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Brand New Guitar Day.

A friend of mine (a good friend of mine) is quite a big fan of the guitars built by this particular manufacturer.
He has many; of American, Korean, and a couple of Indonesian manufacture.

He has been bangin' on at me for literally years to try one out.

The short of it is:
When the rockshop had their 15% off online sale the other day, he basically just ... went ahead, and bought me this guitar.

Yesterday, I finally collected it.

The concept of someone just giving me something is taking a while to sink in. Being somewhat morally capable, the sale/s of the dot, LP studio, RG, and eventual 12 string will go towards it (because I can't just take stuff).

So.
How is it?

Comfy. Small. Dense.
It is a very pretty thing. It feels good; the neck isn't a matchstick, and the body density is in the right place.
The short scale is a bit funny (fuck knows why it rolled off the line with 9s :problem: ) but we'll get there - I have 10s and 11s sitting at home ready to go on.

So. Here we are.

2018 PRS SE santana, in cherry. Complete with birdies.

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An idiocy video will be posted once I have given it the required attention - It has curious intonation issues, and I am not playing on 9s. :lol:

Deck courtesy of Ms. Single coil's parents.
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Can’t go wrong with that! Congrats.
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Feels good now.
Expecting it to sound good later.

It is another for the lifetime stable, along with my tele and the goldtop.
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Wow. What a great looking guitar, think you owe your mate a couple of beersies! :-)

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What a friend! You know you can marry him eh? :moresarc:

Nice guitar on stunning deck...
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I have acquired 2 PRS SE models this year. Solid and serious bang for the buck.\
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I can’t take it as charity. The rest will eventually go and he can have the proceeds.

It is sitting in my girlfriends room snarling at me.

Tomorrow will be a fun day.
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Nice :) I love mine, bought new as well a couple of years back. Its the lemon stripey version. I used to reach for it more often than my Lester, mainly due to the trem - they're awesome! and yeah its a lifetime keeper.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Post by StratMatt »

Good score, good mate that one. A guy in a band that my FIL books for his parties plays one, and plays it bloody well. He’s like “why would anyone need to spend any more than this on a guitar? Does it play itself?”

Fair enough too I suppose :)
Loving it so far

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Yeah thats basically how he is lol.
He almost exclusively owns prs and se guitars ... he has the p90 santana and loves it.

He has a custom shop 339 and a really cool wood finished LP studio as wildcards but that’s about it. Think it’s a smartwood.
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Yep, having owned the SE I don't see the need to go full blown PRS. One day I'll spoil it all and try one, but I'm really happy with the SE :) It's even better since a kind forum member provided some genuine prs santana pickups :D Though I really quite like the stock pickups!

I'm no Santana fan either, I bought mine because I foolishly tried it in the shop - I say! do you accept....... plastic?
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I wanted a cu24... particularly the paul allender with the purple and the bats. I thought that was cool.

But all the custom ones have skinny necks.

So here we are!
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jvpp wrote:What a friend! You know you can marry him eh? :moresarc:
or if not marriage material, perhaps a christmas hand shandy?

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Congrats dude :clap:
Play the shit out of it.

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Here we are again, with James's guide to make your guitar work better.

Step 1: lop those farty 9/42's off.

2: Level pickup bobbin thingies with the pickup rings.

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3: Look how clean and new everything is, and remove plastic.

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4: Nutjob - gently.

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5: Circle the tiny finishing error so everyone on the internet can see it.

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6: Apply strings.

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6.5: Apply appropriate strings because this neck is brand new.

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6.75: Carry on.

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6.925: Be humbled by how clean it all is.

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7: Balance trem by diddling rear screws.

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8: Apply tiny long thin thingy of not the angry velcro to underside of trem so it doesn't eat the top.

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(This isn't it - I used a smaller bit.)

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GRAIN.

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9: Adjust truss, intonate; assume whoever designed truss adjusting thing was on one of everything.

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10: Play it (tomorrow).

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So I did, and the video will be up in good time.
Couldn't help but have a look at how it was wired - treble rolloff with volume suggested 60s, and I was sorta right. It's a bit of a mish mash.

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Alpha pots. Kinda cool I guess.

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Also, check this shit out:

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4 conductor!! Hiding!! :D
Means when I get bored I can whack in a push pull and there's parallel wiring :D

Also, lady single coil said it was nice.

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Video coming soon.






















(of the guitar)
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