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PRS Paul Reed Smith Silver Sky John Mayer Guitar, Orion Green, Rosewood Fretboard

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Player's Perspective

Music Store Live is truly excited and proud to offer up this PRS Silver Sky guitar in a new Orion Green finish. 

This is an absolutely wonderful instrument. It truly is! Subtle refinements such as the lower heel contour for upper fret access, the tuners, the tremolo system, the pickups, and the overall fit and finish of the instrument makes this the strat that so many of us have been waiting for. The 7.25" radius on this will blow your mind because it doesn't feel restricting in the slightest. You can bend away, with full confidence, regardless of where you are on the neck. It just goes to prove that, if the instrument is built correctly, there's nothing wrong with the vintage radius. The overall feel of the neck, a hybrid between John Mayer's 2 favorite strats (a '63 and a '64), is one of sheer perfection. The neck is effortless to play and the shape is incredibly comfortable. The newest iteration of this neck shape has rounder fretboard edges for even easier playability. It feels absolutely amazing.

The pickups definitely aim for a vintage tone and hit the mark right on the bullseye. But in that way that Paul Smith is never happy with settling for just recreating something from the past, these have a bit of refinement to them. Almost as though you took a (nice and quiet) '63 strat, recorded it, put it through an incredibly high-end mixing board and mastering process, then bottled up the result into the pickups on the Silver Sky. They have an incredible vocal-like quality to them and they're extremely rich harmonically. The dynamics of the guitar and the pickups help to really give you everything from mellow, warm, and sweet, to snappy, spanky, and bright just based on how you play it.

At the end of the day, the concept behind this guitar is a simple one - It's Paul Smith and John Mayer collaborating on their take on what the perfect strat should be. Far be it for us to say that this is the most perfect strat ever... But boy, it's hard to argue with the results. They speak for themselves. This has got to be considered by anybody that needs a pro-level strat that is going to be built with finesse and refinements where needed, but still feels like a great strat should.

Manufacturer's Description

The PRS Silver Sky is an idealized version of a vintage single-coil guitar where every detail adds up and sets this guitar apart from the pack and the past. The result of a close collaboration between Grammy Award-winning musician John Mayer and Paul Reed Smith, the Silver Sky is based off of years of development. Incorporating Mayer and Smith’s favorite elements of 1963 and 1964 instruments with an eye toward modern references, the PRS Silver Sky delivers the warmth and familiarity of an old guitar with the finesse of a brand-new instrument.

Some of the more distinctive specifications include, the headstock shape, tuners, bridge, pickups, and neck and fretboard options. The headstock shape is based on PRS’s trademark design, but inverted both to accommodate Mayer’s playing style and also to keep a consistent length of string behind the nut, which makes staying in tune easier. The tuners are a traditional vintage-style, closed-back tuner, but with PRS’s locking design. The steel tremolo takes the patented PRS design and incorporates Gen III knife-edge screws. Setup flush to the body in the neutral position so that the tremolo bridge only goes down in pitch, the bridge’s increased contact with the body allows the guitar itself to be acoustically louder, which in turn improves the signal to noise ratio of the single-coil pickups. The 635JM single-coil pickups are very round and full, with a musical high end that is never “ice-picky” or brash.

The Silver Sky comes with the option of a rosewood or maple fretboard. The maple fretboard option comes with the original 635JM neck shape, while the rosewood fretboard option has been subtly modified in the shoulders to feel more “rounded” in your hand. Both neck shapes were designed by researching vintage instruments and Mayer test-driving guitars on stage to find what felt right. The fretboard radius on both options is 7.25”.

Other high-quality specifications include a bone nut, a molded metal jack plate (curved to make plugging and unplugging a guitar cable hassle-free), retooled knobs, and PRS’s double action truss rod (accessible from the front of the headstock for ease of use). PRS premium gig bag included.

Specifications

BODY

  • Model: Silver Sky
  • Color: Orion Green
  • Body Wood: Alder
  • Pickguard: White

NECK

  • Construction: Bolt-On
  • Number of Frets: 22
  • Scale Length: 25.5"
  • Neck Wood: Maple
  • Neck Shape: 635JM-R
  • Neck Depth At The Nut: 53/64”
  • Width of Fretboard at the Body: 2 7/32”
  • Width of Fretboard at the Nut: 1 21/32”
  • Fretboard Wood: Rosewood
  • Fretboard Inlay: Small Birds
  • Fretboard Radius: 7.25”
  • Nut: Bone

HARDWARE

  • Bridge: Steel Tremolo
  • Tuners: Vintage Style, Locking
  • Hardware Type: Nickel

ELECTRONICS

  • Treble Pickup: 635JM
  • Middle Pickup: 635JM
  • Bass Pickup: 635JM
  • Controls: One Volume & Two Tone Controls with a 5-Way Blade Switch

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Case: Deluxe Gig Bag
  • Instrument Weight: 7.3 lbs.
  • Serial #: 0340311

Overall Condition

Music Store Live is proud to be an authorized dealer for PRS. This Silver Sky John Mayer is 100% brand new and is being sold with a full manufacturer's warranty. Photos are of the exact guitar you'll receive.

Our in-house guitar tech will inspect, test, set up, and clean all of our instruments on site prior to shipping. All of our instruments are guaranteed to be fully functional upon arrival.