My Rosie

andrewsrea · Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:09 pm

Just a cool pic my daughter in law took of 'Rosie,' my 2003 PRS McCarty 10 Top Artist-package, with a solid Indian rosewood neck. Everyone who has seen her in person says that pictures really don't do it justice. But this one gets close...

tonebender · Sun Jun 18, 2023 6:33 pm

Cool guitar and a beauty.

sabasgr68 · Sun Jun 18, 2023 6:47 pm

Nice PRS!

Partscaster · Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:56 pm

Nice top.
And I'm relieved to find Rosie isnt a deceased pet.

toomanycats · Mon Jun 19, 2023 7:28 am

Beautiful PRS. It looks like the hardware is gold, which would be fitting on this instrument.

For whatever reason, I have never owned a USA PRS, though I have a couple nice MIK examples. Just yesterday I was watching a Youtube interview with George Lynch in which he reveals that during the Lynch Mob Wicked Sensations era Paul gave him a couple guitars, one in particular which was out of this world. This would have been around 1990. George played that exemplary PRS in public so much in the following year that ESP actually dropped his as a punishment.

For clarification, do you mean the fretboard and the neck itself on your PRS are one piece of rosewood? Is there a skunk stripe where they put the truss rod in?

andrewsrea · Mon Jun 19, 2023 10:40 am

toomanycats wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 7:28 am Beautiful PRS. It looks like the hardware is gold, which would be fitting on this instrument.

For whatever reason, I have never owned a USA PRS, though I have a couple nice MIK examples. Just yesterday I was watching a Youtube interview with George Lynch in which he reveals that during the Lynch Mob Wicked Sensations era Paul gave him a couple guitars, one in particular which was out of this world. This would have been around 1990. George played that exemplary PRS in public so much in the following year that ESP actually dropped his as a punishment.

For clarification, do you mean the fretboard and the neck itself on your PRS are one piece of rosewood? Is there a skunk stripe where they put the truss rod in?

The neck is a one-piece of indian rosewood. It has an exact (don't know how they did it) rosewood finger board, so the truss rod was top-loaded and then finished with the finger board. However, you need to look with magnification to see the seam to teel it isn't a contiguous fingerboard and neck

bleys21 · Mon Jun 19, 2023 1:10 pm

PRS sure does fantastic work. That is one seriously lovely guitar!

andrewsrea · Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:55 pm

bleys21 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 1:10 pm PRS sure does fantastic work. That is one seriously lovely guitar!

Thanks! Tones and playability are first-class as well.

Rollin Hand · Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:14 am

I played a Music Man Axis with a rosewood neck once, and it was otherworldly.

Treasure that thing. You're not likely to see a new guitar with a rosewood neck ever again.

andrewsrea · Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:05 am

Rollin Hand wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:14 am I played a Music Man Axis with a rosewood neck once, and it was otherworldly.

Treasure that thing. You're not likely to see a new guitar with a rosewood neck ever again.

It is still an option offered by PRS, but it wasn't popular. This was a custom order for a music store in PA that I used to do repairs for. Customer put money down and custom ordered it, then went MIA. It sat in the store for 2.5 years and I low-balled offered cash to the owner, who I knew his store was having serious cash-flow issues. The rest is history.

It literally had every upgrade you could order on a McCarty for 2003.

peskypesky · Tue Jun 20, 2023 2:52 pm

One of these days I might try out a PRS.

nomadh · Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:51 am

And a picture of the man. The myth.... the legend!

andrewsrea · Wed Jun 21, 2023 12:49 pm

peskypesky wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 2:52 pm One of these days I might try out a PRS.

The downside is,it leads to cash flying out of your wallet.