What’s your opinion on using a Private Stock as a main instrument?

[Utkarsh]

I play my PSs with my band all the time. Mostly my custom spec 594 trem piezo but have gigged the Graveyard II (albeit in a 5 star hotel for a private event )
They are great instruments and just hanging them on the wall is unfulfilled potential

 

[Utkarsh]

Also realised my profile pic is me gigging a PS cu24 fatback I used to own

 

[Dedalus]

It really irks me when someone with a pickup truck is overly concerned about putting a few 2x4s in the back because they're worried about scratches. Use the item as it was intended!

 

[Deleted member 5962]

Play it like you stole it!
(Yeah, that's just me talking to myself...again).

BUT to each his own.

Listen to this man. He sounds like he has experience at this.

 

[Tonart]

Playing for me is all about the music that’s in my head, so I don’t need a PS for that. My main is a Paul’s SE and it already has enough X factor on it. Also, simply owning and seeing my PS in pristine condition makes me happier than playing them. I can’t fight the math.

 

[Chops]

Yes!!!

 

[JasonE]

If you are not going to play it, don't buy it. I have a number of one off guitars and low number of builds as well as one I had custom built by another very well known company and I play them all. I have gigged every one of them. I am very careful with them but am not afraid to take any of them on stage and give it a workout.

 

[markie]

Do it!

This……

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I hope he plays both kinds of music. Country AND Western.

https://imgur.com/KbE9qcu

 

[HoovHead]

It really irks me when someone with a pickup truck is overly concerned about putting a few 2x4s in the back because they're worried about scratches. Use the item as it was intended!

Yes, I hear you--that's why I'm using mine as intended. \m/

 

[HoovHead]

I agree with using it. It is going to take a hit and you have to be OK with that. But you were like right on stage! Isn’t that what it’s really all about?

Yes, it is. Guitars have two conditions: those that have scratches, and those that will be scratched!

 

[HoovHead]

It's a guitar and its purpose is to help one make music. I think it is a shame when an excellently crafted tool does not get used for their intended purpose. Of course I don't have a PS and if I did I'd be very nervous about taking it out to the local dive bar. My 594 does make occasional appearances at the local dives.

I do have a "sacrificial lamb" for gigs at Bob's Country Bunker type dives!

 

[Tony M.]

I do not own a Private Stock PRS.
I do however own some very nice guitars.
I gig with each and every one of them.
Nobody gets left out.
Nobody.

 

[HoovHead]

Why not?

As long as you can accept any battle scars as part of your journey and memories together and not 'worry' about the financial costs (or losses) then why not?

They are built to be played as a main instrument, whether the customer plays them or puts them on the wall as 'art'. There is no reason NOT to play unless you are buying as an investment or art-piece in which case,the closer to 'As New', unplayed condition the more 'valuable' it could be but otherwise, play it!!!

Excellent point. Investment in guitars or other instruments can be tricky. I always planned to play this one--so less than MINT was always in my calculation.

 

[Toolmaster Of Brainerd]

If I had a private stock, it would be going back to PRS within a year for a refret.

 

[Barquentine]

I can't afford private stock but I couldn't own a great guitar without gigging it although I would probably cry for a long time if anything serious happened to it beyond the usual battle scars.

 

[rickcard71]

If I am spec'ing out a guitar with everything I want and spending $8k plus I am expecting it to me my main guitar. If it wasn't, I either have money to burn (which I don't) or I would be unhappy with what the guitar feels or sounds like.

 

[ScottR]

I do have a "sacrificial lamb" for gigs at Bob's Country Bunker type dives!

Yeah any place that has the words "country & bunker" in the name needs a "sacrificial lamb" and quite possibly...a tetanus shot.

 

[Moondog Wily]

The man whose guitar is worth more to him un-played, is not a guitar player (caveats are applicable however) ;~))

These are not holy relics (and even if they were, you should play them anyway IMO)! Obviously, live gigs are going to introduce elements that can have detrimental effects on your prized git fiddles (smoke, spilled drinks, drunks tripping over stuff and falling into it, bass player tripping on cord and knocking it off stand, thieves, etc.) but if it is the guitar that feels best for a given situation, you gotta do it!!! Great new score (looking forward to the NGD even though I have already seen it and lusted for it on first offer from CME) and cheers to many more!!!

 

[aphantomvaper]

Definitely play out with it! Its what it was built for.