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I haven't seen much mentioned here about the PS900 & PS924 axes, so I thought I'd add mine to the forum.

I lived a few miles from the Rondo Store, which was located on Route 22 in Union, NJ.
I was impressed by the quality and cost of the Agiles, so I grabbed a few.
I was there on the last Saturday they were opened.
Madhouse.
People were grabbing everything.

Earlier that same week I grabbed 2 PS924WE's (shown below).
The cost: Ridiculous.
I think I may have paid $350.00 for both of them.
IIRC.....it was a 'Buy 1, get 1/2 off the second.'

Why I didn't go back with 2k in my pocket I'll never know.
I would have walked-out with a nice haul.

The one with the zebra's gets played.
The other PS924WE is still in the box.
Same strings, same packing material.
I open it up and check the relief/intonation now & then.
Still looks/plays great.

This blue PS900 is light as a feather and plays like a dream.
(It has a Hummingbird neck decal - Jockomo Guitars.)

This red one was bought on eBay and refinished by me in blonde (rattle-cans).
I applied quite a few clear topcoats, and then hand-rubbed the finish.
I also re-plated all of the hardware.
Pickups: GFS.
Its heavier than my other PS900's, and the action is incredibly low.
Push-pull pots for each pickup.

msmith40

Welcome to the forum! Gorgeous guitars.

Nice guitars! Welcome, MSmith @msmith40@hotmail.com Great job on the blonde one.

On the one hand I am jealous. I drove from the Washington DC area the 2 times I was in the store. Then again, if I had lived as close as you when they had the closing sale, I would have had a LOT of 'splainin' to do to the wife! Heck, I've got a truckload of Rondo hardware as it is!

Very nice! The PS line are possibly the best guitars that Rondo ever made. Welcome to the forum.

Its a shame to see the spare ps-924 waste away though. Put some funky pickups in there (maybe humbucker sized p90's?), and play it like it was meant to.

Also, please stop copying my homework - Here are my HSB PS-924, blue PS-900 and refinished PS-900

Welcome on board I hope you stick around and post often your guitars are beautiful. You have much more self control than I have because I could not left that guitar un-played.
I call my PS900 "The Beast" because that's what it is. I bought it here on the exchange from @Bubba Zanetti for less than $200 the only issue was the nut which was functionally fine but somewhere along the way somebody had done the baking soda super glue fix on it and it looked a bit bad. Anyway I did replace the nut with a TUSQ XL I also replaced the tuners with Grover 406 locking tuners and replaced the pups with a SD JB in the bridge and a SD 59 in the neck they were used I had thus one is black and one is a Zebra. Anyway it's now one of my favorite guitars.
Sorry about the PRS in the picture I was to lazy to take a new one this morning.

mighty_duck wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 6:30 pm Very nice! The PS line are possibly the best guitars that Rondo ever made. Welcome to the forum.

Thanks!
Nice axes!

Notice where the pickup switch is on my blue 900......
That's the way it was when I bought it.
Also, those are GFS pickups.
The original neck pickup was a lot more powerful than the original bridge pickup.
Odd.

I also have this one.....waiting to bring it back to life.


I was thinking of refinishing it.
But as I look at it now.............maybe not.
I'll try to patch some of the nicks/dings...........maybe clean it up overall but leave it as faded.

Lovely guitars, I wish I had snatched a couple of these back in the day. I was too busy with the LP types though. Welcome aboard.