It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
A lot of PRSs are currently very cheap for their quality, especially if you like fancy tops
Intellectually, I known I should shop for the specific guitar, not for the price, and that cheaper instruments may well be better. Being confronted with the reality is quite stark, though.
The fact is companies charge what they think the market will stand.
The factory in Mexico is closer to Fullerton than Scottsdale is!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
B.) I think you were being slightly facetious . As you well know Scottsdale is Fender's admin centre, the guitars are made in Corona which is 21 miles from Fullerton.
Ensenada is 149 miles away.
I also didn't mention that the original Fender workers at Fullerton were mostly Mexicans .
I don't know what the current workforce is like, but it wouldn't surprise me if they still are...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The reason being, guitar makers purposely spec their overseas output at a lower grade to their home built stuff or people would be comparing them too much.
I would imagine the Fender strata goes something like:
Custom shop
USA
Mexico/Japan
Other far east.
And the prices along with them.
All very playable. After pickup height and polepiece adjustments, the sounds were fairly similar. The Asian machineheads and control electronics were a let down. Ultimately, the American guitar had more finesse.
I choose replacement pickups by a combination of prior experience and good ol' trial and error.
Definitely. The Jin-Ho items are not good enough, no matter which way you tie the strings around the tuner posts. The S2 ones are not massively better.
The other weak item on SE models is the vibrato sustain block. Zinc?
And the control electronics?
This just sounds like stuff people say, I've seen it a hundred times. But when I play the guitar I don't see these faults. They just sound like things to justify ideas rather than realities.
After buying USA strats, LPs and 335s,
my main guitars are now not Fenders or Gibsons, they are Anderson and Suhr S and T shapes, and PRS solid and hollowbodies (and a Ibanez signature hollowbody)
I have bought Fender pawnshop and blacktop guitars over the last few years. The Blacktop had such a serious defect I got a partial refund from Fender, the USA pawnshop was OK, the Japanese pawnshop was (and still is) great
I personally rate Fender as not close to Anderson and Suhr, and Gibson miles behind PRS
If you don't like the bling, start with the plainer Anderson and Suhr guitars, plenty turn up used over 6-12 months
I bought an indonesian made guitar, and replaced the pickups and added a Warmoth neck, it was my main instrument for more than 2 years, leaving my expensive ones to get dusty. Trouble is, you will have normally paid a lot by the time you add pickups and a neck unless you are patient and wait for used ones
To me it often feels smaller than the stuff on PRS Core, Gibson and Fender.
That and Metric hardware...
Win a Cort G250 SE Guitar in our Guitar Bomb Free UK Giveaway