Well heck, I might have to run down the street to PRS, on good old Kent Island, here in the communist state of Maryland and get a new axe.
Before you do that PLEASE, check out FireFly. They make small batches of guitars and sell them at Guitarsgarden.com. That's the official site. Look up the reviews if you want. They are insanely well made and super cheap. Excellent quality materials. We're talking stainless ball end frets, High end hardwoods, bone nut and bridge, locking tuners on many models, shielded electronics bays, abalone inlays, rosewood fretboards, etc. They have the reputation as the "ultimate project guitar". For the money, you can get two and upgrade to some high-end pickups and whatever else you want and have a super high end guitar that noone else has. My guitarist (Patty Wagons Mullan) is a guitar snob, shredder and he just bought one after much arm twisting. He is also in shock over how good these guitars are. As long as you know how to set a guitar action and truss up you'll freak out over what you get. Sometimes they skimp on the set up and let the customer do it. However, they do have excellent customer service and stand behind their stuff if anything is wrong. Like I said they do small batches and if you sleep on one you like it will be gone the next day and they may not run that batch again for 3 years. That's the only thing that people get pissed about. You kinda have to watch the site to see when they do a new drop because they might go a whole month with not much on the page to 10 new guitars and they go with a quickness. DON'T buy them anywhere else but Guitars Garden because they have become so popular that shady sellers have started making fake FireFlys and selling them on Temu and they are NOT the same guitars at all.
Click to follow link...Right under the Guitars Garden header at the top of the page there is a line of 4 letter phrases that represent the different models they make. Click on those. Some are empty because they are all gone.
Below are a couple reviews.
Click to follow link...Click to follow link...Click to follow link...Click to follow link...Oh and if you have ever considered owning a Tele their Telecasters BLOW the crap Fender is doing these days out of the water.
Look at the specs on this one. (I own one BTW so I can personally vouch for it). I put a Bare Knuckle Brute Force pickup in the Bridge position. It's F'ing awesome. When I opened it up sure enough all the internal compartments are heavily coated with shielding paint.
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