Where as Fender plucks the leaves off, strips the bark and onto the cnc machine 🤣. For your 9 pound tele.

​@@phishphan5732fender/gibson can't compete with PRS. Paul is still in control, who controls fender/gibson?👀

PRS is the mainstream Apple brand of the guitar world, the product is great, but there's much better out there if you look around. Small companies using timbers that would make the PRS woodlibrary sweat...

@@BBGuitars Who is better, enlighten us oh wise one

@@drsrsv8884 to be honest, it doesn't matter... because what makes PRS great, is that not only they have good wood, they have awesome quality control, they also have precision building, which mean you don't have to search for decades, and try hundred of guitars to find THE one that might be awesome. You can pick any PRS and it will be great because the production is super consistent. Pick any Silver Sky from any store, and you will get a guitar that is bang on replica of a Fender '63/64 Strat... No other builder can reach this level of quality and consistency. They might have rare gem out there, sure... but you will have to spend your lifetime to find them.... while I can even order my PRS Guitars out of the internet without trying it and I know it will be just as awesome as the one I tried from another store or from a friend.

You are Welcome.

You are correct, PRS does do it RIGHT, which isn't quite so enthralling if you happen to be left handed 🤨

@@davesmith3023 True but the process is pretty much the same.

Ditto

relics🤢

*bob taylor has entered the chat*

Thanks for the love @PerryCodes enjoy the new guitar!

Pull it !!!

Pretty much everyone in production is like this. Everyone is pretty laid back--despite the attention to detail, laser focus on quality control and production deadlines. PRS is a good company to work for; Paul takes care of the crew.

@carmineredd As great of an idea as that is, I'm not sure I'm seeing how it applies to my comment.

@carmineredd Only on Monday's before noon, and only if you're wearing a contraceptive, and the donut is fresh. As long as those 7 pieces of criteria are met, then I doubt it, most absolutely.

Not true. Silver sky's are three piece (or two piece) alder bodies.

They are usually three pieces; sometimes two. Look around on the Internet for pictures of cracked Mayer models.

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but then it will take more time, and then the S2 would cost as much as the core... The more time they spend on the guitar, the more expensive it gets.

@@Spidouz that’s understandable however it’s not like it’s done by hand. It’s done by cnc machinery. They should find a way to make the carve a little closer to the core. Hell I would say the se curve is closer. Just my opinion. I love my s2 but I also love my se’s and find them to be to close on quality at this point. If I would buy more guitars I wouldn’t even consider the s2. I would get another se and that speaks volumes for the se line!

They are not for sale as parts. Your best option is to buy from a parts vendor such as Stooge Mac, Luthier's Mercantile, etc.

No, the recessed plate is merely a production step associated with the Core line.

My Les Paul also has flaws. Can’t stop playing it tho

I have never received a flawed Gibson but I have had 2 PRS's I the clear coat cracked and fell of the neck next to the frets the other one is fine except for the meh pick ups .

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Exactly! I was in the market to buy a Les Paul, so I went to all stores around my location, and I tried maybe 20 or 25 Gibson in the $2k-3k price range. And I found none that were great, they were all flawed, issues, tuning problem, just not worth their price tag. Then I tried a PRS SE 245, and the first one I tried was just PERFECT. And it was like $750 if I recall correctly. It was easily ⅓ of the Gibson price and it was way better... I was a bit skeptical since it was my first SE and I always thought I needed a Core version. The SE was so great that I didn't even tried the Core versions, I bought it and I still have it to this day (like 15 years later).

@@drsrsv8884 The one I kept was an SE ..the defective one was a CE.

@2:13 you can see the pneumatic rams on the assembly table that press the two halves together like clamps. That green trough is where the glue squeeze-out drops away from the glue seam; it's lined with green tape to make cleanup easy. Each CNC unit has a hopper in the bottom that collects all the chips and send them to dust collection. There's no need for a bristle shoe with a vacuum hose on the cutter head because it's a closed unit.

Don't feel sorry for yourself and accuse the company of ignoring you. Blame the dealers. The "well documented disdain" is an Internet myth. The honest truth is lefty guitars account for only 4% of the entire retail guitar market. It's just not cost effective for dealers to stock them. PRS builds guitars to dealer orders; if a dealer orders a run of lefties, PRS makes them. It's really that simple.

I went back and I looked at the video. The back of the board has some fingers that push it in and the front of the board has two triangles… They’re like bench dogs or something. So it does get “clamped in some sort of way. Or held together while they use that radio frequency curing device.

@@JohnnyArtPavlou ok yes they have a pneumatic clamp system. didnt see on first view

@@geezberry8889 Thanks, yes…pneumatic.

No, there are no sales direct from the factory because the factory maintains no stock. Everything is built to dealer order.

Where its sourced from! Wild how different two trees of the same species figuring can look based on where they're from.

When the clear template is lait atop the glue-up and the tech traces around it with a pencil, the template has a vertical line that runs down the center. The tech lines that up with the top's glue line before marking the wood.

One end smells like a wood shop, and the other end smells like a paint shop!

Did you see that little wiggle move when he put the two pieces of wood together? That's the move: it completely coats both pieces.

Not rare at all. Generally, one-piece tops are Private Stock items.