Whelp, I Got It

[Agileguy]

Well, I sold of my beloved Music Man Y2D last week in order to buy a new guitar. It's always a risk, selling one to pay for another that you haven't tried... but I felt confident that the brand I was buying wouldn't let me down. And I was right.



Interestingly, it's not incredibly different from my CE24. The main difference is the 25" mahogany set neck over the 25.5" maple screwed on neck, and a wraparound bridge over a vibrato bridge. But those differences are huge in terms of the end product.

Beyond that, this guitar is just better than the CE24. I hate to admit it, but it is. It's a damn fine instrument. I can't even really believe how good it is. It may be the best playing guitar I've ever owned. The neck plays incredibly fast. I don't know what shape it is, but it's nice and fat, a nice change of pace for me. Most all of my guitars up to this point have had necks on the skinnier side. It will take some getting used to, but I like it. The intonation is spot on with 11's, and the action is low without being too low, and with no buzz. A+

It sounds good with the stock McCarty pickups, but I've got a set of Whole Lotta Humbuckers that will really make this guitar scream. (Those pickups are actually why I got the guitar, I won them and needed something to put them in) The coil split positions sound really nice. There's a great amount of versatility in this guitar considering how simple it is. Oh and for those keeping track, this is my third PRS in as many months. It will be my last for a long time, though.

Anyway, on to pictures! The top on this guitar - which is a single piece, by the way - is on the subtle side when you're looking right at it, but from the side it really comes alive. I tried to capture that, but I'm no photographer.








And a PRS family shot, just for fun:

[Dr. Vegetable]

That's a frickin' beauty right there.

Rawk out!

[LesStrat]

Nice.

[CTN]

Attaboy. That looks like sex.

Now write music with it, you bitch :P

[beaubrummels]

Really nice McCarty. Enjoy dat.

[Agileguy]

Thanks guys. It's an absolutely superb guitar. It's funny - out of all of the guitars I've bought in the last year and a half, I feel like outside of the baritone PRS, which I bought only because it does something that few other guitars on the market can, each one of my guitars has been better than the last. The Music Man was better than my other guitars, the CE24 was better than the Music Man, and the McCarty is better than the CE24. I hope that the D'avanzo keeps with this tradition, although it will be pretty hard to top this McCarty.

[misterwhizzy]

Can I have it?

[ExplorersRock]

Jordan my only complaint is your making me want a PRS. STOP IT! PLEASE! My wife will kill me if I try to buy one right now!


Sweet axe by the way

[lreese]

Let me see if I can help. :p

[Agileguy]

Can I have it?

You don't want to know what you need to do to get it.

Jordan my only complaint is your making me want a PRS. STOP IT! PLEASE! My wife will kill me if I try to buy one right now!

Sweet axe by the way

What can I say, PRS guitars just have that incredible quality that makes you want them. Now that I've got two USA PRS, I can say for sure that I don't get why anybody would say these things lack mojo or are lifeless. Yeah, the stock pickups on the older models aren't the greatest, but even just playing it unplugged it feels right to me like few other guitars do.

Let me see if I can help. :p

Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about.