Greatest Runs Ever

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What in your opinion are the greatest 3 PRS runs ever, and why? If you have more than 3 please feel free to exceed. Feel free to be subjective, it's by nature a subjective question.

Starting with myself. I'm fairly new to PRS guitars so I'm probably quite narrow with my nominations.

1) Paul's 28. The fact that Paul Reed Smith personally worked on the guitars, the exotic materials (though standard for collection guitars nowadays), and the benefit of a lifetime's career experience put into them (as opposed to early guitars from mid 1980's). As PRS mentions in the certificates, these guitars are a lifetime in the making.

2) Violin Guitar original 50 piece run. They appear to be Paul's 28 redux of sorts, though without the personal handiwork touch from Paul Reed Smith I suppose.

3) Collection Series. This is a little hit and miss I guess, since each individual collection run is different, but as a whole they use the best materials and are supposed to be personally supervised by Paul Reed Smith. I personally like best the Collection II (DGT orange glow), VI (Custom 24 with that spectacular collection helix inlay), and VIII (2014 McCarty electric tiger eye).

What did I miss? Dragons? Rosewood Limited? Sig Limited?
 
McCarty Singlecut

CU22 Semi-Hollow Ltd.

Signature Limited

Artist I-V

Just as they popped into my head, not in any particular order.
 
Not to be Captain Obvious here... but... the CU24 is the greatest run... 30 years and running. Anything else, is small potatoes.
 
Should we break it down into levels to make it fair? (SE's/Core/AP+WL/PS+Dragon/Collection) My picks at various levels...

Top SE's
-SE One/ Santana SE 1 (tie)
-Bernie Ltd
-Zach Myers

Core
-513 Brazilian
-CU 22 SH
-Santana 2

PS and beyond
-Paul's 28
-"Signature" original 408 run
-McCarty Singlecut
 
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My solid rosewood-necked Starla is 1 of 5 in existence. It's a simple instrument compared to some of what's been mentioned previously but it's among my favourites ever...
 
The original Modern Eagle is my favorite, by a big margin. I'm also a big fan of the IRW SCT. Next would be the 53/10 LTD.

I realize those are my 3 choices, but the Brazilian-necked McCarty and Singlecuts were fantastic too. Oh yeah, the Teds are pretty special too.
 
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Dammit! I thought you said greatest RUMS ever.
:D
Pyrat, Tortuga, Bacardi
 
1: Artist semi hollow trems. (II, III, IV, 10th anniversary and LTD) The best sounding all around electric guitars ever made IMO.

2: CU 22 semi hollow LTD series both plain and peanut. I mean Maple and Walunt. (Nice to see a lot of others aggreeing with this one! Very special guitars!)
 
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Wish list of Limiteds
Artist I (I loved this guitar, Bugs Henderson had a couple when I met him and PRSH in Houston at a clinic, but I couldn't afford it so I ordered and installed these Artist pups in my Les Paul)
Modern Eagle I (another wish list guitar I hope to own one day)
1980 West Street LTD (wish came true, I've wanted one of these since '08, finally got one last week!)
 
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