Someone explain PRS' new direction to me..

[Philly Q]

The thing that gets me is the Ted McCarty singlecut model.  245 scale, nitro, neck binding, symmetric headstock.  Les Paul copy anyone?

Absolutely.  A Les Paul copy, and it's adding nothing which hasn't been available in earlier models, except cosmetic details - which is pure Gibson behaviour!!  :lol:

[martinw]

The thing that gets me is the Ted McCarty singlecut model.  245 scale, nitro, neck binding, symmetric headstock.  Les Paul copy anyone?

Absolutely.  A Les Paul copy, and it's adding nothing which hasn't been available in earlier models, except cosmetic details - which is pure Gibson behaviour!!  :lol:

I think that's the point!
It's not a guitar, it's a two-finger response to Gibson's stupid law suit. They deliberately LP'd up the Singlecut to show Gibson what they could have done, had they wanted to make a Les paul copy. I shouldn't think they care if they don't sell any, they're just making a point.  :)

[Philly Q]

I really don't think it's that.  They could've done that a couple of years ago, after winning the lawsuit,  if they'd wanted to.

But since then they've actually discontinued the Singlecut, Singlecut Trem, SC 245 and SC 250.  The only Singlecuts left are some SEs, a few signature and 25th Anniversary models and this silly Ted McCarty effort.

I'm doing the "we're all doomed" thing again, but I strongly suspect they're not in a position to "not care" if a model sells.

[Ian Price]

I'm confused as to why PRS feel the need to try to branch out into acoustics and amps. Very odd - I would have thought that to do this succesfully they would have to spend a lot of money upfront and will also be in competition with well established specialists in those products.

I've owned a PRS - nice guitar but too shiny for me! I'm sticking to Fender.

[Twinfan]

I gues now's not the time to tell you all that they're going to branch into pedals????  :lol:

Seriously though, they are.

[martinw]

I really don't think it's that.  They could've done that a couple of years ago, after winning the lawsuit,  if they'd wanted to.

I'm doing the "we're all doomed" thing again, but I strongly suspect they're not in a position to "not care" if a model sells.

There's no real reason to produce a guitar so clearly influenced by Gibson's heritage, other than to take a few sales from disgruntled Gibson-ites, and to make a point. If there's a better explanation, I don't see it. It's not as if they're demonstating impeccable logic elsewhere!  :lol:

[38thBeatle]

Maybe they should start making basses.

[Afghan Dave]

I'd like to see a PRS Jukebox :? :lol:

[Philly Q]

I'd like to see a PRS Performing Right Society.

I'm also hoping they'll get bought out by CBS so I can brag about having a "Pre-CBS PRS".  It's got a nice ring to it.

[Twinfan]

Maybe they should start making basses.

They made some a few years back, late 80s I think?

[Philly Q]

Maybe they should start making basses.

They made some a few years back, late 80s I think?

If I remember right, the 513 pickups started out as leftover bass pickups! 

They still make the Gary Grainger signature bass:

http://www.prsguitars.com/grainger/index.html

Although it may have been discontinued while I was typing....

[Ian Price]

I gues now's not the time to tell you all that they're going to branch into pedals????  :lol:

Seriously though, they are.

Unbelievable. Whatever next  :?

[WezV]

I'm confused as to why PRS feel the need to try to branch out into acoustics and amps.

i think its just GAS on a massive level. from the brief time i spent talking to paul it was obvious he was still very much guitar obsessed like the rest of us - and not just with his own stuff

you wouldnt have to spend long talking to someone like him about acoustics, amps or pedals before he started to spec his own design... i bet he has considered doing a range of these things many times over the years.  research to finally do them will have started before the current economic climate when PRS were in a stronger position.... probably put a lot of money into it too - now it really needs to pay for itself.

i quite like some of the new PRS range and i reckon a constantly changing catalogue keeps an air of exclusivity to each model which owners will get a buzz off but buyers might not.

[AndyR]

I reckon there's some on here that would look good in a nice tailored PRS suit. Charcoal grey, a modest pinstripe maybe...

Perhaps they'd need to do them in blue as well - Dave, single or double-breasted?*

A nice dark grey double-breasted (double vent), silk lining, two pairs of trousers - that would do me.


*Just realised, you'd probably want it made of rosewood - flamed maple front, rosewood trousers, bit of a challenge sitting down mebbe :lol:

[Will]

What kind of tie though? The old birds, or the new outline version..