That’s clearly a minority opinion. Taylors outsell most other US-made acoustic guitars, and all of them, including their most expensive, have necks with scarf joints at the headstock and at the heel. So if you think that will hinder the guitar’s sales, you may be in for a surprise.
You can buy lots of very nice guitars for a fraction of the price of a US PRS. Always could. If PRS guitars weren’t worth it, we’d all be wasting bandwidth somewhere else, instead of on a PRS site.
The guitar is coming in at a MAP that’s a fraction of the MAP of the Core guitars. It has US hardware and pickups as well. So something’s gotta give to meet the price point.
Regardless of any of these “issues,” there’s no rational explanation for the vitriol we’ve seen.
None of the folks who’ve expressed their dearly held opinions has so much as examined or touched one of these guitars. Maybe it’d be a good idea for folks to do that before spouting off.
My guess is that the guitars will sell well, and there will be lots of the usual, “I never thought I’d buy one of these because I’m not a fan of [insert favorite complaint here], but here’s a pic of my new Silver Sky.”
That’s what happened after the hubbub died down with the SE line, the S2s, the SC, the 594, etc., etc. People love to rag on PRS.
