Looking for any info/tips with my PRS guitars

[gbatt1024]

Finally about to restring some of my older PRS's which I have picked up in the last year or so (I have a used guitar "problem"). I assume I won't have any issues putting 10's on both? I've read some things about neck pocket issues on the EG3's but at this point the guitar is 30+ years old and I'd like to think they would have appeared by now. Also if anyone knows anything about either of these guitars just by appearance, I'm all ears. I know I have an EG3 with the triple Fralin pickups and then a 2002 CE24 but other than that no real clue. I see a lot of terms thrown out there for the various tops and stuff like that. The binding on the CE24 is particularly gorgeous- the guy told me it had only ever left the house two times and I believe him. It has one little rough indentation in the neck where it clearly rested against some sort of stand for 20 years but otherwise doesn't have a single mark on it. I also have a 2019 Silver Sky but that one is going to get sold and I know everything about it since it's so new.

2002 CE24

1992? EG3

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Finally about to restring some of my older PRS's which I have picked up in the last year or so (I have a used guitar "problem"). I assume I won't have any issues putting 10's on both? I've read some things about neck pocket issues on the EG3's but at this point the guitar is 30+ years old and I'd like to think they would have appeared by now. Also if anyone knows anything about either of these guitars just by appearance, I'm all ears. I know I have an EG3 with the triple Fralin pickups and then a 2002 CE24 but other than that no real clue. I see a lot of terms thrown out there for the various tops and stuff like that. The binding on the CE24 is particularly gorgeous- the guy told me it had only ever left the house two times and I believe him. It has one little rough indentation in the neck where it clearly rested against some sort of stand for 20 years but otherwise doesn't have a single mark on it. I also have a 2019 Silver Sky but that one is going to get sold and I know everything about it since it's so new.

2002 CE24

1992? EG3

That EG3 looks like it’s in great shape. Congratulations.

 

[dogrocketp]

The EGIII is one of the hidden surprises of the PRS lineup. They lost money making the EG’s, so they were discontinued. The dominos were designed to be noiseless P-90’s by Linda Fralin. When you pull up the tone knob, a message is sent to outer space that purportedly reaches the Brides of Dr. Funkenstein and sends cosmic energy back to earth. Aside from that, you get a very thick lead tone that I love. They’re one of the absolute keepers of the PRS lineup. Nothing anywhere made by anyone sounds like them. I think I like mine. And mine even has a mother of toilet seat pick guard!

 

[Alnus Rubra]

The EGIII is one of the hidden surprises of the PRS lineup. They lost money making the EG’s, so they were discontinued. The dominos were designed to be noiseless P-90’s by Linda Fralin. When you pull up the tone knob, a message is sent to outer space that purportedly reaches the Brides of Dr. Funkenstein and sends cosmic energy back to earth. Aside from that, you get a very thick lead tone that I love. They’re one of the absolute keepers of the PRS lineup. Nothing anywhere made by anyone sounds like them. I think I like mine. And mine even has a mother of toilet seat pick guard!

That pick guard is made out of old nuts from other makes of guitar

 

[DISTORT6]

 

[Prs Mods too]

2002 CE24

You have the twin to my 02 custom 24. Only difference is a bolt on maple neck with dots rather than birds. Oh, and for some reason I got screwed out of the winged tuners and ended up with phase 2 instead.

 

[gbatt1024]

That EG3 looks like it’s in great shape. Congratulations.

I was super stoked to pick this one up, it has a few tiny finish dings on the back but no real blemishes at all for being 30+ years old. I think there are a few more old PRS models like the EG3's floating around when you live in Maryland. There's a great cover band here that's been playing on the eastern shore for a few decades and their lead guitarist is always playing EG3's with a killer tone. I chatted with him about them once and he was saying he owns like 9 of them and was basically like, if you ever see the ones with the triple Fralin pickups, get it. So I did.

 

[Prs Mods too]

I would love to get an EG. Things just haven't worked out whenever I see them for sale though.

 

[Davey]

The most important tip regarding PRS guitars...Always buy, never sell!

Welcome aboard gbatt

 

[gbatt1024]

The most important tip regarding PRS guitars...Always buy, never sell!

Welcome aboard gbatt

I'd love to buy more... but I have to sell the Silver Sky to pay for some live sound for my acoustic gigs. I buy/sell a decent number of used guitars and wildly enough this will be the first one I'll ever take a loss on, and I still think I got a decent deal at the time.

 

[dogrocketp]

I was super stoked to pick this one up, it has a few tiny finish dings on the back but no real blemishes at all for being 30+ years old. I think there are a few more old PRS models like the EG3's floating around when you live in Maryland. There's a great cover band here that's been playing on the eastern shore for a few decades and their lead guitarist is always playing EG3's with a killer tone. I chatted with him about them once and he was saying he owns like 9 of them and was basically like, if you ever see the ones with the triple Fralin pickups, get it. So I did.

I live in the DMV. Mine actually came from Japan because I had to have a blue one.