The songs, the recording quality, and the extraordinary playing and grooves helped shape my love of music and the way I play. “Abraxas is a Santana record that changed my life. The guitar ships with PRS Classic 9-42 guitar strings and a PRS SE gig bag. Additional specifications include a Wide Fat mahogany neck, rosewood fretboard, and PRS Santana “S” treble and bass pickups. The mahogany back, maple top guitar is adorned with the Abraxas angel and features the classic Santana combination of 24 frets, a shorter 24.5” scale length, and PRS patented molded tremolo. The PRS SE Santana Abraxas 50th Anniversary Limited Edition honors this alliance, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Santana’s sophomore album, Abraxas, and pays homage to the iconic album’s cover. Only 1,000 PRS SE Santana Abraxas 50th Anniversary Limited Edition guitars will be made.Ĭarlos Santana’s longstanding creative relationship with Paul Reed Smith has done much to shape the destiny of PRS Guitars, including influencing the development of the PRS SE Series more than twenty years ago.Initial thoughts, unboxing as below and of course a full review coming up soon. I actually don't think its even fair to think of it as it is good for the money. Compared to other made in Indonesia guitars I have owned (like a couple of Iron Label Ibanez's), this is a different league. It reminds me of the significant strides PRS has been with its more affordable models. The guitar does not look, feel or sound cheap at all. And I liked the Abraxas sticker, though I usually detest decals on guitars (The PRS SE Akerfeldt is another glorious exception)įirst impressions. Black with a natural back has a certain elegance to it (there have a couple of PRS core wood library guitars like that which I really liked the look of). That said, I have been warming to 24 frets of late, and when this came out, I immediately loved the look of it.
The small scale, 24 frets and lack of multiple controls were not to my liking, as well as I significantly preferred the regular PRS body shape ( I still do). The Santana was always a guitar that had intrigued me but never really appealed to me, so I had never forked out for a core. I am on the positive end of that spectrum. Quite interestingly, looking at the forums, the guitar has turned out to be relatively polarizing. But I could find one in Singapore luckily. Picked this up after thinking I won't be able to get my hands on one, as my friend, the Indonesian dealer, had all of his domestic allocation sell out in less than an hour.
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