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I would really like to see a full size 16" like this available on the market as an alternative to Gibson. Anybody else?
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09-10-2025 05:31 PM
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What about a Collings SoCo 16 LC? It’s a single cut, but it’s somewhat similar in construction otherwise.
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I'm strictly gauging interest on PRS producing a double cutaway 335 sized axe.
Originally Posted by ThatRhythmMan
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Why, have you started a job with their marketing department xD? Originally Posted by DawgBone
But to answer your question, big fat nope.
I had a brief moment of insanity where I considered the brand (594 SC and Hollowbody II) but I dodged that bullet
. A dude I know from uni and who plays in a rock band (he's got Murphy Lab and Fender CS) said it best: PRS is like the nouveau riche: late to the party but making sure to get noticed; flashy and ornate to the point where they're dangerously close to veering into kitsch, like they're overcompensating for the lack of rock cred or something. [With apologies to Santana and Mayer 
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Why? What do you think they could add that isn't covered by the many alternatives to Gibson semi-hollows already on the market? Originally Posted by DawgBone
Last edited by John A.; 09-11-2025 at 03:36 AM.
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---You might add McLaughlin to the list.. Originally Posted by jazzloverfat
Why, have you started a job with their marketing department xD?
[With apologies to Santana and Mayer))]
I don't know why..but I just dont like the brand. Have tried several times played several models..strat style and some others
and they just did not "click".
Ibanez on the other hand--
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The closest you'll probably get is the JA-15.
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If we’re just dreaming here, I’d like a fully hollow thinline with a neck P90 and a 25.5” scale neck. Cherry red and a stinger on the back of the headstock.
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The PRS guitars I have played have been nice guitars. I'm not thrilled by the headstock but nice necks, good tones, good build quality. This is just the low and mid-level instruments, I've never played their top-line stuff.
As for an ES-335 style instrument, I haven't even had serious interest in one from Gibson, Heritage, Ibanez, etc. I tend to play seated and the ergonomics for that with these instruments isn't good, at least for me. I think that if PRS saw a profitable market there, they would have pursued it. I have no doubt that people would buy them.
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Not me. Originally Posted by DawgBone
PRS already makes what I think are their takes on the ES335: their various semihollows. Why would they make (what some people perceive as) a huge-bodied semihollow that would find a market of maybe one or two sales? It's not like ES335s are seen in every honky-tonk north of the Rio Grande ...
That said, Gibson, Collings, Ibanez, Eastman, and others already make ES335-style guitars. If you add in thin-bodied semi-hollow guitars with different shapes, e.g. the Comins GCS-1, there are even more.
And by way of disclaimer, I have a Gibson ES335, purchased new in 1986. So perhaps my interest in another semihollow is muted. It's a fine guitar to see me into my senescence.
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They made a great limited run of private stock Santana Semi's . I have a special one made for their head of HR as an anni present . Matching back , 1 of 1 color , real turqouise inlay , Rosewood neck . The most amazing instrument I've played ...including ALL the guitars at the Artisan shows
I have a Hollowbody II Artist that is a close second
Both are superior to my 335 , and H-535
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There's this guy, Eric Clapton, he's been driving 335 sales for the old folks since they were young folks. Originally Posted by dconeill
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I believe it was back in 1998 that PRS produced a 3" deep hollowbody with a spruce top. It should have been received better by the jazz community but it wasn't. It didn't last in production more than a few years.
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I have a 594 HB-II and a JA-15. Both are made by routing out a solid maple back except for one small area underneath the bridge. A solid top is then glued on, maple for the 594 and spruce for the JA-15. Other differences are the fingerboard (rosewood vs ebony), the scale length (24.594” vs 25”), the pickups (85/15LT vs 53/10) and of course the overall dimensions of the guitars.
I sold a custom shop 335 ‘58 reissue to get the 594 HB. Yes, really. The Gibson looked great and played great but the neck pickup was muddy with any gauge heavier than 10s. And if I got the neck pickup to sound right, the bridge would be trebly and spiky (and vice versa). In a direct A/B it was a no-brainer for me.
I don’t see PRS ever making a clone of a 335.
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What are the specs on those (e.g., body size, chambered solid vs true semi-hollow, # of frets). I interpret the OP as looking for a PRS that is basically the same thing as a 335 (cosmetics aside). These seem different? Originally Posted by Greywolf
They made a great limited run of private stock Santana Semi's . I have a special one made for their head of HR as an anni present . Matching back , 1 of 1 color , real turqouise inlay , Rosewood neck . The most amazing instrument I've played ...including ALL the guitars at the Artisan shows
Both are superior to my 335 , and H-535
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What’s wrong with the Gibson one?
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Pretty much everything you stated is why I'm suggesting it. Better QC than Gibson for likely the same kind of money or less plus they could do an SE line that would probably outshine the Epiphone IBG options out there right now. Gibson ES' are nice but I don't see them as an end all be all but I like the size and sound of those general body shapes. A/B'ing my Edwards against a Memphis era 355 there was literally nothing better about the Gibson save for I like 57 classics better than the Seth Lovers mine came with. Originally Posted by Greywolf
They made a great limited run of private stock Santana Semi's . I have a special one made for their head of HR as an anni present . Matching back , 1 of 1 color , real turqouise inlay , Rosewood neck . The most amazing instrument I've played ...including ALL the guitars at the Artisan shows
Both are superior to my 335 , and H-535
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They're too busy making ugly Strats and Teles
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If enough people emailed them maybe they'd make an ugly 335 too. Huzzah!
but it would probably be better and play in tune and stuff
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Beautiful guitar.PRS should seriously think about making those without it being private stock and i bet they would sell a lot of them.I never get all the PRS hate.No mass guitar producer today has their consistent quality. Originally Posted by Greywolf
They made a great limited run of private stock Santana Semi's . I have a special one made for their head of HR as an anni present . Matching back , 1 of 1 color , real turqouise inlay , Rosewood neck . The most amazing instrument I've played ...including ALL the guitars at the Artisan shows
Both are superior to my 335 , and H-535
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These are nice:
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I don't think there's an SE version of those Originally Posted by Hammertone
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The bottom one is available as a Core, has been for years. It’s pretty much my #1. Originally Posted by nyc chaz
That’s exactly why. That, and a certain notion that only guitars designed before 1965 or so have merit. Originally Posted by nyc chaz
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Nah it's the birds
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^^^This. Originally Posted by John A.
Or, the corollary question: What would a PRS "335" offer that isn't covered by the semi-hollow instruments PRS already makes (...other than a slightly larger body)?
Here's the problem as I see (and hear) it: A Gibson 335 -- and/or most of the clones, copies, and similar semi-hollow instruments offered by Gibson's competitors -- makes a legitimately nice guitar for playing jazz or rock.
But none of the PRS hollow or semi-hollow instruments I have ever heard sounded like a Gibson 335, and so they really don't seem like they would make a decent jazz guitar. There's something baked into the sound of PRS guitars, be they solid, semi-hollow, or hollow, that just screams "RAWK!" Presumably a lot of that comes from their pickups; it's a chirping, nasal attack to every note that lends itself perfectly to Soundgarden covers but sounds wholly inappropriate when blowing on "Au Privave" or "Blue Bossa". (Recent performances by John McLaughlin are Exhibit A in my PRS Guitars Suck For Jazz case.)
I've owned a PRS CE24MT for ~25 years now, and it is a wonderful rock guitar...and a terrible jazz guitar.
Recently I've been working with another guitarist who owns an enviable collection of PRS instruments, at least 9 or 10 beautiful specimens, including 5 of the archtop f-hole models (I haven't looked closely to see whether any are the fully hollow instruments or if they're all semi-hollow...but some are thicker than others). And none of them sound like a 335, nor like they would work well for that archetypal Gibson jazz sound.
Wrong tool for the job.
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