Home, Sweet Home…
My own reminiscences about Paul Reed Smith’s guitars begin around 1992. Up until that point, all I had seen from the company was its 24-fret neck models and, call office and my heart skipped a beat. Okay, that might be a little bit of an exaggeration, but I was assigned to review the guitar, which meant I had an extra dose of ‘hands on’ with the instrument. We’ve all had that experience where you’re desperately trying to justify yet another guitar joining the family to both yourself and your partner, and, in the end, I had to bid the 22 a fond farewell and it disappeared from my life. Since that time, I’ve accumulated a number of twin-humbucker guitars, but I remain PRS-free. Admirable restraint on my part, methinks. But I wholeheartedly applaud Paul and his team for continually surprising us with innovation and superlative design. We’ve even got a soft spot for the Silver Sky… So please join us in celebrating PRS’s 35th anniversary in this very special issue.
