I haven't played a prs that wasn't good to go.
Ordered my McCarty from the States and I can honestly say when I unboxed it it was still in tune.
Amazing.!!!
It's not amazing, my friend -- it's
Science!
You see, PRS guitars ship with quantum-world guitar tech beings that live inside the cases. In earlier times, these beings were referred to as "elves" or "pixies," but we now know that they are subatomic particles that can be trained.
PRS uses a cyclotron under the factory to locate and train them to keep the guitars in tune en route. Their ear training is so thorough (they're all given that perfect pitch course you find in guitar magazines) that they use only their sense of subatomic hearing to tune the guitars!
Once the guitar reaches its destination, the tiny invisible beings mysteriously disappear, and later reappear In the cyclotron, ready to ship out with another guitar.
Mysterious particle appearances and disappearances are, of course, known quantum phenomena. In the case of the PRS Pixie team (they chose the name themselves), they take great pride in their work.
These beings are opposed by Antipixie particle beings, who try to detune the guitars, bow the necks, and cause other mayhem, but they are the weak force compared to PRS' strong pixie force, and they usually just give up and go over to Fender and Gibson.
I hope this scientific explanation helps.
I'm not at liberty to reveal Paul Smith's advanced home planet where he learned how to do all this, but it starts with a "K" and ends with the letters "rypton".