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A STAR IS BORN

Can you make a good guitar a great guitar? Well, if we had the answer to that, as Del Boy would have said, we’d all be millionaires. For us modders, making an instrument a little better – its looks, playability and sound – is the best we can hope for, isn’t it? When PRS Europe wondered if we’d like to put a new SE Starla Stoptail through our modding mangle we obviously accepted. Even before the guitar arrived, we began to wonder what upgrades we might perform… but then the actual guitar turned up and it’s damn-near perfect. £599 with a good gigbag? It’s a steal!

Guitars such as the Starla and the Mira were developed to access a different audience, and pulling this one from its gigbag it’s certainly a

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