Hi All: Just got an awesome S2 Standard 22 with satin antique white finish. Exceeded my expectations in almost everything. The neck feels a little sticky. I'm wondering if it is so new that the finish hasn't cured completely. I can smell the finish. The finish is smooth, it just doesn't have that easy glide that all my other guitars have.
New S2 with Satin finish, neck a little sticky feeling
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RallyFanatic
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I had a standard 24 satin and it was a touch sticky for about a week or so till it wore in, then it was silky smooth. The satin finish wears nicely as you play, enjoy!
Mirroredas
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I need pics! There aren't enough real world pictures of that particular color.
That's what I was hoping. Thanks!
It's really pretty, I'll try and get some pics at lunch.
garrett
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Yep, that's normal for a fresh nitro finish. It'll settle down as you play it these next few weeks.
I took pics on my real camera but left the card reader at home. I'll put them up soon, hopefully this evening. It's a better guitar than I am a player but it makes me sound better. So, I think the only way it's leaving me is by prying it out of my cold dead fingers.
Here's some provisional shots captured from a video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B90QlHW6UJtuAuXO0AsP7TxQcGYulW7V/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K9QFuXDw3GH4pc3TKr7pOM01WVlPsQSH/view?usp=sharing
Every device and site adds its own tints so it's hard to get a fair representation. More later. Oh, and pay no attention to the strap button on the horn. That's a failed experiment with an existing strap lock system I had on another instrument. My Schallers are on the way.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B90QlHW6UJtuAuXO0AsP7TxQcGYulW7V/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K9QFuXDw3GH4pc3TKr7pOM01WVlPsQSH/view?usp=sharing
Every device and site adds its own tints so it's hard to get a fair representation. More later. Oh, and pay no attention to the strap button on the horn. That's a failed experiment with an existing strap lock system I had on another instrument. My Schallers are on the way.
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RallyFanatic
Perpetual musical mid-life crisis
Satin looks great in antique white! I’ve been eyeing the vela semi hollow satin in the same color, it just looks great with the grain.
Awesome, OP I have a satin in Mccarty burst just like yours, I also have a mahogany color with a finish theyre wonderful guitars play the heck out of it, I actually think my satin sounds better its more alive, If I ever get the Vela its going to be another satin.
I like the shape of the Vela, it's cool. Its bridge with the non-independent intonation adjustment scared me away from it. Maybe PRS guitars are so precise that that isn't a problem, but every guitar I've set up did not have a perfectly linear intonation setting.
dogrocketp
I drank the PRS kool aid, and it was tasty!
I always put several coats of Meguiar’s liquid cleaner/ wax on my guitar necks. After three coats, they’re nice and slippery. I redo it about once every six months. I never sell my keeper guitars, so I ignore the warnings not do do this. It makes them harder to refinish.
bodia
Authorities said.....best leave it.....unsolved
Nice! That's hot! I love Antique White
Alnus Rubra
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Very nice!
Mirroredas
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Sometimes a simpler PRS is all you need.
