CoreyT
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Collection Series IX | PRS Guitars
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Woundtight
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Nice guitars! Sounds vaguely like Paul Miles narrating.
toothace
Zombie Thirteen, DFZ
WOW! Those look great!
RedGuitars
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Sounds like a great guitar, but I'm not usually a blue guitar guy - and they'll be way our of my price range anyway...
PRS! See my other post about bringing back the core McTrem!!!
PRS! See my other post about bringing back the core McTrem!!!
CantankerousCarl
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I wouldn't throw them out of bed for eating crackers...but I must admit I think the "30th Anniversary" script on the heel is, for my taste, a bit tacky. Put an eagle with a 30 or something. That looks like those things people do on the bottom of the door panels of their cars, when they put on the chrome strip and write something in cursive...just sayin'
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The purfling under the maple top looks sweet...
.. But the Gen 3 bridge saddles aren't really doing it for me. They remind me of when I used to lose the little allen head setscrews from old ESP locking trems, doesn't seem as elegant of a solution as I have come to appreciate from PRS. Plus with the whole coin slot tuners I'm left wondering how this has any benefit over a Floyd Rose and wonder if they'll eventually have a allen wrench/multi-tool holder on the back of the headstock like Jacksons and Ibanez.
.. But the Gen 3 bridge saddles aren't really doing it for me. They remind me of when I used to lose the little allen head setscrews from old ESP locking trems, doesn't seem as elegant of a solution as I have come to appreciate from PRS. Plus with the whole coin slot tuners I'm left wondering how this has any benefit over a Floyd Rose and wonder if they'll eventually have a allen wrench/multi-tool holder on the back of the headstock like Jacksons and Ibanez.
veinbuster
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Have to say I kind of like it in a flame.
CantankerousCarl
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when I was changing the strings on the new EG I was thinking how awesome the Phase Is were. Not as smooth to tune but so much easier..."elegant" even...Forget about the "I don't like this feature" stuff. Would you buy a pair to either play the living crap out of them to put them under the bed as an investment as they are probably intended to offer? If I was a big collector, I would be all over these regardless of price and that is where they are thinking from a marketing perspective. Rare, documented and nice is money.
kbprs
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I was thinking the same. But I think it's way better than a floyd in terms of simplicity and bulk.
And I'm not sure there's a better way without putting in some kind of knobs or levers to scrape your hand against. Only thing I can think of better would be to use hollowed-out saddle screws with a center pin that feeds through and clamps against the string. But at that point it's getting close to the floyd.
And you can always leave the screws loose or in the case. ;-)
I used to love the wingies. Never had a problem with stringing them, though the high E and B strings could slip a lot until you got the hang of it. However, lots of players couldn't figure them out, and hated them. I'm willing to bet they killed some sales for PRS, and that customer service was constantly fielding calls from customers who had trouble using them.
i find that the more recent tuners lock the string in place fine without a coin. Hand tight seems to work. It's a simple.system, and there's a certain elegance to simplicity, too. Also I find it's easier to work with the high E and B strings, because there's no slippage like there can be until the cam tightens on the wingies.
As I said, I love the wingies, but I can string the guitar faster and more efficiently with the newer tuners.
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Dusty Chalk
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"Matched pairs"?
That said -- gorgeous, want.
That said -- gorgeous, want.
gush
Where is that speedo pic
I have to say I'm not that wild about locking saddles.I used to be a floyd guy all the way but that's back when stringing guitars only took me away from drinking.
I like the prs trems but dislike wing tuners.phase 2s are my favorites. I usedto tighten with fingers only but had a high E string slip once so I snug them s tiny bit with a dime. They just work.
I like the prs trems but dislike wing tuners.phase 2s are my favorites. I usedto tighten with fingers only but had a high E string slip once so I snug them s tiny bit with a dime. They just work.
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+1!
I would never, I hope, purchase a musical instrument as a "collectors item". I have some pieces that qualify as collectible (a 1971 Marshall Major, a tonewheel Hammond A100 with Leslie), but I have played and performed with both extensively. So nice as those Series IX guitars may be, I wouldn't get them. Leave them to someone who sees the 'value' of instruments as spending $10k and then leaving em intact in the packaging or whatever..... IMO there's no value in something I'd be afraid to play lest I lower its potential sale price 20 years in the future.
