We Moved The SAS Needle

There is a typo in the blurb at the top of the page. It says it has a mahogany neck. Farther down in the specs it says maple with a rosewood fretboard.

The vintage natural is the only finish I care for that they make it in. I like the 5 way switching better than the three way on the SE. I never understood why they used the older 3 way on the SE. I guess this kind of explains it. My core SAS is the first year for the 5 way and I prefer that over the older switching they had before that.
 
Not a Core, unfortunately. For the price, I’d rather buy an old Core.

If they had gone with a body-matching veneer on the headstock, it would have been a killer look.
I realize being the geriatric age that I am, I'm from the old school when "Core" wasn't a thing. CE's and such were the exact same as the set-in neck models, only bolt-on. Paul made that point in their videos. Things have definitely changed over the decades!

I think "Core" was a term invented by internet peeps, and it was used so much the factory finally adopted it too.

Anyway, I like the new models, but maybe not enough to "call my guy" yet.
 
Damm, I've been dreaming of basically this guitar ever since they reissued the CE.

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I realize being the geriatric age that I am, I'm from the old school when "Core" wasn't a thing. CE's and such were the exact same as the set-in neck models, only bolt-on. Paul made that point in their videos. Things have definitely changed over the decades!

I think "Core" was a term invented by internet peeps, and it was used so much the factory finally adopted it too.

Anyway, I like the new models, but maybe not enough to "call my guy" yet.
From what I remember from videos and reading interviews the term "Core" was actually a factory term that got out to the public. It wasn't ever intended to be something us mere mortals would use. It was a term they used internally to differentiate the line they were talking about.
 
that Natural is sweet
Damn. That sounds a lot 'more Laz' than the swamp ash Tele I recently bought for a project. I even like it better than my former Special Semi Hollow Artist with the same electronics.

Why is my life so screwed up... <--- that's a rhetorical question, not to be answered.
 
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