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http://www.prsguitars.com/index.php/electrics/s2/s2_standard_24_2017
i missed the double volume controls so have a DGT now.
Il never sell my LP but when playing out I now default to the PRS
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
The prices are astronomical now. For a mass-produced guitar, it's no longer viable IMO. Thankfully, it's a buyer's market in the secondhand world and there are tonnes of beautiful pieces in great condition.
Yeah the core and up are expensive. But everything is expensive these days if it's from the USA.
They're easily as good as anything in terms of quality from the Gibson or Fender Custom shops I've tried though.
I bought a PRS CU22 in 2008 I believe, and I had to sell it in the end. The Dragon 2 pups were a touch too dark and dominant in the mids, the 5 way rotary knob was hard to switch in a hurry, and the wide fat neck was a touch too wide. Also, it was neither as sweet sounding as a Fender nor had the balls of a Gibson.
However, I tried a CU22 Wood Library very recently and ending up buying it because they have solved all the issues I had with it. The 58/15 LT pups are perfect PAF style pups, the neck has been narrowed out in the Pattern carve, and the 5 way blade switch is much better than the rotary knob. Add in the looks, the perfect set-up, the stable trem, the ease of playing, it's the best guitar I own.
I still think the all-mahogany S2s are a decent buy and a solid value, even new, especially if you can wrangle 10% off. The compromises on them aren't really compromises per se, and can be corrected over time if you like, but they are very good guitars for not too much cash (comparatively).
But the classics... damn... unless you REALLY want a particular one...
Fancy tops don't make it sound any better anyway. I've got a 10 top on my CU22 and it's lovely but I actually didn't want a 10 top - it was just the best s/h deal available when I wanted to buy (as it had a few dings on it).
The S2 satins seem like a great deal to me, I don't want any more guitars but if I did want another expensive one I'd consider one for sure.
Mine wasn't NOS, it's 2017. To avoid all the mystic, the simple rule to getting a discount is to avoid going into a store to try to it out and getting trapped into the buy it or don't buy it decision. At that point the sales psychology of the deal is that the price is written on a label and either you can afford it or cannot afford it. You can meekily whimper "What's the best deal you got?" and they might throw in a couple of picks and a new set of strings at your sorry ass. Instead, you need to start with the price, find a pool of potential dealers that are able to discount, and then try the guitars out in store, then leave to negotiate further.
For me, after trawling through all the major stores (and boy do we know them all!) I found the most potential to be from GAK. And the reason is because they do a price matching guarantee where they will aim to not only match but beat a competitor's price. So I trawled around the web for the lowest core guitar possible - NOS, B-stock, it didn't even need to be the same model. I found a 30th anniversary 2015 B-stock CU24 selling at clearance price. I used that as my lever to extract a price beating quote by negotiating over the phone and on their online sales support service. After I got that, I then took that quote to about 5 other stores and said "GAK is willing to sell me a 2017 PRS Wood Library for X discount. What can you do?" Then I took the best offer from that and brought it back to GAK for another round of negotiations.
I played the S2 singlecut standard satin and an S2 standard 24.
My question is about pickup specs and neck profiles.
I'm struggling to find the info I want.
Neck profiles - on the PRS website they list both guitars as having a "Pattern Regular" neck profile.
The singlecut I tried definitely had a chubbier neck, especially near the nut in comparison to the standard 24..
Do the 2 modeals have different profiles in general or is it just variation between different guitars??
Pickups - Both these guitars had different pickups, but I can;t find any info on pickup spec, sound, character or anything for comparison.
Does anyone know??!!
Apparently PRS does a lot of hand sanding of the necks after the CNC process so there are minor variations from guitar to guitar, but here is the official dimensions:
https://prsguitars.com/csc/neckprofiles.html
As for the pickups, the S2 standard 24 has HFS/VB, and the S2 Singlecut Standard has #7. PRS is very coy around the specifications of their pickups, so I'd just go with what you like the sound of.
That would echo my experience - I've owned quite a few PRS guitars, both US core models and S2s, and no two necks have ever felt exactly the same. I'm not saying they vary massively, but I can certainly feel the difference.
Right now I've got three S2s - a Singlecut Standard, Mira and Mira Semi-Hollow - and the neck on the solidbody Mira feels chunkier than the other two (I prefer the Semi-Hollow but I wish it had a fatter neck!).
The necks are are supposed to be identical but the Vela feels a tad chunkier although this could be due to the 24 having a longer neck. I might be mis remembering but PRS don’t change the bridge position for the 24 fret guitars they make the necks a tad longer, maybe this is what’s throwing you off on the neck dimension?
im S2 all the way now , much prefer them to the core models. I’m hoping in 2018 they make an alder body version of the standard 24 with a maple neck and HSS set up.