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PRS S2 Semihollow Special
Looks, feels, plays and sounds amazing

One major fucking problem though…. The coil split switch for the bridge pickup does nothing. It’s stuck on split coil (which while sounds great is robbing me of 4 out of 12 tonal options on the guitar. And I need a full bore bridge pup lol)
I understand this is probably a relatively easy soldering fix. However I think that’s entirely unacceptable for a brand new guitar of this price point.
I really don’t want to exchange it because otherwise it’s flawless and instantly was in love with this guitar (until discovering the issue)
I’m thinking of maybe trying to get a partial refund from AMS? Anyone had luck with that in the past?
I have some vague soldering abilities but a switching system this complex is definitely out of my wheelhouse. I popped off the control panel and snapped some pics but I didn’t see anything portly soldered or anything jumping out at me. Maybe someone with bwtter skills/eye can see something?
Just at a loss of what to do. Like I said don’t seriously want to send it back and would love to just figure out the problem, but I’d definitely want some sort of partial refund…..
Wish I could be playing this thing all night but if I do end up needing to send it back can’t be having the gig bag collecting an inch of dog hair over night so I bagged it back up and put it back in the box
Looks, feels, plays and sounds amazing



One major fucking problem though…. The coil split switch for the bridge pickup does nothing. It’s stuck on split coil (which while sounds great is robbing me of 4 out of 12 tonal options on the guitar. And I need a full bore bridge pup lol)
I understand this is probably a relatively easy soldering fix. However I think that’s entirely unacceptable for a brand new guitar of this price point.
I really don’t want to exchange it because otherwise it’s flawless and instantly was in love with this guitar (until discovering the issue)
I’m thinking of maybe trying to get a partial refund from AMS? Anyone had luck with that in the past?
I have some vague soldering abilities but a switching system this complex is definitely out of my wheelhouse. I popped off the control panel and snapped some pics but I didn’t see anything portly soldered or anything jumping out at me. Maybe someone with bwtter skills/eye can see something?
Just at a loss of what to do. Like I said don’t seriously want to send it back and would love to just figure out the problem, but I’d definitely want some sort of partial refund…..
Wish I could be playing this thing all night but if I do end up needing to send it back can’t be having the gig bag collecting an inch of dog hair over night so I bagged it back up and put it back in the box

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