PRS SE Custom 24 - Tobacco Sunburst Beveled Top with Gigbag

The guitar itself is stunning, with a beautiful high gloss finish on a lovely piece of book-matched maple. The bevelled top is nice, if not as `arched' as I'd hoped. The overall finish on the guitar is flawless, and at first glance, it's hard to see where PRS have cut costs from their far more expensive big brothers. The neck is superb, with a lovely low action. Intonation is spot on, and, as it's so beautifully slim you really can comfortably play right upto the 24th fret. The frets are nicely finished on the edges, though a little more fender than Gibson like. The bird inlays look great though they're obviously perloid or somesuch, I dont care. The headstock and tuners look lovely, but personally I'd prefer to see PRS bigger and SE far smaller. Now to the tuners. They really need to be locking. They just dont hold it in tune the way you'd expect from a PRS at any price. I've checked they're not pinching at the nut, and used Nut Sauce on the slots, and I'me not a serious trem user, but it still goes out regularly. Having said that, they had to save money some where, and most people buying one of these should be prepared to swap out the tuners for locking alternatives. Also a better Tusq-type nut. The trem although not the same one as on their dearer models, is great, very smooth, and also very sensitive. Switched on, the pickups sound good, and anyone trading up to this would be pretty happy I'd imagine. There's plenty of scope from a very bright, trebly bridge pickup to the fatter neck pickup. It's easy to get pinched harmonics in either position, though strangely harder in the middle. So, final conclusions? I think the tuners, and the pickups are where they've saved money. (The nut too, but come on guys, that's only pence!) I've got a couple Di-Marzios gathering dust, so that'll be my final mod. That done, I think people will have a really hard job telling this from a guitar costing upto a thousand pounds more, and that is some recommendation.