If you're going to pay to have it done right. I'd wait until they offered a finish I want. PRS refins aren't cheap. If rather deal with hazing and clouding over the disappointment of a meh to me finish.
Personally I love solid finishes on a PRS. Black guitars are like black cars. Love em when new and clean, otherwise not so much. Wasn't a goldtop guy until I got my SC58. Now I get it. White guitars are sexy, but never owned antique to say one way or the other.
If cobalt smokeburst is drawing you in.. there's your answer for door number two.
Well I am kind of looking at it this way.
The finish i really want, which started this whole obsession, is Silver Metal Flake. The only way I am getting that is going to a custom guitar refinisher. But that brings its own set of woes. No preserving logo's, no preserving serial numbers, trusting that i will get my guitar back before i am too old to enjoy it lol. I have read some horror stories out there.
So I decided i want PRS to handle this. Which now leaves me to a more limited color selection to choose from.
So I said ok how about Platinum Metallic, then that was shot down.
Now could i wait until PRS releases a color that smacks me in the face and says yes, this is the color? I could, but who knows how long that could be.
So I could sit on this hazy lack luster finish i have now and hope that something comes out. ( it is much hazier than it looks in the picture i posted, MUCH!)
Or i could select from the already available finishes.
The already available finishes are really nice, and truthfully none of them are disappointing finishes. But at the same time, none of them are going to give me that same wow factor as the original finish that started me on this journey, being Silver Metal Flake.
What keeps making me hesitate is, as i said in a previous post. There is just no way to know how mine will come out. How much variation there could possibly be from the colors I am seeing of photos of the same finish. Every guitar is different, every piece of wood is going to take finish differently. I would just hate to order a purple mist finish, get it and it look nothing like the colors I saw in photo's. If I knew mine was going to look just like it looks on their site than i would probably be more likely to jump.
Long winded response iknow...
This is just kinda helping me talk this out with myself, lol