Paul Reed Smith as a guitar player may not be a household of a name, but the guitars he had created however is a totally different story. His guitar company started way back in 1985 when he first introduced the PRS Custom for the NAMM show and that launch the continuous success of the brand of guitars, bass and amplifiers coveted today by many musicians and guitar enthusiast alike.
PRS SE Standard 245 design has a close resemblance and a great alternative to an American made PRS. The SE stands for student edition which is an identifying maker that the guitar is the more affordable model, but not less of a gig ready guitar.
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- Single cutaway body is made of mahogany
- Comfortable profile mahogany set neck
- 22 medium frets rosewood fingerboard with bird inlays
- Set of PRS Designed-Tuners in chrome
- PRS Designed-Stop-Tail Bridge
- PRS humbucker pick-ups on the neck and bridge controlled by a 3-way toggle switch for pick-up selection, a separate volume and tone knobs for each pick-ups
Body and Neck: The single cutaway body is made of mahogany in assortment of color finishes without any pickguard for players to choose from. Mahogany is medium to heavy in weight that yields a characteristic creamy clean and warm full bodied overdriven sound.
Neck for the PRS SE Standard 245 is wide fat in profile made in mahogany top of by a 22 frets medium rosewood fingerboard, again adding warmth to the sound then it is garnished with bird inlays.
Pick-ups: Powering the guitar are two PRS humbucker pick-ups placed on the neck and on the bridge controlled by a 3-way toggle switch for pick-up selection, a separate volume and tone knobs for each pick-ups.
Hardware: The guitar features PRS Designed-Stop-tail Bridge, and PRS Designed-Tuners in chrome, keeping the string in place and in tune.
Final Thoughts: Although the guitar is built with quality, good sounding and extremely playable, the issue would be on the price because it is a bit high especially when compared to a Epiphone Les Paul its main competitor or even with guitars using single-coil for pick-ups, like the Squier Classic Vibe 50’s Stratocaster.
Looking at it overall, the PRS SE Standard 245 is above average and versatile piece of instrument to use on different genre of music that players would enjoy playing with or add to their growing guitar collection.
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