New PRS SE Narrowfield

carlos

Boring and ugly

PAL

Another winner. The SE NF53 can't be far off !

Alun

Nice to see something a bit different in the SE line for once. Really like the look of these but not sure I can justify buying one, sadly!

Jez6345789

As a PRS fan I find a certain Irony in the SE version of this as I remember PRS with all their Strat variants over the years moaning a little at one of his meet and greet events no matter how good a Strat style guitar we make nobody really gets them. Well until the Silver Sky LOL

I really liked the NF3 and there is some great shots of Jimmy Herring playing one at the factory and I like those pickups. A different flavour to traditional single coils. 

So may have to go on the Christmas list 

timmypix

The first demo I saw of this was the video of Paul himself where he makes a big fuss about "these don't sound *like* a single coil - this is just a single coil sound".

Proceeds to play and it doesn't sound like a single coil.

StefB

You'll all be kicking yourselves for not buying my non-birds Core model for £875 back in September 2015 now - https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/49968/sold-prs-nf-3/p1

I wish I'd never let that one go with hindsight, one of many, but I did manage to plug the gap with a nice sunburst, rosewood neck model a couple of years back, the third one I've owned.  Great guitars, a Swiss army knife for the covers band player.

Musicman20

Interesting release. I can see them being £599 by Xmas!

stonevibe

The bridge saddles look all over the place in this official photo.

Well wonky!

StefB

stonevibe said:

The bridge saddles look all over the place in this official photo.

Well wonky!

The bridge doesn't look like its been fitted straight to my eye. 

Huge bugbear of mine and I've had to return a couple of Far Eastern made guitars because of this, and a US Fender Cabronita Tele.  Once you see it you can't unsee it.

Strat54

Just thinking out aloud here but does anyone else get the feeling that Paul is setting up the business in readiness for his retirement? The SE and S2 lines will both happily function without much input from him and that is where they seem to be concentrating their energies just producing SE versions of older models. The Core guitars are pretty much set up and even he said that the Custom had gone as far as he could take it. Just a thought. 

RaymondLin

Strat54 said:

Just thinking out aloud here but does anyone else get the feeling that Paul is setting up the business in readiness for his retirement? The SE and S2 lines will both happily function without much input from him and that is where they seem to be concentrating their energies just producing SE versions of older models. The Core guitars are pretty much set up and even he said that the Custom had gone as far as he could take it. Just a thought. 

No doubt it has crossed his mind.  It's only natural to think about what he is going to leave behind and put in place things that will keep the company going the best that he can.  

As for the guitar, not for me, I mean it's nice to have more options but I don't think this is it.  It is very hard to get away from a Fender Mex Strat for this kind of money as your 1st Strat IMO.

Gilly

RaymondLin said:

It is very hard to get away from a Fender Mex Strat for this kind of money as your 1st Strat IMO.

I bet I can guess which will be the better guitar.

Chimpankie

They developed the SE bolt on for the Silver Sky and by golly they’re going to squeeze every drop of extra revenue out of it they can  kind of curious but was bit underwhelmed by the Ewald demo and he normally makes everything sound brilliant 

Headphones

Anyone actually seen one?

grungebob

I loved the two SE silver Skys I had. The neck was fantastic and the pickups were great if a tad polite. 

They both had to go as they hurt my shoulder. If after surgery I get the improvement I hope for then one of these could do me nicely. 

I’ve owned loads of EG’s over the years but the necks on those were very unstable. These with their different heel would be great. 

I’d wait till Christmas mind and get one for £599. 

Either blue or orange with a maple neck for me. 

chris78

Strat54 said:

Just thinking out aloud here but does anyone else get the feeling that Paul is setting up the business in readiness for his retirement? The SE and S2 lines will both happily function without much input from him and that is where they seem to be concentrating their energies just producing SE versions of older models. The Core guitars are pretty much set up and even he said that the Custom had gone as far as he could take it. Just a thought. 

They’re certainly not innovating as they were.
Last time they did something new was the tci pickups. 5 years ago maybe?
Yes I know there have been new models, but they aren’t bringing anything new to the party and often relaunching old ideas.

Tall_martin

Strat54 said:

Just thinking out aloud here but does anyone else get the feeling that Paul is setting up the business in readiness for his retirement? The SE and S2 lines will both happily function without much input from him and that is where they seem to be concentrating their energies just producing SE versions of older models. The Core guitars are pretty much set up and even he said that the Custom had gone as far as he could take it. Just a thought. 

No doubt it has crossed his mind.  It's only natural to think about what he is going to leave behind and put in place things that will keep the company going the best that he can.  

As for the guitar, not for me, I mean it's nice to have more options but I don't think this is it.  It is very hard to get away from a Fender Mex Strat for this kind of money as your 1st Strat IMO

He seems quite happy controling everything. Each new thing comes from him. From his public persona, he IS PRS. No named master builders, the super fancy guitars are sometimes signed by him- not the person who actually made it.

I think he will be in control in some form of PRS until death or dementia.

Offset

For those of you who are interested, Trogly has just posted a review of one.  I do like that metallic orange finish and it looks better in his video than it does in the pics posted earlier in this thread.  I also think it sounded pretty good too but I cannot do that headstock!  

StefB

Offset said:

I also think it sounded pretty good too but I cannot do that headstock!  

What sort of headstock would like right on a PRS do you think @Offset?

After all these years I think they'd look silly with anything else personally.

Offset

StefB said:

Offset said:

I also think it sounded pretty good too but I cannot do that headstock!  

What sort of headstock would like right on a PRS do you think @Offset?

After all these years I think they'd look silly with anything else personally.

Here goes, but don't expect logic :-)

A three-a-side headstock looks completely wrong on a Strat body to me I'm afraid.  I just cannot get my head around it and it would grate every time I looked at it.  Yes, it's PRS's trademark look and I can accept it on their other models - but not a Strat-esque one.