LOL! My fist guitar was actually a Fernando jackson copy with a finish that's almost same as yours. When I was the store trying out some PRS SEs, I was torn between an SE Custom 22 cherry burst, SE Standard, and an SE Santana II. The Santana I tried almost had the same finish as yours, beautiful. But I didn't get it coz the acoustic sounds was quite not right. Might have been a lemon. Cherry burst looked ugly and too bright, had dings all over. Mukhang gamit na gamit sa store. I ended up with my Standard.
Na-kwento ko na naman sayo chino how at the time my GAS was for SE tremonti and singlecuts. Out of stock lang lagi dati! Tsaka I tried a whole lot of guitars, pati samick greg bennett guitars sinubukan ko rin (yung singlecut din, avion right?).
And that my girlfriend picked out this guitar for me,
para maiba naman daw from my usual shape and color preferences. Before this I was testing a custom in gray-black flamed veneer, but the neck was a bit on the chunky side and the tone, I find, a bit too thin for me. Yung santana hindi na mint, a bit of rust on the screws already and a couple of scratches on the pickguard (still bugs me to this day lol), tapos trem bridge pa when what I wanted was a stoptail. I said WTH try ko na rin. But... this... was the one.
Neck feels just right, it rings out in a nice way, nice sustain, and with a beefy body to its tone that was so hard to find. I liked it so much I couldn't put it down! Di na dapat ako aalis if the sales guy wasn't on my ass all the time pressuring me to buy na. I think it was only after a few weeks when she got it for me on my birthday.
