Buildermike
Can you have too many?
What a great top Rich, nailhole and all.
Got the call today, the vela is on the way and should arrive Saturday! This run of reclaimed turned out great, can't wait to get my hands on this and take some more pics. Hope the starla pickup can do the brootz lol
Wood can talk. That's why we make guitars out of it.Quite a bit of character. If wood could talk.
You say this jokingly but I've got a Mesa Mini Rectifier and the Starla pickups slay through it. They wouldn't really work for tight, precise progressive type metal, but would kill for sludgier type metal. Hell, Brent Hinds from Mastodon has an older Core Starla he uses.Hope the starla pickup can do the brootz lol
Wood can talk. That's why we make guitars out of it.
Wow, did it sell already? In 12 minutes?Another Vela just popped on Reverb. Somebody please grab it... my bank account needs a breather...
Wow, that was fast.... I check Reverb about 4 times a day to see if a Vela pops up. From what I am seeing, if you are seriously contemplating one, you have to jump on it fast. The Vela's seem to be moving faster than the CE's , but you have to move decisively in either case if you want one...Wow, did it sell already? In 12 minutes?
Another new guy here. First post other then my introduction. I've been reading up on the forum for a month or so because I've been in the market for a semi-hollow body. Currently I am only an acoustic player, old blues mainly (Robert Johnson, Mance Lipscome, Lonnie Johnson, etc) and pretty much looking to get into more electric blues and classic rock type stuff. So after doing a lot of research I pretty much decided on a S2 Mira semi-hollow... then started seeing the buzz around these reclaimed limiteds a week or two ago and did some research on them and really like the vids I was seeing on the Vela. The Ce24 is really nice and I would enjoy it but my gut says the Vela's got the blues.
So I spent the last week sending out emails and calling the usual suspects with no luck sourcing one. Seems like a large percentage are already reserved and the Vela doubly so. This morning, after talking to two other dealers who also had all their allocated ones reserved, I found a RL CE24 at CMC guitars here in NJ. So I figured I'd just grab tha one while it was available since it seems like they will all be gone from everywhere soon. They are a 2 hour drive for me but I figured I'd just get them to send it to me. Ordered it on their website, it went through so I thought it was good. About 2 hours later, got a call from the owner at CMC apologizing that the guitar was already sold last night... arrrggghhhh!
So we started talking and he said they couldn't get any more but he had one of the RL Vela's that just came in that morning and they were just getting ready to put it on the website. I couldn't believe it. I said, "Are you kidding me? That's the one I really wanted. Just send me that one!" So everything worked out. I didn't even think to ask for pics so no idea what it looks like but that's ok. NGD will be really special because I think whatever it looks like, it was fated to come to me.
So first PRS and my only electric will be here Monday according to UPS.
I'll post pics when it gets here.
-Jim
Awesome!Another new guy here. First post other then my introduction. I've been reading up on the forum for a month or so because I've been in the market for a semi-hollow body. Currently I am only an acoustic player, old blues mainly (Robert Johnson, Mance Lipscome, Lonnie Johnson, etc) and pretty much looking to get into more electric blues and classic rock type stuff. So after doing a lot of research I pretty much decided on a S2 Mira semi-hollow... then started seeing the buzz around these reclaimed limiteds a week or two ago and did some research on them and really like the vids I was seeing on the Vela. The Ce24 is really nice and I would enjoy it but my gut says the Vela's got the blues.
So I spent the last week sending out emails and calling the usual suspects with no luck sourcing one. Seems like a large percentage are already reserved and the Vela doubly so. This morning, after talking to two other dealers who also had all their allocated ones reserved, I found a RL CE24 at CMC guitars here in NJ. So I figured I'd just grab tha one while it was available since it seems like they will all be gone from everywhere soon. They are a 2 hour drive for me but I figured I'd just get them to send it to me. Ordered it on their website, it went through so I thought it was good. About 2 hours later, got a call from the owner at CMC apologizing that the guitar was already sold last night... arrrggghhhh!
So we started talking and he said they couldn't get any more but he had one of the RL Vela's that just came in that morning and they were just getting ready to put it on the website. I couldn't believe it. I said, "Are you kidding me? That's the one I really wanted. Just send me that one!" So everything worked out. I didn't even think to ask for pics so no idea what it looks like but that's ok. NGD will be really special because I think whatever it looks like, it was fated to come to me.
So first PRS and my only electric will be here Monday according to UPS.
I'll post pics when it gets here.
-Jim
Another new guy here. First post other then my introduction. I've been reading up on the forum for a month or so because I've been in the market for a semi-hollow body. Currently I am only an acoustic player, old blues mainly (Robert Johnson, Mance Lipscome, Lonnie Johnson, etc) and pretty much looking to get into more electric blues and classic rock type stuff. So after doing a lot of research I pretty much decided on a S2 Mira semi-hollow... then started seeing the buzz around these reclaimed limiteds a week or two ago and did some research on them and really like the vids I was seeing on the Vela. The Ce24 is really nice and I would enjoy it but my gut says the Vela's got the blues.
So I spent the last week sending out emails and calling the usual suspects with no luck sourcing one. Seems like a large percentage are already reserved and the Vela doubly so. This morning, after talking to two other dealers who also had all their allocated ones reserved, I found a RL CE24 at CMC guitars here in NJ. So I figured I'd just grab tha one while it was available since it seems like they will all be gone from everywhere soon. They are a 2 hour drive for me but I figured I'd just get them to send it to me. Ordered it on their website, it went through so I thought it was good. About 2 hours later, got a call from the owner at CMC apologizing that the guitar was already sold last night... arrrggghhhh!
So we started talking and he said they couldn't get any more but he had one of the RL Vela's that just came in that morning and they were just getting ready to put it on the website. I couldn't believe it. I said, "Are you kidding me? That's the one I really wanted. Just send me that one!" So everything worked out. I didn't even think to ask for pics so no idea what it looks like but that's ok. NGD will be really special because I think whatever it looks like, it was fated to come to me.
So first PRS and my only electric will be here Monday according to UPS.
I'll post pics when it gets here.
-Jim
Congrats on your Vela!Another new guy here. First post other then my introduction. I've been reading up on the forum for a month or so because I've been in the market for a semi-hollow body. Currently I am only an acoustic player, old blues mainly (Robert Johnson, Mance Lipscome, Lonnie Johnson, etc) and pretty much looking to get into more electric blues and classic rock type stuff. So after doing a lot of research I pretty much decided on a S2 Mira semi-hollow... then started seeing the buzz around these reclaimed limiteds a week or two ago and did some research on them and really like the vids I was seeing on the Vela. The Ce24 is really nice and I would enjoy it but my gut says the Vela's got the blues.
So I spent the last week sending out emails and calling the usual suspects with no luck sourcing one. Seems like a large percentage are already reserved and the Vela doubly so. This morning, after talking to two other dealers who also had all their allocated ones reserved, I found a RL CE24 at CMC guitars here in NJ. So I figured I'd just grab tha one while it was available since it seems like they will all be gone from everywhere soon. They are a 2 hour drive for me but I figured I'd just get them to send it to me. Ordered it on their website, it went through so I thought it was good. About 2 hours later, got a call from the owner at CMC apologizing that the guitar was already sold last night... arrrggghhhh!
So we started talking and he said they couldn't get any more but he had one of the RL Vela's that just came in that morning and they were just getting ready to put it on the website. I couldn't believe it. I said, "Are you kidding me? That's the one I really wanted. Just send me that one!" So everything worked out. I didn't even think to ask for pics so no idea what it looks like but that's ok. NGD will be really special because I think whatever it looks like, it was fated to come to me.
So first PRS and my only electric will be here Monday according to UPS.
I'll post pics when it gets here.
-Jim
Great storyAnother new guy here. First post other then my introduction. I've been reading up on the forum for a month or so because I've been in the market for a semi-hollow body. Currently I am only an acoustic player, old blues mainly (Robert Johnson, Mance Lipscome, Lonnie Johnson, etc) and pretty much looking to get into more electric blues and classic rock type stuff. So after doing a lot of research I pretty much decided on a S2 Mira semi-hollow... then started seeing the buzz around these reclaimed limiteds a week or two ago and did some research on them and really like the vids I was seeing on the Vela. The Ce24 is really nice and I would enjoy it but my gut says the Vela's got the blues.
So I spent the last week sending out emails and calling the usual suspects with no luck sourcing one. Seems like a large percentage are already reserved and the Vela doubly so. This morning, after talking to two other dealers who also had all their allocated ones reserved, I found a RL CE24 at CMC guitars here in NJ. So I figured I'd just grab tha one while it was available since it seems like they will all be gone from everywhere soon. They are a 2 hour drive for me but I figured I'd just get them to send it to me. Ordered it on their website, it went through so I thought it was good. About 2 hours later, got a call from the owner at CMC apologizing that the guitar was already sold last night... arrrggghhhh!
So we started talking and he said they couldn't get any more but he had one of the RL Vela's that just came in that morning and they were just getting ready to put it on the website. I couldn't believe it. I said, "Are you kidding me? That's the one I really wanted. Just send me that one!" So everything worked out. I didn't even think to ask for pics so no idea what it looks like but that's ok. NGD will be really special because I think whatever it looks like, it was fated to come to me.
So first PRS and my only electric will be here Monday according to UPS.
I'll post pics when it gets here.
-Jim