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In my 10+ year annals of gear acquisition, I've piked up a lot of gear that hasn't been discussed much in the gone 6 months of blogging here. So I reflection it would be interesting to revisit some of the "older" array I've got--stuff that has stood the ordeal of time and will (most probable) not be sold anytime in a short time--and provide a bit of view on it... why I got it to take rise with, what I like about it, why I port't sold it (yet), etc.


When I first got into PRSi back in 2004, the 24-fretters were what originally caught my consideration... I had been strapping back & forth between hot-rodded Ibanez RG's and old-institute Les Paul's and thought the Custom 24's would bear a bit of the best of both worlds. So I started by picking up the four Custom 24's below, then in due succession started arborescence out into other PRS models in the following months.

Several of the guitars have had electronic modifications made to them, either pickup swaps or direction (knob/rod) reconfiguration. So what's been reconfigured? On the PRSi with 5-way whirling switches, I "optimize" the controls for my individual playing phraseology. I tend to use the pickup selector more not seldom than the volume and/or note knobs while playing. So I do a bit of a circular-robin... put the whirling switch in the primary volume pot locality, put the volume pot in the first tone pot station, and put the tone pot in the pristine rotary twig position. I find it easier to put in good trim pickup combinations "on the fly" with this sway setup, whle still acquisition to the volume & sound knobs easily enough when I strait to. For PRSi with 3-way switches, I liberty them in the stock positions with the pickup selector rod behind the bridge.



Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 #1 - This...

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