Yesterday was my once annual guitar maintenance day. Everything got new strings, all my fingerboards got oiled, all the bodies got polished, and so did the frets. I took the opportunity to put the correct truss rod cover on one of my semi-vintage Gibson's, and found out the neck pickup is dead on another guitar. Two guitars will need fret jobs sometime in the next few months (surprise surprise, it's the two guitars I play the most) and I removed, crammed toothpicks and wood putty down the holes, and re-installed half a dozen loose straplocks. Had so much fun jamming on some of the guitars I've hardly touched since the last time I did this. Good times. All the guitars feel so much different after giving them the once-over really thoroughly, I recommend everyone do it periodically.
That having been said: Does anyone own a PRS CE model? There's a really nice CE 24 on consignment at the local shop for a grand. I have a big ass check coming next week and a thousand will be much more palatable to my wife than the getting the 65 SG special. There's just such a huge price difference between the customs and the CEs that I'm looking for first hand experience as to why? The bit of research I've done says same quality, same workmanship, same woods, just a bolt on neck instead of a set one. If that's really and truly all there is to it, I'm all over it. I tend to gravitate towards the slightly less desirable instruments anyway. I'm going to go down and play it some more, I was just looking for some firsthand experience.
