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2nd I would decide on the pick up, do you want 57/08, 85/15, Dragons, 59/09 etc.
Then let colours, 10-tops be whatever that pops up as these don't affect playability except their price. If it has a dent, missing tags, it's in your benefit to argue some price off. If you want a specific colour then of course you can wait. The good thing is PRS market usually have good to mint conditions as people know condition dictates it's value more than other brands.
The newer 5 blade approach is better of course, which wasnt available when I bought mine, and as far as I'm aware does capture the Strat like inbetween tones well but I've not played one.
The toggle switch + pull-switch gives you six sounds vs. five on the rotary, including the outer neck single coil which is the 'Strat neck pickup' sound - but not the inner coils in parallel, which is the 'Strat in-between' one... at least on the 24s, it's not anywhere near as good on the 22s, so the rotary is more useful on the 24s and the toggle is more useful on the 22s. On the rotary, all the sounds are hum-cancelling, whereas on the toggle the two single coils of each pickup alone sounds aren't.
The newer lever switch version appears to split just one pickup in each of the 2 and 4 positions, so they're not perfectly Strat-like and aren't hum-cancelling, but I haven't played one either yet so I don't know how close they are.
The annoying thing is that none of them are easy to modify to give a different set of sounds, if those are what you want - although you could do it by replacing the rotary with an open-frame type, the lever switch with a Superswitch, or the toggle by adding a second push-pull.
"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
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I'm with you, I prefer the in-between and middle tones off of the rotary switch - though not the earliest version, with the cocked-wah middle position!
The 5-way blade switch versions offer a slightly different take again on these tones, but still pretty usable. Given the choice I would go for one of these and re-wire with a megaswitch it to match the rotary coil selection instead.
https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/prs/35th-anniversary/?Ordering=1&InStockOnly=True&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184407278099
Too high, right? I wouldn't be after a case queen (don't mind a few dinks in places), but given the condition and age that strikes me as a bit optimistic...
And I agree, not sure why it has Klusons, i know some people like them, i do too, but i think on a PRS they feel wrong, especially a Custom 24.
In the condition this one’s in it shouldn’t get more than £1200 imo, absolute max.
This one looks like a much better proposition;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133552841143
Yes I saw that one and thought the other vendor will probably struggle a bit...
Definitely room for haggle just for that, those cases are not cheap..i mean if you are going to haggle with missing tags, a case replacement is like £200.