The coil taps are a really nice touch on this guitar, and they’re pretty quiet, too. In other words, these are foreign-made copies of two different American-made PRS pickups, using PRS design and specs. The tuners and pickups are both listed as “PRS Designed.” The treble pickup is PRS Designed SE HFS Treble, and the bridge pickup is PRS Designed SE Vintage Bass. It has two humbucker pickups, both of which can be coil-tapped, a vintage style tremolo system, and a three way switch. Here’s an image, stolen from the PRS website: It has 24 frets, a wide thin neck shape, a maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, and what feels like medium-jumbo frets. My guitar is what they call “royal blue,” which is a darker blue with flame maple top.
PRS SE CUSTOM 24 REVIEWS PRO
But the Korean versions have gotten so good that pro guitarists are buying them. If you are a professional guitarist who can charge high hourly rates for your services, maybe you buy the American version. They are world class guitars, as good as any on the planet.
The SE guitars are made in Korea by a company called “World Musical Instruments.” It’s based on the American PRS Custom 24, which sells for about $2,700, which falls into the “out of your mind” price range here at Budget Guitarist. I’ve been wanting a PRS SE for years, ever since the first Santana model.
Quality control on guitars, even non-USA guitars, has gotten a ton better, but wood is still wood and no two guitars can be 100% identical. There’s a lesson – never buy a guitar you can’t see first, if at all possible. I had Stan (my sales guy at Sam Ash #2) open up the first box for me, and the fretboard was funny on one edge – it was a different color wood, so that one went back in the box, and I opened the second box and it was perfect. It was one of the Black Friday Doorbusters deal, but I was there the next day and they had a couple left, in the box. I’ve seen this guitar available anywhere from $675 to $800. Yesterday I bought a PRS SE Custom 24 at the crazy low price of $399.99.
PRS SE CUSTOM 24 REVIEWS UPDATE
Update – You can see this guitar in a video on my YouTube channel.
0 kommentar(er)
