I own a PRS McCarty gold top. When I purchased this guitar years ago, it wasn't a finish that was offered for the dual humbucker McCarty. It was only offered for the P90 version. So this was a special order, kindly administered by the good people of Davis GMC for my wedding. That's right, it was a wedding gift from my wife. Despite costing extra, it was a whisker under $4K.
Moving on to present time, a custom colour gold top (available at Swee Lee) can be yours for that amount depicted above. Disclaimer - there might be other factors that might contribute to this amount, the bird inlays for instance, might be one of it. Same goes for current shipping charges.
This is an example of price movements these days, the more you delay getting something at the current price, the more you will look back & regret in time to come. Then again, gear expenditure is a luxury consideration. We have other priorities; a family to feed, a house to finance & bills to pay. Instrument prices are in the crazy figures these days. I observe the Edwards range of instruments to be the most stable in terms of prices but recently, the shipping charges have contributed to unreasonable listings so everything got hit, nothing was spared. As we approach the 9% GST mark, many of us would re-think when it comes to spending dear money on gear.
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