rga is a stew made from the best ideas that ever went into a guitar. carved maple top on a mahogany body, sculpted to the extreme, hard mounted pickups with coil taps, wizard prestige neck, straight string pull headstock, resonant stain finish, gotoh tuners, smooth heel, and some crazy new fixed bridge.

m workhorse had the same pickups before i swapped the bridge for a duncan custom. mine's string-through hardtail and basswood. the ibanez guitars made in japan consistently impress me. once in a while i won't be thrilled, but that compares very favorably with the american guitars that only rarely impress me. i've enjoyed more chinese and korean guitars than american, sadly.

now prs is goin down the tubes. the day i saw their first import i was just as offended as we would be if jerry or dan started sellin 420 knives made in china.