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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2022 11:58:28 GMT -6
Can anyone send me an outline of a PRS guitar?
Santana kind of guitar body.
Thanks! EB
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Post by dnic on Dec 31, 2022 7:32:08 GMT -6
No got buddy. Sorry
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Post by antares on Dec 31, 2022 7:54:15 GMT -6
I don't have any guitar profiles / outlines whatever save that of my own that I can trace around. Can't help there Eddie.
Dane had a pattern for a guitar once for which he paid good money to a Limey outfit, and IIRC it was not actually very accurate at all. I suspect that it may have been generated from an online image and scaled to suit. If there's any truth in that I reckon with your printing background you could probably do at least as well. Any full screen image on at least a 17"-19" screen would work and leave you the debatable joy of working out the requisite cavity routing?
Whatever, I can't visualise the Chinese knock-off bandits having sufficient in the bill to purchase a genuine item to copy, so I reckon that's their modus operandi.
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Dec 31, 2022 8:45:27 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2022 12:53:39 GMT -6
Thanks all! I was only needing an outline of one. But I may end up getting the templates. EB
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2023 11:54:03 GMT -6
I found a free drawing of the PRS guitar body and neck. Now I have to go somewhere and have it enlarged to full size.
A friend of mine told me that he was wanting me to make a PRS guitar. He and I were a fan of PRS guitar way back when he used to make them by hand in his shop. Back then, you would have to wait 2 years to have one built.
My friend took me to a huge guitar store in San Bernardino, CA. There in that store was the biggest collection of guitars I had ever seen. They had one wall of PRS guitars. On the floor, they had a PRS demo guitar. It was all black and had what they were calling sound chambers in the body. It was a lite guitar. Back then, I only had my 71 LP.
I plugged that guitar into a Crate amp (small one) My friend picked up another guitar and plugged into a small amp. He and I played some blues and the whole shop stopped to listen to us play. We got done playing and got this huge round of applause from all the people that were there. (and there were a lot of them)
The owner of the store came over and told us that we were a breath of fresh air. He said (while a kid was playing some metal) that is what we hear all day long. So to hear what we did was a big deal to the owner and to the other sales people and customers there. People would walk up to us a shake our hand, and many would ask if we were famous. LOL!
So the store owner had gotten this long later out and went to the top of the wall where they kept the expensive guitars. He handed me this PRS guitar that was out of this world, gorges! The cost of that guitar was $5,000 dollars at that time. But wow, what a nice guitar. It was made like the one I had been playing on, but, it had a flame burst top with matching head stock. I did play that guitar and fell in love with it. I like it so much I almost traded my LP for it.
Since that time I wanted a PRS guitar. So let fast-forward to today. In later years, I have now had 4 PRS guitars. All of them were nice guitars, but nothing like that one I had held in my hands so many years ago. None of the ones I have owned had the same MOJO of that first PRS guitar. They didn't even feel close neck wise or even sound as good as that one from the early years.
Now, I don't know if I can even get close to that one PRS, but I guess I can try. I don't know if I will even build this guitar. Right now, it's all in my thoughts and dreams. I would need to find some nice flame maple and some nice mahogany to even think about getting the feel of that first PRS. Then I need to find out (if I can, find out what pickups he used back then)
I used to have a picture of the sound chambers that were in that guitar. So I'll need to look online to see if I can that picture. I don't think I still have it. But I may get out all my old CDs where I backed up my computers from years ago. I have hundreds of files saved on CD. LOL!
So that is where this is at. I hope you all liked my story. Like I said, it may not ever come into being. I know is I cannot afford a custom shop PRS guitar. So I would have to make it myself.
EB
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Post by dnic on Jan 3, 2023 15:40:31 GMT -6
Good story Eddie. From all I've read about PRS it's like he's chasing the LP sound. Starting with the mag/maple combo. Mag neck and all. I've never liked the 4 knob layout LP uses so a PRS would be a nice choice. I set up and played several PRS guitars and they have all been very nice.
Good luck on this build. It would be great if you could do it.
PS, I also like the lighter weight and double cut of the typical PRS.
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Post by antares on Jan 3, 2023 15:46:29 GMT -6
Maybe that was a PRS "Private Stock" guitar Eddie? PRS guitars have never floated my boat, at least visually. I guess to play one is to understand. Looking briefly at the market always reinforces the feeling that bass players are much more open to new ideas that six string slingers.
Kudos for getting those plaudits back then too. I've never tasted that!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2023 9:40:43 GMT -6
Maybe that was a PRS "Private Stock" guitar Eddie? PRS guitars have never floated my boat, at least visually. I guess to play one is to understand. Looking briefly at the market always reinforces the feeling that bass players are much more open to new ideas that six string slingers. Kudos for getting those plaudits back then too. I've never tasted that! でつ e&oe ...Back in that day when I first saw and played a PRS as far as I know there was no "private stock" They were all made by hand and if you wanted something other than what was already on the wall you had to order it then wait 2 years. PRS was the only one making the guitars at that time. If I remember, it was at that store that the PRS was even being offered. PRS was not being made in a factory. I don't remember seeing PRS guitars anywhere else at the time.
I even asked for them at other music stores at that time, and most had not even heard of PRS. All I do know is I have never played another one like the one I had in my hands that day. I have wished many times that I could go back in time and figure out a way that I could have gotten it without trading my LP for it. By the way the owner said he would have given me the PRS plus cash or anything else I wanted in the store for my LP custom. I think that is why I didn't do anything as far as making a deal. I thought that if he was willing to do all that for my LP the LP must be worth more than he was letting me know. HUm... Or he just wanted my LP. LOL!
Dane, I like two knobs as well. I may go back to the two knobs on my future builds. I also like going without a tone pot. Having two volumes works for me. I still like a switch in there, but can live without that in most cases. If you all know me at all, I like things to be clean and simple. The only thing I think I would change on the PRS is the placement of the two knobs and switch.
I would like to see if I could pull this build off. But only time will tell. EB
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2023 10:59:59 GMT -6
Here is the PRS like I played. This is an 1984. Yep that is how long ago I played a PRS for the first time. EB
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Post by antares on Jan 11, 2023 12:26:12 GMT -6
Sure looks a doozy Eddie.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2023 13:49:50 GMT -6
Sure looks a doozy Eddie. でつ e&oe ...The one I played look like the one in the picture. Again, it was back in a time that PRS were not mass-produced. But yet it had sound chambers in the body. The guitar just felt right in my hands. Back then I was not making guitars or even thinking of making guitars. LOL!
If I could find the right woods, I would try and make this guitar. I will be on the lookout for the wood's. Right now, what I could find is over the top in price for me. I did look at some DIY kits of PRS with woods that looked pretty close, but no sound chambers. The kits start at around $300.00 US. The kit I want is almost $500.00 US.
There may be a chance I go that route. Only because the bare wood will cost me more than $500.00. With the kit, I would not have to cut it out myself. LOL!
So... My quest goes on. The guitar in the picture is $5,500 US on Reverb. I don't have that kind of money to spend on a guitar. Wish I did, I would buy this one.
EB
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Post by dnic on Jan 11, 2023 19:26:16 GMT -6
That's a very nice guitar. Has the better known headstock shape. I really don't like the Santana headstock shape.  |
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Post by antares on Jan 12, 2023 4:15:06 GMT -6
Is that squiggly emblem related to Carlos Santana? It looks vaguely familiar. Perhaps I'm thinking of the "Aum" symbol or whatever- something Eastern like that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2023 8:05:47 GMT -6
That's a very nice guitar. Has the better known headstock shape. I really don't like the Santana headstock shape. Not a fan of that peg head as well. I don't think the early ones were like this. It was after PRS starting making the Santana signature models that they started to change the look of the peg head.
This is also part of the guitars that I build that I find the most frustrating. Trying to come up with something that no one has and yet looks good with the guitar I am making. I have used a PRS kind of sort of looking peg heads on my guitars. They look like each other, but are not the same. I have even altered the open book one like on LP's. I alter them so that no one can say It's just like what Gibson uses. But the look is there.
Oh, the other thing I don't like in this picture is the nut. That not looks like it was done in a cheap way. Doesn't look finished. EB
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