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I'm 100% behind PRS with the early EG models, DC3, NF3 and 305's as well as the new breed of S2 models - But IMO they have got this one seriously wrong
But I do completely get the idea that PRS would like to show what a Strat is according to thier philosophy.
Level of spite? If Gibson had made this we'd be on page 6,327 of the thread by now, hell gibson can get it more wrong by releasing a guitar in a non traditional colour.
I don't think it does, the suhr and Anderson headstock is basically a point, I don't think it looks like it follows the strat design, part of that though is because you're used to seeing the Fender headstock on a strat, so anything other than that looks odd.
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- the Brent Mason was the latest semi- strat type and is a fantastic guitar .....all they needed to do was swap the outer hum buckers for a single coil option and call it a John Mayer instead of the lesser known Brent Mason but that would not have got past the marketing director.
Aesthetics aren't everything ..........my mates wife is ugly but she's fantastic in bed !
All strat clones from serious builders are good looking, quality guitars and if the neck profile was right, I know I’d enjoy playing.
Any takers? No?
The one I like most in that department is the Pensa headstock, which is like the Suhr one but a little less insipid:
https://thumbs.static-thomann.de/thumb/bdbmagic/pics/bdb/387783/12551271_800.jpg
Looks better on the Brent Mason which to me is a Strat copy.
The press pic dosen't help - it's so dull in white.
My thing is it's just a bit dull... Another strat. (and I like a strat)
I get why smaller makers copy Les Pauls and Strats as it's hard to get people to buy something different by someone they've never heard of.
All that said... it's a signature guitar then John Mayer can have what he wants... and if he fell out with Fender then I guess that's a good a call as any. He also has the SuperEagle - which is a 'proper PRS' - albeit a f**king expensive one.
JM fans will buy it - the old #gayformayer thing. I don't mind Mayer - he's a good player some of his songs make me cringe but the John Mayer Trio stuff is a good listen. He's got that pretty boy problem (I'm sure he doesn't care see it as a problem).
I'm not into signature guitars so I don't get that excited about these things. But I do have a Johnny Marr Jag as its great version of a Jag and I like what Annie Clarke did with the St. Vincent - a guitar that people praise and from everything I've read is great.
It looks like a fat Art Deco penguin.
Or Hercule Poirot.
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ICBM took the words out of my mouth ... makes the Gibson Jimi Hendrix model look tasteful, and I never thought I'd say that.
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