Yes!! This exactly! And it'd sound different, too, no doubt.
My wife thinks I keep buying the very same guitar, over and over.
"Check this out," I'll say, and open the case of the guitar so that she and her bacteria cloud* can viddy the thing.
"It's beautiful, but didn't you already have that guitar?" she'll ask.
"Well, yes, but not quite in this configuration, with these exact woods and pickups," I'll say. Although there are times when, yes indeed, I did have the very same model in the same configuration and occasionally the same color. Because I'm boring.
I can see only one drawback to PRS making guitars that really look different: I won't be able to sneak one into the house unnoticed if she and her bacteria cloud are in a grumpy mood the day it arrives.
This alone is a good reason to play only PRS guitars and stay off those other fora.
But seriously, these days I look at a Gibson headstock-canoe paddle, with its Rococo pediment, as gigantic and ungainly, and truth be told, I've always thought the Fender headstock, made as it is to look like a violin's headstock twisted into a weird angle, like a cheap copy of the Stauffer/Martin guitar of the early 19th Century, was downright goofy looking.
Seriously, no one thinks your Fender is actually a member of the violin family, in spite of its headstock's massively failed attempt to create such an impression.
The PRS headstock shape with the horns actually mirrors and compliments the sweep of the doublecut body in an artistic way that is consistent with the guitar's blend of traditional and modern design. Only a booger-eating, uneducated Philistine would fail to see that.
Unfortunately, those "other" fora are principally populated with just such Philistines.
*for an explanation of this term, please see the thread on dandyism and guitars elsewhere on this forum.
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