Mary Timony circa Dirt of Luck

PRS is a case where you're better off getting an import model due to plain finishes and regular dot inlays. Even then they're still hard to love, though slightly preferable to Jackson or ESP type guitars.

Hey watchit now. I have a 90s japanese jackson that rips. Reverse headstock, shark tooth inlays and everything.

Every time I play it I feel like I'm in Anthrax circa 1987.

ESPs rule.

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:24 am I just scanned the PRS site for a possibly acceptable model (for my tastes) and at the end of the day even the most acceptable looking one still has those damn bird inlays.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:21 am OTOH in favor of the Gibson, I have a couple guitars in B standard (I feel djenty every now and again) and it was NBD to get them set up...switched to 12s from 10s, just a little truss rod adjustment and fix the intonation, simple stuff, didn't need to go to my guy.

And yes. For years I had a standard scale telecaster set up for C# standard (Federation X, Sleater Kinney) and just used a set of heavy strings, 12-56 i think. It was great and the setup was easy enough that one could possibly do it themselves without special tools.

My SG is in B standard with 60's and after a basic set up I was able to easily do, it's totes rad. No problems.

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TylerDeadPine wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:25 am Other than what you already know about the goofiness, a PRS guitar is fine instrument but fuck me if i know anyone that writes any good songs on one.

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Neil Hagerty and Robin Guthrie

Really? Damn, that must have been what happened to Neil

Music Go Round just dropped the LP price another fifty. I think they made the decision for me.

GuyLaCroix wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:06 pm Music Go Round just dropped the LP price another fifty. I think they made the decision for me.

If they did not?

Allow me...

Since Thin Lizzy came up?

I bought this Ibanez Les Paul copy with a pretty specific play in mind. A company called WCR that makes(made?) a set of humbuckers with Duane Allman's At Fillmore East sound in mind. I had them put in that Ibanez, but I had the guy who did the work wire them up with the push/pull pots setup that Jimmy Page had back in the day.

If you told me that I could get working class folks a fair shake and all I had to do was unload everything except one guitar? It would be a done deal, and I would keep that one. It is shocking exactly how much you can get out of just that.

(Obviously, I might be a little more "Bad Company..."/"Thin Lizzy..."/"The Allman Brothers Band..." than some of the folks that regularly post in this neck of the woods...)

GuyLaCroix wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:06 pm Music Go Round just dropped the LP price another fifty. I think they made the decision for me.

Something I've never seen before: bought that LP, confirmed that it was strung with 10s, took it home, restrung, and jammed. Was going okay till I was banging along to the stereo when I noticed chords on the wound strings were flat. Like almost a half step by the 7th fret on.

I fooled with the bridge but ran out of space to send it and further towards the nut. I estimate needing about 2-3 more turns but no turns were left.

I then noticed that the guitar had next to no relief.

Took it back to MGR this morning, the guy insists that it's just a couple uneven frets. I insist it's the lack of relief. 3 dudes around this guitar scratching their heads. Nothing they did (including not fuckin with the truss rod once) remedied the situation. I stood around for about 90 mins watching these guys.

Dude asked me if I wanted it sent to their tech, and I said at this point I'd rather return it and let them deal with it. He told me I could return it for store credit only. I calmly asked if that policy extended to lemons, and he got a lil huffy. The only thing that diffused the situation was the discovery that their tech is also my tech. He recently picked up the gig and I swear by this dude. They skated by on his integrity alone.

So I figure it will get sorted, texted the tech and he assured me I am in good hands, which I already know.

But! I feel like I should maybe go back and argue for my money, just because a guitar off the rack shouldn't be in that poor of working order.

Am I outta line here? Did they do enough of the right thing or is my mounting paranoia sure sign of catastrophic failure?