My brother just traded in his PRS SE “Paul’s Guitar” for a PRS SE Silver Sky. (The John Mayer strat guitar)

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After 20 min…all I can say is, I’ll never look at my American strat the same way again! Killer guitar top to bottom!!

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I'm sure that it's a lovely strat. But just about anybody can make themselves a really nice strat these days with little more than a screwdriver and a decent luthier setup, provided you use quality parts. I've done it myself.
 
Rocky said:
I'm sure that it's a lovely strat. But just about anybody can make themselves a really nice strat these days with little more than a screwdriver and a decent luthier setup, provided you use quality parts. I've done it myself.
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Rocky said:
I'm sure that it's a lovely strat. But just about anybody can make themselves a really nice strat these days with little more than a screwdriver and a decent luthier setup, provided you use quality parts. I've done it myself.
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Not for $600 you can't!! Have you seen this??



Paul puts the same guitar I just played for a few hours....an out of the box offshore made SE model... against several seriously iconic year vintage strats....and it doesnt fare well to spend 15+K on any of them! For just $600, you'd honestly have to go to the Fender Custom Shop to surpass this guitar. I just spent hours playing it....and it's beyond great. Easily on par with any standard production vintage reissue models that start at 2.5K. Not even kidding!
 
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I believe the PRS SE models have been made in Korea, but I haven’t looked at one in a long time. What’s the country of origin on this one?
 
I never bonded with a PRS , mostly due to the 10" radius and 25.0 scale. Just felt too different.
 
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steveintampa said:
I never bonded with a PRS , mostly due to the 19" radius and 25.0 scale. Just felt too different.
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I had an SE Singlecut korina. With swapped pickups it was really quite lovely. But it was a redundancy, so I moved it along.
 
There was a lot of back and forth on TGP when these came out. People seemed to either love or hate them, and the anti-Mayer angle over there did them no favors.

I’m not a big Strat guy and I have a definite anti-PRS bias so it’s already got two strikes for me, but I have learned not to discount any guitar based on looks (I love S300s, remember) or preconceived notions.

@Midnight Toker - what is it about it that impressed you?
 
GAD said:
There was a lot of back and forth on TGP when these came out. People seemed to either love or hate them, and the anti-Mayer angle over there did them no favors.

I’m not a big Strat guy and I have a definite anti-PRS bias so it’s already got two strikes for me, but I have learned not to discount any guitar based on looks (I love S300s, remember) or preconceived notions.

@Midnight Toker - what is it about it that impressed you?
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First and foremost, the pickups. I've done several upgrades for friends' strats w/ preloaded pickguards w/ custom vintage reissue pups....and these to my ears sound and respond even better than any of those.(those preloaded pickguards alone cost more than 1/2 of this guitar !) They really sing when digging in w/ a little drive in the chain. Like the difference of striking a xylophone on the outer edge....or the sweet spot in the center. Then comes the right out of the box flawless setup. It's not often an offshore economy line from a typically expensive domestic brand plays, feels, and sounds like it was just set up by a master luthier. The PRS SE line has built quite a reputation for getting not just more than your money's worth, but that they come right out of the box concert ready for any seasoned pro musician.
 
And…. I get the anti Mayer association bit, which imho is basically rooted in pure jealousy. 😗 The man does have some serious skills. Long before he was penning sorority girl anthems and seen dating one model/movie star after another, few know he originally cut his teeth fronting a Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute act.
 
I had a PRS Hollowbody Spruce, and currently have a PRS S2 Standard. I think they are great guitars!
 
I have a PRS humbucker I put in a Peavey JF-1 along with a GFS Double Lipstick humbucker. Fun little guitar and I used it alot to record.
 
Midnight Toker said:
And…. I get the anti Mayer association bit, which imho is basically rooted in pure jealousy. 😗 The man does have some serious skills. Long before he was penning sorority girl anthems and seen dating one model/movie star after another, few know he originally cut his teeth fronting a Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute act.
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His Blues Trio is fabulous.
 
I don't follow Mayer at all - I thought Gravity was a pretty good song, though. 3 on a side tuners on a strat or a tele do make me a little twitchy.

I don't have an anti-PRS bias, just an aversion to steroid-flamed maple and the bird inlays, which is what made my SE Korina such an attractive instrument. I thought the updated stop tailpiece/bridge was great too. That guitar was an exercise in pure minimalism. Probably only weighed six pounds too.

I could probably buy it back from the guy I sold it to. He doesn't use it much. :unsure:

They don't make many instruments with the dot/moon inlays anymore, even on the SE series.
 
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What I didn't understand about that video is that none of the guitars sound any good
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I can't sit through the whole thing, but that first guitar just sounded ragged ugly on the wound strings. I see an early Park in the video, but I can't imagine he's playing through it at speaking volumes and having it sound that ugly with or without the tubescreamer.
 
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