Thanks again.. I've owned several Carvins over the years, but only recently got into the CT's. My path to them meandered through my "love/hate" relationship with Les Pauls (due to my "roundness", for lack of a better word. Guitars without tummy cuts tend to stick out on me.. lol) and went through several LP's and LPC's but always parted with them. I wanted that mahogany/maple, dual hum, ebony board, block inlay thing, but just couldn't deal with the weight and inconsistency of the neck profiles of the LP in general. That brought me to buy my first PRS.. and I was in love! The PRS had a lot in common with the LP in the materials used, pickup layout, etc.. but shed a lot of the weight and just fit me better. I owned several, and never got a bad one. Some were better than others, but overall I wasn't scared to buy one online because I was relatively sure it would be a good one when it got to me. Unlike many of the LP's I've had. I ended up selling them, as guitar players do to fund other things.. and when I started wanting to buy another PRS (this time with a Floyd Rose), I was in shock at what they were running cost-wise! A new one was out of the question, and even the used market was $2-3K plus! Not to mention I'm not a huge fan of 24 fret guitars, and so many of the Floyd equipped PRS were 24 fret. So, I took notice of the Carvin CT's. The first one I bought was the CT4 (the plain top with Floyd all the way on the right in the pic), and I've never looked back. These CT's are PRS killers in every way, in my opinion. The only bad thing about them is that Carvin's don't really hold their resale value that well.. Which is a shame, because the quality of these guitars is superb. Of course, that can be a good thing when it comes to buying them. You just have to either buy them really right, or be prepared to hang on to them.
