SE: The Affordable PRS
May 31, 2019
4 minutes
Words Dave Burrluck
The Student Edition was originally a slab-body, no-maple zone because Paul Reed Smith believed those features would impact on the sales of USA models, yet the range’s latest is the closest so far to a ‘copy’ of PRS’s core models.
“It’s a fine-line process,” states Jack Higginbotham, PRS COO (and prime mover behind both the SE and S2 lines), diplomatically. “It started with the new headstock logo [originally seen on the 2017 SE models]. I wanted to say we’re the same company. We’re not a different company, so I wanted the Paul Reed Smith logo with the SE as a suffix. But, you have to be careful not to get too
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