Show me your PRSi

[Jazz Padd]

You all have some amazingly beautiful PRS guitars that I’m sure play and sound as lovely as they look!

But it was this basic black 2018 PRS S2 Studio that spoke to me:

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It’s main draw was the HSS pickup set with a Starla and two Velas. I was drawn to its unusual wiring, along with coil tap and phase switching, for versatility and a broad range of tones.

I use it at home to fiddle with pedals through a Henriksen Blu Six:

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And on occasion play it live at a small local venue through my grab and go board into a Roland JC 120:

 

[SillyOctpuss]

You all have some amazingly beautiful PRS guitars that I’m sure play and sound as lovely as they look!

But it was this basic black 2018 PRS S2 Studio that spoke to me:

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Its main draw was the HSS pickup set with a Starla and two Velas, its unusual wiring, along with coil tap and phase switching, and for its versatility and broad range of tones.

I use it at home to fiddle with pedals through a Henriksen Blu Six:

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And on occasion play it live at a small local venue through my grab and go board into a backline Roland JC 120:

Is that a collection of Guyatone pedals?

 

[Jazz Padd]

Is that a collection of Guyatone pedals?

Good eye! Yes, from their micro series.

 

[JasonE]

I can't wait to feel the sheer amount of guilt and excitement as I open up my first private stock PRS lol

That is a great way to explain it. I definitely have felt both in this process.

I did an unboxing video when it got here. It was literally off the truck maybe 15 minutes and I handed my wife my phone to record it. I have never done any video like this until now. Up to this point I have only done a few videos for work and it was doing some presentations.

 

[ABe©eDarian]

Serafina, the typical girlfriend being suspicious of why I have more than one guitar.

 

[DISTORT6]

My Custom22s

 

[Dave Lewis]

This is my latest PRS and Metal Foil.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Some others.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Some PRS accoutrements .

 

[CakeEater]

This is my baby. To start I absolutely love custom 24s, they suit me perfectly. The scale length, the proportions and size, the 5-way switch on the humbuckers, the tremolo, everything just fits. I've owned a DGT and played a 594 extensively, and I still prefer the CU24 neck, body-depth and control-layout. I'm also a big fan of turquoise/seafoam colours on guitars. I have a Seafoam strat and an Inverness green Les Paul, and I spent years looking for a CU24 that could match them.

When I saw this one on Reverb, I instantly fell in love with it. The one-piece 4A quilt-maple aquableux top looks incredible and oceanic. Then I checked the neck pattern, Pattern-Thin, which is my preference. And then finally checked the weight, a very light 3.24 kilos. I looked at the guitar for about 4 minutes tops and then bought it instantly. A few minutes after I got the confirmation email, the shop messaged me and told me it had just been sold moments before in person. I was devastated. I even ended up creating a chat GPT agent to search the web daily for a similar spec, but nothing came close.

Then, almost exactly one month after I had missed out, the shop contacted me again. They had just gotten in a vintage Les Paul and the original buyer came back and was prepared to trade in the CU24 in order to purchase it. So they took it back and then messaged me privately before they put it back on sale. I gratefully accepted and now it's mine and I couldn't be happier! It plays like a dream, there are no dents or scratches on the body despite being 10 years old, and best of all, it's shockingly musical and resonant, even more so than my 30th Anniversary Custom 24. It's now my lightest, loudest, most resonant, best playing, best sounding, best looking guitar I own. It really is special. This is my forever guitar, guarantee it.

 

[Gary_W]

I’ve had my Stripped ‘58 since it was new and I absolutely love it. 57/08 pickups and lots of mineral stripes…. I think it has gone unsold for a while when I got it - can’t remember exactly when but I’d say 2012 or thereabouts

The minerals are really prominent on this one which you either like or you don’t. I’m in the former camp fortunately! At the point where I bought it, they had this one and a whale blue for the same price. The whale blue was tone-wise a little brighter than this one (both had decent setup and new strings so it was a genuine difference not something that silly). I was really torn but just slightly preferred the sounds out of this one. The blue was fabulous too though - wouldn’t have gone wrong with either.

If I’m not picking up the Stripper, I’m usually picking up the satin vela. It’s from late 2018 / early 2019 so still has the D single coil in there (I think that’s what they called them) as opposed to the newer ones with the mini humbuckers thing. I haven’t heard heard a newer one - I love the single in the neck on this thing but maybe the newer one is better still. I loved the look of these from the start - I’d have preferred one of the blues or greens they did back then but this one came up at the right time / right place. It’s an awesome guitar - they are just so versatile.

 

[spawnofthesith]

Man I only had two PRS when I started this thread..... this latest addition puts me up to 6

 

[AutomationBias]

I’ve had my Stripped ‘58 since it was new and I absolutely love it. 57/08 pickups and lots of mineral stripes…. I think it has gone unsold for a while when I got it - can’t remember exactly when but I’d say 2012 or thereabouts View attachment 53916

I really love that Stripped 58. I wish PRS offered more modest finish options.

 

[Frodebro]

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This is my baby. To start I absolutely love custom 24s, they suit me perfectly. The scale length, the proportions and size, the 5-way switch on the humbuckers, the tremolo, everything just fits. I've owned a DGT and played a 594 extensively, and I still prefer the CU24 neck, body-depth and control-layout. I'm also a big fan of turquoise/seafoam colours on guitars. I have a Seafoam strat and an Inverness green Les Paul, and I spent years looking for a CU24 that could match them.

When I saw this one on Reverb, I instantly fell in love with it. The one-piece 4A quilt-maple aquableux top looks incredible and oceanic. Then I checked the neck pattern, Pattern-Thin, which is my preference. And then finally checked the weight, a very light 3.24 kilos. I looked at the guitar for about 4 minutes tops and then bought it instantly. A few minutes after I got the confirmation email, the shop messaged me and told me it had just been sold moments before in person. I was devastated. I even ended up creating a chat GPT agent to search the web daily for a similar spec, but nothing came close.

Then, almost exactly one month after I had missed out, the shop contacted me again. They had just gotten in a vintage Les Paul and the original buyer came back and was prepared to trade in the CU24 in order to purchase it. So they took it back and then messaged me privately before they put it back on sale. I gratefully accepted and now it's mine and I couldn't be happier! It plays like a dream, there are no dents or scratches on the body despite being 10 years old, and best of all, it's shockingly musical and resonant, even more so than my 30th Anniversary Custom 24. It's now my lightest, loudest, most resonant, best playing, best sounding, best looking guitar I own. It really is special. This is my forever guitar, guarantee it.

My first PRS was a 1990 Custom (they were all 24s back then), and that is also what I’m most comfortable with.

This is my 2020 CU24-08, and right out of the box it felt like a long lost friend to me..

 

[Frodebro]

Here is that ‘90 Custom next to the 24-08 (which looks different in every picture, none of which captures what it really looks like):

 

[Frodebro]

The back of the ‘90. This was a bar band guitar for about eight years, and it has battle scars all over the place. The earplugs that are stuffed under the springs are to prevent sympathetic ringing at higher volume levels, and have been there since I stuck them there at a gig in 1996 or so.

 

[CakeEater]

The back of the ‘90. This was a bar band guitar for about eight years, and it has battle scars all over the place. The earplugs that are stuffed under the springs are to prevent sympathetic ringing at higher volume levels, and have been there since I stuck them there at a gig in 1996 or so.

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I love that natural wear, and the 24-08 is absolutely gorgeous. I completely understand when you say it looks different in every picture!

 

[Gary_W]

I really love that Stripped 58. I wish PRS offered more modest finish options.

I really like the majority of PRS I see but the ones I’ve been most drawn to have been the ones that don’t look like what most people think of first when they picture a PRS. I suppose that’s why I’ve ended up with a Vela and a Stripper. I always fancied a Bigsby equipped Starla but I never got around to it when they were still a thing. I’m about to get my first Bigsby-equipped guitar in a few weeks but it’s not a PRS so that’ll be another thread :)

 

[paisleywookiee]

This is my only one, currently. DGT SE “Exotic Top” with PRS locking tuners, USA knobs, and Duncan Pearly Gates set.

I had the NF3, but I didn’t gel with it. Want something more stratty sounding.

 

[CakeEater]

Here's another one. My 30th anniversary Custom 24 in Azul. I've had a very interesting relationship with this guitar. It plays like a dream, but I wasn't totally happy with its sound for a long time. Compared to my other Custom 24, this one is much deeper sounding and slightly mid-scooped. It still rings out nicely, but I'm convinced the original tone pot was particularly low reading. I'd notice when people played it that they'd reach for the tone pot and find that it was already at 10. I tried fixing it by putting a Lambertone's Crema and Grinder in it, but it turns out low output pickups and a slightly mid-scooped guitar aren't a great combination.

Two weeks ago, I went in the other direction and bought a Bare Knuckle PolyPAF and Polymath along with two of their 550k pots to go with them, as they recommend, and it's completely transformed the guitar. It now has bite and fidelity, and open mids that sound absolutely gorgeous. It's still a deeper sounding guitar than my other PRS, but now I have a bright PRS with balanced pickups and a deeper sounding PRS with bright pickups, and it adds some really nice tonal variety. It also weighs in at just over 3.3 kilos, which is very comfortable. I also love the 30th anniversay birds.