The BROWN ONE. This is a very sweet guitar. Originally
it was identical to the other two CEs except that it had McCarty pickups in it. It’s a naturally sweet sounding guitar.
Very bluesy and the lower output of the McCarty pickups compliments that nicely. But then I got a phone call…Fernandes offered to put in a sustainer pickup for free. What musician can resist FREE??? So I let them do it as long as they didn’t carve out the guitar too much. The sustaining thing is OK and the pickup itself is pretty inoffensive and everything but I don’t really use it. I should have left well enough alone…
Can’t you send it to PRS and have the electronics returned to their proper condition? Or maybe experiment with a pair of vintage PAF humbuckers? The guitar itself looks very nice, this problem is easily fixable. You could even gut a 70′s Japanese guitar’s electronics; an Aria TS 500′s electronics would go very well with this body.