Help Me With My GAS!

Help Me With My GAS!

  • Modern Carve, Matching Headstock (S2 Custom 24)

    Votes: 4 23.5%

  • Vintage Carve, Black Headstock (CE24)

    Votes: 13 76.5%
  • Total voters
    17
Masta' C

Masta' C

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HELP!

I'm gassing for one of these PRS guitars and can't decide...it's between a CE24 and an S2 Custom 24 in the same exact finish.

These are very comparable guitars (at their relative price points). Both USA-made, same "Pattern Thin" neck profile, same hardware, import vs USA versions of the same "85/15" pickups, etc).

The biggest differences visually are the top carve (modern bevels vs classic contours) and the headstock color (body matching vs black).

I'm not picky about bolt-on vs set-neck or maple vs mahogany necks...both have their merits. I'm also not a stickler for "tradition" simply for tradition's sake.

From a purely aesthetic/cosmetic/curb appeal standpoint, which one looks "better" to you?
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DankStar said:
Ideal would be vintage carve, matching headstock
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"Ideal" would be a CE24 with an ebony fretboard, proper Core series hardware, and actual MOP inlays instead of the boring white plastic inlays PRS uses on their mid-level instruments, but none of these are options here...
 
I prefer the vintage carve. The gold logo looks way better than the black one I think. Don't care for the switch position on the vintage carve, but that stuff doesn't really bother me
 
I'm not a PRS guy, but I like the black headstock better, somehow the matching headstock looks cheaper to me. Vintage carve is cool too. Bottom one all the way.
 
Modern carve and matching headstock and blade switch looks cheap and more utilitarian to me, the other one starts to encroach on blues lawyer territory though. This isn't to be derogatory, I think they both look good I prefer the second.
 
I like the 3-way toggle better, personally...

Other than that... pick and choose, man. They both look fantastic, and I'm sure both sound and play great.

I don't mind the black headstock. But that color is fantastic, so the matching headstock looks great too. However, the black headstock also looks great with the black pickups and the dark fretboard.

All of the best-sounding guitars I've owned have had Mahogany bodies, Maple necks, and Rosewood boards, so in that sense, I'd go for the CE.
 
I vote Modern Carve Matching Headstock.

In that color, the carve, the headstock, and the blade switch all say "I'm a little something extra" than the standard PRS.

And if that isn't a 5 way with for cool options, I'd get it worked that way.
And, I would then move to black locking tuners and a black bridge...

The $1700 seals the deal for me.
 
That color looks a lot better with the edgier lines of the modern carve. The finish just pops. You also don't get that color on the body and settle for a boring black headstock. So, modern carve, matching headstock.
 
those import 85/15 dont sound as good as the usa models to my ears.

i like the vintage carve better than modern
 
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