SOLD 1988 PRS 24 Pre Factory Brazilian Rosewood neck.

cf1988

£1700
Vintage Yellow
Brazilian rosewood Neck
Staring the pickup cavity that indicates it was worked on by early PRS employee Mike Deeley
Excellent condition. One or two tiny dings on the headstock
Original Case
moon inlays 

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TTony

cf1988 said:

I do have pics but have no idea how to upload them on here 

Read the "how to post pics" guide??

guitargeek62

Going by the price I can only assume you mean a BRW fingerboard, not neck?

richardhomer

guitargeek62 said:

Going by the price I can only assume you mean a BRW fingerboard, not neck?

And pre-factory move, rather than pre-factory?

bgmartinsbridge

I'm always amused by the pre factory debate.
Sweet switch guitars are generally termed pre-factory as post this date they went to mass production. However, they were still produced in a smaller, I guess, factory prior to this date.

Don't know when prs produced them in his shed? Anyone clarify? 

fretfinder

bgmartinsbridge said:

I'm always amused by the pre factory debate.
Sweet switch guitars are generally termed pre-factory as post this date they went to mass production. However, they were still produced in a smaller, I guess, factory prior to this date.

Don't know when prs produced them in his shed? Anyone clarify? 

The launch of the company PRS and the move into the first factory was 1985 I believe. 

bgmartinsbridge

That's the bit I don't get. So if the company launched in 85 and was in a factory, then surely there are no pre-factory guitars....?

Or is it that prs pre-factory simply refers to non mass produced prs before they went into a big factory environment?? 

cf1988

Pre factory change I think it means 

cf1988

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richardhomer

bgmartinsbridge said:

That's the bit I don't get. So if the company launched in 85 and was in a factory, then surely there are no pre-factory guitars....?

Or is it that prs pre-factory simply refers to non mass produced prs before they went into a big factory environment?? 

Paul Smith was hand building guitars with minimal assistance from others in a small workshop from somewhere in the mid-70s. These (such as the first guitars Carlos Santana received from him) are ‘pre-factory’ and are highly collectible. 

As @fretfinder said - mass production started in 1985 with the launch of the PRS company. Though early ‘production’ guitars are collectible, they don’t bring the same money as the hand built ones from prior to the company’s launch.

In the mid-90s, production moved to a larger, more technically advanced facility (CNCs rather than Duplicarvers, etc).

This is used as another demarcation line by dealers - ‘pre-factory move’ became ‘a thing’. Which is odd - because generally consistency improved in the newer factory.

So an ‘88 PRS comes from the first factory.

Sorry to be a pedant!

Dodge

^ This.

Either way, an 80's PRS Custom in vintage yellow is the archetypal model.

Strat54

Lovely guitar, you're almost tempting me to offer up my Custom Shop '54 Strat  

https://youtu.be/Yc9rnI1xQGc

cf1988

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veldt666

What neck profileis your PRS?

cf1988

Not too sure mate I'm not up to speed with the prs shapes. I guess it's not too wide it's sort of reminds me of a 59 les Paul shape threats the best way I can describe it 

Strat54

Would be a regular carve in 1988.

cf1988

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