sollophonic
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Never been that hot on PRS guitars, they have always been a bit too blingy for my tastes, but I have alway had a hankering to get one of their lower end SE models, if nothing else just to have a 25" scale guitar in the arsenal. Been looking around for an SE One or another Singlecut design one.
Then I stumbled across this rather battered 2004 Soapbar one, for a good price. It had a number of issues like a bad ding in the top horn, which had had a chunk of timber taken out of it and crudely stuck back in place.
I looked around for a way of fixing this, then finally resorted to using some Humbrol enamel paint to closely match the body colour. After all I plan this to be a player, so it'll not get baby'ed.
It also had a broken tuner, plus like most guitars it had a generic nut, which hardly made use of the wide neck.
Replaced the tuners with a set of Grovers I had lying around, and put a new bone nut on to use more of that wide/fat neck real-estate.
It also needed a new volume pot, as the old one was cutting out some.
Gave it a good set up, strung it with 11s, set the intonation and pickup heights, swapped the slippy speed knobs for and took it along to band rehearsal, where I intended using it on a couple of songs at first.
Ended up using it for the whole rehearsal, my Tele stayed on its stand.
Really nice little guitar, lovely chunky, wide neck, the P90s are certainly not as soul-less as some folks make them out to be, in fact I found them to be really full sounding, especially the neck one. Nice and light, well balanced and solid feeling too.
I don't know if this is one of the ones produced pre-singlecut lawsuit or not, but although it has had a hard life before me, it plays and sounds good to me.
Then I stumbled across this rather battered 2004 Soapbar one, for a good price. It had a number of issues like a bad ding in the top horn, which had had a chunk of timber taken out of it and crudely stuck back in place.
I looked around for a way of fixing this, then finally resorted to using some Humbrol enamel paint to closely match the body colour. After all I plan this to be a player, so it'll not get baby'ed.
It also had a broken tuner, plus like most guitars it had a generic nut, which hardly made use of the wide neck.
Replaced the tuners with a set of Grovers I had lying around, and put a new bone nut on to use more of that wide/fat neck real-estate.
It also needed a new volume pot, as the old one was cutting out some.
Gave it a good set up, strung it with 11s, set the intonation and pickup heights, swapped the slippy speed knobs for and took it along to band rehearsal, where I intended using it on a couple of songs at first.
Ended up using it for the whole rehearsal, my Tele stayed on its stand.
Really nice little guitar, lovely chunky, wide neck, the P90s are certainly not as soul-less as some folks make them out to be, in fact I found them to be really full sounding, especially the neck one. Nice and light, well balanced and solid feeling too.
I don't know if this is one of the ones produced pre-singlecut lawsuit or not, but although it has had a hard life before me, it plays and sounds good to me.
I love the classics to but my CU24 is priceless!
