Recent content by David R. Katz

I'm posting this picture because this is an example of impeccable Ibanez Indonesian craftsmanship. It is every bit the equal of the Indonesian and Korean PRS guitars I own. It plays and sounds and looks beautiful. $650 new. The only modifications I made were the D'Addario locking tuners and...

PRS STANDARD 24, PRS STANDARD 245, PRS STANDARD SANTANA...all PT Wildwood, Indonesia, 2018 PRS SE Santana, WMI, World Musical Instruments, Korea, 2011 PRS SE Custom 24 Zebra, WMI World Musical Instruments, Korea, 2018

I've become an unwitting PRS collector, much to my wife's chagrin. I have a 2018 SE STANDARD Santana, a 2018 STANDARD 24, a 2018 STANDARD 245, a 2018 SE Custom 24 Zebra, and a 2011 SE Santana. All the STANDARD guitars were made by P.T. Wildwood, Indonesia. In or around 2019 PRS dropped P.T...

I see this is an older post, but thought my recent experiences might be relevant to some in this, the future. Seems we frequently don't directly answer querstions because we want to tell our own story. Well, I'm not imune from that disease, but my experience may shed a little light toward your...

Guitars are like women. It doesn't matter how "perfect" their bodies are or how well their makeup is applied, what matters is what happens when you hold them in your arms. If they respond to you, and you to them, you've got a match. If they don't respond to you, or you to them, then no matter...

I recently (last week) purchased a Zach Myers. The bridge well on the bass side was protruding 1/16" out of the body. PRS tech support told me to tap it back in, which I did, no prob, but.... THEN, I have an Indonesian Ibanez AM93QM that's literally perfect. It was $650. This PRS cost...

The coils split on my SE Custom 24 Zebra and SE Standard Santana sounded too thin so I played around with adding resistors to the push/pull switch. For the Santana, which has StewMac Golden Age pickups, I put a 2.2k resistor to ground on each leg of the new push/pull tone pot that I added. For...

Sunrise, Beaver Lake, Arkansas Sunset, Beaver Lake, Arkansas

My friend, Russ Hutchison, playing at Legacy Blues, 2015.

Beginning of a Solar Eclipe via cell phone camera. This is what appeared on my concrete driveway during the eclipse.... it's the shadow of the leaves on the tree in my front yard, all weirded out by the eclipse.

Note: This is NOT a recommendation. I'm just reporting what I've done. I, who know so little, would never recommend anything to people who know WAY more about PRS guitars than I do. However, I made one for $1.35.... I taped a stack of 5 quarters and a dime together with scotch tape, which was...

Man, you people who call someone a troll just because they report a bad experience with a PRS guitar should get a life. More than the technical issues he specified, I read DISAPPOINTMENT and I can relate to that fully. I own 3 PRS guitars, but.... 1. I ordered a PRS SE Santana Standard from...

A friend recently gave me a Korean 2011 SE Santana with flame maple top. I liked it so much I bought a SE Santana Standard...less expensive, made in Indonesia, but still a Santana. They are unusual guitars in a number of ways....well...every way. The neck is not like anything I've ever played...

An Introduction that needs no introduction. Nom de plume: VonBach. Been playing since Shep was a pup. Sold all my gear and quit for a quarter century. Recently was kick-started back into guitars by my wife who got tired of me wandering aimlessly around the neighborhood in my underwear. She...