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Thanx, Jazzed-out! To be perfectly honest, I haven't started looking particularly hard as yet, but I will be, in the weeks and months ahead, especially if a new (custom order) CU-24 cannot be ordered with rotary selector. So if what you say is true, its great news!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many thanx, Serg! a) No brainer! In fact, I could install the rotary switch here myself, and as you've said, the Navarro is indeed very close to a CU-24 in almost all respects, but alas, its available only white. Not good! c) I'm not sure either

Hello again guys, I took a moment to re-read this entire thread here this morning, and unless I'm mistaken, it sounds like it might be entirely possible for me to custom order a CU-24 directly from PRS with features that would be almost exactly like those on the one I sold. I don't know if this...

Thanks Sergio, and thanks also for your meaningful contributions to this thread. Its helped me to begin learning some of what I needed to learn. I don't honestly know which way I'll end up going. If I could (i.e., if it were possible), I'd order-up a special order CU-24 without the blade switch...

Carl, Thanks for taking the time to share your tale with me and the others, and you're right, it truly is a similar set of circumstances to mine, but I'm glad things have worked out for you. I suspect they'll work out for me too in the end. In fact, some of what I've learned here just today in...

Right you are, LS! A slip of the tongue. They're both polymers, and both resins, as is polyester resin which has become far more common for guitars in recent years than polyurethane (ala John Suhr and others), but polyurethane is not an "epoxy" resin.

And thanks to you too, Bob. Glad to hear that they're still available. In contrast to my earlier thoughts, it sounds like there is indeed plenty of hope for me in the future.

Excellent! Thanks for the heads-up and the link, Altoidman. I guess I misunderstood someone earlier - I thought they were no longer available, but that's great news.

Thanks for your comment. I think you may have misunderstood me - I have no doubt that it was in fact a CU-24, and yes, I realize that certain cuts of mahogany can indeed get quite heavy - I've owned a couple of 10+ pound R9s in the past, but they're rare in my experience. Anyway, it sounds like...

Nope, no question that it was a set neck and no question that it was a flamed maple top. The top itself was gorgeous, as was the natural binding, but again, it was a heavy bugger, much heavier than I would have expected for mahogany. The other mahogany-bodied guitars I've owned (although...

Gentlemen, thank so-much for your continued patience with me on this - I'm really grateful. Regarding the mahogany vs. alder issue, I'll say this much, I've owned a lot of different guitars including many mahogany units (Les Paul's, Anderson drop tops, etc.) and I've done a lot of wood-working...

Bob, You've raised another question here altogether . . . does Paul Reed Smith sell their various pickups separately? I ask this because in looking over their website, it doesn't appear so.

O.K., it sounds like the "CE" and "Custom-24" are two distinctly different models? If so, I used the wrong terminology earlier in equating them as the same. Mine had a glassed-in neck and it was heavy as hell, with smooth (non-porous), gloss black epoxy-like finish throughout, so I'm confident...

I should add that given the gloss black back and sides on my earlier Custom 24, I suspect it may have been an alder body, rather than mahogany, and also, if someone could please clarify the difference between the CE-24 and CU-24 models, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm not yet familiar with a...

Butterfly . . . thanks for your comment and I'm encouraged by your assessment of the more current production models of PRS, but alas, this has not been my personal experience. I've hoped beyond hope that I'd find something close, but I'm afraid everything I've played in recent years has fallen...