Recent content by LowSlowJoe

Ah... I'm over in southeastern Michigan.

After posting the photo of the sticker and writing, bellow my rear pickup over at the PRS forum, it seems there is a good chance that this guitar was part of the items displayed at the 2006 NAMM show. So I do think this is very likely one of the earliest of the PRS Standard 24s with the Satin...

I've been reading a bit more about the PRS Satin series... apparently it was the entire line was introduced in 2006. I'm wondering if my guitar isn't one of the first of them, given it's actual official build date was 12/29/2005 but is apparently a 2006 model. I also wonder what the...

PRS makes a guitar that they call the 'Starla' that's very similar to that SG of yours. I was very seriously considering buying one of these PRS Starla S2 guitars before I found the used PRS that I've been working on... I think PRS made a full USA made Starla in the past, but it seems it's...

Here's a sort of before and after... The first photo shows the 'SATIN' finish that remained around the strings/pickup area... Perhaps I was too picky, but to me this doesn't look like the kind of wear I would expect from playing a guitar... to me , it looks more like wear that was inflicted by...

Yes, the guitar when I got it, had some areas that were still 'SATIN' looking, but areas where the player's arm had rubbed on it, were glossy... which would have been fine, if the only glossy parts were from normal playing and not much else... However, around the bridge and pickups, where it...

For the most part, the issue of polish residuals getting into the low spots in the grain hasn't been a issue. However looking closer at what I have now, I do see some signs of that issue. I think I'm going to take some naphtha and some sort of relatively soft bristle brush and try to clean out...

Well, I couldn't help myself... I went at it with some Ultimate compound cleaned things up around the pickups and tremolo bridge. I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out... given this guitar is new to me, I would have been constantly annoyed by the odd transitions from dull to shiny around...

OK, just got off the phone with PRS , they tell me that the finish is not a nitrocellulose lacquer, it is apparently urethane. At least that according to Matt King at PRS. I think the confusion is that in one of their FAQ's they mention that they do some nitrocellulose lacquer , and they list...

Well, see there you go... I could take a entirely different approach and start putting stickers all over it , then dragging it behind my car on the way to work. :)

Here's another shot of the guitar's body... this one clearly shows that the original finish was not the type that would smooth out the grain itself... just a sort of bare bones finish almost like a thick stain as opposed to a smooth thick paint... At the time this guitar was made, I think it...

Yes, well there seems to be a lot of misinformation in general about silicone :) Even more so when it comes to issues related to musical instruments... Near as I can tell, I only have two real concerns about silicone... one is that I'm not sure I want any of it getting on my fretboard. The...

The guitar in question, is a PRS Standard 24 fret with wide/thin neck, faded cherry satin finish. Final inspection was done on 12/29/2005, so it's 9th birthday is coming up soon. :) Here's the body of the guitar, I think this shows the 'dull' or 'satin' areas that still exist... that I am...

Well , in my hands... it doesn't sound like much but, I know that's just cause it's me. The guitar is a 2005 PRS Standard 24 ( all mahogany body/neck, no maple top, rosewood fretboard ) It's not one of those customs with the 10 top maple and such... in fact it's not even the '20th...

Ok, so... I recently purchased a decent used electric guitar which apparently has a nitrocellulose lacquer 'satin' finish on it. The guitar is in pretty good shape overall and plays very well. However, there are parts of the finish that need a good cleaning and even potentially a good...