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Year: 2020
S/N: 293954
Weight: 7lbs 7.2oz
Reach For The Sky
Its been a dream of mine for years to design a guitar that includes some of my favorite vintage specifications but with a modern spirit and aesthetic. After two years of study and refinement, the Silver Sky is my vision of what a reboot of the electric guitar should look and feel like. “ John Mayer
The PRS Silver Sky is the result of a close collaboration between Grammy Award-winning musician John Mayer and Paul Reed Smith. More than two and half years in the making, the Silver Sky is a vintage-inspired instrument that is at once familiar but also newly PRS through and through. This model was based off of Mayer and Smiths favorite elements from 1963 and 1964 vintage instruments, resulting in an idealized version of a vintage single-coil guitar. The attention that was paid to every detail sets this guitar apart.
Some of the more distinctive specifications include, the headstock shape, tuners, neck and fretboard, bridge, and pickups and electronics. The headstock shape is based on PRSs trademark design, but inverted to both accommodate Mayers 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 PRSs locking design. The neck shape was modeled after 1963/1964 vintage instruments, and the fretboard has a 7.25 radius. The moment your hand grabs this neck, it just feels right. Like the tuners, the steel tremolo takes a classic design and incorporates PRSs trem arm and Gen III knife-edge screws. The bridge on the Silver Sky is setup flush to the body in the neutral position so that the tremolo bridge only goes down in pitch. By keeping the bridge in contact with the body, the guitar itself is acoustically louder, which 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.
Other high-quality specifications include a bone nut, a molded metal jack plate that is curved and makes plugging and unplugging a guitar cable hassle-free, retooled knobs, fretwire that is slightly smaller than what youd find on most PRS electric guitars, and PRSs double action truss rod (accessible from the front of the headstock for ease of use).
The Silver Sky comes in four colors with distinctive accents on PRSs trademark lower horn scoop.
SPECIFICATIONS
BODY
Body Wood Alder
NECK
Number of Frets - 22
Scale Length - 25.5"
Neck Wood - Maple
Neck Shape - 635JM
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 Tones with a 5-Way Blade Pickup Switch
String Spacing - 2 9/64
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Located in Bloomington, Indiana, Melody Music Shop strives to maintain a diverse, high quality inventory along with exceptional customer service. We carry a wide range of instruments and accessories, including new and used guitars, band and orchestral instruments, pianos, amps, sound systems, and so much more!
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