guitar_man_man_man
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I used to consider myself more of a fan of more interesting, modern colorways on my PRSi, but the times they are a-changin’ I suppose. My workhorse recently has been a charcoal purple burst Custom 24 35th anniversary which I love, but I’ve been eyeing guitars with the same layout (35th or 24-08) that are a little more understated and might feel a bit more ‘vintage’ for that classic rock cover band I’ll be joining any day now.
In perusing the various places used guitars are often found, I stumbled upon a used dark cherry sunburst (often referred to as clownburst ‘round these parts) 35th anniversary for a good price that I thought I would gamble on. The posted pictures were truly awful, but it was listed as a 10-top, so how bad could it be? By googling the serial number I actually found the original posting where the pictures looked pretty good, but still possibly a guitar that only looks good in the right lighting. Turns out it’s actually a stunner. It joins my HB2 piezo as the second ‘clownburst’ guitar in my current arsenal.
The used listing pic:
The guitar I received today:
The grain is very 3-dimensional and has a lot of movement based on the angle and lighting. The guitar itself seems virtually unplayed and sounds great (possibly even better than my current 35th?), but that might just be the honeymoon phase.
There is one other consideration though - it has a pattern regular neck, which I’ve never experienced before. Playing with it in the 20 or so minutes I had today it felt fine, if a little bit narrow, in comparison to the ol’ purple people-eater which has a pattern thin neck. Time will tell, but one or the other of my 35th anniversary 24s will go up on the ‘verb in the coming weeks depending on whether I can get along with the pattern regular. Feels irresponsible to hoard 2 of these beauties.
My other 35th just for comparison:
And my other, now considerably less lonely, clownburst HB2 piezo:
In perusing the various places used guitars are often found, I stumbled upon a used dark cherry sunburst (often referred to as clownburst ‘round these parts) 35th anniversary for a good price that I thought I would gamble on. The posted pictures were truly awful, but it was listed as a 10-top, so how bad could it be? By googling the serial number I actually found the original posting where the pictures looked pretty good, but still possibly a guitar that only looks good in the right lighting. Turns out it’s actually a stunner. It joins my HB2 piezo as the second ‘clownburst’ guitar in my current arsenal.
The used listing pic:
The guitar I received today:
The grain is very 3-dimensional and has a lot of movement based on the angle and lighting. The guitar itself seems virtually unplayed and sounds great (possibly even better than my current 35th?), but that might just be the honeymoon phase.
There is one other consideration though - it has a pattern regular neck, which I’ve never experienced before. Playing with it in the 20 or so minutes I had today it felt fine, if a little bit narrow, in comparison to the ol’ purple people-eater which has a pattern thin neck. Time will tell, but one or the other of my 35th anniversary 24s will go up on the ‘verb in the coming weeks depending on whether I can get along with the pattern regular. Feels irresponsible to hoard 2 of these beauties.
My other 35th just for comparison:
And my other, now considerably less lonely, clownburst HB2 piezo:
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