This is a bit of a do-over for me, after I purchased and returned a 1986 pre-Standard. I found this one from 1987 cheaper and in way, way better shape. I'm thrilled with it, actually!
It's a nice Vintage Cherry. There's hardly a mark on it for being 37 years old. It looks like it had one of those Roland synth pickups on it for quite a while, as there are a couple of dots between the treble pickup and the bridge about where you'd expect them to be with one of those. That's the only really noticeable finish marring. The body is one single piece of mahogany.
I've wanted an earlier PRS for a while. Super happy with this one! Plays great, with frets that are in very good shape. They needed a fair bit of polishing. Just a really nice, comfortable guitar.
It's got a set of SD Pearly Gates pickups in it, which I really like so far. Only played it for about half an hour, but they sound good and are very responsive to rolling off the volume and tone.
The tuners are in great shape, with no slippage at all. Very, very clean.
The case might be older than the guitar. It's got the cutout in the wood at the strap button on the top horn, which I've read was because the early cases weren't made to quite the right dimensions.
There was some paperwork with it. Instructions on the rotary, the winged tuners, and the Patented PRS Tremelo.
Speaking of the rotary, this one has an aftermarket rotary.
The sweet switch is gone. I have no idea what, if anything, the push-pull on the tone pot is or isn't wired to. I don't know enough about wiring to know what I'm looking at. The tone knob is quite wonderfully effective with the pickups, which I really like.
The bridge pickup is from 2022, so I'm guessing sometime then or later is when both pickups were put in and the new electronics were put in.
It's a nice Vintage Cherry. There's hardly a mark on it for being 37 years old. It looks like it had one of those Roland synth pickups on it for quite a while, as there are a couple of dots between the treble pickup and the bridge about where you'd expect them to be with one of those. That's the only really noticeable finish marring. The body is one single piece of mahogany.
I've wanted an earlier PRS for a while. Super happy with this one! Plays great, with frets that are in very good shape. They needed a fair bit of polishing. Just a really nice, comfortable guitar.
It's got a set of SD Pearly Gates pickups in it, which I really like so far. Only played it for about half an hour, but they sound good and are very responsive to rolling off the volume and tone.
The tuners are in great shape, with no slippage at all. Very, very clean.
The case might be older than the guitar. It's got the cutout in the wood at the strap button on the top horn, which I've read was because the early cases weren't made to quite the right dimensions.
There was some paperwork with it. Instructions on the rotary, the winged tuners, and the Patented PRS Tremelo.
Speaking of the rotary, this one has an aftermarket rotary.
The sweet switch is gone. I have no idea what, if anything, the push-pull on the tone pot is or isn't wired to. I don't know enough about wiring to know what I'm looking at. The tone knob is quite wonderfully effective with the pickups, which I really like.
The bridge pickup is from 2022, so I'm guessing sometime then or later is when both pickups were put in and the new electronics were put in.
