Jbyrd78
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Hi guys, I hope everyone on the forum has been doing well.
I've been on a little bit of a hiatus from things in general for awhile, due to a medical emergency I had back in October of 2024. I've been getting back into the swing of things, as of lately and what better way to celebrate...New Guitar Day of course
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So I present to you on this post, a 2003 OG PRS McCarty.
Crazy story on this guitar. I went to buy this McCarty guitar on Guitar Center's used gear page back in October.
I ended up in the hospital the next day due to an aortic dissection, which resulted in me having to have emergency open heart surgery... I'm talking, chest cracked open, placed on the heart & lung bypass machine, body temp dropped to 34 degrees celcius, ascending aorta removed, and a synthetic graft installed in its place.
I watched this guitar sit as I was at home recovering. Unfortunately, it sold 6 weeks later on Black Friday and I was bummed.
Fast forward to last weekend. I was in my local G.C. buying strings and I stumbled upon a used PRS McCarty still on police hold. I checked the serial number from the pictures I had saved from the McCarty guitar I had been watching, last October. Surprisingly, it was the same guitar.
I guess someone had sold it back to G.C.
So I bought the guitar on the spot, and picked her up yesterday.
I have this guitar strung up with some 9.5-46's and she plays really nice! I'm really impressed with this model. She has a different feel to her compared to my OG Singlecuts. The heel is taking some getting used to compared to the other PRS's I own.
The pickups definitely a have different flavor to them. Apparently from what I have heard, the McCarty pickups were Paul's envision from this era of what a hot PAF humbucker should sound like before he designed the #7 pickups.
Overall, I'm still in awe how I crossed paths with her, months after I originally planned to buy her. I'm sure another one will eventually make it's way into my possession in the future
I've been on a little bit of a hiatus from things in general for awhile, due to a medical emergency I had back in October of 2024. I've been getting back into the swing of things, as of lately and what better way to celebrate...New Guitar Day of course
. So I present to you on this post, a 2003 OG PRS McCarty.
Crazy story on this guitar. I went to buy this McCarty guitar on Guitar Center's used gear page back in October.
I ended up in the hospital the next day due to an aortic dissection, which resulted in me having to have emergency open heart surgery... I'm talking, chest cracked open, placed on the heart & lung bypass machine, body temp dropped to 34 degrees celcius, ascending aorta removed, and a synthetic graft installed in its place.
I watched this guitar sit as I was at home recovering. Unfortunately, it sold 6 weeks later on Black Friday and I was bummed.
Fast forward to last weekend. I was in my local G.C. buying strings and I stumbled upon a used PRS McCarty still on police hold. I checked the serial number from the pictures I had saved from the McCarty guitar I had been watching, last October. Surprisingly, it was the same guitar.
I guess someone had sold it back to G.C.
So I bought the guitar on the spot, and picked her up yesterday.
I have this guitar strung up with some 9.5-46's and she plays really nice! I'm really impressed with this model. She has a different feel to her compared to my OG Singlecuts. The heel is taking some getting used to compared to the other PRS's I own.
The pickups definitely a have different flavor to them. Apparently from what I have heard, the McCarty pickups were Paul's envision from this era of what a hot PAF humbucker should sound like before he designed the #7 pickups.
Overall, I'm still in awe how I crossed paths with her, months after I originally planned to buy her. I'm sure another one will eventually make it's way into my possession in the future
