Originally posted by GuitarDoc
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I remember getting used to the PRS rotary quite quickly back in '87.
Of course, I loved that first PRS so much that I didn't play anything else for awhile.
One thing is, a pickup switch is something one uses pretty frequently.
I see Varitone rather differently - you leave it through a whole song, or you just drop it on once in a while.
But you aren't going back & forth on it as often.
One of my best friends just got a '68 ES-345; he'd wanted for years to snag one from the 60s.
He had a few troublesome frets taken care of and put new nylon saddles on its ABS-1.
I drove to Woodstock yesterday to play, and had a chance to check it out briefly.
The guitar plays really nicely despite action set lower than I prefer.
Beautiful warm sound, kinda surprising from T-tops.
And I have to say the VariTone is kind of a blast.
I think it'd be more useful in than I imagined.
The only time I ever owned a VariTone guitar was in the 70s, and back then I hardly ever used the VariTone on it.
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