CantankerousCarl
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I know we are not supposed to talk new guitar prices...so I will not talk current new guitar prices...I will talk olden new guitar prices. If this violates any rules, mods please delete, no harm, no foul.
I was looking through the case candy of my 1991 CU24, which came with a dealer price sheet and some handwritten calculations. The buyer was choosing between a CE and a CU24. Everything was a bit more a-la-carte, so there are itemizations on the sheet for 10-Top, Birds, etc.
So for a CU24 10-top (Brazzy board standard) w birds, case, special color and pickup swap, by my calculations, and using an online inflation calculator, the equivalent 2014 sell price would have been right around $4,500.
Which means that, for anyone who has even looked at buying a new Core PRS in the past several years, PRS seems to have done a bang-up job of consistently improving quality and innovating WITHOUT a significant increase in the relative new selling price. I think that's pretty friggin' awesome. We gots the rules of tone for free, ladies and gentlemen...
FWIW a CE would be selling for just south of $2,400, which puts them in the same ballpark as a modern core slab-bodied bolt-on or some of the "Standards" (e.g. 408, DGT) but with all of the extra work in the body carve, they were quite the bargain.
I was looking through the case candy of my 1991 CU24, which came with a dealer price sheet and some handwritten calculations. The buyer was choosing between a CE and a CU24. Everything was a bit more a-la-carte, so there are itemizations on the sheet for 10-Top, Birds, etc.
So for a CU24 10-top (Brazzy board standard) w birds, case, special color and pickup swap, by my calculations, and using an online inflation calculator, the equivalent 2014 sell price would have been right around $4,500.
Which means that, for anyone who has even looked at buying a new Core PRS in the past several years, PRS seems to have done a bang-up job of consistently improving quality and innovating WITHOUT a significant increase in the relative new selling price. I think that's pretty friggin' awesome. We gots the rules of tone for free, ladies and gentlemen...
FWIW a CE would be selling for just south of $2,400, which puts them in the same ballpark as a modern core slab-bodied bolt-on or some of the "Standards" (e.g. 408, DGT) but with all of the extra work in the body carve, they were quite the bargain.
