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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 5, 2022 12:07:37 GMT -5
They give away two SEs every month in a drawing for all employees that have perfect attendance. My attendance has been perfect since I started a year ago, and March was my lucky month. This is an unusual guitar in that it's a normal mahogany body with a maple cap, but like some of Gibson's Les Pauls from the early/mid 70s it has a maple set neck. These guitars commonly have a mahogany neck. The neck has a beefy feel but it's not a baseball bat. The fretwork on the rosewood board is superb. It has two humbuckers and a three-way switch; the pickups sound fine for what they are, but they're a teensy bit too powerful for my taste. I probably won't swap them out. One volume and one tone, which when pulled splits the pickup coils. It has standard tuners, a graphite nut, and a cast 6-screw vibrato bridge that stays in remarkably good tuning even when wanking on the wigglestick. All PRS SEs come to the MD factory from PRS's Indonesia Cor-Tek facility for inspection and setup before they go out to dealers. Guitars with minor cosmetic flaws that cannot be easily repaired are pulled from shipping and they are what go into the 'perfect attendance' bin. This one has a very tiny burn-through in the base coat. We send dealers only the perfectest stuff. Here's a pic of it on a padded downdraft table. It's pretty stunning.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 5, 2022 12:24:39 GMT -5
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Post by Leftee on Apr 5, 2022 12:34:22 GMT -5
Wow! Very cool!
Has it been a year already?!?
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 5, 2022 12:38:28 GMT -5
Yeah. Time flies!
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Post by Jim622 on Apr 5, 2022 12:46:09 GMT -5
Nice! Congrats, now you can take a sick day.
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Post by Larry Madsen on Apr 5, 2022 13:17:35 GMT -5
Very nice Geno.
And a great work perk.
We got a day off for prefect attendance over six months. Two days per year possible.
Took it away with The Covid fiasco.
Hopefully we get it back.
Congratulations on a year on the PRS job. 😀
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Apr 5, 2022 13:19:54 GMT -5
Wow, what a perk! It's a beaut too.
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Post by LeftyMeister on Apr 5, 2022 13:36:32 GMT -5
That's pretty cool! Not many people get those kinda fringe bennies at their place of employment.
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Post by Cal-Woody on Apr 5, 2022 19:37:47 GMT -5
Maybe it was named after Bonnie Raitt? You know her flaming red hair. It is a pretty sweet looking guitar and the maple is neck should be really stable also. I've always wondered about the trems that PRS puts on their guitars and how well they work and how well they return to pitch. I've never had a double cut LP style humbucker equipped guitar with a vibrato and that has what made me shy away from a lot of PRS guitars. Your report makes me want to maybe give one another chance. I know their tuners are good quality but do these have locking type on it? That is one sweet looking guit-fiddle, enjoy and hope to hear more about it. And I have found that a lot of their pickups are on the bright side with a lot of upper mids, does this one share those same traits? I have played a few high dollar PRS's and even with the high price tag, I felt that the pickups were lacking a full sound. It's a good thing when you are on the neck pickup but the treble pickup was really thin sounding. Because it was a high priced guitar, I thought it would have been more balanced in the sound. I guess I'm so used to Les Paul's, I'm a little more picky and thought that guitar would be more inline with the same tonal traits. Ok, I'm rambling and hope you do enjoy your guitar! Woody
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Post by Riff Twang on Apr 5, 2022 22:22:27 GMT -5
Congrats. Very few things are better than winning a guitar just for perfect attendance. Good on you PRS.
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Post by rickyguitar on Apr 5, 2022 22:50:49 GMT -5
Wow. Congratulations, very cool. I have an SE. It is pretty nice. I had to give money for mine.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 6, 2022 0:33:52 GMT -5
Nice! Congrats, now you can take a sick day. I AM taking a sick day on Wednesday...just becuz!
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Apr 6, 2022 10:03:52 GMT -5
What Peegoo isn't telling us is that the lights aren't actually on in that room.... the guitar top IS the light source.
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Post by walshb 🦒 on Apr 6, 2022 10:34:39 GMT -5
I got a Movado watch when I retired from my last job. (sigh)
That guitar looks awesome!
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 6, 2022 13:50:15 GMT -5
And I have found that a lot of their pickups are on the bright side with a lot of upper mids, does this one share those same traits? I have played a few high dollar PRS's and even with the high price tag, I felt that the pickups were lacking a full sound. Most PRS pickups do tend to be bright sounding; I think it's a deliberate design feature to keep them from getting muddy when rolled off. The tuners are non-locking cast units. I have a few guitars with lockers (including three US PRS Custom 22s), and a bunch without. I can take or leave lockers...they really don't make that much of a difference to me.
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Post by Stinger22 on Apr 6, 2022 20:13:18 GMT -5
NICE, hope you enjoy as much as I have been enjoying my SE 24-08. My first PSR and highly impressed with it.
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Post by Stinger22 on Apr 6, 2022 20:17:42 GMT -5
The tuners are non-locking cast units. I have a few guitars with lockers (including three US PRS Custom 22s), and a bunch without. I can take or leave lockers...they really don't make that much of a difference to me. I retro fit my Fenders if they don't come with and retro fitted my PRS. I have liked them since the first I ever had and I'm not even a whammy bar player. YMMV.
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Apr 6, 2022 20:40:00 GMT -5
I've noticed for a long time that PRS pickups are pretty bright, and a bit strident. They're well made... but not for me. I think Paul just has different ears and tastes than me. They sound okay to me when other people play them, though.
That's the beauty of an SE (or Epiphone, or Squier, etc).... you don't have to lose sleep over ripping parts out!
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 7, 2022 0:12:11 GMT -5
I'm really not a vibrato bridge guy either. I have Strats and other guitars with Bigsbys, and even a Charvel Model IV 'stunt guitar' with a Floyd that I pull out for recordings that need goofy monkey moves. About the only time I regularly use a vibrato is for surfy stuff like this: Click: soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14149614
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 7, 2022 0:25:26 GMT -5
I've noticed for a long time that PRS pickups are pretty bright, and a bit strident. They're well made... but not for me. I think Paul just has different ears and tastes than me. They sound okay to me when other people play them, though. That's the beauty of an SE (or Epiphone, or Squier, etc).... you don't have to lose sleep over ripping parts out! I'm guessing here, but I think it may be related to how guitars sit in a mix better when the upper mids are boosted. Many years ago, following a gig where my guitar's tone was killin' and cutting through without being overly loud, I wrote down my amp settings and gave it a spin at home. And my tone sounded like Roy Buchanan: ear-piercingly strident. Unfortunately I didn't have his chops too. That aside, I learned something important that day. Fortunately most all guitars have a tone control to reign in those high frequencies when playing by oneself. I usually have a little chuckle when I hear players complain about how Telecasters are too twangy
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Post by Sharkie on Apr 7, 2022 7:07:08 GMT -5
That’s quite an employer to recognize their employees in such a generous way. Congrats and well deserved PG!
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Post by Taildragger on Apr 7, 2022 9:06:14 GMT -5
I got an enamel lapel pin for perfect attendance.
Your prize is better on account of I don't have any lapels...
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Post by markfromhawaii on Apr 7, 2022 10:57:43 GMT -5
Very nice. Congratulations!
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Post by rickyguitar on Apr 7, 2022 11:46:29 GMT -5
Am employer of mine offered a $700 bonus for perfect attendance, including never late. There was an accident on the highway outside the place that made me 15 or so minutes late. It was held against me so I didn't get it (actually 3 of us were caught in it). The next year I did not even try.
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Post by zenland on Apr 7, 2022 14:23:34 GMT -5
Sweet! Congrats!
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Post by LeftyMeister on Apr 7, 2022 18:03:00 GMT -5
I just thought of something. Is there room on this board for two pink guitars? Where's Piney?
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 8, 2022 11:33:37 GMT -5
There's always room for pink!
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Post by HenryJ on Apr 9, 2022 10:40:13 GMT -5
Congratulations! Nice guitar. If someone gave my a pink PRS SE 24 I would never turn it down. Those are great-sounding guitars.
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Post by LTB on Apr 20, 2022 0:22:10 GMT -5
Maybe it was named after Bonnie Raitt? You know her flaming red hair. It is a pretty sweet looking guitar and the maple is neck should be really stable also. I've always wondered about the trems that PRS puts on their guitars and how well they work and how well they return to pitch. I've never had a double cut LP style humbucker equipped guitar with a vibrato and that has what made me shy away from a lot of PRS guitars. Your report makes me want to maybe give one another chance. I know their tuners are good quality but do these have locking type on it? That is one sweet looking guit-fiddle, enjoy and hope to hear more about it. And I have found that a lot of their pickups are on the bright side with a lot of upper mids, does this one share those same traits? I have played a few high dollar PRS's and even with the high price tag, I felt that the pickups were lacking a full sound. It's a good thing when you are on the neck pickup but the treble pickup was really thin sounding. Because it was a high priced guitar, I thought it would have been more balanced in the sound. I guess I'm so used to Les Paul's, I'm a little more picky and thought that guitar would be more inline with the same tonal traits. Ok, I'm rambling and hope you do enjoy your guitar! Woody Cal, a friend of mine had 2 American made PRS guitars and said the trem on them was very stable and it stayed in tune. Not sure about the SE's
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 21, 2022 1:18:55 GMT -5
It stays in tune very well, better than any of my Strats.
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