Man, you people who call someone a troll just because they report a bad experience with a PRS guitar should get a life.
More than the technical issues he specified, I read DISAPPOINTMENT and I can relate to that fully. I own 3 PRS guitars, but....
1. I ordered a PRS SE Santana Standard from American Musical Supply. I was peeing in my pants waiting to get my brand new PRS. When it arrived the pickup selector switch was sheared off even with the body and was rolling around in the bottom of the shipping box. I was massively DISAPPOINTED but AMS immediately cross-shipped me a new, perfect guitar. Great company!
2. Then, I ordered a PRS SE Custom 24 Tobacco Sunburst from Sweetwater.com. The G string buzzed up and down the neck. When I used the trem, the strings would go "PING" as they were sticking in the nut...and it would not stay in tune. Worst of all...the neck...it was SKINNY...not Wide Thin... but Wide SKINNY. It felt really uncomfortable. I couldn't believe this was happening. I looked at the back of the headstock and saw that it was a Cor-Tek Indonesia guitar.
I have a PRS dealer in town. I went in and played the exact same SE Custom 24 Tobacco Sunburst. It was great. The neck was totally different.....Thin, not Skinny, and felt and played really well. No sticking nut slots. I looked at the back of the headstock. It said WMI KOREA.
I returned the Sweetwater Custom 24 for a refund, and asked about this Cor-Tek situation. They didn't know anything more than what they've been told by the PRS folks. I've seen posts on this forum that say that Cor-Tek is making PRS guitars to specification. Maybe so, maybe not. I can and will tell you there is a world of difference between those two Custom 24 guitars I had in my hands.
3. So, I had ordered a PRS SE Custom 24 Zebrawood from Sweetwater. They assured me they were KOREAN. Then I found a DEMO Zebra on the Sweetwater website. It had fingerboard damage on EIGHT of the frets...do the math...that's 1/3 of the frets...fissures and cracks and checks in the wood. This isn't wear or misuse damage..it's bad wood. I was amazed that Sweetwater would even display such an instrument let alone try to sell it. So I looked at the closeup of the back of the headstock...you probably guessed it...Cor-Tek, Indonesia. You can probably still see that Demo Zebra on the Sweetwater website. I just looked and they have tried to fill in the cracks...either that or they've photo-shopped the pictures. But you can still see the rosewood is inferior. . Go see it for yourself and see if you'd spend over $700 for that guitar. How could Cor-Tek, PRS, and Sweetwater (55 point inspection) let this slip through their QC?
So I cancelled my order, went to the PRS website and visited all 32 of the listed Authorized dealers. All of them were backordered, and several had photos that showed the Zebra as being Cor-Tek....some just showed stock photos of Korean guitars.. except John Mann's Guitar Vault...he had ONE Zebra left. I called him and he assured me it was KOREAN. He took a picture with his phone and texted it to me. I immediately bought it. It's the most beautiful guitar I've ever owned. It was set up perfectly. BUT...The G string was out of tune. That's all...the G string...out of tune.... The setup is perfect. The neck is Wide Thin and totally awesome. Everything about it is awesome. But it is WMI KOREAN, not Cor-Tek. My Santana Standard is PT Wildwood Indonesian and it's perfect as well. My 2011 SE Santana maple flame top is WMI Korean and is awesome.
So, folks, if someone reports a bad experience with a PRS guitar, it may well be true. That doesn't make them or me a TROLL for Pete's sake.
My personal experience is that I will NEVER buy a PRS SE made by Cor-Tek. But I will buy their WMI KOREAN and PT Wildwood Indonesian guitars in the future, even if I have to go second-hand. I can't and won't say ALL PRS Cor-Tek guitars are bad...that would be foolish. But having tried two identical guitars, one WMI Korean and one Cor-Tek Indonesian, and having seen the wounded Cor-Tek Zebra on Sweetwater, I can't see any other personal conclusion for me to make.