Recent content by davidrf

I have a humbucker-sized P90 handwound by Craig Vineham in one of my guitars. As far as I can't tell those things DO NOT sound exactly like a regular sized P90. Still, pretty close. And mine is awesome. Enjoy yours!

Hi there, I read somewhere Silver Sky guitars recently switched to some kind of nitro finish, while previously they were mostly poly? I can't find solid info on this, I'm really confused. Any info? Thanks!

The S2 Satin Standard 22 is a pretty solid advice too, but I've most certainly found out the S2 Singlecut with the same exact pickups sounds a bit bigger and fuller. That is, according to the opinions of two different guys who have both guitars (one being the youtuber Simon Smith). I don't know...

I had a 2015 SE Custom 24, not a made in USA. I would use that guitar in a reharal space with a Marshall JCM 2000, a Marshall JCM 800 and occasionally an Orange Tiny Terror. Also, I would record with that guitar in Ableton. Thanks.

Hi there, I'd like to buy a guitar for my heavier sounding needs that is more or less Strat-shaped but does NOT sound like a Strat. I checked out both Ibanez AZ2402 and Ibanez MM1, and even though they are exceptional guitars, their sound is pretty reminiscent to a Strat on steroids. You can...

One thing I know for sure (because I have a friend who owns a music store) is that, at least where I live, if a store sells a guitar for 1000$, they paid the guitar about 600$, so 400$ (about 40% of the total price) is the margin of profit. If you insert in the equation the distributor you have...

Watching the latest Rick Beato's video where he plays a fantastic McCarty 594 HB II I got a bit curious: what would be the PRS manufacturing cost for a guitar like that? A friend of mine says it should be around 5-600$ but I think it is around 1000$. Does anyone know? Also, who makes tuning...

He said about 10 days :( I'm really curious to hear how much the tone can improve. As I said, in my American Standard Strat the improvement was nothing less than massive.

I ended up asking him a PAF in the neck and a kind of slighlty lesser-output JB in the bridge. He says he made similar pickups both for SEs and Core american PRSs and you can't be wrong with a configuration like that (both Alnico 5.). I hope they will sound great, but knowing that luthier I have...

Hi there, I'm going to get a couple of custom humbuckers made by my luthier (a highly renowed pickup maker) for my SE Custom 24. I'm not a big humbucker expert, and I'd like to go there with a pretty clear idea on what to ask him. Please help. Here's some pointers (I'll give him the same...

The guitar was in stable temperature and humidity conditions for 95% of the time, and it went out of tune pretty severely, sometimes even more then 1/2 step. But, as I said, the problem was 100% fixed with a set of locking tuners. :)

The problem were the original PRS SE tuning machines! As soon as I changed them with the Grover Rotomatics, the tuning issue immediately disappeared. Visually, I don't like these tuners as much as the original PRS, but hey, they cost me 1/3 of the Phase II Locking Tuners price and they do a...

He did all of these things... he quadruple-checked and filed the nut, as well as the lube. I really can't understand what's the problem. Yesterday I tuned it down to Eb and to get it perfectly in tune I spent about 20 minutes (!). All the notes continuosly went sharp. I know some time to adjust...

He tried everything you mentioned except for blocking the tremolo (I had to go). He usually works with tons of made in America PRS and he occasionally works for the italian PRS distributor, so there's no doubt he knows what he's doing... I just played the guitar for half an hour and I used...

It's mainly the G string but the others go out of tune pretty frequently too... My luthier worked over an hour on the guitar and couldn't fix the problem...