Talk:PRS Guitars

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Stop deleting orphaned land from the article![edit]

Orphaned Land is one of the biggest Israeli metal bands in the world, with their last album, mabool selling thousands of copies and receiving praises from almost every review. PRS guitars endorses Orphaned Land, they did not just buy PRS guitars, PRS guitar endorses them.

So Please, Stop Removing them from the bloody list! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.81.248.146 (talk • contribs)

rough edges[edit]

While not ghastly, writing throughout is to various degrees rickety. I mean, I'm a guitar fanatic, but what the heck is a simulated tone control??

Repeated use of more affordable is really irritating. I will refrain from saying that PRS is diluting their brand by making overpriced "beginner" guitars, but that's much closer to reality.

In the lede, I changed

founded by guitarist and master luthier Paul Reed Smith

to

founded by luthier Paul Reed Smith

because "guitarist" is irrelevant in this context, & "master" refers to a crafts guild system that doesn't apply here — at best it's an honorific term that would need attribution.

Speaking of which, I'm not entirely comfortable with using Forbes Magazine as a credible source to expound on quality of electric guitars, but I'm letting it stand.

Throughout, "PRS Guitars" ought be favored over "PRS."

I'm entirely in favor of removing at least 99% of the "artists associated with PRS" nonsense. To me, Carlos Santana is highly significant, as an early endorser & primary PRS player. Compare to Ted Nugent, who has long primarily used a Gibson Byrdland; just as Hendrix used various guitars (for instance, an SG), he is associated with the Strat, period. Any "artist list" should be put forward by some credible music-geek authority who's willing to make a clear casethat said list is somehow definitive or at least representative.

Lacking that, it's to PRS Guitars (rather than every random fanboy "editor") to define who "their artists" are. On their site, I count 576 names — which, to give a fanboy his due, does indeed include Chen Balbus (of Orphaned Land). However, either the entire list should be entered, or none at all.

Somewhat more manageable would be a list of those players who have/had a named signature model. Presently, there are 12 names.

There's no discussion at all of design evolutions (such as the lengthened neck heel), and details like the non-intonatable bridge are glossed over, without even a shout out to relevant articles like Bridge (instrument). And that there's no discussion at all of the significance of Ted McCarty is outright shameful.

Let's turn to the Products list. Shouldn't it be Models? Why is this even here? There's no description of ANY of the models, so it might just as well be a block of text rather than this skeletal table. Again, this listing MUST be kept current. And why is there no effort made to put up any previous models?

It also begs a few questions. What is the differential design philosophy between a "22" and a "24"? What differentiates a "Standard" from a "Custom"? Where are the acoustic guitars? What about PRS basses? And, again, why no mention of "signature" models?
Weeb Dingle (talk) 04:44, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Place of manufacture of SE series?[edit]

In the 'Products' section it is stated that SE series are made in Korea. Is this still true?

In a recent Premier Guitar review it says 'The SE Hollowbody Standard and its cousin the Hollowbody II are built in China at a facility run by PRS partner Core-Tek Musical Instruments.'

I don't know, but somebody might like to edit this. Dean1954 (talk) 14:29, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lack of PRS Silver Sky[edit]

Can someone add the silver sky into this list? It's missing. FenderstratGatorlord (talk) 01:38, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

SE models no longer mostly made in Korea[edit]

The article says "PRS introduced a more affordable line of guitars in 2000 referred to as the "SE" which are manufactured in Korea by World Musical Instrument Co. Ltd. for the electrics and Wildwood for the acoustics." That was true in the past, but today, most SE models are made in Indonesia and China. 136.54.151.119 (talk) 01:13, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]