Recent content by polara

Well, the SE models are "Student Edition" and are made to be more affordable. If they were the complete shiznit no one here would prefer a US-made guitar, right? I've tried a lot of them in stores and own a Mexican-made Fender Standard Telecaster and that Tele is a damn good guitar. I think it's...

Leave a few instruments fellas... I get in middle of Friday but as I'm meeting a friend may not actually get to the factory until Saturday.

Assuming you mean glued-in neck, not neck-through? If you like a slimmer neck then best prob'ly to go to a dealer and just try a bunch. Like you, I was sort of initially thinking a "real" PRS was set neck but honestly even after trying the pricier ones I preferred my CE. There's some evidence...

It sounds like you'd be right at home with a CE. The CE24 came with a wide-thin neck which is very comfy, and its bolt-on maple neck gives it a slightly more stratty feel. It's a very versatile guitar with the 5 pickup selector options, and they can be found for a thousand bucks on a good day...

Thanks, Shark! We're playing at Smith's on Saturday the 5th of October... I'll be playing the green CE24 as always. As for the Experience.. I'll be the middle-aged dude drooling over the expensive toys :D Easy to find.

So I bought my first (and given my finances the only) PRS just a couple months ago and have never been to a guitar factory of any sort. I did register for the Experience and arrive Friday afternoon. How many show up for this? Y'all seem pretty psyched... they used to get pretty charged up on the...

For live use the F-style slider is better for me. I can tell from the corner of my eye how many clicks I need to go to get to the sound I want, and a slider that has gotten some use over the years will not get accidentally bumped and "boing" into the middle position. Weirdly, as much as I...

Thank you, James. I'd forgotten about Minus the Bear. And I'm a big Pixies/Santiago fan.

Best read I've had today! Here we go, rockin' the bling guitar in a beer-soaked club in East Atlanta Village this week.

I've always played in originals bands, and so bounced around in a pretty gritty netherworld of hole-in-the wall clubs, house parties, punk bars, and such. Managed to rise up to 1000-seat theaters in a couple bands but for the most part it's a scene dominated by low-budget kids with bad haircuts...

In the welcome pack FAQ's "All guests attending the event must be a registered attendee. Registration closed on August 30th. If you have a friend that missed out on registration, you can register onsite but a $50 admission fee will apply." I don't actually understand that: the grammar and...

That's me in the avatar pic, with my green CE 24. I'll be there Saturday, ideally with a very attractive blonde friend. You'll notice her!

I'd like to try an S2. I like the idea of taking the real value of something - design, factory QC - and cutting the corners where they can be cut, in the bits and pieces that aren't essential, so the buyer gets a solid value. As far as the encounter there, I gotta say that when I worked customer...

So last week I ordered a new vibrato arm from PRS, as the CE24 I bought came without one. I asked for 3-day shipping to have it in time for a show Thursday. The package arrives. Inside are... a set of the locking screws for tuners. No vibrato arm. Hmmmm. I check the packing slip and while...

One less thing to think about. My pedal tuner is stuck on the pedalboard with all the other crap I play through, so all's I do is plug in. I'm lucky to remember my capo and earplugs and picks, and I know I'd lose a clip-on tuner.