NEWS: Dave Weiner sells his Ibanezes, joins PRS
Now this is interesting. Finding his guitar needs shifting in new directions and no longer feeling that Ibanez reflected his personality, Dave Weiner is selling off a bunch of his Ibanezes and is hooking up with PRS under a non-exlusive agreement which will allow him to play other brands when he feels like it, while also developing 6 and 7 string models. Cool!
Dave talks about his sweet new PRS 513 in this video here:
You can read more, including comments from Dave, on this thread on Jemsite.
As for Dave’s garage sale, check out the guitars he’s saying goodbye to here. Currently he’s selling an Ibanez LACS (LA Custom Shop) 7 string, an Ibanez AF207 7-string jazz guitar with one-of-a-kind 5-way high frequency filter, an Ibanez AJ30ECE acoustic guitar used on Steve Vai’s recent ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ live CD and DVD, and an Ibanez SR485 5-string bass.
LINK: Daveweiner.com
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Hi! I'm Peter Hodgson. I write for Gibson.com, Australian Guitar, Australian Musician, Mixdown Magazine (including my instructional column, 'Unleash Your Inner Rock God,' which has been running since 2007), guitarworld.com, Tone Deaf, Beat (including their weekly hard rock/metal column Crunch) and The Brag. And I'm Assistant Social Coordinator with Seymour Duncan.
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heheh you said weiner heheh heheh
but seriously… damn he's got some skills… the half step bend tappy thing is a great little trick… reminds me i need to learn how to tap a buttload better…
Hey Peter,
sorry, but I have to correct you. Dave's garage sale website is not up to date. Browsing through his comments about his new PRS on Jemsite, he told that his Blue 7 and orange S7 are already sold. The very guitars that are currently left for sale are his LACS RG-models (the green and red one).
Anyone wants to buy?
7 string PRS's would be amazing! I have heard the necks on PRS's are not good around the higher frets.Anyone confirm this for me? Not that I'll ever be able to afford one in my lifetime but still.
Dave has also stated that because of the large increase of sales in the SE line, Paul Reed Smith is at least CONSIDERING an SE 7-String! Knowing a large number of guitar players who would like to go the 7-string route but not in the “\M/etal Way” that Ibanez, Schecter and most other companies that have reasonably-priced 7-strings build. Even thinking about R&D and increased costs, if PRS can bring in an SE7 for under $1,000 USD (that seems to be their pricepoint for the line anyway) and the only costs to make it “Professional-Worthy” like other SEs are a set of Locking Tuners & perhaps aftermarket pickups, I believe they’d have a gold mine on their hands!