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I got a PRS Standard 24 about 5 months ago. I don’t think I could ever purchase a non-PRS guitar now.

There are just way too many cool features.

• Locking tuners make it extremely fast to change strings, and keeps them in tune better.
• It has a floating tremolo.
• The bar on the tremelo is held in by pressure from a little plastic ring, so it will always have the same tightness, and won’t ever get de-threaded. It’s a better design than the floyd-rose in my opinion.
• The pickups have a push-pull pot from going between single coil and humbuckers for a lot of different tones.
• They inlays are birds of prey… how cool is that?
• The body shape is nice.
• The finish is amazing.
• The guitar is very light.
• It has a set neck. Not quite as good as a neck-thru in my opinion, but still gives nice sustain.
• Etc, etc, etc.

I was at Guitar Center over the weekend talking guitars to one of the employees and mentioned I had a PRS, and he tried to sell me on Gibson Les Paul’s. I like wide-thin necks, so he showed me a 60’s model that has a thinner neck than most Gibson Les Paul’s. I picked it up and almost fell over ’cause it was so heavy. The body was like 4 inches thick also. The guitar is just ugly too IMHO. Les Paul’s don’t have any of the nice features that PRS do either. I think you have to really be a fan of Les Paul’s to play one.

Needless to say, I’m still a PRS man. It’s going to take some convincing to get me to change my mind.

I’ve thought of getting a custom ESP built. Basically, a neck-thru KH2 with custom inlays and a custom graphic. Then I started thinking of all the PRS features I wanted added, and thought “why not just buy a PRS then?”. I could always put custom features on one of those too. I could just buy a hollow body instead.

Most people underestimate the PRS Standard too. Everyone wants a custom. Guitar Center carries mostly custom. There are usually only 1-2 standards in the store, and they’re not very nice ones (color/inlays). When people see mine, they are quite impressed. In all honesty, I don’t know if there is a custom color that I like. I already have my next standard color picked out though.

My suggestion: give one a try. They’re well worth the money.