HNGD!!!! More PRS action

[mystixboi1]

Dig it!!! I got this just yesterday. I recently owned a PRS SE Hollowbody II with piezo. I loved it so much that I got a PRS Core Custom 24 with piezo.

PRS recently released this color and I just had to have it.

I spent a little time with it so far and after lowering the action a tad, this thing is a beast. So much guitar for the cash!!! Awesome tones and fanstastic playability.

 

[tiger roach]

Nice!

You've gone fully over to the PRS dark side now, seems like! If I were to add a second PRS to my team, it would probably be one of the Hollowbodies as well.

 

[mystixboi1]

Nice!

You've gone fully over to the PRS dark side now, seems like! If I were to add a second PRS to my team, it would probably be one of the Hollowbodies as well.

I actually went down the PRS hole a few years back... I owned a few CU22,s MrCarty, sc245 and a few other singlecuts. The cycle never sends

 

[Gary Blanchard]

That is a PRS I could bond with. Nice choice.

 

[Guitar Heel]

I hear Paul makes a nice guitar. HNPRSD!

 

[PunkKitty]

Really nice!

 

[Denverdave]

Aside from the birds, that is a PRS I could love. Nice choice.

 

[Bob411]

HNGD

 

[DFB]

HNGD.
Looks really nice.

 

[Jbird]

What is the difference between this and the SE, Mystix?

 

[mystixboi1]

What is the difference between this and the SE, Mystix?

this is an se as well. Just doesn’t have a piezo

 

[Aahzz]

Sweet!!

 

[baimun]

There is a Peacock Blue (a little brighter but not quite turquoise) that has the Piezo... but I like this color much better.


Then only thing it really (and I mean REALLY) needs is a pair of clear PRS knobs. Those black speed knobs look really low rent on this particular guitar, IMO.

 

[Dogsinplastic]

Wish they'd do a solid spruce top w/ dots/moons...piezo optional. And that this suggested top of line option as about $1,200 at absolute most, ideally $999. Other folks farming out their import lines have already revealed that the move up to "premium" materials and higher end tweaks (roasted maple neck, SS frets, thinline-ing solidbodies, etc.) are either no increase or dollars to the overall price of the guitar from a manufacturing perspective at these shops, especially the top-tier Korean shops. The up-charge for the name on the headstock and "because we can" is insane.

None of this is about the quality of the guitars. It's clear they are extremely well made mass produced guitars. The builders know what they're doing and do it very well. The markup between cost of the Epiphone build and street price is just substantially less than that between a PRS SE build and the street price. And that's not to say the PRSs aren't markedly better. By most accounts they seem to be. But charging $500 more a guitar that only cost $50 more to make is a tough pill for me to swallow.

The PRS SE Hollowbodies are a high desire guitar for me, but at the price HB II w/ piezo, I can another solid wood U.S.A. or Japanese acoustic.