Recent content by ItsGiusto

Well, I tried a toothbrush, but it didn't seem to do much. Maybe a slight effect? I may try oiling it at some point

Thanks everyone! I'll try oiling it, and maybe scraping with a toothbrush first. I think I have some Dunlop Formula 65 lying around. BTW, silly of me for not knowing, but is this board rosewood?

I bought this custom 24 secondhand back in July. I didn't notice at the time if the streaks were present then. I don't care about how it looks, I think it looks fine, but I'm just wondering if this is a problem or if it's normal. If it's not normal, is this something I should try to remove, for...

I'm trying to install 85/15 TCI pickups in my custom 24, but all I could find on the PRS website was this: https://d159anurvk4929.cloudfront.net/documents/customs_2017.pdf Unfortunately, that wiring doesn't match with my pickups, because they only mention red, white, and black for each pickup...

I finally pulled the trigger on a PRS core custom 24. It's a 2018 model, violet blue burst. After many years of searching I finally found one locally and used, such that I both like the color and the price. (Obviously the pickups are not stock, btw, and I plan to replace them with 85/15 TCIs...

Yeah, I'm not into purple iris and purple mist. Too rosy red, or too dark. Not purple enough.

I'm interested in a deep, vibrant purple PRS. I like colors ranging from this: to this: to this: I browse listings, but I'm not sure I'm seeing as much stuff come up in this color as a year or two ago. I know PRSes of these colors have problems with fading. Has this caused PRS to...

That's not my point, my point is that there's many frequency bands in each large range that we might call bass or treble, and cutting or boosting different ones and by different amounts may have various pleasing or non pleasing effects, that are distinguishable from one another. Bassy and warm...

It's fine to like the 85/15 S pickups, there's nothing wrong with that. For all I know my dislike of them could just be power of suggestion, knowing they're priced cheaper and that everyone complains about them. Believe me, I'm very skeptical in general about guitar voodoo and sympathetic to the...

I'm looking to try a replacement set in my Custom 24 SE. Like many, I've never been a big fan of the stock pickups, they're kinda dull. I'd like to try something which is as close to the core 85/15 pickup as possible, so I can see if I like the sound of it. If I do, then one day I'll buy a real...

Bingo, that was it! Not being used to dual-action truss rods (and also because I normally deal with truss rods that are from the neck-pocket-end), I was simply turning in the direction I thought to be tighter, thinking that would necessarily be the way to introduce back-bow, and it turns out...

I got a used, sold-as-mint-condition, 2017 SE Custom 24 last week. The action on the strings is really really high for me, and there's a significant bow on the neck. I usually like my guitars to have completely-straight action, or at the very worst, the slightest touch of relief. I'm pretty used...