My father in law is rationalising his PRS collection and has asked me to sell the following:
2005 Custom 22 (Mint, all stock, cased, all case candy, hang tags) in some sort of sunburst with birds and trem. Signed 'To Mike' by PRS on the backplate.
2008 Al D (Mint bar a ding on the back edge, all stock, cased, case candy, hang tags) in the awful weird prism burst or whatever they call it. Signed 'To Mike' by PRS on the backplate.
2007 Johnny Hiland (Mint, all stock, cased,, all case candy, hang tags) in a black burst. Signed 'To Mike' by Johnny Hiland on the backplate
The only recent sale I've found is for a green Hiland in similar condition for £1600. Any ideas if that's around the going rate and ideas on the others?
Cheers.
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World Guitars very recently sold an Al Di Meola Prism for about £2750, I think. That should be a ballpark figure for you to work from, although in a private sale buyers might not expect to pay as much.
Custom 22s are odd. Some days they seem to fetch good money, other days they don't, I've seen a couple recently make less than a grand. They don't seem to fetch as much as Custom 24s so perhaps look at used values of Custom 24 instruments and knock a bit off? They seem to sell anywhere between £1000 and £1400 realistically, depending on spec and condition.
The Johnny Hiland model is probably the hardest to value. I personally wouldn't have a clue, but £1600 seems high to me.
Disclaimer - I'm certainly no expert so I could be way off, take the above with a pinch of salt and if in doubt take a look at what similar guitars fetch on eBay's completed listings.
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Its partly about timing and if the right buyers happens to be looking but I’ve also seen all of those models hang around unsold for a fair while.
That's subjective. In terms of tone then it should be, with a shorter, stiffer neck and the neck pickup in the "right" place.
However, I've never understood PRS' mentality when it comes to the differences between the Cu22 and Cu24. On the 22 you can have the wide-thin or wide-fat neck profiles, not the regular. On the 24 you can have the regular or wide-thin, not the wide-fat. That might have changed in recent years but it was like that for ages, they've also renamed the neck profiles too, so don't know if that's broadened the options available.
Also, why that stupid, huge, ugly heel on the 22? It's already got a shorter, stiffer neck - if anything the heel on the 24 should be longer to stiffen the neck a bit, but that has a relatively much shorter heel than the 22.
If I were buying one I'd choose the 24, simply because it has the neck option I want and is more comfortable to play at the higher frets without that stupid great big heel.
That's all only my own personal opinion though.
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