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numba1jap
10-08-2004, 02:00 AM
Is it just me or does the gibson les paul doublecut look an awful lot like a santana?
Anders Destium
10-08-2004, 03:43 AM
Yeah, but the original design of those is pretty old. Gibson has made pretty similar looking guitars way back, in the 60s or something like that. Other people out here now the real facts, but it is no infringement from either side.
Pedro
10-08-2004, 05:01 AM
Like Anders says, when PRS first started making guitars, he used a modified version of Gibson's 50's DC shape, much like Hamer. Carlos was attracted to these guitars back in the day, and as such his signature models are based on those early PRSi he loves.
Bruce O'Donnell
10-08-2004, 08:39 AM
The first guitar (the first instrument he made was a bass) Paul made in 1975 was based on a singlecut Les Paul Jr w/ P-90's, who's design dates back to the early 50's. The second guitar was a double cut hybrid - style was based on the doublecut Les Paul Jr. but it had a single P-90 bridge pickup and a pickguard like the LP Special. He sold that one to Nugent bandmate Derek St. Holmes. Most of his instruments after this were based on post-1958 doublecut LP Jr's. The first guitar he made at the West St. shop in Annapolis was a solidbody Byrdland for Ted Nugent, and the second guitar was the Frampton guitar - LP Jr body style and the first with a carved top, dual humbuckers with 3-pos switch, and birds with the eagle headstock inlay. This was the basis of most of his later guitars, including the first one he made for Carlos (third one with a maple top), up through the Sorcerer's Apprentice set which he tried to interest Yamaha and several other manufacturers into producing. The PRS Custom body style did not come about until 1984.
DanHund
10-08-2004, 08:59 AM
Garrett Park had a PRS Prototype a while back. I've searched all over here and at Gp's site, and this is the only picture I can find of it...
http://frankieandtheactions.com/PRS77joke.jpg
FrankiePRS
10-08-2004, 12:38 PM
Really wish I'd shaved that day. :) Just FYI, Paul built the one I'm playing in that pic in 1977.
johnreardon
10-08-2004, 01:12 PM
Really wish I'd shaved that day. :) Just FYI, Paul built the one I'm playing in that pic in 1977.


Frankie

did you buy it? If yes, did you keep it?