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									GAS! - Opinions and Polls				            </title>
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                        <title>Re: GAS!</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/gas-3/#post-375081</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 21:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Ronkirn.com i think, great maker, highly respected in the luthier and strat community. he has a long waiting list but his prices are lower than most artist model strats. And made in his gara...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ronkirn.com i think, great maker, highly respected in the luthier and strat community. he has a long waiting list but his prices are lower than most artist model strats. And made in his garage. im writting with a squiggly 1 month old in my arms btw. I have some of his templates. great web site if you intersted in building and stuff too.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>EzraplaysEzra</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: GAS!</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/gas-3/#post-375077</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 21:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Who is this Ron Kirn fellow?]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Who is this Ron Kirn fellow?]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>fleaaaaaa</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: GAS!</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/gas-3/#post-375048</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 15:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Oh, Flea, my friend... if you ever want a hand made custom strat, Give Ron Kirn a call. You could probably fly to the states, pick it up and fly back with it for less than what a custom shop...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Oh, Flea, my friend... if you ever want a hand made custom strat, Give Ron Kirn a call. You could probably fly to the states, pick it up and fly back with it for less than what a custom shop fender would cost you. And I'll wind up a set of smoking pickups for you too!]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>EzraplaysEzra</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: GAS!</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/gas-3/#post-375043</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Ezra...... you, me, parking lot now! Haha thanks though, I really like the SE ones I dont think I&#039;d fork out thousands for a proper PRS though. I&#039;d probably stretch to between Â£1 and Â£2 gr...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ezra...... you, me, parking lot now! <br><br>Haha thanks though, I really like the SE ones I dont think I'd fork out thousands for a proper PRS though. I'd probably stretch to between Â£1 and Â£2 grand for a really great strat if it blew me away, having an expensive strat is one of my far away dreams and beside that I don't think I'd ever get a really expensive guitar (paying Â£4 grand for a certain PRS just seems madness to me)]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>fleaaaaaa</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: GAS!</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/gas-3/#post-375029</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 06:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Okay, I have been here for a few weeks now it&#039;s about time I started a fight. I think PRS guitars are far and away the most over priced under achieving guitars on the market, I would feel th...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Okay, I have been here for a few weeks now it's about time I started a fight. <br><br>I think PRS guitars are far and away the most over priced under achieving guitars on the market, I would feel the same way if they cost a third of what they do. Terrible pickups, Run of the mill CNC workmanship, cheap and impossibly thick Poly finishes, Heavy woods and all of this for a mass produced, uncomfortable guitar for what many private luthiers will make you a custom guitar for. What makes it worse is how good the SE's are for the price. And TR, I'd be willing to bet that playing a $4000 PRS would make you fall in love with your LP's all over again. Nice guitar Flea.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: GAS!</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/gas-3/#post-375025</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 05:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I really have enjoyed my PRS SE. I&#039;ve got a graple colored Paul Allender LP with passive pickups. It&#039;s the easiest fret board of my collection. The bridge p-up needs to go into some juice. I...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I really have enjoyed my PRS SE. I've got a graple colored Paul Allender LP with passive pickups. It's the easiest fret board of my collection. The bridge p-up needs to go into some juice. It loves some power. Even a cleanish tube screamer will do just fine. I've your playing clean and want some thinner tone, but not all bridge, the two do play nicely wth each other. It also helps the bridge pup to have the tone dropped a but when clean. <br><br>I have played a few SE Single cuts. Very nice. TR, they're a tiny bit different. I think most are 25-inch scale. Some necks also are a bit wider down near the body with a bridge to match. Makes things a bit easier for fat fingered dudes like myself.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>rparker</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: GAS!</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/gas-3/#post-374942</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 19:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[NOS is New Old Stock.  Vintage stuff thats never been taken out of the box, used or sold.  I thought a cleaver joke on his part.  I have some mid priced guitars that are not USA made that ar...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[NOS is New Old Stock.  Vintage stuff thats never been taken out of the box, used or sold.  I thought a cleaver joke on his part.  I have some mid priced guitars that are not USA made that are my favorites.  Specifically my black Epiphone Les Paul.  It just fits me and I like it's sound.  I'm not so much a Strat guy but my MIM Strat compares favorably to any American Strat I have ever played.  Mine is an old one (1992) and there wasn't alot of difference back then.  I've never tried a PRS but with my fondness for the Les Paul I'm sure I would like them.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>TRGuitar</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: GAS!</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/gas-3/#post-374941</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 18:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[What does NOS stand for then? I actually noticed at the jam I goto there is a guy who has an expensive PRS - and an expensive strat - one that has these strange looking white pick ups, neith...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[What does NOS stand for then? I actually noticed at the jam I goto there is a guy who has an expensive PRS - and an expensive strat - one that has these strange looking white pick ups, neither of his "sounds" compare with my MIM strat from where I'm listening.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>fleaaaaaa</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: GAS!</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/gas-3/#post-374932</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 07:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I play my guitars with American fingers .......... Your fine with the gear you have.  My Gibsons don&#039;t magically make me play better, your MIM Strat is just fine.  Enjoy that PRS!My son said...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I play my guitars with American fingers .......... Your fine with the gear you have.  My Gibsons don't magically make me play better, your MIM Strat is just fine.  Enjoy that PRS!<br><br>My son said to pass on he plays with NOS American fingers.  (My wife, his mom is native American)]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>TRGuitar</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: GAS!</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/gas-3/#post-374920</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Well..... the SE - is a nice way to go if you want a PRS guitar without paying thousands of pounds, in the UK anyway, these are relatively affordable guitars - and I&#039;ve read people online wh...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Well..... the SE - is a nice way to go if you want a PRS guitar without paying thousands of pounds, in the UK anyway, these are relatively affordable guitars - and I've read people online who own the top of the range PRS' saying they got an SE as a back up to their full PRS version of the same guitar and being really impressed....... now I'm not saying they say they're as good as the very expensive top of the range PRS but just that they're saying for the price they're a really good instrument...... and I'm really happy with my guitars, my mex strat and my PRS SE - I might one day get an expensive strat probably far into the future just to have an american strat but if it never happened I'd still be happy bashing away on my current electrics. I'm just very glad at what I've learnt to do with my guitars, I can make them sound great to the point where people are fooled into thinking my strat is american.]]></content:encoded>
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