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He's taking offers .... I'd offer to have him psychiatrically assessed!
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Destroying guitars bodies that are not up to scratch is really environmentally irresponsible, shame on PRS if that is their business policy.
I admire PRS for putting long-term quality above the short-term profit of selling a 'second'.
"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
I think they would be better making something else out of it rather than scraping it, I would be interested to know how or if they recycle things like that.
I don't really care about their business or if they produce quality guitars or not, quality control is something they should be on top of anyway.
Seeing wood/trees wasted for no reason really annoys me.
Still better value for money than half a bandsawed guitar body though.
Me too, but if you agree with making guitars from wood at all you're already accepting a wastage rate of probably 75-90% from tree to finished instrument - actually made worse by some of the 'environmental' rules... check out how companies are forced to import ebony and rosewood in oversized blanks - guaranteeing a huge waste proportion - if you want to be shocked.
It's even more so with this particular guitar - a PRS Hollowbody is machined from solid, and probably 80% of the internal body wood is routed away even on one which makes it to a finished product. So scrapping this one is throwing away only a few percent of the original trees it came from.
I totally agree that manufacturers should try to avoid wastage, and given the cost of wood I'd be very surprised if they don't, but it can't be prevented entirely - even hand builders occasionally find flaws in wood at a late stage and have no choice but to scrap it.
I just think this one should have ended up where all the other unusable offcuts and shavings go - chipboard factory or whatever. I doubt PRS simply dumps it, even that sort of waste is worth something in bulk.
"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
Paul is well know for saying the guitars he personally makes when he gets chance often don't pass QC and get chopped, at least he did before they used 'made by Paul himself' as a selling point on some more recent models. this must be one of his
I think the practice is a good one, in an ideal world every last square inch of wood would be recycled, but for something like this the most you will get is a few pen blanks. Mahogany pen blanks are not too desirable but the maple ones might be, maybe you get 10 of them from each scrapped guitar with quite a bit of labour to make them usable. Or instead you can give away the scrap as a decorative item on factory tours etc somebody gets a nice but useless gift. There is some value as scrap wood for repairing a PRS but given the age of the instruments in question its not actually hard to find appropriate repair wood
Gibson have done the cutting in half in the past, then they wen't through a stage of marking them with a 2 somewhere as a second and selling them cheaply to staff and locals. now i think they just sell them as stock models Buying a proper old chopped gibson for £200 would be worth it if it had enough wood, binding or inlay that could be used for repairs.
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"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