Tom Bradovich
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Yesterday I packed up my beloved Cherry Bomb (S2 McCarty Thinline) and shipped her off to the PTC. I've had her for coming up on 2 years, and a number of niggles and one big issue finally tipped the scales and I decided it was time.
The biggest issue? Those darn pots! DeOxit D5 cleared up the scratch on both the volume pots, but I just couldn't totally clear the tone pots, and over time they became pretty much an on/off switch with only two tones - screech or dull. After talking things over with Ryan at customer support, I decided to have PRS upgrade all 4 pots and also the 3-way switch to the Core spec'd ones.
The smaller niggles I guess I lived with for too long, so the PTC will evaluate those and hopefully track down the causes and correct. The low E saddle had no travel left, and I couldn't get that string to intonate properly. It would get close, but no cigar. The saddles don't match the fretboard radius for both the E strings - they sit high. Don't know if that contributes to the intonation issue or not. Also, the open G string would buzz and vibrate from time to time. Maybe the nut slot was cut too deep or there's a high fret somewhere along the fretboard.
I've done guitar setups before, but when I purchased this PRS, I bought a Music Nomad kit of gages to get things exact, but a solution to that darn low E string only getting close to perfect and that open G issue continued to elude me.
Anyway, she shipped out yesterday. Guess I'll be without her for a while, which means my DC-127 comes out of it's case. It's been there since Cherry arrived.
The biggest issue? Those darn pots! DeOxit D5 cleared up the scratch on both the volume pots, but I just couldn't totally clear the tone pots, and over time they became pretty much an on/off switch with only two tones - screech or dull. After talking things over with Ryan at customer support, I decided to have PRS upgrade all 4 pots and also the 3-way switch to the Core spec'd ones.
The smaller niggles I guess I lived with for too long, so the PTC will evaluate those and hopefully track down the causes and correct. The low E saddle had no travel left, and I couldn't get that string to intonate properly. It would get close, but no cigar. The saddles don't match the fretboard radius for both the E strings - they sit high. Don't know if that contributes to the intonation issue or not. Also, the open G string would buzz and vibrate from time to time. Maybe the nut slot was cut too deep or there's a high fret somewhere along the fretboard.
I've done guitar setups before, but when I purchased this PRS, I bought a Music Nomad kit of gages to get things exact, but a solution to that darn low E string only getting close to perfect and that open G issue continued to elude me.
Anyway, she shipped out yesterday. Guess I'll be without her for a while, which means my DC-127 comes out of it's case. It's been there since Cherry arrived.