I've had this guitar several days now and here are my thoughts. First off, this particular guitar was the recipient of unfair bias before it was even released by stratocaster purists who cried out against PRS attempting a guitar with the same body style. These people must either be high or fairly uneducated seeing as how there are literally thousands of guitars on earth that have body styles similar to or inspired by the fender strat. Others just wanted to hate it because they don't like John Mayer. Whatever, they can hate all they want. After playing it a few days I am in love with this guitar. It's a perfect blend of old school and modern, sounds fantastic, looks great, and stays in tune. I love that the neck is a little fatter than typical strat neck and the bird inlays look great. The setup was spot on out of the box with no intonation, action, or relief issues. The pickups are vintage voiced and I would describe them as having the sought after "glassy" strat tone. They are not high output but handle rock, blues, country and other genres that are not in metal terrain very well. It's plays very smoothy as well. I have no problem reaching the upper frets and the 7.25 radius seems to scare away some but PRS have done a great job with this board because I have no problem with bends. If I were to compare it to my strat I would say that the quality feels a little more premium on the silver sky. Play one if you have the opportunity. They're great instruments.
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I've had this guitar several days now and here are my thoughts. First off, this particular guitar was the recipient of unfair bias before it was even released by stratocaster purists who cried out against PRS attempting a guitar with the same body style. These people must either be high or fairly uneducated seeing as how there are literally thousands of guitars on earth that have body styles similar to or inspired by the fender strat. Others just wanted to hate it because they don't like John Mayer. Whatever, they can hate all they want. After playing it a few days I am in love with this guitar. It's a perfect blend of old school and modern, sounds fantastic, looks great, and stays in tune. I love that the neck is a little fatter than typical strat neck and the bird inlays look great. The setup was spot on out of the box with no intonation, action, or relief issues. The pickups are vintage voiced and I would describe them as having the sought after "glassy" strat tone. They are not high output but handle rock, blues, country and other genres that are not in metal terrain very well. It's plays very smoothy as well. I have no problem reaching the upper frets and the 7.25 radius seems to scare away some but PRS have done a great job with this board because I have no problem with bends. If I were to compare it to my strat I would say that the quality feels a little more premium on the silver sky. Play one if you have the opportunity. They're great instruments.
i am happy to hear that you like it. sounds like an amazing guitar. i knew it was going to be top quality because paul reed smith and john mayer would not put their names on something if it was not great. i really want to try one of these out now. unfortunately there are no prs dealers around here.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
Used to have that Riviera with Bigsby. Beautiful guitar, but I couldn't ever get comfortable with it around my 5'8 frame, haha! Traded it in for an American Tele. My first Fender since 15 years old.
Used to have that Riviera with Bigsby. Beautiful guitar, but I couldn't ever get comfortable with it around my 5'8 frame, haha! Traded it in for an American Tele. My first Fender since 15 years old.
Nice. That guitar is a Gary Clark Jr. Casino. Apparently they didn't make many of these because they're hard to track down. It has gibson p90s in it and sounds great cranked up and Unplugged. Right now I have it in open G tuning and play slide and blues kind of stuff on it.
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i let my brother borrow it 15 years ago. I picked it up Over the holidays to start learning how repair guitars myself. It was unusable. The neck was badly bowed. You couldn’t play any notes past the 15th fret or so. I know it is minor stuff to adjust the truss rod but I had never done it. Was fun to get a guitar in that shape to be playable again. Now I love playing it.
That’s badass bud. Congrats on another fine looking guitar. What’s next?
Thanks. A Gibson SJ-200 Standard is later this month!
Followed by a custom McCready Strat! You’re on a nice guitar run. The SG looks great.
The McCready Strat is going to take close to a year to arrive. After this J-200, a PRS in September and the McCready I will be done with guitar purchases for a long time. I may consider getting a guitar meant for metal and speed but don’t have those skills right now.
Just finished my first ever build. LP-style kit from Stew Mac. Finish is sea foam green from Ohio Valley Nitro. Scrapped the kit pickups for Bootstrap Pickups’ Bootstrap Buckers - Vintage Cleans in raw nickel; went with alnico 4 in the neck and 5 in the bridge (these guys work out of a garage and seem to be generating some underground buzz; they are located in Mt. Gilead, OH which is 20 minutes from my hometown, so figured I’d give them a shot). Tuners are Grover 135N and also swapped out the kit knobs for these speed knobs. Went back and forth on the Bigsby, and then it was backordered for 3 months after I decided to go with it. I’m not exactly thrilled with how it fits, but installed it with Vibramate in the event I want to take it off in the future. Currently strung with Ernie Ball Slinky Cobalt, but probably will try some others as this is my first guitar with a Bigsby (open to any recommendations). Strap is from Original Fuzz. Now time to break this thing in!
Just finished my first ever build. LP-style kit from Stew Mac. Finish is sea foam green from Ohio Valley Nitro. Scrapped the kit pickups for Bootstrap Pickups’ Bootstrap Buckers - Vintage Cleans in raw nickel; went with alnico 4 in the neck and 5 in the bridge (these guys work out of a garage and seem to be generating some underground buzz; they are located in Mt. Gilead, OH which is 20 minutes from my hometown, so figured I’d give them a shot). Tuners are Grover 135N and also swapped out the kit knobs for these speed knobs. Went back and forth on the Bigsby, and then it was backordered for 3 months after I decided to go with it. I’m not exactly thrilled with how it fits, but installed it with Vibramate in the event I want to take it off in the future. Currently strung with Ernie Ball Slinky Cobalt, but probably will try some others as this is my first guitar with a Bigsby (open to any recommendations). Strap is from Original Fuzz. Now time to break this thing in!
that is really pretty! hope it plays and sounds as great as it looks!!
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
Just finished my first ever build. LP-style kit from Stew Mac. Finish is sea foam green from Ohio Valley Nitro. Scrapped the kit pickups for Bootstrap Pickups’ Bootstrap Buckers - Vintage Cleans in raw nickel; went with alnico 4 in the neck and 5 in the bridge (these guys work out of a garage and seem to be generating some underground buzz; they are located in Mt. Gilead, OH which is 20 minutes from my hometown, so figured I’d give them a shot). Tuners are Grover 135N and also swapped out the kit knobs for these speed knobs. Went back and forth on the Bigsby, and then it was backordered for 3 months after I decided to go with it. I’m not exactly thrilled with how it fits, but installed it with Vibramate in the event I want to take it off in the future. Currently strung with Ernie Ball Slinky Cobalt, but probably will try some others as this is my first guitar with a Bigsby (open to any recommendations). Strap is from Original Fuzz. Now time to break this thing in!
That guitar looks sharp. I love the color. Nice job!
Thanks, guys. Still need to tweak the setup a bit, but it sounds pretty good. Everything is connected at least, which is a good first step considering I had never soldered anything before in my life!
Thanks, guys. Still need to tweak the setup a bit, but it sounds pretty good. Everything is connected at least, which is a good first step considering I had never soldered anything before in my life!
I bought a soldering iron to learn. Not tried yet. How was the first go at it?
Thanks, guys. Still need to tweak the setup a bit, but it sounds pretty good. Everything is connected at least, which is a good first step considering I had never soldered anything before in my life!
I bought a soldering iron to learn. Not tried yet. How was the first go at it?
Honestly wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Tips I would have would be to make sure you have enough solder so you don't have a delay while you wait for more to get delivered (it goes faster than you think), strip the wire sufficiently so you don't melt the insulation, and have an appropriate set of pliers handy.
I love this thread...just so cool and fun to look through.
Here are mine...there are 5...
1) Gibson ES-335
2) Gibson WM-10 - they discontinued this one...this was my first
guitar that my dad got me prior to heading off to college. I grew up
playing drums and obviously wasn't taking those with me. I'd started
noodling around on my mom-s old 3/4 Gibson acoustic from the 60's or
70's and he grabbed this one used. This one is my daily player
3) Gibson Chet Atkins nylon strings
4) Gibson Les Paul Studio (at some point I will trade up to the real deal...either Trad or Standard in a cherry burst)
5) my mom's old Gibson 3/4 size acoustic...not sure the model...I never play this one, but love it as it always reminds me of her
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"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I've had this guitar several days now and here are my thoughts. First off, this particular guitar was the recipient of unfair bias before it was even released by stratocaster purists who cried out against PRS attempting a guitar with the same body style. These people must either be high or fairly uneducated seeing as how there are literally thousands of guitars on earth that have body styles similar to or inspired by the fender strat. Others just wanted to hate it because they don't like John Mayer. Whatever, they can hate all they want. After playing it a few days I am in love with this guitar. It's a perfect blend of old school and modern, sounds fantastic, looks great, and stays in tune. I love that the neck is a little fatter than typical strat neck and the bird inlays look great. The setup was spot on out of the box with no intonation, action, or relief issues. The pickups are vintage voiced and I would describe them as having the sought after "glassy" strat tone. They are not high output but handle rock, blues, country and other genres that are not in metal terrain very well. It's plays very smoothy as well. I have no problem reaching the upper frets and the 7.25 radius seems to scare away some but PRS have done a great job with this board because I have no problem with bends. If I were to compare it to my strat I would say that the quality feels a little more premium on the silver sky. Play one if you have the opportunity. They're great instruments.
DC 2003
DC 2004 (VFC)
DC 2006
Pittsburgh 2006
Bonnaroo 2008
Virginia Beach 2008
DC 2008
Philly (Spectrum) 10/31/2009
DC 2010 (Jiffy Lube Live)
PJ 20 night 1
PJ 20 night 2
Phoenix 2013
LA 1 2013
Memphis 2014
Jacksonville 2016
Greenville 2016
Hampton 2016
Columbia 2016
Fenway 1 2016
Fenway 2 2016
Wrigley 1 2018
Wrigley 2 2018
Fenway 1 2018
Fenway 2 2018
Sea Hear Now 2021
Nashville 2022
Louisville 2022
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
DC 2003
DC 2004 (VFC)
DC 2006
Pittsburgh 2006
Bonnaroo 2008
Virginia Beach 2008
DC 2008
Philly (Spectrum) 10/31/2009
DC 2010 (Jiffy Lube Live)
PJ 20 night 1
PJ 20 night 2
Phoenix 2013
LA 1 2013
Memphis 2014
Jacksonville 2016
Greenville 2016
Hampton 2016
Columbia 2016
Fenway 1 2016
Fenway 2 2016
Wrigley 1 2018
Wrigley 2 2018
Fenway 1 2018
Fenway 2 2018
Sea Hear Now 2021
Nashville 2022
Louisville 2022
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Used to have that Riviera with Bigsby. Beautiful guitar, but I couldn't ever get comfortable with it around my 5'8 frame, haha! Traded it in for an American Tele. My first Fender since 15 years old.
2001 Epiphone Gibson Les Paul
2019 Fender American Telecaster
* 2009 Fender Squier P-Bass not pictured
DC 2003
DC 2004 (VFC)
DC 2006
Pittsburgh 2006
Bonnaroo 2008
Virginia Beach 2008
DC 2008
Philly (Spectrum) 10/31/2009
DC 2010 (Jiffy Lube Live)
PJ 20 night 1
PJ 20 night 2
Phoenix 2013
LA 1 2013
Memphis 2014
Jacksonville 2016
Greenville 2016
Hampton 2016
Columbia 2016
Fenway 1 2016
Fenway 2 2016
Wrigley 1 2018
Wrigley 2 2018
Fenway 1 2018
Fenway 2 2018
Sea Hear Now 2021
Nashville 2022
Louisville 2022
i let my brother borrow it 15 years ago. I picked it up Over the holidays to start learning how repair guitars myself. It was unusable. The neck was badly bowed. You couldn’t play any notes past the 15th fret or so. I know it is minor stuff to adjust the truss rod but I had never done it. Was fun to get a guitar in that shape to be playable again. Now I love playing it.
Just finished my first ever build. LP-style kit from Stew Mac. Finish is sea foam green from Ohio Valley Nitro. Scrapped the kit pickups for Bootstrap Pickups’ Bootstrap Buckers - Vintage Cleans in raw nickel; went with alnico 4 in the neck and 5 in the bridge (these guys work out of a garage and seem to be generating some underground buzz; they are located in Mt. Gilead, OH which is 20 minutes from my hometown, so figured I’d give them a shot). Tuners are Grover 135N and also swapped out the kit knobs for these speed knobs. Went back and forth on the Bigsby, and then it was backordered for 3 months after I decided to go with it. I’m not exactly thrilled with how it fits, but installed it with Vibramate in the event I want to take it off in the future. Currently strung with Ernie Ball Slinky Cobalt, but probably will try some others as this is my first guitar with a Bigsby (open to any recommendations). Strap is from Original Fuzz. Now time to break this thing in!
or is it headstonks? haha
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
very cool that your folks played too and have that connection.