I've owned a lot of guitars and currently own 1 PRS. The beefy tone, comfort, and playability of a PRS is superb. The eye candy is just frosting on the cake.
It is those minor (well, minor is a relative term) details that really make a great guitar. Like the nut glue. Having no gaps in the glue so that there is 100% contact for the strings to resonate and transmit their energy to the wood is something most builders would not eve n give a second thought. Slap on some glue, jam the nut in, wipe off the excess and move on. This is why Paul is the master.
+Charlie Foxtrot The 3rd It is, even though Paul hasn't invented it. ;) And most of the builders around here know these kind of things. Not bashing, just saying. :)
Most bosses are buddy buddy with the people who are helping them make shit tons of money. I can imagine PRS being a total dick to the guy who cleans up after luthiers.
having met and talked to Paul about 6 times over the years, I can attest he is a very nice and genuine person. He took time away from talking to some high profile buyers for shops to continue to talk about music in general and guitars in specific with my daughter, who was about 13 at the time, to hear her out on playing and performing. And the following year (both of these were at the Dallas IGF) he took the same amount of time to talk to my son, 12, about music and harmonicas (he isn't interested in guitar). And the fact that Paul took time away from people clamoring for his attention, which would have added directly to his bottom line, to give time, give of himself, to a couple of kids, one who didn't even have any serious interest in the guitar, shows his priorities. Check his TEDx talk re: playing your cards to hear his vision. And his push to find a mentor.
At 1:32...By all means, please do become "distracted" and write the "wrong" serial number....That way you can add another 1.5K to the price tag and advertise it as a "Private Stock: Serial Number Error" edition....
If you work for Paul, you'd better have your sh*t together. You can tell he sets a high bar. Thank you, Paul and all you guys who work there, for my guitar.
I owned a custom 24 from 1996. It was a beautiful guitar. They had a toggle kit I had installed that made it like a McCarty to a certain degree. It wasn't a perfect guitar but the locking tuners and overall design made it unique. I still ended up selling it.
Playing a Line 6 POD through a PRS amp........ Sounds nice on the clean channel, but so nasty on the dirty channel. I love PRS guitars, they are everything they claim to be, and worth the investment. SO glad that someone actually still cares about craftsmanship.
absolutely. there is a vid of paul talking about the wood selection, and there is an absolutely mindfucking part where he dings against some neck blank, and all you hear is some bell-like sound. the woods as well as the work are probably the best you can get.
A musician in a serious orchestra can pay up to 40K or more for their instruments. If you play professionally it's really not the craziest price for these. It is definitely a lot of money but it's something that will bring you joy almost everyday for the rest of your life. Obviously there are other great guitar manufacturers but a serious musician shouldn't cheap out on their instrument regardless.
Good point Peter Marshall this adds to my conviction that these instruments are gimmicks and that they are not adding value overall to PRS' image as a guitar company.
binging these videos for a few days paul miles is clearly a very important person at PRS. seems like hes been there since almost the beginning. i hope theyre paying him Ms/equity
That rain forest finish is stunning, I am guessing the private stock guitars ain't cheap, well it is prs after all lol, but you can see the amount of attention and detail that goes into their instruments, I hope to own one of them one day.
I think about just picking up an SE model, then I see a video like this, and I can't bring myself to do it. Guess I gotta save my pennies a little longer and get the real deal.
Wow! That thing is beautiful. Gibson used to care about their guitars. What happened? I'm glad there is a luthier that cares about their craft. So very rare.
This for me exemplifies the PRS Private Stock paradox. These are among the best PRS guitars out there, and they deserve to be played and heard... but sadly they won't be because real guitar-players can't afford them. And even if a gigging musician were to purchase one, the chances are that he'd never take it out on the road. So new Private Stock guitars are aimed at dentists, merchant-bankers and high-end furniture-collectors with money to burn, and who don't give a jot about depreciation and residual-values. Adding insult to injury is the issue of supply and demand. Put simply, PRS make far too many, and as a result you can expect to lose 50% of the value between paying and walking out the shop-door. For £10k I could buy two 1950-60's vintage Gibson Les Paul Juniors and a regular PRS Custom 24. The Juniors will hold up in value because of their vintage, and the regular PRS Custom 24 is an all-round great guitar. A regular PRS Custom 24 is as good as a Private Stock at less than a third of the price, it just doesn't have all the Brazilian rosewood and gold-plated 'flash'. Also, when you play it live and get some 'dings' you won't lose as much sleep. I own a Private Stock McCarty from 2008. The first owner paid £10k and 'kept it under his bed'. I bought it for a little more than a third of the original purchase-price last year, but I'm still frightened to take it out of its case in case it gets damaged. An example of the Private Stock paradox once again. Even though I bought it relatively 'cheap' it's still too pretty to risk damaging. For me the problem rests with Paul. He's flooding respected dealers with guitars made from his wood-library containing powdered unicorn-horn sprinkled with oofle-dust... and it strikes me that it's the retailers that are picking up the slack.
hmm I am an active guitarplayer and own a 12k private stock. take it on stage sometimes, depends on the set we play. the only theng is, I take a good look at it and would never leave it alone, cause insurance is way to expensive. some buy big cars, a house, a boat, or even a private stock ;)
not the one I have, is on market for the same price for used ones. but anyway, that happens also to a car or boat and everything else. but if I'm luck, its growing in price one time.
Ah memories. In the 90's I was in a 2 guitar rock/blues band. The other guitarist bought a PRS 10 top for around 2400.00. My first impression was that it was beautiful to look at - it played like a dream - BUT - I never thought it had much mojo. I've yet to play a PRS that really spoke to me the way a good Strat, Tele, or SG does. personal preference I know - but still. As a side note he took that thing to a bar gig and the unthinkable yet predictable happened.......
Would do anything to work for PRS. Paul, I am on Long Island, and will relocate to MD. Extensive experience at wood working,prepping, routing, pick up wiring,assembling, set ups, etc. Thanks Have a Great Holiday!!
My PRS are customs 22 and 24 but when I see all the eye candy models it makes me feel that the company is getting off track looks are very secondary to sound
I think that the bird inlays are beautiful the old school ones that is..don't care for the new ones whoich I find look cheap and tacky...but then the extreme colours and other aspects of the private stock seem more gimmicky than anything else.
+Steve Morse I quite agree. The company is trying to 'add value' and stands a danger of being viewed as tacky. All the best guitars have been made without this intent. I like the accidental approach - like the Gibson factory in 1959 just making a better Les paul without any conceit to making a future collectable.
pulled out my 90's era PRS yesterday to restring it.. welp love the guitar but tuners with the wings .. i took me an hour to get the g string on and im a 35 year seasoned vet.. I was very very disheartened. I put the guitar away knowing i can't afford 200 dollar tuners right now to replace these FAULTY ones! How about a straight trade so I can actually have a PRS that works? I give you my wing tuners you send me some regular old plain PRS tuners and I'll sing your praises on the highest mountain. If you dont.. welp.. I won't be playing PRS any longer simple is that.. you obviously have the upper hand as I already gave you my money!
Major Seven yeah, this is no way to deal with a company. Hope all your other tuners broke too, fuck face. I'm sure they'll cry themselves to sleep knowing they'll be losing your business of buying one whole guitar 20 years ago.
$10000 guitar and a $50 line 6 pod at the QA step. Love it, cant beat the pod.
I've owned a lot of guitars and currently own 1 PRS. The beefy tone, comfort, and playability of a PRS is superb. The eye candy is just frosting on the cake.
It is those minor (well, minor is a relative term) details that really make a great guitar. Like the nut glue. Having no gaps in the glue so that there is 100% contact for the strings to resonate and transmit their energy to the wood is something most builders would not eve n give a second thought. Slap on some glue, jam the nut in, wipe off the excess and move on. This is why Paul is the master.
+Charlie Foxtrot The 3rd It is, even though Paul hasn't invented it. ;) And most of the builders around here know these kind of things. Not bashing, just saying. :)
PRS seems like he'd be a great boss.
Most bosses are buddy buddy with the people who are helping them make shit tons of money. I can imagine PRS being a total dick to the guy who cleans up after luthiers.
you are wrong.
having met and talked to Paul about 6 times over the years, I can attest he is a very nice and genuine person. He took time away from talking to some high profile buyers for shops to continue to talk about music in general and guitars in specific with my daughter, who was about 13 at the time, to hear her out on playing and performing. And the following year (both of these were at the Dallas IGF) he took the same amount of time to talk to my son, 12, about music and harmonicas (he isn't interested in guitar). And the fact that Paul took time away from people clamoring for his attention, which would have added directly to his bottom line, to give time, give of himself, to a couple of kids, one who didn't even have any serious interest in the guitar, shows his priorities. Check his TEDx talk re: playing your cards to hear his vision. And his push to find a mentor.
Only if your doing the job he wants you well. Otherwise watch out.
At 1:32...By all means, please do become "distracted" and write the "wrong" serial number....That way you can add another 1.5K to the price tag and advertise it as a "Private Stock: Serial Number Error" edition....
If you work for Paul, you'd better have your sh*t together. You can tell he sets a high bar. Thank you, Paul and all you guys who work there, for my guitar.
When the fingerboard is made of mammoth ivory and you plug it into a line 6 pod
I owned a custom 24 from 1996. It was a beautiful guitar. They had a toggle kit I had installed that made it like a McCarty to a certain degree. It wasn't a perfect guitar but the locking tuners and overall design made it unique. I still ended up selling it.
PRS can play too.....respect
Was gonna say that's horrid but looking at it objectively , it's a piece of art.
holy God the day I get my first prs I'll cry no freaking lie
Can someone tell me what amp is used in the clip, is it an Original Sewell 50 head and matching cab? Either way it soundS stunning.
I'd like to see how they get that rainforest finish.
i love how humble he is
Playing a Line 6 POD through a PRS amp........ Sounds nice on the clean channel, but so nasty on the dirty channel. I love PRS guitars, they are everything they claim to be, and worth the investment. SO glad that someone actually still cares about craftsmanship.
absolutely. there is a vid of paul talking about the wood selection, and there is an absolutely mindfucking part where he dings against some neck blank, and all you hear is some bell-like sound. the woods as well as the work are probably the best you can get.
I see a line 6 pod in the background , why ??
That last guitar you tested had wonderful tone. Great job, guys!
i know prs guitars are amazing... perfect.... but despite that fact i still prefer a strat or a dot
there's a line 6 pod on top of the amp....... ? I have a mesa f-30 and a pod, I don't think the two should go well for sound.
He wasn't plugged into it. The guitar was direct.
how much money is that because i read that there r only 5 in the world
Pickups used ?
7:59 set amp to low volume high gain.
8:31 stronger pick attack will drive amp to distortion (jimmy page effect in Since Ive been Loving You)
i love that you can get bits of Woolly Mammoth as an inlay :D
the first guitar is absolutely epic!
That owl is majorly cool!
A musician in a serious orchestra can pay up to 40K or more for their instruments. If you play professionally it's really not the craziest price for these. It is definitely a lot of money but it's something that will bring you joy almost everyday for the rest of your life. Obviously there are other great guitar manufacturers but a serious musician shouldn't cheap out on their instrument regardless.
Good point Peter Marshall this adds to my conviction that these instruments are gimmicks and that they are not adding value overall to PRS' image as a guitar company.
+Steve Morse The thing about PRS is that it's hard to knock them from a quality-perspective, at any level.
8'000 guitare boutique amp aaaaaaaand a pod xD
binging these videos for a few days paul miles is clearly a very important person at PRS. seems like hes been there since almost the beginning. i hope theyre paying him Ms/equity
hello,how much is this guitar,i am very interested.
About 10 to 15k
That rain forest finish is stunning, I am guessing the private stock guitars ain't cheap, well it is prs after all lol, but you can see the amount of attention and detail that goes into their instruments, I hope to own one of them one day.
The private stock ones are around 10k$...
10k really isn’t too bad for the attention to detail. Way better than Gibson’s custom shop imo
Did you guys really use mammoth ivory extracted from Siberia, or were you just kidding? Cool if you did...just abstain from rhino horn...
I think about just picking up an SE model, then I see a video like this, and I can't bring myself to do it. Guess I gotta save my pennies a little longer and get the real deal.
Beautiful guitars
private stocks run for about 8000-10000
Oh good, I saw the final instrument title, and thought that the company was going out of business!
4:50.....just....perfect
After watching several of these videos, Paul's personality is really starting to irritate me.
Id love to work for prs
7:50 OMG that thing sounds so FULL O_O
Next time could you shoot this in lower quality...maybe something in a 1950s B&W TV show theme?
AZCobraman lol, this video is from 2010.
Oh great he signed it,now he will charge another 1000 bucks for it
I'd love to own one of those beauties.
Wow! That thing is beautiful. Gibson used to care about their guitars. What happened? I'm glad there is a luthier that cares about their craft. So very rare.
Paul is super stoned..... Rofl! " The eye like.... follows you! WoAH"
They should call it Zombie Ivory LOL
paul is like steve jobs but only on guitars
Doesn't know when he should sign it,do you know how the guitars are even made?
As
Maybe he's joking around with his employee
Funny to see left-handed worker at only right-handed guitar factory.
This for me exemplifies the PRS Private Stock paradox.
These are among the best PRS guitars out there, and they deserve to be played and heard... but sadly they won't be because real guitar-players can't afford them. And even if a gigging musician were to purchase one, the chances are that he'd never take it out on the road. So new Private Stock guitars are aimed at dentists, merchant-bankers and high-end furniture-collectors with money to burn, and who don't give a jot about depreciation and residual-values.
Adding insult to injury is the issue of supply and demand. Put simply, PRS make far too many, and as a result you can expect to lose 50% of the value between paying and walking out the shop-door.
For £10k I could buy two 1950-60's vintage Gibson Les Paul Juniors and a regular PRS Custom 24. The Juniors will hold up in value because of their vintage, and the regular PRS Custom 24 is an all-round great guitar. A regular PRS Custom 24 is as good as a Private Stock at less than a third of the price, it just doesn't have all the Brazilian rosewood and gold-plated 'flash'. Also, when you play it live and get some 'dings' you won't lose as much sleep.
I own a Private Stock McCarty from 2008. The first owner paid £10k and 'kept it under his bed'. I bought it for a little more than a third of the original purchase-price last year, but I'm still frightened to take it out of its case in case it gets damaged. An example of the Private Stock paradox once again. Even though I bought it relatively 'cheap' it's still too pretty to risk damaging.
For me the problem rests with Paul. He's flooding respected dealers with guitars made from his wood-library containing powdered unicorn-horn sprinkled with oofle-dust... and it strikes me that it's the retailers that are picking up the slack.
hmm I am an active guitarplayer and own a 12k private stock. take it on stage sometimes, depends on the set we play. the only theng is, I take a good look at it and would never leave it alone, cause insurance is way to expensive. some buy big cars, a house, a boat, or even a private stock ;)
The thing is you'd be fortunate to get 5k for a 12k Private Stock if you ever wanted to sell it.
not the one I have, is on market for the same price for used ones. but anyway, that happens also to a car or boat and everything else. but if I'm luck, its growing in price one time.
Ah memories. In the 90's I was in a 2 guitar rock/blues band. The other guitarist bought a PRS 10 top for around 2400.00. My first impression was that it was beautiful to look at - it played like a dream - BUT - I never thought it had much mojo. I've yet to play a PRS that really spoke to me the way a good Strat, Tele, or SG does. personal preference I know - but still. As a side note he took that thing to a bar gig and the unthinkable yet predictable happened.......
Peter Cooper I play Pool with collectible cues, big deal. They play great.
I would never like to work at PRS ,strange vibes !
Yea but you can kinda see why they are that expensive
Paul Red Smit is Steve Jobs of the guitar. Is a crazy genius !!
wtf?? that eye!!!! damn that's cool
....mammoth ivory...
Would do anything to work for PRS. Paul, I am on Long Island, and will relocate to MD. Extensive experience at wood working,prepping, routing, pick up wiring,assembling, set ups, etc. Thanks Have a Great Holiday!!
Rice and Beans for me for awhile because i want me a PRS
Would that be the dream job to have,man that would be awsome,, shoot,,thanks for sharing :)
POD !!!!!!!
2万美金一把PRS Private Stock好琴。
Trying to see a perfect guitar on a video that looks like it was filmed on a camera from the 1980s. Terrible video quality.
Lefty
I think that PRS are getting off track making all these super fancy showcase guitars.
+Steve Morse Quite. If each of these fancy guitars were unique designs then that would be ok. Not things sticked on stock shapes
I completely agree I fear that PRS may be deluting their talent and réputation.
My PRS are customs 22 and 24 but when I see all the eye candy models it makes me feel that the company is getting off track looks are very secondary to sound
I think that the bird inlays are beautiful the old school ones that is..don't care for the new ones whoich I find look cheap and tacky...but then the extreme colours and other aspects of the private stock seem more gimmicky than anything else.
+Steve Morse I quite agree. The company is trying to 'add value' and stands a danger of being viewed as tacky. All the best guitars have been made without this intent. I like the accidental approach - like the Gibson factory in 1959 just making a better Les paul without any conceit to making a future collectable.
owl
privat stock, biggest scam since custom shop
gibson真的不行了PRS吉他做工手感都比gibson吉他牛逼。
beautiful body
pulled out my 90's era PRS yesterday to restring it.. welp love the guitar but tuners with the wings .. i took me an hour to get the g string on and im a 35 year seasoned vet.. I was very very disheartened. I put the guitar away knowing i can't afford 200 dollar tuners right now to replace these FAULTY ones! How about a straight trade so I can actually have a PRS that works? I give you my wing tuners you send me some regular old plain PRS tuners and I'll sing your praises on the highest mountain. If you dont.. welp.. I won't be playing PRS any longer simple is that.. you obviously have the upper hand as I already gave you my money!
Why not sell your '90s PRS and buy a new one. The resale value on old PRS guitars are pretty high.
Major Seven yeah, this is no way to deal with a company. Hope all your other tuners broke too, fuck face. I'm sure they'll cry themselves to sleep knowing they'll be losing your business of buying one whole guitar 20 years ago.
@@granthoover9045 You sound just as childish as the OP.
Christ, that owl guitar is ugly... Beautifully made ugly thing, I suppose...