Seen the new PRS ad?

Whitecat

RaymondLin said:

Two and a half years in the making?  What did they do for 912 days?

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/81440766/what-if-we-made-the-headstock-like-backwards.jpg

Strat54

RaymondLin said:

Two and a half years in the making?  What did they do for 912 days?

Leo and the guys did it from scratch in less time.....just sayin'

DrBob

Strat54 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MYYyXQV-WE

How many takes do you think they had to do before they managed a clean one where no one said the “S” word ? 

antonyiv

It looks like a strat copy, offered by Ali Baba. I love PRS but this type of guitars should not be produced by them.

Nf3 and USA EG (maybe even the Johnny Hiland) models were in the same strat territory but had their typical PRS character. 

dindude

It’s growing on me. I actually quite like all of the bespoke little hardware variations. Tun8ng keys, trust cover, trem, knobs, jack plate. All very subtle, and likely of no real benefit, but more effort has gone into this than just another straight boutique relic jobbie

GuyR

The match between body & neck reminds me of a suit jacket, shirt and tie worn with a pair of jeans. Just looks wrong, but I have no doubt it will play and sound great.

guitargeek62

clarkefan said:

Whitecat said:

Ok, for clarity, the £2475 is for the "launch edition" which includes the hardshell case. It's £2299 otherwise. But my video comment still stands.

What, you don't get a case with a guitar costing 2.3k?

Or, you do but not the one with go - faster stripes, which cost 176 quid more?

Losing respect for Mr Smith.

To be fair to Mayer & Smith, if I were ever fortunate enough to warrant a signature guitar then I wouldn’t spec it with a hardcase either - a good quality gigbag gets more use and offers more value in my experience, ymmv.

guitargeek62

Couple of extra thoughts too:

I like the design - it’s far from ground-breaking, but it’s just far enough from the original to fall out of the uncanny valley, or to look like a Suhr/TA copy either. If anything it reminds me of an Ibanez-take on a strat, with the new headstock being similarly proportioned to their SZ series.

I also like the new tuners, knobs, and the smaller birds, etc; and I’m sure the guitar is going to play and sound fantastic.

On a less positive note, I echo the other comments about the price being too high. I’d rather have seen an S2 version if possible - even if they blurred the S2 ideologies and used USA-made pickups / hardware, perhaps just on the launch run or something. Still, they’ll sell out easily enough, and I do hope we get an S2 or SE model later on if sales are strong enough.

thegummy

If there was a PRS SE Strat available when I bought my Strat, there's no doubt I'd have bought it.

I might be in the minority there mind you.

beed84

What is it with guitarists and guitar companies lately? Anyone would think he has Bonamassa in his blood and PRS have been brainwashed by Gibson.

Fifty9

I like it 

TwoSpellWizard

vincechu89

TwoSpellWizard said:

I somehow like this more than the Silver Sky... would laugh my ass off if this got released

vincechu89

I dont think the Silver Sky looks too bad, i agree that it should have been a little cheaper, sub £2k would have been about right especially as the strat type guitar market is getting saturated with the Ibanez AZ and Music Man Cutlass.

I won’t be buying the Silver Sky as I have a Suhr, but I think competition is only going to be good for us as consumers.

guitargeek62

Not gonna lie - the more I look at it, the more I like it. Here’s to hoping you all (continue to) hate them and I can pick up a used/clearout bargain

DrBob

guitargeek62 said:

Not gonna lie - the more I look at it, the more I like it. Here’s to hoping you all (continue to) hate them and I can pick up a used/clearout bargain

Dibs !

Not really but form dictates ! 

Musicman20

It just seems incredibly plain. I don't want the usual PRS bling, but it's very dull.

That Fender Roasted Earth actually look decent ahahahahahha!

chrishill901

I prefer the look of the old SE EG:

 http://davesguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/D09786-1000x696.jpg

It does the strat thing but has confident in PRS design... would have preferred something more like this! 

I just think it's expensive for what it is. Surely a CE24, that have been selling for £1500 new, takes more to make than one of these because of the finishes and tops? I would have expected it no more than CE24 prices, around £1899 at the most. I guess its the Mayer affiliation...

ICBM

chrishill901 said:

I prefer the look of the old SE EG:

 http://davesguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/D09786-1000x696.jpg

It does the strat thing but has confident in PRS design... would have preferred something more like this!

Exactly.

Mooster

I'm a bit disappointed with PRS on this one. Whilst Fender and Gibson have been swimming in nostalgia, I always thought that PRS was making tweaks here and there, constantly changing and refining his guitars so they would not go stale and swim in the past. Things like the 513s, Narrowfields, Custom 24/08, etc. And then they go after a strat replica. I think it's more that JM wanted a strat copy but it's not their finest moment.