Help me indentify my guitar!

[gabrielciaffone]

Hey PRS lovers, so i bought this Paul Reed Smith guitar, three years ago( July 2011), in Boston's Guitar Center, the guitar had alot of scretches in it, i was kind of beat up. But, i fell in love with her anyways. I knew nothing about it when i bought her. Now i know she is from 1998. By the way, her name is Helena!
Sry about my english, i am not native.
Hey, how do i upload pictures?

 

[JMintzer]

Welcome!

To post pics, look here: http://prsguitars.com/forum/showthread.php?932-how-to-post-pics

 

[Pfloyd57]

Dude your English is perfect compared to my Portuguese. Eager to see some photos of Helena.

 

[gabrielciaffone]

 

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[gabrielciaffone]

The only thing i changed in the guitar was the pickup shield. Two of the tune lockers were missing when i bought it.

 

[JMintzer]

It's a Gray Black CE22, made in '98...

It was the 17,508th CE made...

 

[Sage]

When you say "pickup shield" do you mean the pickup covers? A 1998 CE 22 would have had Dragon II pickups in it, which are covered. But those pickups are not covered.

 

[gabrielciaffone]

I didn't change the pickups, but i changed the pickup cover (correcting it).

(see the neck pickup cover, that was the original one)

 

[gabrielciaffone]

Thats the intriguing part of this guitar, i could not find any guiitar similar to it, not even the CE22's from 98. And about the pickups, i did not changed it, when i bought it, this pickup came with it, but i had some problems with the neck pickup.

 

[gabrielciaffone]

This is the closer i found to my guitar:

CE22 98'

 

[Sage]

I didn't change the pickups, but i changed the pickup cover (correcting it).

(see the neck pickup cover, that was the original one)

Ah, you mean the pickup ring. So you changed the pickup rings that the pickups are mounted to.

This is the closer i found to my guitar:

CE22 98'

Yes, look at those pickups. They have nickel-plated covers on them. I would have expected your guitar to have those as well, but it does not. I think someone either took the covers off, or they put in different pickups entirely. I'm curious what pickups you have. If they are original PRS pickups, they would have a sticker on the bottom identifying what they are.

 

[gabrielciaffone]

gonna check if it have the prs sticker.

 

[gabrielciaffone]

The sound of Helena using a Diezel with a ENGL head:

 

[gabrielciaffone]

 

[Raven17]

Nice rig!