carolinaeasy
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- Jan 9, 2019
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Hello everyone,
I am a new member here but have long been involved at other guitar-centered forums, such as Strat-Talk, TDPRI, and The Gear Page. I have been playing guitar since the Christmas of 1999 when my parents bought me my first guitar, a Squier Standard in Black w/Maple. Since that time I have accumulated a pile of keeper guitars, and have owned close to another 50 which have made their way in and out of my hands. Ultimately, I fell in love with a couple of Fender Custom Shops and a Rickenbacker. But I never could find a dual humbucker guitar that I liked. I have owned 14 different Gibsons, from varying degrees of costs, age, and condition. But I never found a keeper. That eventually led me to PRS. A teaching buddy of mine has a PRS SE Custom 22 and I played it and loved the feel, and thought that the quality was superb in comparison to many similarly priced guitars from other brands. So that set me out on a search, I considered a Zach Myers, a Chris Robertson, and even an S2 Singlecut, but in the end, I decided to go core series. As of last night, I acquired my first PRS, a 2001 PRS McCarty. I believe it is a Standard, but I figured I would get some expert opinions on it here. I bought it for, what I believe to be, a good deal at $1200.
As an aside, I am a school teacher, and along with our tech ed department run a guitar builders club where our students make Fender Tele and Strat style guitars from blocks of wood. I recently reached out to PRS for a tour and we are getting a group tour from one of the engineers in early March. Anyway, enough about that...here are the McCarty pics.
I am a new member here but have long been involved at other guitar-centered forums, such as Strat-Talk, TDPRI, and The Gear Page. I have been playing guitar since the Christmas of 1999 when my parents bought me my first guitar, a Squier Standard in Black w/Maple. Since that time I have accumulated a pile of keeper guitars, and have owned close to another 50 which have made their way in and out of my hands. Ultimately, I fell in love with a couple of Fender Custom Shops and a Rickenbacker. But I never could find a dual humbucker guitar that I liked. I have owned 14 different Gibsons, from varying degrees of costs, age, and condition. But I never found a keeper. That eventually led me to PRS. A teaching buddy of mine has a PRS SE Custom 22 and I played it and loved the feel, and thought that the quality was superb in comparison to many similarly priced guitars from other brands. So that set me out on a search, I considered a Zach Myers, a Chris Robertson, and even an S2 Singlecut, but in the end, I decided to go core series. As of last night, I acquired my first PRS, a 2001 PRS McCarty. I believe it is a Standard, but I figured I would get some expert opinions on it here. I bought it for, what I believe to be, a good deal at $1200.
As an aside, I am a school teacher, and along with our tech ed department run a guitar builders club where our students make Fender Tele and Strat style guitars from blocks of wood. I recently reached out to PRS for a tour and we are getting a group tour from one of the engineers in early March. Anyway, enough about that...here are the McCarty pics.
