Ooh, the new PRS Private Stock "Signature" guitars are hitting the shelves!

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If I ever win the lottery I will buy one of these. Then I'd rough sandpaper it, spraypaint it bright red and cover it in stickers. And fit DiMarzio Super Distortions in it. Then give it them back.

you forgot the Kahler  :lol:

And the Grolsch beer bottle tops in lieu of strap locks. I also think there's room to roughly rout out some space to put another pickup in the middle there.

I really can't get excited about these at all. I just don't get PRS guitars. I think I lack the sophistication to appreciate very fancy wood topped guitars. I recognise that it puts me in a minority but I've never seen a PRS that gave me a hint of GAS. I should probably try harder.

i'm exactly the same i find them very dull with nice tops and thats it

[Philly Q]

I really can't get excited about these at all. I just don't get PRS guitars. I think I lack the sophistication to appreciate very fancy wood topped guitars. I recognise that it puts me in a minority but I've never seen a PRS that gave me a hint of GAS. I should probably try harder.

I know this has been debated a lot, and I accept that PRS isn't for everyone, I'm not trying to "convert" you.... 

But they do make a number of different models.  I've owned 7 PRS guitars and not one of them had a fancy wood top!

[Twinfan]

You need to get past the looks, gents.  Pick one up and play one  :)

Hell, if I can convert shobet into possibly buying a Modern Eagle in the future then everyone can be "turned"  :lol:

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I've played a few different ones.

They just don't do anything for me.

I can see the appeal for others though

[Andrew W]

I've played a few different ones.

They just don't do anything for me.

I can see the appeal for others though

I played a friend's Tremonti a fair bit and it didn't amaze me. I do appreciate there are many and various models though. As I said, maybe I'm just not trying hard enough.

[hunter]

They'll sure be great guitars but looking too spectacular for me. I imagine going on stage with one of these and feeling like I'd have the $$$ guitar to make up for my mediocre playing.

[Twinfan]

Good point Hunter, but not everyone who drives a Ferrari has the skills to be a racing driver!

[HairyChris]

They'll sure be great guitars but looking too spectacular for me. I imagine going on stage with one of these and feeling like I'd have the $$$ guitar to make up for my mediocre playing.

The story of my life. With any guitar.

[dave_mc]

oh i like them, i have nothing against fancy tops and stuff like that (if anything i like them) i just don't really think they're worth the money they go for over here. the only one i really tried that i was really like "wow, that's great" was a mccarty artist model at about £3200 (this was a while back, not sure if the exact same model is available now), and while a good guitar is a good guitar, when I can find other manufacturers where i'm often going "wow" for five or six hundred quid (granted they're normally good deals), certainly a thousand or fifteen hundred...

yeah. I mean if you can afford a bunch of them, more power to you, they're certainly excellent guitars. I could afford one, but I don't much see the point of buying one of them when i could buy 3 or 4 guitars made by someone else which i'd like as much.

[Twinfan]

To each his own I guess.  It just annoys me when people slate them for their looks.  Can something pretty not sound good?

[Andrew W]

To each his own I guess.  It just annoys me when people slate them for their looks.  Can something pretty not sound good?

It surely can but beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder. Elborately figured woods have never appealed to me much in guitars, furniture or anything else: I just find that it detracts from the overall shape and form of the instrument/chair whatever. But that is personal preference of course and each to their own. I do think the McCarty Korina is/was a good looking guitar and would be the kind of thing that would be most likely to turn my head from their range.

[Philly Q]

To each his own I guess.  It just annoys me when people slate them for their looks.  Can something pretty not sound good?

And after all, many a Les Paul has been prized for its flame maple top.... and not too many people go on about them being lawyer/dentist/stockbroker guitars.  Even though the prices are comparable to PRS!

(I know there's a bit of a "plain top LP community", but it's very much a minority)

[dave_mc]

^ +1

To each his own I guess.  It just annoys me when people slate them for their looks.  Can something pretty not sound good?

oh i agree, it annoys me too :)

[Philly Q]

There's a review of the PRS Signature in the May issue of Guitar Player.

An interesting little fact about the pickups and wiring:

The 408s [have].... an ability to maintain a consistent volume when switched from humbucking to single-coil mode.  This is due to an additional 1,500 winds of wire on each pickup that is engaged when you activate the single-coil switch.  It makes the "split" output effectively the same as the full humbucker's, but without affecting the single-coil response.

(I still don't like the look of the mini-switches!)

[nfe]

oh i like them, i have nothing against fancy tops and stuff like that (if anything i like them) i just don't really think they're worth the money they go for over here.

No, they're embarrassingly overpriced in the UK. To the point that I have to kinda think anyone that buys one here is a bit of a clown (if the same guitar is available elsewhere, obviously). I'm going by 2008 figures, but at that point, you could import ANY PRS from the US, including all taxes and shipping, cheaper than UK trade price. It's obscene. Lots of other brands are similarly overpriced, but none by anything like the same margin that I recall at that stage.