MEH!
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It's a CU24 Philly ;)
:oops: Oops, schoolboy error. And I only have a degree in maths. :oops:
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It's a CU24 Philly ;)
:oops: Oops, schoolboy error. And I only have a degree in maths. :oops:
As a physicist, I fine well know that maths =/= coutnting, or even arithemtic for that matter.
All is forgiven.
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It's a CU24 Philly ;)
As Phil says, the blueish birds are the Artist Pack Pau shell. Depending on the year, it may also have a Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard. Looks like it's a fairly new guitar to me, and I think it might be one of the rarer ones with an ebony board.
Artist Packs have 10 tops Adam, and the uniform flame across the top looks good enough for a 10 designation to me.
I'd say the price was about right. Here's similar one for £1899: http://www.guitars4you.co.uk/guitars/1856.htm
Possibly an AP, going on the gold hardware (unless it was custom ordered on with a 10 top). The birds do look kind of Paua, and it's got old birds so pre 2008. I'd make a call that it's a pre 2005 Artist Pack, if only because the board looks more like IRW then Brazzie. Doesn't look like a 2008 ebony, birds are wrong and there's none of the figuring that maccassar ebony has. Nice flame so yeah, 10 or AP. It's not, IMO a private stock grade top.
Oh, and the Artist grade tops are supposedly > 10 tops. I haven't ABed myself, but the only PRSi I've owned are APs. :D I'm pretty sure that the reason the AP was discontinued was because PRS could no longer source the tops consistantly enough for production guitars.
The headstock would explain a lot! :) The back as much as the front. Private Stock are signed & numbered on the back, 10 tops have a 10 written on the bottom point, and Artist Packs do not have the 10 designation. Another note on the headstocks - the front of 10 top headstocks match the body colour, the Artist Pack ones are veneered with the same material as the fretboard and have a Paua signature, not gold printed.
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It's a CU24 Philly ;)
:oops: Oops, schoolboy error. And I only have a degree in maths. :oops:
As a physicist, I fine well know that maths =/= coutnting, or even arithemtic for that matter.
All is forgiven.
:lol: Yeah, we scientists have got give these people from the "arts" a little lee-way (... (ex)Chemist here)
Personally though, anything over 21 frets is verging towards infinity as far as I'm concerned - so 22, 24... what's a few frets between friends when it's all theoretical about what happens up there?! :lol:
On the guitar itself, not meh for me, quite pretty even, but not something I'd buy though, and no opinions on pricing... :D
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Ah damn, I knew I should have taken a photo of the headstock.
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Meh.
No, I mean it this time.
MEH!
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don't get me wrong, PRSs are nice, even very nice guitars. Just they aren't nice enough for the money in the UK, if you ask me. and the really nice ones are just crazy money. :)
Though very nice job spotting the gip, dave and co. :drink:
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What are good guitar brands for the UK? Not counting secondhand. If anyone has experience.
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What are good guitar brands for the UK? Not counting secondhand. If anyone has experience.
We talking mainstream or custom here, jonny?
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Mainstream.
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Personal preference isn't it - too wide a question!
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Well I guess I'm a metal guy, so I guess that sort of narrows it down. But omits many users here I think.
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Nah, there's loads of metal guys on here. Not me though, so I can't help!
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Well I guess I'm a metal guy, so I guess that sort of narrows it down. But omits many users here I think.
blackmachine
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Well I guess I'm a metal guy, so I guess that sort of narrows it down. But omits many users here I think.
blackmachine
That's custom, not mainstream.
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There's loads of choice off the shelf?
PRS USA models
Ibanez J-Customs
USA Deans
USA Jacksons
etc
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vigier are pretty good in the UK if you like superstrats. from an off-the-shelf point of view, anyway. there are plenty of nice off-the-shelf guitars here, just prices can get a bit silly... :(