Lewguitar
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I haven't been able to buy anything big for myself in a long, long time. Money's been tight as I had to take an early retirement and I'm on disability. We're doing all right and our house is paid for, but we just haven't had much left over for fun stuff.
I used to collect comics, and although I completely lost interest in them about 40 years ago, I've been saving them all of this time. Over the last month or two I've been selling them on Ebay and made enough to get the PRS I've been jonesing for and starting threads about here on the forum. Got a great deal. Came without a nice case but after buying a new PRS case from Sweetwater I still have less than a grand into it.
And here it is:
As it says in the neck pickup rout, it's a January 31, 1995 PRS Custom 22. And I spent the better part of today putting new pickups and new controls in it, so now it looks like this:
I kind of like the new look. Although I liked the old look too. Came with PRS Dragon pickups. I like the tone of the new double cream pickups more, but I kind of miss the single coil tones I used to get with the original wiring. I've had these alnico 2 double creams for about 10 or 15 years...used to have them in a nice Les Paul.
It's a great guitar. Plays like a dream. Very lively sounding both plugged in and unplugged.
I had a PRS CE-24 for a while but this Custom 22 sounds different. Both had that nice "bounce" that I like in a guitar, but the CE-24 had a bolt on maple neck. This Custom 22 has a mahogany neck that's glued in.
Plus, the neck pickup is in the "right" place on the Custom 22, with the second octave harmonic over the neck pickup screw poles like it is on my ES-335 and my Fender guitars. The neck pickup on my CE-24 was moved an inch closer to the bridge pickup to allow for the 23rd and 24th frets and I was never happy with tone of the neck pickup.
Anyways - what 'cha think? Do you like it with the original black PRS Dragon pickups or these double creams? I like it both ways!
I used to collect comics, and although I completely lost interest in them about 40 years ago, I've been saving them all of this time. Over the last month or two I've been selling them on Ebay and made enough to get the PRS I've been jonesing for and starting threads about here on the forum. Got a great deal. Came without a nice case but after buying a new PRS case from Sweetwater I still have less than a grand into it.
And here it is:
As it says in the neck pickup rout, it's a January 31, 1995 PRS Custom 22. And I spent the better part of today putting new pickups and new controls in it, so now it looks like this:
I kind of like the new look. Although I liked the old look too. Came with PRS Dragon pickups. I like the tone of the new double cream pickups more, but I kind of miss the single coil tones I used to get with the original wiring. I've had these alnico 2 double creams for about 10 or 15 years...used to have them in a nice Les Paul.
It's a great guitar. Plays like a dream. Very lively sounding both plugged in and unplugged.
I had a PRS CE-24 for a while but this Custom 22 sounds different. Both had that nice "bounce" that I like in a guitar, but the CE-24 had a bolt on maple neck. This Custom 22 has a mahogany neck that's glued in.
Plus, the neck pickup is in the "right" place on the Custom 22, with the second octave harmonic over the neck pickup screw poles like it is on my ES-335 and my Fender guitars. The neck pickup on my CE-24 was moved an inch closer to the bridge pickup to allow for the 23rd and 24th frets and I was never happy with tone of the neck pickup.
Anyways - what 'cha think? Do you like it with the original black PRS Dragon pickups or these double creams? I like it both ways!
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