At the cost of this guitar, it makes little sense for me to try to find wood as clear and then spend more than the guitar costs to make a house-made guitar that won't have any more value on the used market than this one does. Point being, I'm glad to see some of these myths die. The real issue with it was that it changes color when exposed to sunlight, and color was the number one reason people would return cabinets - they'd get some from one distributor, some from another and if the color didn't look identical, they'd send them all back, and the distributor would send them back to us. I have no clue what they were talking about. Hello guys I own a PRS SE One Im thinking its worth changing the pickup. People requested cherry and when the company finally started offering it, they went on at length about "how difficult it is to work, and that it leaves fuzz after the tooling is done roughing out cabinet parts". When I worked in a cabinet factory, we were selling oak and maple cabinets - it was the 1990s, and "light oak" was sort of the thing for commodity cabinets. There's probably some waste and it probably has to go on a slower drying schedule, but those are issues of convenience more than anything. They just have the means to go find things that aren't marketed here, which is sort of a bummer for a garage builder like me, but good in the sense that some of the water has been let out of the tub on the woods that aren't restricted, including the nonsense that "korina is notoriously hard to work with" as some of the marketing articles have said. I'm not deluded enough to believe that when someone like Gibson or PRS goes straight to africa, that they're paying $20 a board foot for anything. There's just no organized market for it here in the states, so it's not easy for me to get. I doubt it costs any more than any other common mahogany (non bigleaf) replacement if someone is big enough to be willing to go to the origin for the wood.
Gibson made it out like it was something special and others talked it up. Do i need to change the rest of the wiring, or do any other mods to compensate for this change Id like to keep it as simple as possible, with just one push/pull volume knob to split the coil at the neck pickup. I might switch it to a bone nut in the future, but thats about it.I get that sense, too. The tuning heads are nice die-cast pieces, the stopbar bridge has dead-on intonation and is really comfortable for mutes, hell even the strap buttons are the oversized ones.
I usually mod my guitars but I can't think of anything this one needs really. Picking closer to the neck will have a fatter, darker sound. You can pick the strings closer to the bridge and get thin, shrill sounds. One thing about single pickup guitars is that you can get different tones out of them by variations in your picking attack. My only gripe with the neck is that there's not much real estate on the headstock to clamp my capo to when I'm not using it. I have fat fingers and I play chords all over the neck when I'm in open G so its good to have a fairly uniform fretboard width. Love the shape of the neck, wide at the nut without much taper to it. I also play a lot of Keef, and I can get some Tele-ish sounds when I back off on the volume. I play a lot of Social Distortion/Johnny Thunders style stuff, and this guitar can match those tones really well. from what I've read about them on forums, theres enough of a cavity under the pg to add a tone pot if you really want one. I can EQ the tone on my amp better than I probably could with a tone control anyway. Roll the volume all the way up and its nice and crunchy, roll it back and it smooths it out.