Three weeks ago, I spent £1700 on a new Patrick Eggle Berlin JS 24 (I haggled the shop down £250). And I've just bought a PRS Custom 24 with trem off Ebay for £1,000 (a real steal!). I've owned and played a PRS Custom 22 (fixed bridge) for over a year (I bought that off Ebay for about £1,200). Prior to that, and for the previous 25 years, I had been a confirmed Strat man. I still use my Strat Plus a great deal, which I bought new in 1989. I used to own a Les Paul Standard. I did a couple of recordings with it back in the early 90ies, and although I loved the tone of it, I could never get used to playing it live on stage. I ended up selling it for a song in about 1993 at a time when I need the cash. I regretted it for a long long time, until I bought my first PRS.

Anyway, I would strongly urge you to try both the Patrick Eggle Berlin and the PRS Custom 22. These guitars produce fantastic tone and sustain (like the Les Paul), but are both so much more versatile. The Patrick Eggle, in particular, has a fantastic range of tones, having Seymour Duncan pickups with coil tap on both pickups. Both guitars are well within your budget and, as I have proved, you could even get both if you buy second hand on one or both of them.

The neck on the PRS guitars is thinner, and more like a Strat. The neck on the Patrick Eggle is fatter, more like the Les Paul. Both guitars play like a dream, very low action and very smooth fretting. Please give either one of them a try. I promise you that you will fall in love with both.

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