P90/P-90 guitar search

[dmatthews]

Well…I did it. Should have a new arrival here sometime late next week.

Good on ya mate!

 

[StillCantankerous]

I have been on a Soapbar kick lately and my favorites are the SE Soapbar II / SE Soapbar II Maple from mid 2000s. You can snag them for around $500. Stock pickups are really good. Most of them are nice and light which is important for my ageing back. Strat-like forearm contour rocks as well. I have 3

 

[Prina]

Well…I did it. Should have a new arrival here sometime late next week.

Awesome! Looking forward to more, maybe Tampas Green, info.

 

[Greywolf]

And behold a great warm light broke through the Darkness , and the sweet chime and serious growl of the Soapy has spread Enlightenment again !!
Stray not into the land of skinny , thin sounding singles again.. Rejoice!!

 

[GoodeBrew]

Awesome! Looking forward to more, maybe Tampas Green, info.

You called it. It just looked too awesome. Checked all the right boxes, and it’s perfectly different enough from everything else I have that it made sense; didn’t want to let it get away!

 

[GoodeBrew]

You really piqued my curiosity. I spent well over a year looking for the right 594 Soapy Single Cut. By a freak perfect storm I ended up with a Knaggs Kenai Soapy SC (thanks again to greywolf for the inspiration) that I absolutely love. Hope you love your new guitar just as much.

Excellent. I’d been looking at the other brands for a while myself but hadn’t found anything in person that I liked; just luck of the draw. After looking at and considering so many from other brands I was glad to see at least a few from PRS that really seemed to be exactly what I like. Excited to make some noise with it soon!

 

[Matte82]

Yeah man!!! I have a McCarty soapbar with an irw neck. It was love at first strum. Then I bought an se245 soapbar for a backup. Then I bought more PRS guitars. And now also have an artist pack 594 soapbar with an irw neck.

 

[Jazzedout]

There was a nice 1999 McCarty goldtop that sold fast for around 1800€ on Reverb last week... It was in Belgium and I was tempted...

 

[Greywolf]

by the way .. Gibby Soapbars are way cool .. after all they started the party , I have a 66 SG and 55 Special with them .. The 55 is a Holy Grail

 

[gtrdave]

I currently have two P-90 equipped guitars, both Les Pauls; a Junior and a BFG.

There's something about the raw simplicity of a P-90 in a slab of mahogany that sounds like nothing else.

 

[GoodeBrew]

by the way .. Gibby Soapbars are way cool .. after all they started the party , I have a 66 SG and 55 Special with them .. The 55 is a Holy Grail

Absolutely, and I probably should’ve specified that I just wasn’t thrilled with the current production options I could find (mostly studios in the $1k range). Ideally a Jr. or even an ES with the soapbars, but I’d have wanted to find something old and awesome. I did see one in a shop locally but it was north of the $10k range and I shamed myself out of even considering it.

 

[Greywolf]

this SC 594 black beauty is a good deal imo

 

[Greywolf]

Au Natural for the same coin