Straight facts.
I purchased my first PRS guitar - a Tremonti signature in black slate - back in 2011. I didn't know anything about Mark Tremonti or Alter Bridge before that, and well, I still know very little about them. The draw was a Les Paul-styled guitar with some extra and modern features. It'd been my main guitar for almost a decade until I decided to get a PRS Custom 24 in black gold burst at the end of 2020. If it wasn't obvious by now, I do quite like PRS guitars. So imagine my surprise when I came across a used original PRS Mira this January.
Solid mahogany body and neck, double cutaway, rosewood fingerboard with 24 frets, coil-splitting humbuckers and bird inlays, there just isn't a lot more that I could ask for. I'm still blown away by its playability and sound every time I play it. Joe Knaggs certainly knew what he was doing.
What started as a single unplanned purchase soon morphed into a year-long quest of guitar acquisition. I wasn't exactly fond of Stratocaster-styled guitars when I first started playing, but that has changed over time and I decided it was time for me to add one to the line-up.
This one took some effort since there are so many different types of Stratocasters on the market, but ultimately I settled on a MIJ Hybrid '60s Stratocaster in arctic white as its overall specs - vintage USA pickups in particular - and price point were just about right. I have it tuned in Eb and it's always fun to play. A really nice guitar no doubt, but after a while I began looking for a Stratocaster that matched my personal preferences more closely.
