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Post subject: PRS Korean Ax
Posted: Sun May 08, 2016 6:39 pm
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All I ever have is questions, never any answers. I have a Tele and a Strat and a few more. My question is the new PRS guitars made in Korea have got me interested. Does anyone have one and what is your opinion?? I can handle the price, but have concerns with the glued neck. Am I just searching for things to complain about?? I think they are a nice looking guitar, but can't find any locally to try out. Tks for your imput.


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Post subject: Re: PRS Korean Ax
Posted: Sun May 08, 2016 6:45 pm
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What is the nature of your concern with the glued neck?
Have you been hearing stories of bad glue on the SE line?

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Post subject: Re: PRS Korean Ax
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 5:41 am
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I've had a PRS SE Custom Semi-Hollow (made in Korea) for about four years now. I'm very pleased with it. It stays in tune and other than the set up done at purchase I've never had to mess it.

The wide fat neck is very comfortable.....my favourite.

I changed the pickups last year, not because I was unhappy with the quality but because I was looking for a different sound. Installed GFS Retrotron Memphis Jangle Pickups and am happy with the result.

Which PRS do you have your eye on?


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Post subject: Re: PRS Korean Ax
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 7:06 am
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I can't say about the "new" PRS SE guitars, but I have a Paul Allender SE that's a few years old, and it's mostly great, with a few niggles:

- Truss rod rattles if using thin strings and reducing the relief all the way.
- Tuners have a low ratio, so it's hard to tune accurately. And unless you block the vibrato, you may need to adjust the tuning often.
- The plastic nut is very soft. (It cost me $50 incl. work to replace it with a better one.)
- The neck is very thin. (@pudbert: Unless you have a Santana model, I can't see how you can describe the neck as "fat" - mine has the thinnest neck on any guitar I've played, except for Ibanez "wizard" necks.)

With 24 jumbo frets and a large neck radius, it plays well, especially for shredding.

And I love the inlays on my model:
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Post subject: Re: PRS Korean Ax
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 7:29 am
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arth1 wrote:
I can't say about the "new" PRS SE guitars, but I have a Paul Allender SE that's a few years old, and it's mostly great, with a few niggles:

- Truss rod rattles if using thin strings and reducing the relief all the way.
- Tuners have a low ratio, so it's hard to tune accurately. And unless you block the vibrato, you may need to adjust the tuning often.
- The plastic nut is very soft. (It cost me $50 incl. work to replace it with a better one.)
- The neck is very thin. (@pudbert: Unless you have a Santana model, I can't see how you can describe the neck as "fat" - mine has the thinnest neck on any guitar I've played, except for Ibanez "wizard" necks.)

With 24 jumbo frets and a large neck radius, it plays well, especially for shredding.

And I love the inlays on my model:
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Arth1: At that time PRS had two neck profiles on the SE models....wide fat (such as on the Santana) and wide thin. This is PRS terminology and it is a good description.

The SE Custom Semi Hollow has the wide fat neck profile. I suspect yours has the wide thin.


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Post subject: Re: PRS Korean Ax
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 7:55 am
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Whenever I look at PRS guitars in a music store and check the info tag they all seem to have wide fat these days.
I haven't seen a tag indicating wide thin in a couple of years.
I used to own a USA Cu22 with a wide thin and I didn't think it was all that thin.
Maybe slightly thinner than a Fender modern C but not thinner by much.
Nowhere near as thin as a Wizard.
Having owned a PRS and living through the experience of spending a lot of cash on a guitar I never truly bonded with I found myself feeling the same way about them as I do about Gibsons.
Lovely to look at and dream about but ultimately not for me in real life.
They lack the dynamics and liveliness and timbres I have become accustomed to with Fenders and I can't live without it.
After starting life with S & T style guitars because they were cheaper and then as I got older gradually moving up the food chain into the set-neck world I find I have come full circle and am back home where I belong and have always belonged.
I think coming to that epiphany several years ago might be a big part of the reason GAS does not have as much influence on me as it once did.

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Post subject: Re: PRS Korean Ax
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 5:29 pm
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All my guitars have screwed necks except for my Les Paul Tribute which is glued and so far so good. Not one of my favorites, though. Haven't heard any stories about glued necks, just trying to avoid any trouble. The green (?) PRS is to fall in love with, expecially the goldtone bridge. Does it just have one tone control? You are very lucky that polar bear didn't move while you took the shot, and that he wasn't hungry. I don't like bears. Thanks for the insight. :lol:


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I must admit to being a little confused. What sort of trouble do you hope to avoid related to glued necks?

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Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 8:50 am
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6mmholecutter wrote:
All my guitars have screwed necks except for my Les Paul Tribute which is glued and so far so good. Not one of my favorites, though. Haven't heard any stories about glued necks, just trying to avoid any trouble.

The only trouble, so to speak, is that you can't change the neck. A set-neck is usually slightly better for sustain.

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The green (?) PRS is to fall in love with, expecially the goldtone bridge.

Green, yep. There's also a purple variety, but I like the green/gold combination.
The bridge comes with a gold plated whammy bar too, but I've blocked mine, so it doesn't see use.
The matching gold pole pieces on the pickups and screws is also a nice touch. The PRS SE Paul Allender model after this one discontinued the special wound PRS pickups which are rather dark and hot, and went to EMGs with just black plastic covers.
The volume and tone control buttons are after-market, to make it all match even more.

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Does it just have one tone control? You are very lucky that polar bear didn't move while you took the shot, and that he wasn't hungry. I don't like bears. Thanks for the insight. :lol:

Yeah, just a single tone control. The difference between the neck and the bridge pickup is bigger on a PRS than it is on a HH Fender guitar, so flipping the switch affects the tone quite a bit too.

Icelandic sheep fleece, not polar bear :)

I think it plays quite well, but more for shredding and bass walks than chords. For me, it's a keeper. Some might not like the feel or the sound, while others have no problems. To be said for the PRS SE series is that most of them are visually stunning, and they don't cost a lot. And there's not much wrong with Korean build quality - China and Taiwan I worry about, but Korea, Japan and Indonesia are generally pretty good.


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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 6:40 am
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I have had several SE models, and they are really great guitars. I also had an Allender (purple), and it was a real nice guitar. Ended up selling it to a friend of mine, because he loved it.

I still have a SE 245. But to be honest, I think I'm going to part ways with it. NOT BECAUSE OF QUALITY, but because I'm not a fan of the shorter scale on the guitar.


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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 10:54 am
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arth1 wrote:
6mmholecutter wrote:
All my guitars have screwed necks except for my Les Paul Tribute which is glued and so far so good. Not one of my favorites, though. Haven't heard any stories about glued necks, just trying to avoid any trouble.

The only trouble, so to speak, is that you can't change the neck. A set-neck is usually slightly better for sustain

That was always my understanding. A set neck is preferred by a lot of people for that reason. Certainly not a reason to pass up a guitar you like.

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