Where can we get these here ?
Could we ever ?
First of all, where is here?
Second, where did you order yours from? Because I certainly wasn't going to pay an additional $300 exchange premium to order one overseas and have it imported to the US.
Third, according to PRS, these have always been available everywhere - which is completely not true. In my laborious search for one over the last six months, the only place that I found these advertised and/or for sale was in Europe. That was until I just saw a Cherry one at a store here in the States about three weeks ago. It had the beveled edge, an N serial and the blade toggle, so it was definitely brand new.
If they wanted you to get one of these firsthand outside of Europe, PRS sure made it incredibly impossible to find them anywhere else. No promotion, no sales information, not a word. In fact, the local store had no idea what it was, where it come from and when they called Maryland asking about it, they were told by a lady in sales that there was no truth to the European exclusivity, which was reported here:
http://www.musicradar.com/us/news/guitars/prs-rolls-out-se-custom-24-quilt-574256/1. As I stated above, if this now-refuted "press release" was wrong about the specific market restriction, then what makes me believe that the 200 unit limited-run number is also true. So for everyone that bought one back in the Old World thinking you got something special and rare, well you got duped by someone's shifty marketing. It makes no sense as to why PRS would not tout their supposed existence here in the States - if they were indeed available for sale here in the States. C'mon. Sweetwater would have had four of them in stock at all times. And people would be lapping these beauties up. So someone somewhere is telling the public some nonsense. Either the Music Radar report is hogwash or the line from PRS is. Regardless, these guitars should have been readily purchasable in the local currency for those that wanted one, and they simply were/are not.
