This guitar for 550 euros?

white_falcon

Hi lads,
I was looking at buying a guitar from thomann.de but after having a look around, I've decided that I will buy from the UK as the euro is so good against the pound right now, and it makes it actually cheaper.

This guitar is is 777euros on thomann
http://www.thomann.de/ie/prs_se_custom_csb_trem.htm

But its £409 on guitarbitz.com (which works out at 549 euros at current rate)
http://www.guitarbitz.com/734.htm

Correct me if I'm wrong but isnt 550 euros (excluding delivery) for that guitar pretty good?

I do understand that if it was taken by customs it would be 665 euros with the 21% tax, and 3% electric guitar tax making it 682, but still - thats a pretty big saving.

Has anyone any other ideas of a guitar this versatile and well built for this price? I'm lookin for one for home recording and will be buying it this weekend

Quattroste

Customs can do nothing as you are still buying in the UK.

Try one out somewhere first as I haven't heard great things about those guitars.

white_falcon

Quattroste wrote: »

Customs can do nothing as you are still buying in the UK.

Try one out somewhere first as I haven't heard great things about those guitars.

no way...so technically I can't get charged for customs for that?

johnboy8

no you wont get charged for anything.i buy nearly all my stuff from soundslive.co .uk(i just bought a vox ac30 for 700euros,the same one was over a grand on thomann)

Quattroste

WOAH! WTF did I write :eek: I meant EU not UK. but yes, no customs from anywhere in the EU

white_falcon

When you say you havent heard great things about it, what do you mean?

I've looked at loads of reviews on Harmony Central, and they all seem really good. I also looked at a load of people playing it on youtube, and they've all said its deadly for the price.

fish-head

I had a PRS Santana SE and it was a wonderful guitar. Sold it cuz it wasn't really my style but I'd still recommend that series of axes.

Fingers Mcginty

OP...Just curious...have you ever played a PRS before?

white_falcon

Fingers Mcginty wrote: »

OP...Just curious...have you ever played a PRS before?

lol no...but all the reviews of them i have seen are great. see its kinda hard when u live in a city as **** as waterford to actually get to a music store to play any of the guitars i want to buy, so i can only go by youtube and harmony central reviews...and boards of course, which is why im here asking is there any better guitars for the price for home recording in the style of metal, rock, and contemporary music - ie. a versatile guitar

Fingers Mcginty

If you tend to lean your right arm on the body of the guitar while playing you may put this guitar out of tune ....more so with these guitars. I owned a custom 22 and lovely guitar as it was i just couldn't change my style (which most likely is incorrect in the first place) to conteract this. You really should try and get your hands on a PRS just to see if it suits ya.

white_falcon

Fingers Mcginty wrote: »

If you tend to lean your right arm on the body of the guitar while playing you may put this guitar out of tune ....more so with these guitars. I owned a custom 22 and lovely guitar as it was i just couldn't change my style (which most likely is incorrect in the first place) to conteract this. You really should try and get your hands on a PRS just to see if it suits ya.

yea i see what you mean alright. sure il have a look and see if i can get my hands on one so because with such a thin guitar as this, im pretty sure thats what id be doin

Killaqueen!!!

I have a PRS SE Singlecut and I love it! Bought it in the States and brought it back so I got a huge saving! I would say try it out first..that goes for any guitar your thinking of buying. It is quite versatile, very easy to play but then again I was used to playing horrible electrics. If you have a good tube amp, and some nice pedals you can get some lovely sounds out of it, and looks gorgous too!

As for 550euro for that guitar. Yeah, it's decent enough price. I got mine for around 450euro..could've been less/more.

Quattroste

I stand corrected it would seem. I do remember people slating the lower end PRS's before maybe I shouldn't have said that. Really the main point was to try before you buy if you can!

Killaqueen!!!

The thing was I went into the shop looking for a Strat/Tele (would still love one) but I couldn't find an American I could afford and the Mexicans didn't do it for me, so went in the opposite direction and got the PRS. I had played the upmarket PRS's (knowing I couldn't afford them but still!) and my God they're gorgous. They just make fantastic guitars but even the upper end seem to me to have a 'general' sound off them. As in there's no characteristic to it, not like a Strat/Tele/LP that you'd recognise the sound straight away. That's not to say it doesn't have tone...and they're great for rock/blues. The SE series is obviously a huge step down from the upmarket models but it's still miles ahead in quality for guitars more expensive than 550euro. In my opinion anyway.

Demeyes

I've played a few of those SE models. Great guitars for the money. Very solid and they sound pretty good.

Patricide

Se series are good for the cash and if you want somthing for rock metal and contemporary music i dont think theres any other option i would recommend over one. There not gonna be on the same level as the "real" prs guitars but still solid none the less.

white_falcon

Patricide wrote: »

Se series are good for the cash and if you want somthing for rock metal and contemporary music i dont think theres any other option i would recommend over one. There not gonna be on the same level as the "real" prs guitars but still solid none the less.

yea that was what I was thinking. I don't think theres a guitar as versatile as one, so im going ahead and buying it today from guitarbitz.com

yay! new guitar!

Fad

i have that exact guitar well in the other black/greyish colour

em if you plan on using the trem a whole lot get locking tuners it goes out pretty fast

otherwise i love it

Killaqueen!!!

Yeah thats why I went for one without a trem. Good luck man it's a sweet guitar!

white_falcon

Fad wrote: »

i have that exact guitar well in the other black/greyish colour

em if you plan on using the trem a whole lot get locking tuners it goes out pretty fast

otherwise i love it

yay i just bought it an hr ago from here:
http://www.andertons.co.uk/acatalog/info_PRSSECUSTGBTR.html

got the black/greyish one too. not a bad price at all either

might get locking tuners at a later stage

new guitar to play with! yay!

Killaqueen!!!

Hey how much did it come to in total? Did you have to pay customs?

white_falcon

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

Hey how much did it come to in total? Did you have to pay customs?

570 euros total shipping + vat included delivered to my door in 2-3 days

not bad eh

tis about 200 euros cheaper than thomann lol

white_falcon

oh and cuz ur buying from England theres no customs charges

u only pay customs when it comes from outside of the EU i was just told recently - actually by "johnboy8" on this thread...but yea - i didnt and wont get charged customs