Ugh. Yeah, sleeping on anything besides your bed rarely turns out well.I feel you. I missed out on a '97 McCarty Archtop a couple of weeks ago. It was in killer shape, and listed at $2,495. Decided to sleep on it, and see how I felt the following morning. When I went to buy it at 6:00 AM, it was gone.
They are incredible pickups and the strat-like setup (3 pickups/5 way switch) gives an incredible amount of tonal range. I would never say this in front of my wife, who has bought me all three of my other PRS guitars, but if it came down to only keeping one guitar, this is the one I'd choose. I could never do that, the others being gifts. But I'm telling you this thing can do ANYTHING and do it exceptionally well. The extreme example I've used before is, Archon clean channel with bass and mids way down, NF3 gets pretty strat like. Channel 2 with the gain up at 11:00 and I'm playing metal. Gain at 8:30 = classic rock. Etc.
There was an Anniversary McCarty with twin NFs at my local GC (complete cr@phole) and had been on the wall forever. Probably around the time DTR was referring. Played it numerous times but I handed it back as soon as someone treated me like “you can’t afford this”. That was generally about 15 minutes. It was at $2300 and they weren’t budging, but I know I could bully my way to a deal, but with those guys, I just couldn’t care enough about the deal to put in the effort. Absolutely beautiful guitar and would love to have it today.
Truth is, I love the thing so much that I've always wanted a Swamp Ash Special, with the full sized 57/08 in the bridge and two NFs. Came real close twice to buying one and real close to trading the Mark V for one. Actually made a deal on the trade the Mark V and the guy said "if it doesn't sell by Friday" because he really wanted cash instead of trade, and sure enough, someone local bought it on Friday.
I'm sorry. The correct answer here is "BOTH!"
(yeah, that would be a tough choice... but I haven't played a KL or any Santana yet and Bodia tells me it's game over once I do).You sold that?????You mean like this one? Wish I still had it...
It's like I don't even know who you are anymore!
You mean like this one? Wish I still had it...
I'm sorry. The correct answer here is "BOTH!"
ah, then you chose wisely. But if that one with the flamed maple neck and board was up, that would be hard to pass up. The NF3 is my only maple neck, maple board PRS and it's the greatest neck I"ve ever played. At one point, I thought about another NF3 and replacing the pickups with SCs to be my strat, but lets face it, anyone who takes NF pickups OUT of a guitar needs their head... needs their head to be in such a nice place that they send them to me. Yeah, that's it.
While I know they aren't identical, my 57/08s tap very well in my C22 Semi hollow.
$1400
And to think that we were THISCLOSE to being best friends!
Yes... yes you do...So you’re saying I have to play this tonight
