Paul Reed Smith guitars in Stevensville, MD had an open house at their factory last week with live music, tours, food and more. Paul Reed Smith came out in a jacket made from the fabric used on their amps.
One of the many people there was Duff of Ace of Cakes. He was both performing and working on an amazing cake, which was quite good.
Here is his awesome guitar and amp cake.
Gary Grainger with his PRS Signature Bass and Bernie Marsden of Whitesnake. They were both really nice and quite talented.
John Wesley with Paul in the background.
I went on the factory tour and learned how they make these amazing instruments. Here is a shot of some guitars waiting to be stained I believe. I wanted to take them home just like that, they were already beautiful. Sadly however that was not part of the tour, no free guitars.
As anyone who knows PRS or has even seen them knows that the wood they use is a huge part of what makes them so amazing. This is part of the "Private Stock" wood library. You can come in and actually choose each piece of wood that will be used to make your custom guitar, choose the type of inlays, stain, pickups, everything. You can pretty much have them do whatever you want on your guitar. This custom route starts around $7000 I believe but don't quote me on that.
Me and Paul Reed Smith. Paul was extremely nice, and a very talented guitarist and guitar maker. He was great to watch up on stage too because he was always smiling and sometimes dancing like a kid. From what I hear he is an amazing boss to work for.
One of the evening performers was Electric Mary.
The other performance of the evening that closed out the first day was Zappa plays Zappa. Here is the son of Frank Zappa, Dweezil Zappa (yes Dweezil).
(if you are interested in seeing more photos from the day please ask)
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