Recent content by dprather

Many moons ago when I was studying classical, my teacher had me play (mostly scales, sometimes pieces) with the left thumb completely off the neck, just held under the fretboard. He was forcing me to use less of a 'vise grip' by proving you don't have to push on the strings nearly as hard as you...

I can only say "he didn't at the clinic a few years ago" - I asked him whether he messed with it at all when switching between bridge and neck pickups, he said it was pretty much just left on 10 all the time. That evening he used a 25th Anniversary amp, so that could affect the guitar...

You might notice more volume drop on the earlier DGT's, there were a few resistors added to the tone knob later that help even the output between the humbucker and single-coil modes. Visually, the pre-V12 models will show wear and scratches more easily, but that is cosmetic and personal...

The 57/08's are my absolute favorite of the PRS line, and can handle anything for me outside of high gain settings (but that's not what I play most of the time). I have some very early ones in a nitro-finished 245 and they have noticeably lower output than the TM etched set in my pre-V12 Cu24...

Wish I could make it, but I'm going to have to wait for next year.

Here is my Shawn&Skitch refinish - not as fancy as the others, but it is still one of my favorites.

That maple is unreal!

Love it. The PG is one of my favorites, although the brushstroke inlays are a little polarizing I'd expect these will sell fairly quickly.

That color grows on me more every time I see it. One or two more like that guitar and it might be my favorite finish! Congrats on the guitar, definitely do not put anything in writing.

Anything purple sparkly is awesome.

Great choice! The neck pickup split gets some great sounds, combine it with the bridge on full and you're close to heaven. Enjoy!

Good choice! One of my best friends is a Les Paul fanatic and brings a few over almost every weekend to A/B them with my 245 (older nitro model with a one-piece bridge and 57/08 pickups). His "Collector's Choice" (at more than twice the price) edges out my 245 by the teensiest bit, all the...

I don't have any really good photos of this one, but it's the guitar non-musicians always told me sounded the best after gigs at the local bars, and my Gibson loving friends bring over their LP's to see if they've tweaked and changed enough to stand up to my 245. (Jesus says you have to love...

What amp are you using, and is it loud enough? DG isn't exactly 'whisper quiet' when he plays. There shouldn't be a lack of 'punch' from the pickups - Is the guitar absorbing a little extra vibration? Sometimes it takes a lot of experimenting to find the right guitar/pickup combination...

This is a different kind of purple... (Originally blue, this is a PTC repair and refinish.)