The Making of the Silver Sky | John Mayer Model | PRS Guitars

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“It’s 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 Smith’s 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 PRS’s trademark design, but inverted to both 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 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 PRS’s 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 you’d find on most PRS electric guitars, and PRS’s 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 PRS’s trademark lower horn scoop.
The PRS Silver Sky will start shipping on March 20, 2018. The first 500 guitars to ship to dealers and distributors worldwide from PRS Guitars’ Maryland, USA factory will include a commemorative hardshell case. The Silver Sky model will then ship in a newly-designed, premium gig bag.

[@tbone7204]

So here’s the deal. ‘64 strat = $10k plus and that’s player grade. Thank you Paul, thank you John for working extremely hard to build something that’s achievable for the playing musician. I support this, why? Because I want to support hard working people plus the excitement of a new guitar is always welcomed. As for John, well, I’m a Deadhead, haven’t always been but it found me like it found John. I say, let’s stop hating, let’s love a little more and if PRS and JM come out with a signature model and it ruffles your feathers, well jump in the shower and scream about it, you don’t need to voice it to the world, just don’t buy it. We live in a world of way too many opinions. To the hardworking PRS team..well done everyone. Thank you for the love. Excited to get my hands on one. PS. John, congrats. Jerry would be proud. I’ve followed u around with the Dead. I knew the minute you were announced to fill that role that it would be special. You have taken me to places that I’ve never been before and for that I’m always gonna support you, good and bad. No bad here brother, proud of the man you are growing into. We are all growing, why not grow together

[@I.am_Groot]

So here is a deal.. 60th Anniversary USA Strat with commemorative hard case $700 US. Another deal - 2013 American Standard Strat w/Tweed case. $895 And yet another deal....Fender American Deluxe Strat $1100 Add a nice '65 Twin Reverb re-issue and a Tube Screamer? About $2000-2300 Then you will have the tone, and a great player guitar... just like John Mayer loves!

[@tbone7204]

Thunder Buddy I agree with you completely, great guitars, I own many. I think it’s more about the ethical standpoint and the fact that Fender have completely lost touch with who they are. I own a few vintage strats, worked super hard to get them but the guitars today are no where near the quality as Leo’s. I understand time moves forward and production has to grow but the shortcuts are embarrassing. Not here to argue with anyone, I just feel options are cool. Go play the PRS, I would love to know what you think. Again, I just want to point out that I do NOT believe that PRS are any better or worse than Fender, it’s just different.

[@Erkki_Mela]

Now those were some tasty tones.

[@I.am_Groot]

Made me pick up my Strat and let it sing!

[@npthedarkside27]

What a beautiful piece of art you all have made, my God... I am glad John chose my favorite company to make my favorite guitar!

[@granthamilton7012]

I see the usual quality. EXCELLENT .

[@kevinmusso2397]

Looks magnificent

[@avielkharrat5788]

I'm in love ! OK with the teasers, let's have the whole thing now ! I whould love to have the full story, maybe as a documentory, with Paul and John and everyone who participated, with the evolution of of the model.... And with the SOUND, and with ALL the EMOTION!!!!!!! I want to cry when i whatch this guitar making-of!!!!!!! :-D

[@liorauf]

Amazing guitar!!! Great sound!!! Well done PRS and John!!! Good luck!!!

[@Tom_Chhanhima]

I watch this with tears..

[@Papa_O.A.M]

So bad a**! Can't wait to try one! I bought a USA custom 24 two years ago, my dream guitar, and I absolutely love it, just as much as my fender elite strat! Both do different things, and do them very well. I can't wait to see what Paul and John have done to this beast!

[@rodrigosegatorizzo9181]

I was eagerly expecting for this making of!

[@Carguyeight]

Finally had the chance to play one a few days ago and I was speechless, what a beautifully made guitar.

[@prsmantse1]

I can't wait for the day that I get to try one of these

[@rishabh472]

Even after all this while, there's no other guitar ad that turns me on like this one does

[@matthewpaluch777]

Great craftmanship & astute attention to detail! Well done PRS!

[@acasadorocknroll7]

PRS Guitar Show!!! Beauty.

[@smokezz9]

Absolutely juicy guitar, that red one! :)

[@clapsting]

Onyx on the way !! Can’t wait to try this baby 🎸

[@IanHarsh]

I can’t wait to get my hands on one of those!! Where can I hear more of the music that’s in the background of this video?

[@slabrosewood]

Live PRS !!

[@XLR8Wales]

You have Done the right thing :) love it :) Keep on keeping on

[@nikverschuren4291]

Stoneblue se on its way, cant wait 😆 everyone needs a starting point before going USA!

[@osamasatari401]

This Song remind my favorite series as told by ginger the ending episode and makes me relax. Eather way What's Name this song

[@prsguitars]

This song, along with all of the songs in the making of the Silver Sky videos, is an original arrangement by Bryan Ewald. We agree with you; its lovely.

[@ErikAnderssen]

Make a god damn red one the next SE color please. That is amazing.

[@KRayxKodessA]

More "making of's"!

[@vinicioserafini5929]

Quite mixed about this guitar, I still have to figure out if I love or hate the look of that headstock with a strat-esque body as well as those colors. Anyway, can't wait to have the possibility to try one!

[@kdrake777]

I like how the truss rod cover matches the tungsten . You should make red, black and white to match the other body colors.

[@MrKemKemal]

Please make the black one with a matching black headstock! (And also a black pickguard)!!! Thank you Kemal

[@BlasterJunos]

So do all the fretboards have a reddish hue?

[@spark4039]

I don't give a fuck what people are saying. This is an awesome instrument! Sexy tones 😍

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

I'm sure it's a great guitar. I saw the JM video; It's hard to hate on him. It's just that the whole project has a certain ick factor about it.

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

Verily, I say to thee, this heavenly lyre doth possess the very Cast of the Stratos. I'll be waiting for the SE Castrato.

[@guitarlobos5069]

It will be interesting if this Guitar catches on.I would like to see a Hard tail model to bring production costs down as well as material for lower cost.People purchase PRS Guitars for there quality not for a GUITAR THAT SOUNDS LIKE A STRAT

[@andyinwards2119]

24 -fret, 3-pickup Core line guitar please!

[@shoptalk.]

Ordered mine when they were first announced so I would get the case, I still haven't recieved a guitar and I bet I dont get a case either..Thinking about cancelling the order!

[@Josbornevonosborne]

We want an SE version

[@jessemoodyiv]

I want

[@mitcharney1]

I believe they have been doing the same thing at the Fender plants since 1954. Explain why a PRS S2 is $1499 when it incorporates more tech has more expensive woods and set neck. This guitar is made of less expensive Alder with a bolt neck and the price is about $2300. $800 more?? makes not sense!

[@gabrieltribuzy4885]

Waiting my tungsten baby⚡️⚡️

[@davemis40]

Why the horrible grey tuners ?.. Seems out of kilter with the rest of the chrome parts.

[@baloony6648]

nice strato..... err..... I mean..... whatever the fuck this is.

[@jvin248]

I see J Mayer supports several environmental causes -- why did he select an endangered rain forest wood for the fingerboard? If he thinks he needs it 'for tone' then show us true guitar skillz by playing and promoting a more appropriate local wood species. And fans traveling with his guitar will not be subjected to CITES paperwork hassles, the fear of potential guitar confiscation, nor anxiety about travel delays (so make it clearly look different than rosewood/ebony).