PRS SE One Guitar, Tobacco Sunburst
- 22 frets, Stoptail
- Single Soapbar pickup
- 25 Inch Scale
- Gig Bag Included
Amazon.com Product Description
The SE One is a single pickup, single knob, single cutaway SE for the musician who desires a no frills approach to get his music across.
Keep it simple. Click to enlarge. |
PRS-designed tuning machines. |
Single-coil soapbar pickup. |
PRS “wide fat” set neck for warm tone and sustain. |
The SE One
Keep It Simple
The SE One’s high-output, single-coil soapbar pickup is all you need for crisp, snappy sound. Back it off with the volume control. Plug in and play–what else is there?
Wide Fat Neck
The Wide Fat neck has the same nut width as the Wide Thin neck but has a big comfortable profile, similar to PRS’s Regular neck. Because of its strength and longer “heel,” the Wide Fat neck produces warm tones with lots of sustain.
PRS Stoptail Bridge
Designed to take full advantage of the resonant properties of their guitars, PRS’s Stoptail Bridge provides direct transmission of string vibration to the guitar body and makes set-up a breeze. First used in 1991 on the PRS Dragon I guitar, it now appears on almost half of all PRS guitars sold. This bridge features slots that recess the strings comfortably as they pass over the top, in a gentle curve. Although it is pre-compensated for modern string gauges, fine-tuning is possible by adjusting the set screws at each end of the bridge.
Available Colors
The SE One is available in Antique White and Tobacco Sunburst finishes.
Finish
PRS finishes their instruments with a polyester basecoat and acrylic urethane topcoat. Acrylic urethane looks and feels the closest to the old nitro-cellulose finishes but without the finish checking.
The PRS Mission Statement
Guitar building is an ongoing process of discovery. We are devoted to the guitar’s rich heritage while committed to new technologies that will enrich our products with uncompromised tone, playability and beauty. Our success depends on our ability to listen, implement positive change and continually refine our craft.
Believing this, we strive to build the best guitars and guitar products possible and to serve our employees, customers, suppliers and community with distinction.
SE One Model Specs
Body
- Body Wood: Mahogany
Neck
- Number of Frets: 22
- Scale Length: 25″
- Neck Wood: Mahogany
- Fretboard Wood: Rosewood
- Neck Shape: Wide Fat
- Inlays: Moons
Hardware
- Bridge: PRS Designed Stoptail
- Tuners: PRS Designed Tuners
- Hardware Type: Nickel
- Misc: Pickguard
- Treble Pickup: Soapbar
- Pickup Switching: Volume Control
What’s in the Box
PRS SE One (Tobacco Sunburst)
June 11th, 2010 at 12:51 am
This is a Korean-made PRS copy of a Les Paul, Jr., only without the tone knob and with a brighter, hotter P-90 pickup. If you’re a brand snob, or you like to do a lot of in-guitar tone changes, and/or you hate the sound of the pickup (and don’t want to change it out — which might be difficult anyway, because the PRS P-90 slot is narrower than a Gibson one), then this is obviously not the guitar for you.
On the other hand, it’s an amazing-sounding and playing guitar that feels crazy high-quality. Much better than an actual Les Paul, Jr. I usually play Strat-type guitars, including a 3-bolt 72 Strat that’s particularly flimsy (though great nonetheless, unless you’re into neck bends), and to me the SE One feels like a heavy slab of wail-ready mahogany, so it’s funny to hear Gibson people talk about how light it is. The wide-fat neck is awesome. It’s incredibly easy to solo on, because the strings are relatively far apart, making it unusually easy to nail notes. Personally I find the pickup a bit too far into the treble, but that’s the kind of thing I tend to control for on the amp. It can easily get grainy on chords. Overall, though, the pickup sounds too good to consider changing it out. I am considering swapping out the tuning heads, which don’t hold the G string as well as I would like. (I do a lot of bending.) And I suppose I wouldn’t mind a tone knob, although I’d probably set it once and leave it there, like I do with the volume.
Without price considerations I would give this guitar 4 stars. As a bargain, though, it easily gets five. I’d buy another one in a second.
Rating: 5 / 5