Hmmmm...

HarrySeven

First, this appears at £649.99 BiN:

This PRS Santana is a bit of a Frannkenstein..I picked up the guitar body/neck only from a Guitar shop called The Rock Shop, West Edmonton Mall,
Edmonton Alberta Canada, when I went to visit my cousin earlier on this year. It was propped up on a guitar stand at the back of the shop, so I made an offer for it and brought it home.
I haven't got a clue why it had been stripped of the essentials, when I asked about it one guy said "  it's been there for ages". Actually nobody seemed to WHY it was there..So last month I decided to put the guitar together.
The guitar has been completely rewired, all the cavities have been coated with non conductive paint and the bottom of the control cavity has 2mm copper sheeting and is extensivley screened.
The pickups that I have used are Ibanez INF3 and INF4 which I have used bsically because I had them in stock, they're powerfull and can be coil tapped,
which I've done by using a Push/Pull on the tone control knob.
I've installed a brand new set of Grovers to keep them in tune and a
 PRS Tremolo bridge has ben used.
The frets hve been skimmed and polished which affords a very low action and the intonation has been set, It's gor Ernie Ball 9's on.
The Serial number is 10168389 .
The Private Stock number is- 1932 dated- 4.27.09
The headstock is has the Paul Read Smith signiture and another sgniture which I can't make out and the control Plate has the Carlos Santana Signiture and has the number LTD 032 on it

Feel free to ask any questions


Then it ends and reappears at £279 BiN with a new description which is minus all the PRS references:

The guitar has been completely rewired, all the cavities have been coated with non conductive paint and the bottom of the control cavity has 2mm copper sheeting and is extensivley screened.
The pickups that I have used are Ibanez INF3 and INF4 which I have used bsically because I had them in stock, they're powerfull and can be coil tapped,
which I've done by using a Push/Pull on the tone control knob.
I've installed a brand new set of Grovers to keep them in tune

The frets hve been skimmed and polished which affords a very low action and the intonation has been set, It's gor Ernie Ball 9's on.


Feel free to ask any questions

chrisj1602

Looks like an Ali express job to me.

HarrySeven

Indeed...

DefaultM

I'm sure it won't be real but they've done a nice job with the handwriting on the back of the headstock.

Chalky

Was tempted by these when I bought my Chibsons. Price was about 150.

Nomad

Had a look at the Santana Signature page at PRS...

http://www.prsguitars.com/santana/

Differences I noticed on the eBay offering...

The amount that the fretboard extends past the 24th fret is longer.
The chamfer in the upper horn is lacking flame maple.
The amount that the flat area of the heel extends from the body is much shorter.
Headstock bird logo looks wrong - no claws at the bottom.
Truss rod cover logo looks like the abalone stuff on the Ali Express one linked below rather than something plainer on the real PRS.

The serial number is consistent with 2010, but the April 2009 private stock date implies it lay around for several months before being serialised - don't know how realistic that is.

The upper horn chamfer looks suspiciously like the one on this...

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/HOT-Wholesale-Newest-Santana-Brazilian-prs-yellow-Electric-Guitar-24-frets-high-quality-in-stock-free/32439048673.html

Unorthodox

chrisj1602 said:

Looks like an Ali express job to me.

Hah, started looking up some guitars on Aliexpress and found this monstrosity

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/PRS-Bass-and-guitar/32388196010.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_1,searchweb201644_4_79_78_77_82_80_62_81,searchweb201560_8

 

thermionic

So, who feels free enough to ask him the obvious question?

HarrySeven

Here's another item from the same seller...

Flink_Poyd

HarrySeven said:

Here's another item from the same seller...

Check his feedback, theres a few for @MattFGBI to ponder over.

mart

Unorthodox said:

chrisj1602 said:

Looks like an Ali express job to me.

Hah, started looking up some guitars on Aliexpress and found this monstrosity

...

Gah, that's horrible! I mean, who'd make a bass with the wrong number of strings!?

MattFGBI

Flink_Poyd said:

HarrySeven said:

Here's another item from the same seller...

Check his feedback, theres a few for @MattFGBI to ponder over.

Thanks.