Why is the PRS Stoptail so rare?

[Mentalo87]

What abomination do we have here

 

[Gtrbldr]

I love the single piece stop tail. Simple, elegant, stable and sounds and plays phenomenal IMO.

The cool thing with the stoptail is the neck angle it comes with. Nobody ever mentions it (so I will), but it makes the 22 DC model with HT so extremely comfortable to play relative to other trem equipped PRSi. Granted, they play very fine as well, but the stoptail is a notch above. Imo of course

 

[dogrocketp]

Double Cut, bolt on maple neck, all hog body or hog body with maple cap, H-H and fixed bridge would do it.

You are right, obviously there are a lot of fixed bridge models which were not in my focus.

Double Cut, bolt on maple neck, all hog body or hog body with maple cap, H-H and fixed bridge would do it.

You are right, obviously there are a lot of fixed bridge models which were not in my focus.

Isn’t that called the Dusty Waring?

 

[HANGAR18]

Looks like I get to offer up the dissenting opinion here.
I don't want a 22 fret fingerboard with a chunky-fat neck!
YES, PRS stop-tail bridges on 24 fret models are rare!
This has long been my second* biggest pet peeve with PRS Guitars.

I would love it if PRS still offered the Custom 24 model (or Cu24-08) with a stoptail bridge.
Do you know how often I use a whammy bar? Never!
There was a time when they would give you the option to order a Custom 24 with or without a stoptail bridge but that was before my time.
I want my string heights to be set at "4 & 3"** but I can't get the strings that low with a tremolo bridge.

So I keep buying Custom 24's because all the other qualities of the Custom 24 model (light, thin, comfortable, playable, appearance etc.) far outweigh the brand and model of guitar that was once my "preferred" brand/model. So then PRS looks at their metrics and thinks that because I'm buying Cu24's with tremolo bridges, that I must prefer them because I'm clearly not buying Cu24's with fixed bridges... because they don't make them.

Well now I'm stuck with six Cu24's with tremolo bridges because even if PRS started making them tomorrow with fixed bridges, I have WAY too much money tied up in these guitars and I'd never be able to sell them for what I have into them for the purpose of buying six new guitars with fixed bridges... especially since the price of guitars has literally doubled since I first bought the guitars I have now when they were brand new.


* First big pet peeve with PRS is that they don't have a Flying V.
** 4/64th of an inch as measured from the top of the 12th fret to the underside of the low E string AND 3/64th of an inch from the top of the 12th fret to the underside of the high E string. Actually, I want that same measurement at the 2nd fret too. I want the strings to have the same exact height all the way down the fingerboard and not get higher as you go to the 24th fret. That's MY definition of "low action"

 

[Gtrbldr]

Looks like I get to offer up the dissenting opinion here.
I don't want a 22 fret fingerboard with a chunky-fat neck!
YES, PRS stop-tail bridges on 24 fret models are rare!
This has long been my second* biggest pet peeve with PRS Guitars.

I would love it if PRS still offered the Custom 24 model (or Cu24-08) with a stoptail bridge.
Do you know how often I use a whammy bar? Never!
There was a time when they would give you the option to order a Custom 24 with or without a stoptail bridge but that was before my time.
I want my string heights to be set at "4 & 3"** but I can't get the strings that low with a tremolo bridge.

So I keep buying Custom 24's because all the other qualities of the Custom 24 model (light, thin, comfortable, playable, appearance etc.) far outweigh the brand and model of guitar that was once my "preferred" brand/model. So then PRS looks at their metrics and thinks that because I'm buying Cu24's with tremolo bridges, that I must prefer them because I'm clearly not buying Cu24's with fixed bridges... because they don't make them.

Well now I'm stuck with six Cu24's with tremolo bridges because even if PRS started making them tomorrow with fixed bridges, I have WAY too much money tied up in these guitars and I'd never be able to sell them for what I have into them for the purpose of buying six new guitars with fixed bridges... especially since the price of guitars has literally doubled since I first bought the guitars I have now when they were brand new.


* First big pet peeve with PRS is that they don't have a Flying V.
** 4/64th of an inch as measured from the top of the 12th fret to the underside of the low E string AND 3/64th of an inch from the top of the 12th fret to the underside of the high E string. Actually, I want that same measurement at the 2nd fret too. I want the strings to have the same exact height all the way down the fingerboard and not get higher as you go to the 24th fret. That's MY definition of "low action"

There are wide thin CU22s with stoptail. Mine has.

But if you are set on a 24 fret model:

≥ Paul Reed Smith custom 24 private stock (prs) — Snaarinstrumenten | Gitaren | Elektrisch — Marktplaats

Na heel veel nadenken en toch wel een beetje met pijn in het hart ga ik mijn Prs weg doen...Hij heeft geen krassen of deuken dus ook geen "buckleware"

www.marktplaats.nl

 

[bodia]

Isn’t that called the Dusty Waring?

It sure is