NGD! A trade has been done....................

[Brow]

Hi guys.

A bit of history before I get to pics:

I've owned a 1997 PRS Custom 22 for several years now and for some reason I never really bonded with it.

When I picked it up cheap, cheap for a USA PRS atleast, it had a ding in the top, awful nasty locking tuners as the originals had broken and all the electrics on it were shot too. So I gutted it all and started again, along with replacing the pickups with a pair of Abraxas and I also changed the machineheads for a nicer set of locking Grovers. It always played very well but it never really 'grabbed' me, so it sat in it's case being unplayed for most of it's time with me.

I came across a pair of random mis-matched pickups (a Cold Sweat neck and a Bulldog Black Label bridge)and tried those in the PRS and it instantly improved the sound for me, there was always that thing of my never really gelling with it though.

I tried selling it and offered it for trade many times, every time it was shot down and refused as the pickups and machine heads were wrong. I even offered to re-replace the pickups and machine heads to the correct PRS stuff only to be told no because of extra screw holes on the back of the headstock. So I'd pretty much decided I was stuck with it as there was no way I was accepting an Indonnesian LTD in trade for it, which I had been offered atleast once. A mate of mine bought a 10 top CU22 for £900 so things were looking bleak for the value of mine until I saw a thread offering up the below for trade as the last owner was scared to play it for fear of dinging it and wanted something he could play without worrying about it.

I contacted him, offered the PRS and explained it's changes. He was interested so a deal was done:






From what I can tell it's a late 90s/Early 2000s USA Peavey Wolfgang Standard Deluxe Archtop. I have 2 USA Wolfie Specials as well so I knew I'd get on with the neck profile etc before we agreed to trade.

Value wise these are very hit and miss, as was my PRS in all honesty, so some may see this as quite a trade down for me but all I'm concerned with is that I now have a guitar I'll actually play instead of 1 that just sits in it's case all the time 

[Dave Sloven]

I think you did well!

[Kiichi]

Not bad mate. Congrats! The top is pretty.

[blue]

That looks gorgeous, I think you did the right thing :)

[Brow]

Cheers guys!

I've played it more since I got it than I did the PRS in the last few months of ownership. So that tells me something there 

I have 2 gigs at the weekend and seeing as it's setup in Eb with 11s like my other guitars for this band; it'd be mean to not take it wouldn't it 

Here it is with its friends:




The black 1 is in Eb and I swapped the pickups, which turned out to be a set of cheapie Chinese things, out for a pair of Dimarzio Evolutions. This 1 has the thickest neck.

The white 1 is in Standard tuning and, as far as I know, is stock. I am thinking about putting a spare Dimarzio Super Distortion I have lying around in it though. This 1 has the thinnest neck.

The Amber Flametop is also, as far as I know, stock. The neck on this 1 is inbetween the other 2 but is a lovely piece of Birdseye maple.

[Toe-Knee]

thats far better looking than that ugly ass dentist guitar you had.

[Brow]

thats far better looking than that ugly ass dentist guitar you had.

You never did like that PRS did you?! 

[dave_mc]

sweet, that looks badass

If it suits you and suits him, sounds like everyone's happy- not much point in worrying overly about whether you've maybe taken a slight hit on value if the alternative was to hang onto a guitar you never play forever, which would lose you more money in the long run. Sometimes you get lucky and someone comes along who's after what you're selling, like here, even if it's not what most other people want- sounds like a perfectly sensible trade to me, at least.

Nice score :D

[Telerocker]

Sweet guitar Brow. Nice trio on the bed too.

[Toe-Knee]

thats far better looking than that ugly ass dentist guitar you had.

You never did like that PRS did you?! 

It played ok but it was an ugly bugger. It did sound fairly decent once you put the black label in it though.