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Hello all,

[b]NOW WITHDRAWN [/b]

[b][s]£375[/s][/b] - final price drop before I withdraw it from sale.

Its a 2015 PRS SE Bernie Marsden Signature, which are very well-thought of as among the best of the SE range of Korean-made PRS models. These are now being discontinued in favour of way more expensive USA-made versions.

Its almost mint condition, as I bought it new and I seldom gig on guitar.

I've owned it since October 2015, when I wrote a fairly lengthy 'New Guitar Day' post on it shown here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/272245-ngd-bernie-marsden-prs-se"]http://basschat.co.u...-marsden-prs-se[/url]/

In a nutshell, it's a singlecut Les Paul-alike, 24.5-inch scale, with a 'wide fat' profile neck modelled on Bernie Marsden's own 1959 sunburst LP known as 'The Beast'.

It has a mahogany neck and body, with a solid maple cap overlaid with a lovely figured maple veneer and stunning sunburst. It features two volumes and a master tone, wrap-over bridge, vintage-style machine heads, mahogany fretboard and the usual flying bird inlays.

It all adds up to a full-throated sounding singlecut, with a full neck, which sounds richer and meatier than an SG, but slightly brighter than a Les Paul.

Full spec here: [url="http://www.prsguitars.com/2015/seberniemarsden"]http://www.prsguitar...seberniemarsden[/url]/

It's had a pro set-up by Leicester guitar repairman Howard Smith [url="http://www.howardsmith.co.uk/"]http://www.howardsmith.co.uk[/url], so has lovely low action, with no buzzes, and plays really well. Its strung with 10-46 Ernie Balls.

I own a couple of other Korean guitars (an Epiphone Jack Casady and a Crafter DE7 electro acoustic) and fair play the build quality, fit and finish on all three of them is really high quality. The rosewood board is beautifully dark and close-grained, the fretwork and inlays are clean and neat, and the bodywork is top notch.

Condition-wise it's about as near to mint as you could get, having been played onstage only a handful of times, but not even for a full gig. There are some tiny (and i mean really tiny) surface scratches on the very back where it's rubbed against zips/buttons on jeans etc, but you'd have to go looking to see them.

It comes with a PRS SE chocolate brown padded gig bag, which again is in perfect condition.

In the pics its got a cream Gibson Les Paul pickup ring on the selector but I'll include the original ring too. Its a 30-second job to swap them over.

The exact weight is 3.5kg - which is lighter than my 2001 MIA Strat and very comfortable to wear.

I'm looking for [s]£425[/s] [b]£375[/b] posted, (They retail for £595 new), but I am open to sensible offers.

I'm in Leicestershire and happy for anyone to pop over and try it over a cup of tea and some biscuits, and I'll knock a few quid off for collection/meet up.

Fire away with any questions, and I'll do my very best to answer them. I'm sorry some of the pics are at the wrong angle, but i can't figure how to change them and they show all the right details.

[s][b]NOW £375[/b][/s]

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[quote name='richardd' timestamp='1469876397' post='3101664']
Don't need your Guitar Chris ,but hope all goes well with the new born.Rich☺☺
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Cheers Rich! Yes baby number 2 ( as yet unnamed ) emerged yesterday! All well with mum and baby.

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I've had some questions on the size of the neck.

PRS describe it as their 'fat wide' profile, and while it's a comfortable handful compared to the skinny, almost Ibanez-esque 'thin wide' profile, it's certainly no baseball bat.

To me it feels similar to a Gibson SG '50s profile' neck I had some years ago (early 2000s).

I used to play regularly on my brother's old Fender Custom Shop 51 Nocaster relic, and that had a really huge neck - sounded great but not to everyone's taste.

The PRS one in comparison is nowhere near as large - I'm surprised they even describe it as 'fat wide' as that's not really the best way to describe it - I'd say 'rounded rather than shallow'.

Hope that helps!

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