Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: hunter on June 06, 2009, 10:25:02 AM
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(http://www.birdsandmoons.com/gallery/Rare/20041005_DG2002_LWR49.jpg)
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Dragon 2002 I believe.
Great demonstration of inlay work.
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its the cover of the 2003 PRS DVD
one of the few inlays that doesnt look like a gaudy inlay - it actually captures the subject matter quite well
still far to OTT though.
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I wouldn't want to play it in public, but I'd have that on my wall :)
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I wouldn't want to play it in public, but I'd have that on my wall :)
Rich, would you want to play any guitar in public ? :wink:
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It's a fantastically skilled piece of work, I don't actually like the picture though! I'd prefer a Chinese dragon. Or a Welsh one! :P
Not something I'd ever want to buy, even if I won the Euromillions.
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Let's face the only peope who buyers these type of guitars are Japenese collectors to bankers anyway
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I wouldn't want to play it in public, but I'd have that on my wall :)
Rich, would you want to play any guitar in public ? :wink:
At my current skill level, no, not a chance. But if I ever got good enough, then yeah. Sue's black Les Paul would probably be my current favourite for posing with :D
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Twinfan is right.
The inlay work was not done by PRS, though. They outsourced it.
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That's awesome
Not on a guitar level, on a more Art/Skill's level.
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Twinfan is right.
The inlay work was not done by PRS, though. They outsourced it.
That is really cr@p. 'Check out our flagship show piece... made by someone else.' Not impressed.
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Mansons managed to procure 1 or 2 of those I believe, back when they first came out. Looks even better in the flesh! Think it was going for around £22'000. Definitely a good showcase of what can be achieved with Mother of Pearl, but way too OTT for me, even just as a show piece. Didn't they only do something like 10 of these worldwide?
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i dont think its bad to outsource something like this. They only need this kind of thing on a small number of guitars each year... and the people that do this kind of work are few and far between
incedently it would be a CNC inlay, not hand done. not an issue really but doing something like this by hand would take a very long time and probably not be anywhere near as precise
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Here's the double neck.... there's one of these in PMT Birmingham
(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u76/d1dsj/dragon_23-1.jpg)
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heres the inlay peeps
annoying website
http://www.pearlworks.com/loadsold.htm
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I think it definitely makes sense to out source for these one off's.
What's the difference really between them hiring, training someone and buying all the hardware and dedicating factory floor space to it and getting these experts to do it? The end result will no doubt be the same.
Hell, they can probably do it better, it's what they specialise in.
I'm sure PRS want to keep their overheads down, and aren't these guy's very local to PRS anyway?
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PRS have been working with the Pearl Works inlay guys for many years. I think they do, or have done, a lot of the work on the regular bird inlays and also the private stock stuff too.
I would say they're more of a 'business partner' than a 'supplier'.
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I find these dragon guitars beautiful pieces of artwork, but I would never buy one myself and even less be seen at a gig with one hanging around my neck :D
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when I think PRS I think pretty guitars, these just look awfully tacky in my eyes, may as well be a slice of cheese instead of dragons
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That Dragon on the singlecut is awesome
Done by CNC by PearlWorks
Larry Sifel (RIP) and Pearlworks do some great work
Also Tom Ellis & Precision Pearl Inlay are a top company for this kind of thing
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would they have done the MOP birds on my '98 McCarty?
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would they have done the MOP birds on my '98 McCarty?
I believe the birds are made by own PRS CNC :)
They're not exactly 'custom', it's done regularly...
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I will never understand why they bother making such guitars, they look absolutely disgusting.
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would they have done the MOP birds on my '98 McCarty?
I believe the birds are made by own PRS CNC :)
They're not exactly 'custom', it's done regularly...
I think PearlWorks helped them setup the inhouse system......
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ide love to own that.
in order to sell it and buy some proper guitars...
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ide love to own that.
in order to sell it and buy some proper guitars...
LOL, indeed.
Although, judging from the amount of time the doubleneck dragon has been in PMT in Brum, I'd say yu might have a hard time selling.
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I will never understand why they bother making such guitars, they look absolutely disgusting.
It was always Paul's dream to have a guitar with a dragon on it. It's become their thing.
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So ugly it would make an onion cry.
Nice workmanship, but it uglier than what my grandma has on her shelves.
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I like the art work, which is very impressive....but wouldn't play it. That's too much for me. PDT_025
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So ugly it would make an onion cry.
Nice workmanship, but it uglier than what my grandma has on her shelves.
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