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Subject: REVIEW: PAUL REED SMITH CE22 GUITAR
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Guitar: Paul Reed Smith CE22

Features:
–Quilted maple top
–cherry sunburst color
–22 fret rosewood fingerboard with bird inlay
–trem
–Dragon pickups
–controls: rotary pickup selector, volume, tone

List price: $2540.00
Typical selling price: approx. $1500.00
(I traded another guitar and paid a nominal cash sum)

Appearance:

The body is composed of mahogany, with a quilted maple top. The quilt pattern
on this instrument is subtle; it doesn’t have the wild and highly defined quilt
I have seen on some other guitars. The cherry sunburst color actually begins
as an amber color in the center of the body, around the pickups, and gradually
fades to a cherry red at the edges of the body. This combination works well,
and I think it sits better than the cherry burst finish would look on a more
highly defined quilt pattern. Personally, I’ve never been attracted to the more
extreme quilt patterns; they always looked fake to me! The body is an arch
top, in the usual PRS manner. The back of the body is cherry red. It