I love this company. They make incredible guitars that are comfortable to play, sound great, and look fantastic. Additionally, their commitment to high quality and attention to detail is very clear, you can tell how much they care about their guitars. I love my S2, best guitar I've ever played. Thanks PRS!
I truly enjoy the "eye on detail" at this proud American company! Kudos to all of you hard workers at PRS! Wonderful job on the production crew in making this video also...it makes my decision in buying a new guitar MUCH easier! Everything a musician could ask for!
Best guitars in the world, no doubt. After playing many, many brands of guitars, from Fender to Jackson to Gibson, the only guitars that feel comfortable to me as soon as I pick them up have been PRS guitars. They are perfect from craftsmanship, to playablity, to tone. This video is a true testament to the quality of these guitars. I love it!
Ketan Pathak The machines do all the hard work, and the amount of work is the same, as in a much cheaper guitar that's made in China. So the price is definitely not justified.
Ketan Pathak i agree as long as they dont sell it also as a superior sound machine cause at the end of the day the meat and potatoes stuff that make a guitar sound great arent that expensive.
aDotFromTheFuture quality of raw materials and quality control does make for a better product than plywood and poor quality die cast hardware and low level electronics. Few guitars out of china have the level of playability of an instrument built by pros. Fretwork will be hit and miss, and often the neck has a backbow to it. Indonesia is the best place for budget guitars. Even better than korea.
Leander Johnsen I'm not talking about Chinese counterparts made in some mega factory by ten year old's. There are some very good quality guitars made in China (Squier for one), that do use lower quality parts yes, but they still produce quality instruments. PRS might use the best components possible, but that definitely won't justify them being 10+ times more expensive. I do agree that the cheaper counterparts may have some problems with the frets and whatnot, but a quick visit to a luthier will fix those problems quite cheaply. And just to specify, no one builds guitars out of plywood.
Didnt consider the squiers and their equals. Thanks for reminding me. They are pretty tops for playability and quality. Lots of guitar for the money in a squier.
And now the final step, it will be sanded for the 4000th time with 1 million grit sandpaper ;) this is truly remarkable and just makes me want one more!
Man, I love the amount of work that goes into the finishing and polishing of these guitars. PRS has probably the nicest high-gloss finishes, besides Gibson.
I definitely think they beat Gibson on gloss finishes any day. I see so many little blemishes on pretty much all Gibsons, and their bursts are often quite uneven, which you would never see on a PRS (or even an Epiphone).
look is important, and it's a point everyone considers when buying a guitar, no matter if conscious or unconscious. also, it's a statement to the craftmenship and quality if there are fancy, perfectly worked bindings, perfect finishses bringing out the grain of the wood, complicated inlays etc. nobody says you must buy a prs, but like i said, you cannot deny the extraordinary quality of materials and build on them. and prs also uses more subtle woods and solid finishes on some of their guitars.
I was thinking the same thing the O.H &S is extremely inconsistent in the PRS factory, the guy in the spray room is wearing a TShirt, and short gloves. Some people have protective equipment whilst buffing while others don't. I hoped PRS cared a bit more about their employees. I hope these guys have a good medical plan, some of them may need it.
I use mine through a basic marshall DSL or blues junior, sounds great. Love the tonal variation, which is the reason why I use it as the main instead of my fender and gibson.
not only beautiful, but good sounding. there is some vid where paul taps on a neck blank, and what you hear is a bell-like sound. you hear the quality of the wood. and playing guitar is a hobby for everyone, my old jackson js32 was a more than decent guitar for like 300 bucks. i'm not bashing carvin or something, and it's true, prs is not for everyone, but you cant deny the extraordinary quality of their guitars. if this quality is worth the money is another, personal question.
I don't think lung cancer is gonna be gotten from wood filings but then again if that is possible we're all fucked so smoke away I guess ? No, they're making guitars not running a meth lab. I don't think it's that serious.
You would be correct. The finishing process doubles the prices of the guitar. I've built several custom guitars and the finish guys I send my guitars to charge around $800 for custom 3 tone sunburst finishes with nitrocellulose and neck.
Question ... I applied nitrocellulose paint to a guitar body ... the question is, after a few days of drying, can I apply transparent polyurethane without sanding the nitrocellulose paint?
Nice, another comment king that has not even 1 video posted to add to the community, yet has plenty to say. I'm not rich and I won't even play anything but my PRS Guitars. Once you go Paul, the rest just sound small. I guess it is an inconvinient coincidence for you, that amzing tone woods just also happen to be beautiful. Jackson and Ibanez and BC Rich make plenty of unattractive Glossy Black and neon guitars that should keep you wondering why you can't seem to stay in tune for a long time.
@helpdonate1 it all depends on how you look at it. Gibsons ARE a good brand of guitar and feel wonderful with an unmistakeable tone.. but honestly, PRS guitars are put through alot more human-work than Gibsons, and you can tell. It's a certain craftsmanship out of PRS that you can't get out of any other guitar. If i had a choice between the two, i'd probably get a PRS.
Not only that but the tone. You can hear the difference between a PRS and a Gibson. A PRS is brighter and cleaner. A Gibson is darker and more muddy. That's my impression at least.
That would be around the time that some of the exclusive patents expired with strat heads and body styles right? I remember hearing something about that being the reason why you have stuff like warmouth where you can make pretty much an exact copy of one. Well I can't stand Gibson so I don't doubt its better lol.
Breathing anything else than clear air can be harmful. Now how harmful it is can be associated with whats in the air. Wood particles doesnt sound that dangerous but they are...
@XeroJager No better way to say the truth ! PRS is to my mind one if not the one guitar brand who reaches the artistic field of guitar making, whereas Gibson or Fender, even though these are great guitar brand, have not. You will never find a Fender of a Gibson with the same amount of passion and love an artist such as Paul can put into an instrument.
not only now, American guitars companies have come under scrutiny by japanese companies since the mid 70's:p My best guitar is a 75 ibanez lawsuit copy of a 58 flying V. I have yet to find a gibson that beats it:p
You should clarify that its millionths of an inch thick (Im assuming), not "mils", because in metric countries "mils" means millimetres. 12 millimetre finish sounds bad. Im sure many people will realise its not mm (that would be an insane amount of fiinish) but sometimes you dont think about this stuff enough to clarify.
Wow very much like Carvin builds theirs. PRS uses a little more hand build on theirs which probably accounts for the less accurate production and twice the price. For the money, i would buy a Carvin instead their just as nice and 1/3 the cost...oh wait I did buy a Carvin and compared it directly to my SC245 and quite honestly the Carvin was built better all around. I did love the neck profile on 245 more though, but overall hard to justify the extra cost...just saying
for 500 bucks you cant even buy the wood prs uses! one of their private stock quilt tops cost around that much! of course prs are expensive as hell, but buying one is safe investment for the future as well next to being an awesome instrument.
They surely are beautiful instruments, and when I want to make smooth, bland and homogenised music played through shedloads of rack equipment into (no doubt) a mesa boogie amp, I'll buy one. What's that I hear? You disagree? Find me a Neil Young kind of guy who plays a PRS. You Can't. And an Angus Young while you're at it. Everybody knows that while he made great selling records with a PRS, Santana made better, more pure, ground breaking music before he played one. Before you say Santana...
@Guitarvirtuoso666 i have a strat and i played a japanese. if you take of the shity electronics they have and mount good ones it might be good. but not like the original, and it might cost you more in the end to fix it.
Uhh... you need to relook at gibsons factory then. Almost nothing is handmade, even the frets are done by a CNC machine at gibson lol. Pretty much all factories like this are gonna use machines for everything shape wise... Not sure what the hell you're talkin about.
The pricing of these guitars is ENTIRELY justified, imo. People say “bwaaaa, you can get the parts, bwaaaa”. Right, fine but you’re paying for labor costs, attention to detail, massive quality control and 30+ years of ideas put into action. What about that? A group of guys spends several weeks making a guitar that’s basically perfect (I’ve had to set mine up about 5 times since I got it in 2002) and you dicks wanna bitch about price? Where did our pride in quality manufacturing go? Have these last couple of generations completely abandoned the concept of respect for the work of a gifted craftsman? It’s just depressing. I get being bummed out at not being able to afford one but there’s a huge difference between “I can’t afford that” and “that’s overpriced”.
Too much frenzy i see in prs guitars' building process, i don't like it for over 2500$ guitars. Quality check ok, but looks like all about the numbers instead passion, at all. Where is the difference between musicman and gibson to justify the price twice on quite every model?
+nerd Mike But can you really tell how much passion the workers have from a video like this? Surely the end quality is the only thing 'passion' could affect anyway, and that's fine?
Passion is relative, the cost is the same or more of personal guitar craft by a luthier, but they do it in a product line. My only thinking is about the price doubled against a gibson or musicman, made in a similar way..
12 mm of polyester coating? That's nearly 1/2inch thick! I think there is a decimal out of place. Windowpane glass is about 2.5 mm. I can see 1>2 mm of polyester plastic coating, otherwise you have a guitar that has a sheet of glass stuck to it..bad for tone.
If the bar code sticker says one particular guitar must be painted blue, and someone is goofing off, and paints is red by mistake then what happens? I'll bet somebody's ass gets fired! We can't have five green guitars, four blue guitars, and six red guitars because someone shit the bed!
what he meant to say was they spread all the epoxy paste all in the grain and in DAMPEN's all the tone. HAHAH Awll too bad.... Better money spent on a custom builder.
Art and Design Um no. That grain filler they use is ridiculously hard and transfers tone perfectly. were you not listening? I mean with all the consideration they put into everything you think they'd do that?
Taping the binding before painting/dyeing is utterly pointless and a waste of time, at least if the binding is plastic. You still need to scrape the binding to get it to look even.
+aDotFromTheFuture People mistakenly think that all plastic is non-porous. That's not the case. The last thing you'd want to do is dye a white binding, then find out you can't scrape off all the dye because it penetrated too deep. An excellent example of porous plastic, the film that's used to wrap red meat. It's permeable to O2.. so the hemoglobin in the meat becomes and remains Red under the plastic.
+Schmartist Munky That is true, but the logical thing to do is to put an undercoat of lacquer (or shellac even) on the guitar, and then dye on top of that. That way, the lacquer protects the binding from the dye and after you have a nice color, you can scrape the lacquer very easily off the binding keeping it nice and clean, after which you can continue to your top layers.
+aDotFromTheFuture PRS 'binding' is actually just a strip of the body they mask off and paint around, its basically a stripe of un-coloured wood. They don't apply plastic like other guitar companies. That's why they usually call it "revealed binding". If there's a particular colour like "black-gold" which bleeds particularly well, they usually don't offer it with binding, because they can't mask it off reliably enough.
lapelcelery42 It's still a binding no matter what it's made out of. Bleeding of the color is not an issue if you spray an undercoat of lacquer before the paint, which also makes the masking process pointless. You can have any color on the guitar with a clean binding, if you just do the process correctly, and don't rely solely (or at all) on masking.
aDotFromTheFuture True, but you'd end up with that extra undercoat on the body. The amount of laquer on the wood is something PRS are probably trying to minimise. I was trying to get at the fact that it's actually not a binding at all on the PRS guitars. There's no extra material and nothing is getting bound. It just looks like "binding".
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I love this company. They make incredible guitars that are comfortable to play, sound great, and look fantastic. Additionally, their commitment to high quality and attention to detail is very clear, you can tell how much they care about their guitars. I love my S2, best guitar I've ever played. Thanks PRS!
I truly enjoy the "eye on detail" at this proud American company! Kudos to all of you hard workers at PRS! Wonderful job on the production crew in making this video also...it makes my decision in buying a new guitar MUCH easier! Everything a musician could ask for!
Best guitars in the world, no doubt. After playing many, many brands of guitars, from Fender to Jackson to Gibson, the only guitars that feel comfortable to me as soon as I pick them up have been PRS guitars. They are perfect from craftsmanship, to playablity, to tone. This video is a true testament to the quality of these guitars. I love it!
Quality control at nearly every step, and so much work put in. I think the price is justified.
Ketan Pathak The machines do all the hard work, and the amount of work is the same, as in a much cheaper guitar that's made in China. So the price is definitely not justified.
Ketan Pathak i agree as long as they dont sell it also as a superior sound machine cause at the end of the day the meat and potatoes stuff that make a guitar sound great arent that expensive.
aDotFromTheFuture quality of raw materials and quality control does make for a better product than plywood and poor quality die cast hardware and low level electronics. Few guitars out of china have the level of playability of an instrument built by pros. Fretwork will be hit and miss, and often the neck has a backbow to it. Indonesia is the best place for budget guitars. Even better than korea.
Leander Johnsen I'm not talking about Chinese counterparts made in some mega factory by ten year old's. There are some very good quality guitars made in China (Squier for one), that do use lower quality parts yes, but they still produce quality instruments. PRS might use the best components possible, but that definitely won't justify them being 10+ times more expensive. I do agree that the cheaper counterparts may have some problems with the frets and whatnot, but a quick visit to a luthier will fix those problems quite cheaply. And just to specify, no one builds guitars out of plywood.
Didnt consider the squiers and their equals. Thanks for reminding me. They are pretty tops for playability and quality. Lots of guitar for the money in a squier.
its nice to own a prs guitar and fully understand the build processes your guitar went through. you will be proud to own one.
I loved my PRS, now I love it even more.
Thanks for making such wonderful intruments
PRS is going to be my next guitar ,,,I would like at least one USA made guitar but I will have to really save up. Keep these guys working in America..
And now the final step, it will be sanded for the 4000th time with 1 million grit sandpaper ;) this is truly remarkable and just makes me want one more!
Got my first PRS today! So now I can’t stop learning more. :)
PRS = quality
Gibson = name and marketing
So much quality control! That's awesome!
even tho these guitars are expensive i must say i cant die without owning one of these guitars these guitars are sexy i want one now
Man, I love the amount of work that goes into the finishing and polishing of these guitars. PRS has probably the nicest high-gloss finishes, besides Gibson.
I definitely think they beat Gibson on gloss finishes any day. I see so many little blemishes on pretty much all Gibsons, and their bursts are often quite uneven, which you would never see on a PRS (or even an Epiphone).
Beautiful finishes
look is important, and it's a point everyone considers when buying a guitar, no matter if conscious or unconscious. also, it's a statement to the craftmenship and quality if there are fancy, perfectly worked bindings, perfect finishses bringing out the grain of the wood, complicated inlays etc. nobody says you must buy a prs, but like i said, you cannot deny the extraordinary quality of materials and build on them. and prs also uses more subtle woods and solid finishes on some of their guitars.
God DAMN this is a lot of work.
I was thinking the same thing the O.H &S is extremely inconsistent in the PRS factory, the guy in the spray room is wearing a TShirt, and short gloves. Some people have protective equipment whilst buffing while others don't. I hoped PRS cared a bit more about their employees. I hope these guys have a good medical plan, some of them may need it.
amazing hand work
amazing
i'd say that PRS and Ernie balls are the best craftmans ship you can get from a guitar
This is passion ! :)
I use mine through a basic marshall DSL or blues junior, sounds great. Love the tonal variation, which is the reason why I use it as the main instead of my fender and gibson.
wow ! my next purchase!
now that is ALOT of work !!! No wonder these cost a small fortune :)
i just put an se custom on layaway and watching this makes me feel better about my purchase
not only beautiful, but good sounding. there is some vid where paul taps on a neck blank, and what you hear is a bell-like sound. you hear the quality of the wood. and playing guitar is a hobby for everyone, my old jackson js32 was a more than decent guitar for like 300 bucks. i'm not bashing carvin or something, and it's true, prs is not for everyone, but you cant deny the extraordinary quality of their guitars. if this quality is worth the money is another, personal question.
Those sanders should be wearing respirators.
Mark Clemmens They are provided if you want, but I found them uncomfortable to wear.
Lung cancer is more uncomfortable. In civilizated world, job safety measurements are not an option, are a must.
I don't think lung cancer is gonna be gotten from wood filings but then again if that is possible we're all fucked so smoke away I guess ? No, they're making guitars not running a meth lab. I don't think it's that serious.
voteZDLR wood filings can potentially damage your alveoli... not worth the risk imo
Wouldn't you know that? Doctor with a capital D?
Cool man, and listen thanks for your civilty at my tirade. I think I was drunk when I wrote it, and that never helps. Keep on rockin'!
i've yet to find a prs i actually love playing but damn you can't deny the detail XD
I want one sooo bad.
FORGOT!!
My new company does this and repairs all by hand! ALL CUSTOM!!!
takes 4-6 Months from start to finish, depending on the order!!!!
Really well done. Just wondering why these guys
don't wear hearing and breathing protection?
You would be correct. The finishing process doubles the prices of the guitar. I've built several custom guitars and the finish guys I send my guitars to charge around $800 for custom 3 tone sunburst finishes with nitrocellulose and neck.
@bluesplottboy it's 12 mils (1/1000 of an inch) which is about 0.3mm
I really miss my Custom 24. Selling that guitar is one of the biggest regrets I have.
Gibson necks are hand cut.
PRS necks are CNC
Question ... I applied nitrocellulose paint to a guitar body ... the question is, after a few days of drying, can I apply transparent polyurethane without sanding the nitrocellulose paint?
Or a custom shop Fender. Where it's ALL done by hand.
Nice, another comment king that has not even 1 video posted to add to the community, yet has plenty to say.
I'm not rich and I won't even play anything but my PRS Guitars. Once you go Paul, the rest just sound small. I guess it is an inconvinient coincidence for you, that amzing tone woods just also happen to be beautiful. Jackson and Ibanez and BC Rich make plenty of unattractive Glossy Black and neon guitars that should keep you wondering why you can't seem to stay in tune for a long time.
@helpdonate1
it all depends on how you look at it. Gibsons ARE a good brand of guitar and feel wonderful with an unmistakeable tone.. but honestly, PRS guitars are put through alot more human-work than Gibsons, and you can tell. It's a certain craftsmanship out of PRS that you can't get out of any other guitar.
If i had a choice between the two, i'd probably get a PRS.
i bet half the cost of the axe goes to that insane finishing process
Not only that but the tone. You can hear the difference between a PRS and a Gibson. A PRS is brighter and cleaner. A Gibson is darker and more muddy. That's my impression at least.
Im retired now..This would be a dream job for me right now.Hire me...
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That would be around the time that some of the exclusive patents expired with strat heads and body styles right? I remember hearing something about that being the reason why you have stuff like warmouth where you can make pretty much an exact copy of one. Well I can't stand Gibson so I don't doubt its better lol.
I own a Danelectro, and I don't even want to know what processes it has been trough haha
At least it's not a Rickenbacker, that has more computer work on it than any other instrument I've seen.
Quality check every process!?!
I prefer that flat top over the curved
@helpdonate1 it´s not that hard to achieve^^, but yes, they are! They do even have better quality then guitars that have better quality then gibson.
that grease pencil gave it a cool look! they should do one with that type of finish! with those swirls on it!
He said 12 mils. 12 mils is just a tad more than 0.3mm.
maybe, but prs have acces too woods carvin can only dream about.
Are these better quality then Gibsons?
helpdonate1 Gibson has had ALOT of issues with quality control, so check your guitar closely if you buy a Gibson.
Breathing anything else than clear air can be harmful.
Now how harmful it is can be associated with whats in the air.
Wood particles doesnt sound that dangerous but they are...
@XeroJager No better way to say the truth ! PRS is to my mind one if not the one guitar brand who reaches the artistic field of guitar making, whereas Gibson or Fender, even though these are great guitar brand, have not. You will never find a Fender of a Gibson with the same amount of passion and love an artist such as Paul can put into an instrument.
not only now, American guitars companies have come under scrutiny by japanese companies since the mid 70's:p
My best guitar is a 75 ibanez lawsuit copy of a 58 flying V. I have yet to find a gibson that beats it:p
You should clarify that its millionths of an inch thick (Im assuming), not "mils", because in metric countries "mils" means millimetres. 12 millimetre finish sounds bad. Im sure many people will realise its not mm (that would be an insane amount of fiinish) but sometimes you dont think about this stuff enough to clarify.
J583 yeh I just watched this and went what? 12mm not a chance
A Japanese strat does
Nothing sounds better than an American Strat
@helpdonate1 nowadays, fuck yes.
@elblopex i think they're finer guitars
Wow very much like Carvin builds theirs. PRS uses a little more hand build on theirs which probably accounts for the less accurate production and twice the price. For the money, i would buy a Carvin instead their just as nice and 1/3 the cost...oh wait I did buy a Carvin and compared it directly to my SC245 and quite honestly the Carvin was built better all around. I did love the neck profile on 245 more though, but overall hard to justify the extra cost...just saying
4:08, nice t-shirt, man.
I wish they made neck-through body guitars.
for 500 bucks you cant even buy the wood prs uses! one of their private stock quilt tops cost around that much! of course prs are expensive as hell, but buying one is safe investment for the future as well next to being an awesome instrument.
Actually thats very true now lol
They surely are beautiful instruments, and when I want to make smooth, bland and homogenised music played through shedloads of rack equipment into (no doubt) a mesa boogie amp, I'll buy one. What's that I hear? You disagree? Find me a Neil Young kind of guy who plays a PRS. You Can't. And an Angus Young while you're at it. Everybody knows that while he made great selling records with a PRS, Santana made better, more pure, ground breaking music before he played one. Before you say Santana...
6:27 that guy shouldnt have a loose belt hanging off him on a grinding, polishing wheel
2:34 "the final build of polyester is about 12 mills"
what does this mean? it can not mean millimeter since 12 millimeter is 1,2 centimeter
my thought too, i guess he ment 1.2 mm.
he does say they sand most of it off, but I agree sounds like heaps!
12 mils means 12 thousandths of an inch thick. That's a touch thinner than 1/3 of a millimeter.
No wonder my ME1 was $5k+
that's how it is with Gibson
Better then gibson...
@helpdonate1 i think so. you can tell that by lookin at prizes and knowing that there's not "low quality" models for non rich people like me haha
1:50 chuck testa?
it's a leveling coat
@Guitarvirtuoso666 i have a strat and i played a japanese. if you take of the shity electronics they have and mount good ones it might be good. but not like the original, and it might cost you more in the end to fix it.
Uhh... you need to relook at gibsons factory then. Almost nothing is handmade, even the frets are done by a CNC machine at gibson lol.
Pretty much all factories like this are gonna use machines for everything shape wise... Not sure what the hell you're talkin about.
6:22
Wax ON, Wax OFF!!!
The pricing of these guitars is ENTIRELY justified, imo. People say “bwaaaa, you can get the parts, bwaaaa”. Right, fine but you’re paying for labor costs, attention to detail, massive quality control and 30+ years of ideas put into action. What about that? A group of guys spends several weeks making a guitar that’s basically perfect (I’ve had to set mine up about 5 times since I got it in 2002) and you dicks wanna bitch about price? Where did our pride in quality manufacturing go? Have these last couple of generations completely abandoned the concept of respect for the work of a gifted craftsman? It’s just depressing. I get being bummed out at not being able to afford one but there’s a huge difference between “I can’t afford that” and “that’s overpriced”.
LIQUID PLEXI???? Like have sex with 4 rubbers on!
or you can have both!
No lacquer finish?? Hmm
Where the heck are they hiding all these signatures at? LOL
American PRS.
Q C ! - can't say Quality Control ? - SO FUCKEN HARD ? Must Americans abbreviate ALL ?!?
They really need to use PLEK machines like Gibson and SUHR; filing the frets by hand is inaccurate and a relic of the stone ages.
Too much frenzy i see in prs guitars' building process, i don't like it for over 2500$ guitars. Quality check ok, but looks like all about the numbers instead passion, at all. Where is the difference between musicman and gibson to justify the price twice on quite every model?
+nerd Mike But can you really tell how much passion the workers have from a video like this? Surely the end quality is the only thing 'passion' could affect anyway, and that's fine?
Passion is relative, the cost is the same or more of personal guitar craft by a luthier, but they do it in a product line. My only thinking is about the price doubled against a gibson or musicman, made in a similar way..
12 mm of polyester coating? That's nearly 1/2inch thick! I think there is a decimal out of place.
Windowpane glass is about 2.5 mm.
I can see 1>2 mm of polyester plastic coating, otherwise you have a guitar that has a sheet of glass stuck to it..bad
for tone.
+SuperCarver2011 He said 12 mil, not 12mm
+SuperCarver2011 12 mils, not MM
12mm of finish!! I don't think so, shame they didn't quality check this comment.
Fearn pol *millionths of an inch thick. Not millimeters.
might as well get a gibson
If the bar code sticker says one particular guitar must be painted blue, and someone is goofing off, and paints is red by mistake then what happens? I'll bet somebody's ass gets fired! We can't have five green guitars, four blue guitars, and six red guitars because someone shit the bed!
"12mm when it starts" definitely not!
what he meant to say was they spread all the epoxy paste all in the grain and in DAMPEN's all the tone. HAHAH Awll too bad.... Better money spent on a custom builder.
Art and Design Um no. That grain filler they use is ridiculously hard and transfers tone perfectly. were you not listening? I mean with all the consideration they put into everything you think they'd do that?
don´t you know? Art and Design is a genius and his assumptions are far above the average intellect, far far above....@@djstringsmusic2994
can't face the bitter truth
Taping the binding before painting/dyeing is utterly pointless and a waste of time, at least if the binding is plastic. You still need to scrape the binding to get it to look even.
+aDotFromTheFuture People mistakenly think that all plastic is non-porous. That's not the case. The last thing you'd want to do is dye a white binding, then find out you can't scrape off all the dye because it penetrated too deep.
An excellent example of porous plastic, the film that's used to wrap red meat. It's permeable to O2.. so the hemoglobin in the meat becomes and remains Red under the plastic.
+Schmartist Munky That is true, but the logical thing to do is to put an undercoat of lacquer (or shellac even) on the guitar, and then dye on top of that. That way, the lacquer protects the binding from the dye and after you have a nice color, you can scrape the lacquer very easily off the binding keeping it nice and clean, after which you can continue to your top layers.
+aDotFromTheFuture
PRS 'binding' is actually just a strip of the body they mask off and paint around, its basically a stripe of un-coloured wood. They don't apply plastic like other guitar companies. That's why they usually call it "revealed binding".
If there's a particular colour like "black-gold" which bleeds particularly well, they usually don't offer it with binding, because they can't mask it off reliably enough.
lapelcelery42 It's still a binding no matter what it's made out of. Bleeding of the color is not an issue if you spray an undercoat of lacquer before the paint, which also makes the masking process pointless. You can have any color on the guitar with a clean binding, if you just do the process correctly, and don't rely solely (or at all) on masking.
aDotFromTheFuture
True, but you'd end up with that extra undercoat on the body. The amount of laquer on the wood is something PRS are probably trying to minimise.
I was trying to get at the fact that it's actually not a binding at all on the PRS guitars. There's no extra material and nothing is getting bound. It just looks like "binding".
Satan is my favorite clown
You're wrong there, Gibson have the Gibson USA were most work is done by machines yes, but Gibson Custom Shop is 99% hand made :) SO gtfo