is PRS really worth the $2,000???

I was just shopping around and im possibly gonna get more money from my job so im gonna save up for a guitar and money isnt really a prob now. so what would be the best guitar for my money, say $2,000? I want a PRS but are they really worth the 2 grand? I live in a very low populated area and have no place to try one out so i need some advice. thanx for your time.


Shredder.

I got a 2001 CE24 6 months ago.
I paid 1650 USD for it in Iowa.
Is it worth it....... yes with out a doubt !
I reviewed it on Harmony Central recently

Im glad I didn't get the custom 24 with the dove inlays (only appreciable difference) as Im more bothered about the way the axe plays and sounds as opposed to looks.

It is by a very long way the nicest guitar I have ever played and though I say it my self I have played some nice ones in the past (i.e. LAG, Gordon Smith, Overwater etc etc). As for all the moaning about the "heel from hell" I think this rumor was probably started to force up prices of pre- 95 PRSs. I have never had a problem with the heel even playing high Ds and Es.

they are great guitars...gibson makes a les paul model that is double cut away (standard), which is also nice, for about $600 bucks less than PRS.

Its called the Gibson Les Paul Standard Double Cut Plus...I got mine for $1095 at music123.com due to a price match. Very nice Deal!

Originally posted by shredder_moon
I want a PRS but are they really worth the 2 grand? I live in a very low populated area and have no place to try one out so i need some advice.

If it is THE perfect guitar for you, then, yeah, 2000$ is worth it.
But since you can't try one out, how will you ever know?

i dont know if it is THE guitar for me or not but i can buy it and if i dont like it i can always sell it if i need to. thats the only thing about where i live i hate it.

dr.simon what do you mean by the "heal of hell"? ive never heard of it.

PRS guitars are no longer made by hand, but they are still charging the "made by hand" prices....Id get a Carvin instead...they are made in the US the same way PRS guitars are and cost thousands less.

Listen to Alex Lifeson's Guitar solo on "Cut to the Chase" from Counterparts (artists+Rush), that's tone to kill for and that's a PRS. Santana Loves 'em too. Now ask yourself two questions:

1) how much you'd have to shell out on an amp and effects unit to justify that quality.
2) how much better would you feel (and perhaps consequently play) if you went on a holiday somewhere warm and mellow?

I remember when I bought myself a Gallien Kreuger amp second hand after I'd played only 3 years. Frankly I felt upstaged by my own amp! It was almost embarrasing! I take it from the fact that you're considering that sort of expense that you are either:

a) filthy rich
b) **** hot

The expression "Heel from hell" I think is an Ed Roman -isum describing the large heel at the bass of the neck where the neck meets the body. It is larger on PRS guitars made after 95 and I for one have never noticed it impeding my playing even bending up to high F#

Check out :
http://www.edromanguitars.com/guitar/prs/heel_prs.htm

I have never met Ed Roman so if my opinion is just wrong, well forgive. However, from his online stuff, he strikes me as a very shrewd individual who is also very opinionated.

Nothing wrong with that, providing you know your stuff and he isn't trying to see you something !


[Edited by Dr_simon on 12-09-2002 at 09:46 PM]

I am neither S%^$ hot or filthy rich and don’t regret one of the several pennies I spent on my PRS. Instead of owning a car, I take the buss and spend the money on musical stuff. Good for the environment to !

I play the PRS everyday and really enjoy it, and after all enjoying it is what it is all about !

I wonder what the cost of a PRS is if you think of it in terms of $/ day of enjoyment. Time spent playing the PRS is considerably cheaper than time spent in a bar !
There is a thought eh ! And at the end of it, well you have a guitar instead of a shocking hangover, an embarrassed feeling and a list of people to apologize to...or worse !

I think I am showing my age !

im not rich but im getting more hours at work. I'm only 16 but i play every day and ive been playing for nearly 11 years, so that was since i was 5. I do believe that if ive played for that long and have kept playing i will keep on playing I plan on making it a career. so i do believe the guitar is worth it.

not sure if you posted this, but what model are you going for?

im going hopefully for a mc carty model if not that then i will look for a CE or a Custom of some sort. I really want a hollow body but im not to sure how much those are.

Originally posted by Dr_simon
I am neither S%^$ hot or filthy rich and don’t regret one of the several pennies I spent on my PRS. Instead of owning a car, I take the buss and spend the money on musical stuff. Good for the environment to !

I play the PRS everyday and really enjoy it, and after all enjoying it is what it is all about !

I wonder what the cost of a PRS is if you think of it in terms of $/ day of enjoyment. Time spent playing the PRS is considerably cheaper than time spent in a bar !
There is a thought eh ! And at the end of it, well you have a guitar instead of a shocking hangover, an embarrassed feeling and a list of people to apologize to...or worse !

I think I am showing my age !

If you are showing your age then I think my own death is impending... I totally agree with every word you wrote! Scary. I can't drive but i've long said that if I did I'd spend more money on a guitar and I cycle everywhere, it's better for me and the environment. Having bought a new guitar recently I wondered how I could justify the expenditure to busy bodies in my family and the drug/alcohol comparison occured to me too!

I currently have a 2001 custom 22, and I love it. It is the best sounding and best playing guitar I've ever played. I payed around $1800 for it, and let me tell you, it was and still is worth every penny of it. Right now it has the 5 way rotary switch, which I plan to get changed to a 3-way toggle switch, and if possible have my pickups set up with a coil tap or whatever it's called so I can use them as single coil pickups also. It is a great all around guitar for any style you play.

Don't think Im knocking Ed Roman, as I said I have never even met the dude !
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i play just about any style rock,metal,blues i hate country (no offense to anyone who does) but besides that i play everything but contry. I'm just looking for a guitar with good playability and good tone. Id like one with a floyd rose but their hard to change strings on and they thin the tone out in a guitar so im sticking with a tremelo or a fixed bridge. but its always been my "thing" to get a PRS one day just to have one. Even if i dont like it i will most likely keep it and get a guitar i do like.

I think that,like in the way we view very many things,determining a guitar's worth depends to a very large extent on factors like how and where we we're brought and live and stuff like that.
As a typical Kenyan(and I'm that,in a rough sense),paying $2000 for a guitar is abweirsane(that's absurd+weird+insane).Coz in this country half the population lives on less than a dollar a day,a fact that I'm sure antiglobalization millitants would well expound upon.If say I won some prize somewhere for the equivalent of $2000 and spent that money on aguitar and an amp,my very staunch christian family would temporarily ditch their religion and hook me up with a witchdoctor for specialized intercession.
But speaking as a wannabe musician,I'm convinced it's worth paying that kind of money for a guitar(generally that range of $1000-2000).Not necessarily a PRS,but a guitar.As of the particular attributes that would make me value a specific guitar,that I think depends largely on the individual's state,degree of in/misinformation and so on.
So there.
Cavefish:
Not liking something is your right.You shouldn't have to apologise for it,because you don't have to like something just coz others like it,and thus have to make apologies for not "fitting in",in as much as human beings are social animals.
And btw,I LOVE country.
Another thing,what difference does it make if an instrument is hand made or machine made?As I ask this,I'm thinking that walking to the supermarket(yes,we too have those around here)takes me a lot more time riding a bicycle does.Think hand made Vs. macine made.

Originally posted by PonyOne
...Oh and just for the record.. if I had 2g's I'd probably get a Warmoth custom, and then take the rest and buy kingdavid something and an amp and express it to him in Kenya.

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