• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Topic: PAUL REED SMITH BEST GUITAR?

I have a few PRS guitars. The real USA EG serie: to take a piece of fender, but I think they were too soon. I have a strat 1964, and to be honest most of people who hear the sound are unanimous: PRS more specific the EG with 3 domino shape Lindy Fralin coils sounds better.
It"s difficult. They produce these single coils again in Korea.
My best guitar is a custom 24,  an amazing guitar, giving you a gibson, fender sound easy to play and always in tune.
Even the SE serie is strictly controlled and affordable.
Who else loves PRS.
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GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: SINCE I LIVE ALONE I TRY TO MAKE BABY PRS GUITARS

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
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  • From: Frederick, MD
  • Registered: 2006-12-28
  • Posts: 851

Re: PAUL REED SMITH BEST GUITAR?

I have never played one.

Dm

"Talent instantly recognizes genius,
but mediocrity knows nothing more than itself."

-Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle

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  • From: Cincinnati, OH
  • Registered: 2007-07-16
  • Posts: 282

Re: PAUL REED SMITH BEST GUITAR?

Guitar Doc, PRS is my dream guitar!  I love everything about it; the body shape, the head stock...it's just so well designed.  It can sound down & dirty, but cleans up so well...I just love the things.

Of course you can spend thousands on a PRS, but an SE goes for about $600 around here & I guarantee you I will own one in the next year!

  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Re: PAUL REED SMITH BEST GUITAR?

Hi fellow chordian 25frankster
Nice to meet you, it is no so hard to find me, because I am a topic man.
Isn't this a nice site? Everybody helps everybody. I had some topics about cheap BUT DECENT & GOOD ELECTRIC & ACOUSTIC guitars.
When I bought my first PRS, a 1993 (so pre-factory) PRS CUSTOM 24 full option. The guitar was second hand, but the original owner took his guitar back to the music store, I think because the group he was playing in stopped playing. I had a lot of luck, being a Generalist MD, and able to afford this because I earned a lot $$ thanks to special medical treatments. That was the start of my guitar collection, right product, right time and affordable.
I owned a Gibson LP studio (for $400) straight from the customs on the airport (friends), she was not more for sale, just because of a few tiny little cracks but it was , a beautiful guitar, for a ridiculous price. PROBLEM she never staid tuned,even after 1 song. At the music store I noticed the PRS, tried it, and I was lost. The store took my Gibson LP for 800$=double than what I paid.
I paid the PRS, went to eat something, returned to the store, where they told me how much luck I had, because in 1 hour there where 3 different people, who had seen the guitar a day before.
If you really want very bad a guitar, don't sleep one night to think, but buy it. Back then, almost nobody here in Belgium knew that brand, and there was one...
About the PRS SE guitars: I am going to put a list here with prices. The SE serie is amazing, but maybe you will get a different sound playing a PRS SE soapbar versus a US soapbar.
I have 1 SE, billy martin (?), and 3 mysterious guitars. He wanted to struggle with Fender 5 years after he started. They are produced from 1990-1992, except 1: ---1994.
FOUND THOSE ON EBAY. Look on ebay, if you like a guitar, go to a store to try it.
The list will follow.
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GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: I WANT A PAUL REED SMITH AND NO BLACKSMITH

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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  • From: Cincinnati, OH
  • Registered: 2007-07-16
  • Posts: 282

Re: PAUL REED SMITH BEST GUITAR?

guitardoc, always enjoy your posts.  And I agree with you, this is a very nice site.  There is so much ego on the other guitar sites it seems--everyone trying to be better than the next person, putting each other down, when in my way of thinking, we should be helping eachother out.  Not interested in the "you suck" pre pubecent talk you find on most guitar sites.
And I've seen the soapbar pickups on the advertisements--I like the way they look, but have never played one.  Are they more of a humbucker or single coil sound or something in between?