NGD - PRS Mira, Wild Mint

[Philly Q]

I can say that I have really fallen for this guitar, lets hope I feel the same after the honeymoon period.

I hope you do too.  :D

The thing that ultimately put me off - the 24 fret neck - is a positive for you, so that's probably a good omen.  :)

[Andrew W]

The thing that ultimately put me off - the 24 fret neck - is a positive for you, so that's probably a good omen.  :)

They put 24 frets on guitars these days? Goodness, they'll be putting 7 strings on them next. World's gone mad!

[Philly Q]

The thing that ultimately put me off - the 24 fret neck - is a positive for you, so that's probably a good omen.  :)

They put 24 frets on guitars these days? Goodness, they'll be putting 7 strings on them next. World's gone mad!

It's not the novelty factor of 24 frets (although heaven knows, it's hard to get my head round  :lol: ), but on a small-bodied guitar like the Mira, with 23 frets clear of the body, the neck seems like the third runway at Heathrow.  It feels almost like it's a baritone or short-scale bass.  I couldn't really get used to it. 

On the other hand, if they did a 22-fret Mira with a fat neck, Kluson tuners and a five-way switch, I'd be all over it like a rash.  I'd buy two.

(......Seven strings?  Are you sure?)

[dvorak]

Why not make it 8 while you are at it?  :D

Strangely I had the same problem going to 22 frets when being used to 24. It took me quite some time finding my way around. I always (and sometimes still do) reach for two frets lower on the neck on a 22 fret guitar when playing high up on the neck. For instance, reaching for fret 15 when I was aiming for 17. It seemed like the dots relative to the body was more important to me than the dots relative to the 12th fret markets. Once I got over that it made switching between 22 and 24 frets guitars much easier.

[Philly Q]

Yeah, it's all a matter of what you're used to I guess.

I only have two other 24-fret guitars:  an SG where the fingerboard just extends a bit further into the body, so it feels exactly the same as a "normal" SG, and my Mockingbird which feels nothing like anything else I own anyway, so I don't really think about the number of frets!