You Snooze, You Win
Talk about a narrow escape.
Long-term readers of this blog who are also "guitar people" might recall that I own two examples of the Paul Reed Smith "DGT" guitar. One's a so-called "Wood Library", the other's a Private Stock with the sought-after Celtic-knot inlays.
However, for a while now I've been hoping to come across one of the limited-run PRS Private Stock DGTs with a pernambuco neck. Twenty-five were made, each in a different color, and the buzz on them was tremendous from Day One. My Ocean Fade Private Stock has a Chaltecoco neck, which is supposedly close to Pernambuco, and it feels very alive. So I've been looking out for a DGT Pernambuco, but the only one that's come up for sale in the past six months was priced at about what you'd pay for a Nissan Versa Note and it was an un-lovely color.
This week, however, Guitar Center's been blowing out their PRS inventory and they had, in the used-instrument stock, the blue Pernambuco DGT in the video above. It was more money than I have to spend but less than I could sell it for on eBay next year, prolly. So I've been thinking about getting it. In fact, the idea has consumed most of my evening when I really should be writing something for money and/or cleaning the house and/or exercising.
Finally, I couldn't stand it any longer and posted something on the Vintage Rocker forum to see if anybody had actually seen it in the wood. Turns out it sold the day the list came out.
Okay, I'm now officially $5,572 richer. Or that amount less poor.
Woo hoo.