I vowed this would never happen...

[Andrew W]

Love the guitar, I've never tried a bolt-on neck PRS but I love Fenders so I'm sure I'd like it if I did. Looks like a very no nonsense rock 'n' roll geetar and all the better for that. It is a slippery slope. I've gone from never having liked a PRS I'd played (not many it must be admitted) to owning two in the space of a year so be careful out there. :)

Philly, do you have McCarty pickups already? I only ask because I'm thinking of asking Jonathan to put some Mississippi Queens into my '95 McCarty and whilst I probably don't want to sell the stock pickups (in case I want to restore the guitar to its original state) I'd be totally happy to leave them with Jonathan, if he's happy, so you could try them out in your guitar before you buy. Don't know if that's useful?

[darkbluemurder]

Nice guitar.

I am sometimes surprised that these guitars sound good even though they have the Dragon II pickups. I once had a pair of them, tried it in 4 different guitars and it never sounded the way I wanted.

Cheers Stephan

[AndyR]

"I vowed this would never happen..."

:lol:

That's the problem with making vows/promises or overt statements about future gear (Twinfan?! ).

I'm very happy thanks, and sticking to my vow  :D

I'm not convinced you've actually made any "vows" have you? :lol:

I was thinking more of your "fairly postive pronouncements" from time-to-time. And not so much the "current" one - I was thinking more of some of the earlier ones over the past few years!


Anyway, subconsciously, I was thinking more of myself - have I ever actually said, literally, "I'm never buying a PRS"? If I have then I need to find and edit those posts now, just in case they come back to haunt me... I'm definitely finding them these things more appealing than I did before :D

This one looks particular tasteful to me - although I've always imagined fixed neck for "my PRS".

Luckily, I have no spare money :lol:

If I did have enough for the sort of PRS I might be thinking of, then probably I'd be taking a trip to Jonathan first, though...  It's close, but I think that I value the idea of owning a custom from Feline more than I do a PRS...


But Dmoney getting one just shows, er, something... decent guitars are decent guitars, and if you keep reading positive noises about something from your peers, sooner or later you're going to try one, and then you'll have to get one...

It's Roo and a tele next :lol:

[Kiichi]

Ahh another NGD on the BKP PRS-Forum...

Congrats, mate, nice one.



shite I donīt think I can run away much longer....must get money to buy PRS...possibly with soapbars...

[Twinfan]

I'm not convinced you've actually made any "vows" have you? :lol:

I was thinking more of your "fairly postive pronouncements" from time-to-time. And not so much the "current" one - I was thinking more of some of the earlier ones over the past few years!

The current one is a pretty strong statement (https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27873.0), previously I've just said I don't "need" any more gear - "want" always took over though  :roll:

I've deleted saved eBay searches, stopped scouring websites etc.  Quite a big change for me.

[gwEm]

PRS have done some models with a wraparound and 3x strat type pickups. I'd be interested in something like that maybe. I believe they are called the EG and the 305.

[Philly Q]

Philly, do you have McCarty pickups already? I only ask because I'm thinking of asking Jonathan to put some Mississippi Queens into my '95 McCarty and whilst I probably don't want to sell the stock pickups (in case I want to restore the guitar to its original state) I'd be totally happy to leave them with Jonathan, if he's happy, so you could try them out in your guitar before you buy. Don't know if that's useful?

Thanks Andrew, very kind offer.  :)

I do have a set of McCartys already, in my McCarty Korina.  I'm intending to change the pickups in all my PRS guitars at some point, but I agree they're worth keeping just in case.... which prompted the idea of putting either the McCartys or Dragon IIs in place of the Gotoh(?) pickups in my Tokai SG (can't really be bothered to buy BKPs for that one just now!)

[Philly Q]

I've deleted saved eBay searches, stopped scouring websites etc.  Quite a big change for me.

Eeek!  :o  I can't imagine ever doing that.  It'd be like losing a limb or something.

(Slight exaggeration there!  :roll:  :lol: )

I think I will give in and do a Twinfan eventually though.  :P

Private Stock...Private Stock...Private Stock.....  ;)

Oh Lord no!  One step a a time, Dave, one step at a time.  :P

I was thinking more along the lines of a bog-standard maple top model.  Maybe inching up to an Artist Pack.  Can't imagine going any further than that at this stage! 

[Twinfan]

Private Stock is where it's at Phil - go straight for the best stuff  ;)

[Philly Q]

I could never get over the guilt of spending Ģ5,000+ on a single guitar.  The most I've managed is half that, and I'm not sure I'd do it again!

[_tom_]

Looks awesome, if i was ever gonna get a prs it'd be an understated one like that. Great guitars, just don't have the "rock" image!

[Twinfan]

Looks awesome, if i was ever gonna get a prs it'd be an understated one like that. Great guitars, just don't have the "rock" image!

They seem to be fine for a lot of modern rockers!

[Dmoney]

They are indeed fine for a bunch of people, but I wouldn't say I see them commonly. I see people using les paul shapes (gibson, epiphone, ltd, esp) and SG shapes WAY more than PRS. I've seen more people using Fernandes than PRS. I saw one dude in a band rocking a PRS about 6 years ago, and a guy I was in a band with used an SE until he got a les paul studio. I think it's fair to say PRS has a bit of an image issue. That's all old news though right?

just looking through their artist page there isn't many people I care about on there or listen to on a regular basis. Chris Haskett is probably the only one. oh! I just spotted Todd Morse of H20 and Hazen St.

Gwem. VHII's is something I was considering.

[Twinfan]

PRS seem to be more popular in the US than here in the UK.  Conservative UK guitarists seem to want Fender and Gibson above all else...

[tekbow]

hmm i think it took me to own a PRS with all the fancy trimmings to take the need to have more away. Its an awesome sounding guitar, it's got some non standard stuff as it's a special run, and it looks stunning. But i wouldn't have another full fat job. I'd have one of the solid colour or non 10 top CE's or an old standard, or one of the stripped down one's like DMoneys one here.

Here's the thing, mine sounds great, but i would never gig it, i would rather have an old beat up one that sounds just as good and play that.

Can't beat those trems though...