shinksma
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I tried searching to see if this was a duplicate question, since I'm sure it gets asked every now and then, but no luck...
I'm staring at a Guitar Afficianado calendar a co-worker gave me, with the "Two Millionth" Martin featured for January 2017.
It occurred to me that PRS has probably not produced even a million guitars yet, but they must be well on their way to half a million, perhaps.
According to the Year Identification page of the PRS Customer Support Center links, the year 2014 would have seen serial numbers in the 206xxx range for set-neck guitars. And a recent guitar I spotted in the Dealer's Forum section here has a 2016 with SN starting with 231xxx.
So PRS seems to be above a quarter million set neck core builds, S2 would seem to be well into the 17000s, over 33000 original CEs, over 3000 SASs, etc.
Might leave the SEs out of this question, because:
Are the SEs produced with truly serial numbers, or do they reset after the letter changes? I have a 277 Semi-hollow with serial number Q076xx, bought in October (new headstock design, so recent build), and I found an SE Holcomb with SN "Q11xxx", also new headstock design - I doubt only 12000-ish SEs have been produced in total.
I'm guessing PRS has produced over 300,000 total US-made specimens.
So was anything done for the 250,000th "Core" or US-made PRS guitar? Or the core set-neck with SN xx250000? Did anyone even notice?
Any good estimate for total tally to date?
I'm staring at a Guitar Afficianado calendar a co-worker gave me, with the "Two Millionth" Martin featured for January 2017.
It occurred to me that PRS has probably not produced even a million guitars yet, but they must be well on their way to half a million, perhaps.
According to the Year Identification page of the PRS Customer Support Center links, the year 2014 would have seen serial numbers in the 206xxx range for set-neck guitars. And a recent guitar I spotted in the Dealer's Forum section here has a 2016 with SN starting with 231xxx.
So PRS seems to be above a quarter million set neck core builds, S2 would seem to be well into the 17000s, over 33000 original CEs, over 3000 SASs, etc.
Might leave the SEs out of this question, because:
Are the SEs produced with truly serial numbers, or do they reset after the letter changes? I have a 277 Semi-hollow with serial number Q076xx, bought in October (new headstock design, so recent build), and I found an SE Holcomb with SN "Q11xxx", also new headstock design - I doubt only 12000-ish SEs have been produced in total.
I'm guessing PRS has produced over 300,000 total US-made specimens.
So was anything done for the 250,000th "Core" or US-made PRS guitar? Or the core set-neck with SN xx250000? Did anyone even notice?
Any good estimate for total tally to date?