Oh no. No. NO.

[andy474x]

Here’s a very painful lesson I learned:

Never sell a PRS Soapbar guitar.

Even if you temporarily think, “Soapbars aren’t my thing.” And by ‘temporarily’ I mean about 100 years.

Even if it sits unplayed for now, or rarely played. Even if you get GAS and there it is, your convenient solution for a quick new guitar fix.

Don’t do it. Do not sell or trade it. Treat it as an heirloom if you must, but hang onto it.

PRS doesn’t make many soapbar guitars, but the ones they make are really, really good ones. And one day in the not-too-distant future you will be in the studio, or at a gig, or just f+ckin’ around in your basement, and you will think, “You know what would sound really good right now? My old Mira Soapbar.”

And if you’re smart, you’ll still have it when that happens.

If not, your brain will be flooded with pangs of regret, and you will have a hard time finding a good replacement!

Yours truly,

The Voice of Experience

These thoughts are what kept me from seriously trying to sell it! It’s too rare of an instrument, both in terms of being a soapbar PRS, and specifically a Mira soapbar is even more rare, and then the 24.5” scale and regular neck carve... forget it. It would take a pretty impressive offer to pull it away.

 

[László]

These thoughts are what kept me from seriously trying to sell it! It’s too rare of an instrument, both in terms of being a soapbar PRS, and specifically a Mira soapbar is even more rare, and then the 24.5” scale and regular neck carve... forget it. It would take a pretty impressive offer to pull it away.

I played my 594 Soapy in your honor today. I figured after haranguing you, I had a moral obligation to give it some exercise!

It was fun.

Sounds vintage, but better to me than my old ‘65 SG Special, though now that I’m in one of those Soapbar moods, I may have to pick it up at my brother’s and play it through my current rig.