I vowed this would never happen...

[Twinfan]

PRS's were born to be gigged - get it out there having fun!

A lousy photo, but here's me gigging Private Stock Signature #41:

[tekbow]

Narp lol it sounds awesome, but so do my others, i would be gutted if it got nicked or got scuffed up. i like to keep my guitars good. Had a JS1000 years back and that went thru multiple gigs and looked as good when i sold it on as they day that i bought it. the only guitar i'm not bothered about scuffing is my strat, and thats because i like scuffed up strats.

other reason i dont want it scuffed or stolen is that, to me, it's not easily replaceable. it's a 10 top mcarty trem in teal black, from 06 so its pre all the asthetic changes which i don't like.. i don't like the blade style pickups selectors, i don't like the new style and hollow birds, don't like the new heel etc etc. Old PRS's are only getting more expensive

actually i have a heartbreaker of a story about a scuffed up strat, but i've thread jacked enough  :P

[Twinfan]

Dings in PRS's rock - I whacked a nice one in the side of the above guitar at the same gig (its first - doh!)

They're tools, use 'em!

[Philly Q]

Dings in PRS's rock - I whacked a nice one in the side of the above guitar at the same gig (its first - doh!)

They're tools, use 'em!

Yeah, of course you're right - in principle - about the tools thing.

But I find dings in PRS guitars particularly upsetting..... they don't look "natural", somehow, when they're aged or beaten up.  Maybe it's just because PRS is a relatively new brand so we simply don't see many road-worn examples, but a relic Fender or Gibson looks "right", a relic PRS doesn't!

(That said, the lower-priced PRS models seem more at home with a bit of abuse than the upmarket ones do!)

[Brow]

I know what you mean about dings in PRS Guitars; alot of people really don't like them.

When I went to look at what is now my 97' CU22 the guy opened the case to show me the guitar and after a few seconds  he said 'Oh, you're still here. I've had 6 people come and look at this and all of them ran off when they saw the ding in the top'. It has a very slight ding in the top, near where your arm would rest on the front of the guitar, and 6 people left it because of that. Ah well; it helped me get the guitar for £650  :lol:

[Philly Q]

Blimey, a Cu22 for £650!  :o

I must admit, I'm not particularly bothered by the minor dings on my Standard 22.  They don't really look out of place on the plain mahogany body and satin (with shiny patches) finish. 

I'm glad the headstock's intact, though.... I'm very fond of the PRS headstock shape, and it's a shame that the pointy bits so frequently get chipped.

[tekbow]

Dings in PRS's rock - I whacked a nice one in the side of the above guitar at the same gig (its first - doh!)

Tell the truth.. you cried didn't you? inside maybe, but you cried..

;)

I agree with the PRS's not looking right with dings, the bling bling ones can be too bling to ding. It just spoils the effect, and therein lies PRS's main problem, at least on the 10 top birded guitar porn models, they've become a prestige item instead of a tool, and you don't like to wreck a prestige buy, and whether or not you agree with it as i don't, i agree with you, it's a tool, it's still in the back of your head "oh no.. i dinged my work of art"..

However the above would not stop me buying a pre dinged PRS for the right price. and i wouldn't be half as precious about it either. thats the good thing about the CE's, no matter how pretty, they've all been used as tools.

For the record, i like my strats gallagherised. fender heavy relics aren't heavy enough. other than the gallagher model obviously, but i've become strangely partial to sonic blue recently.

[FELINEGUITARS]

I traded myself a CU22 back in 1997, which was in mint condition and because of everybody wanting a mint condition one I ended up never taking it out of it's case which was a tragic waste.

Sold it on a year later.........

Decided to make my own after that......
Anyone fancy a Goldtop Swamp Ash Tiger

[Dmoney]

i've heard about this phenomenon with second hand PRS. Any dings and buyers just don't want to know, and them being hard to shift. This one I have here feels like a workhorse. I wouldn't have any issues gigging it at all.

[Ian Price]

I think Brow got a PRS at a stupidly low price as it had a ding in it.

[Twinfan]

Yep, Brow did really well.  I've told him that before!

Tell the truth.. you cried didn't you? inside maybe, but you cried..

;)

Actually, I mentally kicked myself for droping it off its stand, then played the snot out of it at the gig  8)

[Twinfan]

Jon - that Tiger looks cool!

[Brow]

i've heard about this phenomenon with second hand PRS. Any dings and buyers just don't want to know, and them being hard to shift. This one I have here feels like a workhorse. I wouldn't have any issues gigging it at all.

Some people are just picky!

I buy guitars to play them, so if they get dinged then that's just how it goes. I tend to buy stuff to keep it, unless I just can't get along with it, so don't let resale value affect me too much. Everything I buy gets used live, plain and simple. PRS definitely have a reputation with most people of being guitars you look at and play at home and keep in mint condition. I've never seen the point in spending that money on a guitar to not play it, so kudos to Dave for gigging his guitars that cost more than my 1st 2 cars put together  :lol:

A few years ago I was selling a mid 70s Fender Music Master that had been modified with a 2nd pickup and a new scratchplate (I still had the originals), and a push/pull pot for series/parallel wiring. A guy came up from London to have a look at buying it but as soon as he saw the extra pickup and non original control knob for the push/pull pot he almost ran out the door. I told him I had all the original stuff so no problem, but he wasn't interested because the original screws had been unscrewed so I could change the scratchplate and pickup etc so meant it wasn't as it was when it left the factory. The fact it was well used with paint chips didn't seem to bother him though!

Ah well, no accounting for taste I guess.

[Andrew W]

i've heard about this phenomenon with second hand PRS. Any dings and buyers just don't want to know, and them being hard to shift. This one I have here feels like a workhorse. I wouldn't have any issues gigging it at all.

Some people are just picky!

...PRS definitely have a reputation with most people of being guitars you look at and play at home and keep in mint condition.

I think there is a real culture amongst certain PRS people to play expensive Pokemon with PRS guitars.

I recently joined another forum as I was interested in learning about PRSs having acquired a second hand DGT (to play I might add, it's not on the wall). I was actually a bit shocked about the number of people who seem, so far as I can tell, to treat the guitars like kids do football stickers, i.e. to show them off and trade them for other PRSs. I'm not saying they're wrong to do it, who am I to judge, but it's an attitude that I wasn't expecting about something that's effectively supposed to be a tool, albeit a pretty one.

I also think PRS play to this crowd with their multiple limited runs of certain models and their continual reinvention of the line. I have no problem with that, I'm sure each revision results in a better instrument, but all the limited edition models definitely seem to feed the "gotta catch 'em all" mentality of some PRS aficionados. If you're interested in collecting PRSs for the sake of collecting them, rather than what they can do for you as a player, then I also understand why you wouldn't touch a dented one with a barge pole, it's all about the object and its worth to others, not its functionality. But they seem happy so where's the harm?

[Philly Q]

I also think PRS play to this crowd with their multiple limited runs of certain models and their continual reinvention of the line. I have no problem with that, I'm sure each revision results in a better instrument, but all the limited edition models definitely seem to feed the "gotta catch 'em all" mentality of some PRS aficionados.

Good post, I think you're absolutely right.

But, as you say, no harm in it.

I don't "collect" guitars as such, but I do buy them mainly because I like 'em.  If I bought them on a "need" basis, I don't gig, I don't record, I'm a very bad player..... so I wouldn't have any.  :lol: