I'm at least a year or maybe more away from my own private stock. I just gave some other priorities to take care of first. Not the least of which is to get to a playing level and frequency to justify the cash outlay. I'm currently chasing technique, not tone. I think about tone and have strong preferences, but as I get slowly better, my personal tone is changing.
I can tell you what it is not. It isn't on the high, thin, ice pick in the ear end of the spectrum. I'm definitely on the fuller, more mellow end. I like the full range of the guitar, from the lows of my new 277 to the highest D on a 22 fretter. But I spend more time below fret 12 than above it.
Yeah, 22 frets. I'm not going to miss that ultra high D# or E. I have some 24 fret guitars if I just have to get there and the bend beyond. The real issue is the location of the neck pup. On a 24 fret guitar, that neck pup is more treble than it would be if it were in the 22 fret position. How much? Enough that even I can tell the difference.
And 24 fret guitars kill the neck pup response to a 9th fret harmonic. That's not just a change in tone for playing the actual harmonic, but that harmonic is sucked out of the overtones for every other note on every string open and fretted through fret 9. Think about that. Every note played is thinner in that harmonic and its multipkles on a 24 fret guitar. For the multiples, it applies even above fret 9.
And I am about the complex harmonics. Overtones, baby!
http://forums.prsguitars.com/threads/22-frets-vs-24.7196/#post-113246
So, look for my PS to be a 22 fretter.
And, I'm just getting started...
EDIT: I'm going to update the specs here as I settle on them.
22 frets
Scale -
Top - figured maple
Body - African ribbon mahogany
Back - African ribbon mahogany
Neck - cocobolo (maybe ziricote, with Peruvian mahogany fallback) gotta love spell check...
Fretboard - cocobolo (ziricote or Madagascar rosewood backup)
Body shape/thickness - McCarty (semi-hollow with one f hole)
Pups - 58/15 (53/10s and archtop so as backups)
Electronics -
Inlays -
I can tell you what it is not. It isn't on the high, thin, ice pick in the ear end of the spectrum. I'm definitely on the fuller, more mellow end. I like the full range of the guitar, from the lows of my new 277 to the highest D on a 22 fretter. But I spend more time below fret 12 than above it.
Yeah, 22 frets. I'm not going to miss that ultra high D# or E. I have some 24 fret guitars if I just have to get there and the bend beyond. The real issue is the location of the neck pup. On a 24 fret guitar, that neck pup is more treble than it would be if it were in the 22 fret position. How much? Enough that even I can tell the difference.
And 24 fret guitars kill the neck pup response to a 9th fret harmonic. That's not just a change in tone for playing the actual harmonic, but that harmonic is sucked out of the overtones for every other note on every string open and fretted through fret 9. Think about that. Every note played is thinner in that harmonic and its multipkles on a 24 fret guitar. For the multiples, it applies even above fret 9.
And I am about the complex harmonics. Overtones, baby!
http://forums.prsguitars.com/threads/22-frets-vs-24.7196/#post-113246
So, look for my PS to be a 22 fretter.
And, I'm just getting started...
EDIT: I'm going to update the specs here as I settle on them.
22 frets
Scale -
Top - figured maple
Body - African ribbon mahogany
Back - African ribbon mahogany
Neck - cocobolo (maybe ziricote, with Peruvian mahogany fallback) gotta love spell check...
Fretboard - cocobolo (ziricote or Madagascar rosewood backup)
Body shape/thickness - McCarty (semi-hollow with one f hole)
Pups - 58/15 (53/10s and archtop so as backups)
Electronics -
Inlays -
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