Why was DC3 discontinued???

[kawaivpc1]

I'm one of the who want DC3 back in core line.
or please offer S2 DC3 at least.

I see Brent Mason signature has similar features of DC3 and NF3 but it's nearly as twice as more expensive than the old DC3.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

They didn't sell well.

 

[garrettb]

To paraphrase Paul: if we stop buying them, they stop making them.

I could see something with three singles fitting into the new bolt-on tier. Also, a properly motivated individual could surely convert an S2 Standard to three singles.

 

[kawaivpc1]

...I want to get one now

 

[Deleted member 5962]

I'll do one better. My suggestion, and I bet this would work, re-introduce the 305 and DC3 but with standard sized pickups. I went in, cash in hand, to buy a 305 thinking it would be my dream strat. PRS feel and playability and 3 SCs! I was not blown away by the pickups and didn't buy it. To be fair, they might be great, but I played them with two amps I was not familiar with. I think PRS has taken some chances with "non-standard sized" pickups and sometimes it just hasn't worked with the players out there. It just freaks some guys out to think they can spend that much on a great guitar, but if they don't love the pickups or even if they do but find something they like better, they can't swap them. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my NF3 and would take it over any strat ever made! But I know from reading at TGP, that guys would play them and love them, but wouldn't buy them because they felt they wouldn't swap pickups easily.

I have three strats and LOVE Jimi and Robin Trower, and play their stuff and other stuff that was played on strats. I "like" all of them (I have three really good strats) but they don't compare to the feel of my PRS guitars. Give me the feel of my NF3 with three single coils that I can replace with standard ones til I find my perfect set, and I'll have two really nice strats for sale tomorrow to fund one!

 

[garrettb]

All it takes on the DC3 and NF3 is a new pickguard.

S2 is a perfect platform for an SSS or HSS guitar, though. Understated aesthetics to appeal to the bling averse folks. The SE trem has the spanky steel block. You could use the same CNC program for the neck and borrow most of the Standard 22 body program. Make it from alder and maple. It would be a killer guitar and compete with the American Standard Strat on price.