vintage58
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Just curious if anyone here owns or has tried one (or perhaps I should say, anyone else )—as well as what your thoughts on it were.
What I find sad about these guitars is that a lot of people don't seem to be able to get past the "Prism" finish./.color scheme. Indeed, pretty much all of the previous online discussions that I've read about this model of guitar have, in one way or another, ultimately degenerated into nursery school–level jokefests about how gay-looking the guitar is. So before the obligatory "Richard Simmons Signature Model"-type comments begin to surface in this thread.... please, spare me. I mean, I don't know that I've ever heard of anyone suggesting that owners of red Stratocasters are communists, so I don't altogether get the logic of why a rainbow-colored guitar "has" to indicate gay.
OK, enough of that. I now own two of these guitars, and I have to say, they are absolutely stellar instruments. They come with PRS's recent 57/08 pickups and feature coil-splitting via a push-pull pot. Some of them also have some extremely spectacular-looking maple tops. The first one I got is a one-piece flame top—apparently a "10" top, according to PRS paperwork—and is very likely the single best-playing and best-sounding "new" (as opposed to vintage) guitar that I've yet owned. I also own a two-piece quilt top model. The flame top is able to produce Telecaster-type sounds better than any other glued-in-neck guitar that I've played to date. And both cover most Les Paul tonal ground, too. Or, at least, Les Paul reissue tonal ground, lol.
Anyway, I just wanted to hear from anyone else who actually bought one of these guitars. I'm beginning to think that there are fewer than fifty PRS Prisms out there worldwide, and hardly anyone ever seems to discuss these guitars or post pictures of theirs.
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What I find sad about these guitars is that a lot of people don't seem to be able to get past the "Prism" finish./.color scheme. Indeed, pretty much all of the previous online discussions that I've read about this model of guitar have, in one way or another, ultimately degenerated into nursery school–level jokefests about how gay-looking the guitar is. So before the obligatory "Richard Simmons Signature Model"-type comments begin to surface in this thread.... please, spare me. I mean, I don't know that I've ever heard of anyone suggesting that owners of red Stratocasters are communists, so I don't altogether get the logic of why a rainbow-colored guitar "has" to indicate gay.
OK, enough of that. I now own two of these guitars, and I have to say, they are absolutely stellar instruments. They come with PRS's recent 57/08 pickups and feature coil-splitting via a push-pull pot. Some of them also have some extremely spectacular-looking maple tops. The first one I got is a one-piece flame top—apparently a "10" top, according to PRS paperwork—and is very likely the single best-playing and best-sounding "new" (as opposed to vintage) guitar that I've yet owned. I also own a two-piece quilt top model. The flame top is able to produce Telecaster-type sounds better than any other glued-in-neck guitar that I've played to date. And both cover most Les Paul tonal ground, too. Or, at least, Les Paul reissue tonal ground, lol.
Anyway, I just wanted to hear from anyone else who actually bought one of these guitars. I'm beginning to think that there are fewer than fifty PRS Prisms out there worldwide, and hardly anyone ever seems to discuss these guitars or post pictures of theirs.
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