Franken PRS

[blue]

it is an impressive piece of work, it does actually look good, but still, why?  i think the more money than sense arguement holds water. also too much time on his hands!

what it does show is that the prs body shape would certainly benefit from more interesting finishes.

[richardjmorgan]

what it does show is that the prs body shape would certainly benefit from more interesting finishes.

This has just made me realise how awesome a camo PRS would look. How awesome? Rad to the power of sick, that's how awesome.

[headtheball]

I respectfully disagree, good sir, and I present Exhibit A for the defence

[AndyR]

I respectfully disagree, good sir, and I present Exhibit A for the defence

:lol: but is that cos you don't like camo finish anyway! (my personal position on camo :lol:)

[headtheball]

I don't dislike camo per se, it looks grand on more hard edged/angular instruments.

[Johnny Mac]

Some people have more money than is good for them.

:lol: +1

[noodleplugerine]

I don't dislike camo per se, it looks grand on more hard edged/angular instruments.

But that's just a bad camo finish. It looks really dodgy.

I think this Franken PRS is incredible.

[Philly Q]

I respectfully disagree, good sir, and I present Exhibit A for the defence

Exhibit B:

Danny Spitz's custom PRS.  To be fair, the way they've stained the camo pattern between the grain lines of the spalted maple is very clever.  And I mainly dislike it because it has stupid inlays and the ugliest headstock in the world, ever.

[blue]

i actually like the Dan Spitz guitar.  the headstock is an acquired taste... what i don't like is the U.S. inlays.  nothing against america! they just look really tacky.

the S.E. camo does look cr@p :)

[Philly Q]

it is an impressive piece of work, it does actually look good, but still, why?  i think the more money than sense arguement holds water. also too much time on his hands!

But let's suppose he'd had the Swamp Ash Special for a while and it was badly beaten up already, money doesn't come into it - all he's really done is refinish it and simplify the wiring, he hasn't compromised the playability in any way.

And the "too much time on his hands" argument could be applied to almost any activity, depending on personal taste... I'm not sure I ever use my time constructively, in the sense that it benefits anyone else...  :|

[blue]

yeah, fair comments Philly, i don't imagine my general activities would be considered constructive by most people!  maybe we're just too used to criticising things?  it is very well done, at least as good looking as the official charvels.  i think it might be my general prejudice against relicing coming out

[richardjmorgan]

I respectfully disagree, good sir, and I present Exhibit A for the defence

I agree that looks terrible, but I also agree with noodle that it's because that's just not a good camo finish. I reckon a PRS with a proper carved top, in a similar finish to the ESP camo Vipers would be awesome to the max.

I think the 'spalted camo' thing on the Spitz guitar is quite clever, but don't really think it looks that good, myself. And I agree that the headstock is dreadful.

[_tom_]

Camo should not be a feature on any guitar. It just looks $%&#ing terrible, no matter how "well" its done. The spalted prs is ok though and clever how they've done it, but camo = fail

imo.

[noodleplugerine]

Camo should not be a feature on any guitar. It just looks $%&#ing terrible, no matter how "well" its done. The spalted prs is ok though and clever how they've done it, but camo = fail

imo.

Fair nuf, I quite like the look of my camo Viper:



Then even cooler are the custom shop camos, like this lucky bar-steward from SS.org:



http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/sevenstring-guitars/76468-ngd-its-true-eelblack2-makes-dreams-come-true.html

[AndyR]

That Dan Spitz headstock is not at all to my tastes :lol: (the body looks quite cute though...)

I've been wondering why the headstock doesn't work - is it maybe because the tuners are in a straight line rather than following the curve of the headstock? I can see how they'd be easier to use in a straight line (and possibly easier to get a set that would fit?), but wouldn't it look better with the pegs in a curve? (and without that big "PRS" like it is...)

or perhaps it's just an irredeemable abomination that the designer should have received a slap for before they started tooling up :lol: