This guitar was bought on a whim, the price ($125) was right and the desire to have a PRS clone was HIGH!

 Then it arrived.

 Now please don’t get me wrong this guitar had enormous potential! A GREAT bright orange flame finish, a flawless binding a Floyd Rose bridge, a not so glued in neck……

 Yep you read that right, SOMEHOW, and of course the seller SWORE it didn’t leave his house like this, the neck had come COMPLETELY unglued. I don’t mean loose, and it wasn’t broken, but it was like the glue had MELTED.

 It was AMAZING. Amazing and absolutely horrifying! I KNEW if I sent this back I would NEVER find another one at this price. Remember this was Agiles 1^st attempt at a PRS clone and so it was priced REALLY low, and I got it, JUST as Agiles used prices were starting to go up, people started to know the name!

 So I contacted the seller, sent him some pix, and told him that since it had come GROUND all the way from California, I could maybe see my way to SPLITTNIG the cost of the repair, and all would be fair. Glue in a neck how much could it be?

 PLUS, I had an inside tip, although the mom and pop down the street from me had closed, his BROTHER owned a HUGE music store, on the other side of town, so I NEW I’d get a good deal- or not.

 I should have known something was going to well. I took it in, with a case, dropped it off and the kid behind the counter “estimated” that the most it would be was $45 and take about 2 days. This was Wednesday, great I’ll have it for the weekend! I show up Saturday and they tell me that “the guy” is out of town!!!!!!!!! I should CALL next Thursday!

 SO I did, twice, the 2^nd time the guy says the guitar has been fixed, the glue is drying and it will be ready Saturday. Ok, how much? $140!!!!!!!!!!!

 I can not describe how angry I was that they went $100 over their quote, made it a week late and never bothered to call me. When I picked it up, I made SURE to let them know this, and was told that I could have taken it elsewhere…..So needless to say I have NEVER darkened their doorway again. A shame really, the 1^st guy had been in business 20 years, had a great reputation and would work with ANYTHING.

 Well while I was waiting I had won a pair of PRS Dragon pups off ebay for $30 each and I REALLY wanted to plop those bad boys in and let them RIP!

 But as I know you’ve ALL experienced, life started happening, and my desire for something with a nicer top, and maybe a semi hollow body started creeping in, and when some guy on Harmony Central Offered me $225 for the guitar, I just could NOT pass it up. Then I told him about my Dragon pups and my plans for it, and for an extra $125 I’d throw in BOTH pups and shipping! Well since the pups were going, at that time, for $85 EACH I guess he realized the opportunity that awaited him, and me, I got to ALMOST break even.

 This really is a nice guitar and I would recommend their PS line, but if you find someone with a Raven West K2 hollow for sale in blue, please be sure to let me know! Otherwise I’ll probably break down and get the real thing one day….