Rediscovering My Guitars

[László]

Ever since getting the Special Semi-Hollow a couple of months ago, I've been concentrating my efforts on getting to know it. But in the past couple of days, I've also started playing my tried/true/tested other PRS models.

I don't need to tell my fellow PRS fans that each one has a special thing it does...you already know that, you live it every day.

But it's an awful lot of fun rediscovering the guitars I already own!

And it's still awfully hard to argue with my love for the McCarty Singlecut I jokingly named 'The Hammer Of The Gods'!! My goodness, what a great guitar! And I still love all my PRS' with pure nickel wrapped strings (as opposed to nickel-plated).

I know I'm not alone. You've all rediscovered guitars you own at one time or another. Let's hear about it.

 

[garrettb]

I can tell you about it, but it's kinda boring because i do it all the time. I tend to go through phases where I'm super into one thing and then it gets stale, so I switch to another and it's amazing. It's especially fun to go between a PRS phase and a Strat phase because both sound so great yet different from each other.

In PRS land, I imagine the 594 will always be my fave, which is gets confirmed whenever I pick it up after leaving it alone for a couple months. However, it's refreshing to switch to the more focused midrange of an all-mahogany model like my SE One.

 

[bodia]

Honestly, I haven’t really touched a guitar for months. One day soon, I hope to rediscover them all….

 

[tiboy]

I’m too methodical so no guitar electric guitar goes unplayed for very long. The acoustic, on the other hand, has not been played for over a year. Perhaps this post will be my inspiration ie kick in the as$, to pull it out.

 

[SinSir]

Funny, I was just having a conversation earlier with my girlfriend about this. It started with you have sooo many guitars or maybe it was toooo? Next thing you know I have a handful spread out on the couch going over why this one is great or that one. I believe at the start of the conversation her intention was to talk me into selling some but the opposite happened as I rediscovered my love for a few.

Really, I blame PRS. Since realizing I drank the Kool aid many of my others just don't get played much, but I can't bring myself to sell. I too go in phases and who knows what may grab me tomorrow as a side dish to PRS?

 

[dmatthews]

Honestly, I haven’t really touched a guitar for months. One day soon, I hope to rediscover them all….

Available for consultation.
Love you man, pick it up and plug it in.

 

[dogrocketp]

There is no side dish to PRS, only more. Every one gets played every two weeks, except my 509. That is the most perfect guitar I’ve ever seen or played, and it does everything well. Why don’t I love it?

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Honestly, I haven’t really touched a guitar for months. One day soon, I hope to rediscover them all….

Available for consultation.
Love you man, pick it up and plug it in.

One word: intervention.

There is no side dish to PRS, only more. Every one gets played every two weeks, except my 509. That is the most perfect guitar I’ve ever seen or played, and it does everything well. Why don’t I love it.

There is a deep dish!

 

[SinSir]

I'm pretty envious of your special semi hollow... nice guitar I'm looking forward to getting my hands on.

 

[Moondog Wily]

I give thanks that I actually took the plunge to "discover" PRS this year (I suck, I'm not worthy, they are too expensive were a few of my arguments on decades of delay). My previous guitar experience (ownership that is) included Hwy 1 Strat (still have), Eko Kadett (still have), Dean Baby Z (stupidly sold it but would not have played it anyway) and my acoustics (Martin, Yamaha, Carlos). After getting my first PRS in Feb '21, my second in March of '21 and my third in July of '21 I am not sure I will ever play those others again. Maybe I need to do a "discovery tour", but I already know what is going to happen! Plebeians back to the case , they must know their place!

As for my three royalties, the HBII gets played 3-6 hours daily at the moment. The PS CU24 and the Core CU24 rarely get played at the moment just because of the type of music I am working on right now is better suited to the HBII. Once I start to get my Fun(k) on again, they will take center stage (looking like early next year)! Playability wise, my PS CU24 is the smoothest instrument my hands have ever held or plucked!!!

 

[veinbuster]

I’ve played very little since Labour Day. The few minutes at a time I did play was mostly my classical, with hints of my steel string Laskin. None of my amps have even been turned on.

It has highlighted how intimate a good acoustic is.

 

[RickP]

After a year of Hollowbody goodness, I was playing my 513s this week, renewing my love of a great Brazilian neck. Gorgeously smooth, the 513 neck carve is perfectly situated in the middle of neck profiles. But I’m waxing poetic, and that’s as close to a Brazilian waxing as I’ll ever come.

Also played the Silver Sky a bit, and still don’t regret selling my favorite Strat to get it. Superb SSS guitar!

The HBs of various vintage have certainly found favor here, but the last time I picked up the 594 Soapy it stayed on the rack next to my chair for months… dare I reacquaint myself with the black siren named next? Les, you trouble maker…

 

[Tucson Thump]

Les, I understand. Pulling out a guitar you haven't played for awhile is like listening to the voice of a good friend from the past.

 

[Davey]

I'm with some others in that I will go through phases and play one or 2 exclusively.
Then I will "play the field" and go thru them and, as you stated Les, enjoy the something different each one brings to the table.
Such a good and fortunate problem to have

 

[Tom Bradovich]

Les, so ironic that as I was reading your post while listening to one of my playlists from iTunes, there comes Bill Kirchen with "Hammer of the Honkey Tonk Gods", his homage to the Fender Telecaster. The Tele of course has it's place in music, but I sold mine to help pay for my McCarty TL and cannot say that I miss it. The TL (my first and so far only foray into the world of PRS) is hands-down the finest guitar I've ever owned. So, no stable of others to rediscover, but I am totally enjoying the McCarty each and every time I pick her up.

 

[László]

Les, so ironic that as I was reading your post while listening to one of my playlists from iTunes, there comes Bill Kirchen with "Hammer of the Honkey Tonk Gods", his homage to the Fender Telecaster. The Tele of course has it's place in music, but I sold mine to help pay for my McCarty TL and cannot say that I miss it. The TL (my first and so far only foray into the world of PRS) is hands-down the finest guitar I've ever owned. So, no stable of others to rediscover, but I am totally enjoying the McCarty each and every time I pick her up.

I have often played a McCarty when others would have picked up a Tele!

In a story that will probably seem strange, my college band (well, college for me, I was the baby in the band, the others had graduated) played on the same bill as Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, who were Ann Arbor based at the time.

A year or two later I ran into Kirchen at a friend's brother's house in Northern CA, and he showed me how to play the 'Hot Rod Lincoln' lick.

True story!

 

[Rod/]

After a year of Hollowbody goodness, I was playing my 513s this week, renewing my love of a great Brazilian neck. Gorgeously smooth, the 513 neck carve is perfectly situated in the middle of neck profiles. But I’m waxing poetic, and that’s as close to a Brazilian waxing as I’ll ever come.

Also played the Silver Sky a bit, and still don’t regret selling my favorite Strat to get it. Superb SSS guitar!

The HBs of various vintage have certainly found favor here, but the last time I picked up the 594 Soapy it stayed on the rack next to my chair for months… dare I reacquaint myself with the black siren named next? Les, you trouble maker…

Yup, the Silver Sky is an incredible Strat ….. gonna get me one….. So much more than any of the Fenders I have owned or played…….except my old ‘54 and ‘62, which it’s comparable to tone wise…

 

[Tom Bradovich]

I have often played a McCarty when others would have picked up a Tele!

In a story that will probably seem strange, my college band (well, college for me, I was the baby in the band, the others had graduated) played on the same bill as Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, who were Ann Arbor based at the time.

A year or two later I ran into Kirchen at a friend's brother's house in Northern CA, and he showed me how to play the 'Hot Rod Lincoln' lick.

True story!

You have great stories, Les. You really should write a book, or better yet, a screen play.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

All my guitars are trash except the white one.

 

[Tonart]

Bang on point, brother!! Rediscovered this tranquil big cat yesterday!