Les - did you weigh the trade-offs of maple vs mahogany neck, or did you see the guitar, fall in love and whip out your credit card?
It was both! Eyeball fever
and brain fart!
I blame it on how much I love the 594 Soapbar. Usually I go with a mahogany neck, but the Soapy has one, as do my other PRSes. I figured it’d be different enough with maple that I could rationalize the purchase nearly convincingly.
Some people don’t want a gloss neck. They claim it slows them down. But I think of it as a wonderful excuse for not being very fast.
“Can I sit in with you guys?”
“Sorry, Les, you won’t be able to keep up with us.”
“It’s not me, it’s this gloss neck.Slows my hand.”
“Oh, well I guess it’s O.K., then. Here’s the chart.”
“Chart? You guys read...uh...charts?”
“Of course, Les. You don’t sight read?”
“Oh...yeah...are you kidding? I read my ass off. Uhm...yeah, too bad my glasses got stolen. Yeah they were stolen. Like, this morning. Can’t get in to see the doc until...I dunno. A while.”
“You’re wearing glasses.”
“Oh, Dude! Haha, these aren’t reading glasses. They’re uh...my...uh...
guitar shopping glasses. So...um...what’s that first chord...?”
“B flat 7 sus 4”
“Oh gosh, look at the time! Gotta go! Thanks guys!”