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Featuring a familiar look and feel, the Silver Sky offers a host of PRS enhancements. The guitar's trio of 635JM single-coils sing with strength and clarity.

PRS John Mayer Silver Sky Guitar

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).

Body
- Body Wood: Alder

Neck
- Number of Frets: 22
- Scale Length: 25.5”
- Neck Wood: Maple
- Fretboard Wood: Rosewood
- Neck Shape: 635JM
- Nut Width: 1-21/32”
- Neck Width at the Body: 2 7/32”
- Neck Depth at the Nut: 53/64”
- Fretboard Radius: 7.25”
- Inlays: Small Birds

Hardware
- Nut: Bone
- Bridge: Steel Tremolo
- String Spacing: 2-9/64”
- Tuners: Vintage Style, Locking
- Hardware Type: Nickel

Electronics
- Treble Pickup: 635JM
- Middle Pickup: 635JM
- Bass Pickup: 635JM
- Pickup Switching: One Volume & Two Tones with a 5-Way Blade Pickup Switch

zZounds is an authorized dealer of PRS Paul Reed Smith products.

Condition
Brand
Model
  • Silver Sky John Mayer Signature with Rosewood Fretboard
Finish
  • Frost
Categories
Fretboard Material
  • Rosewood
Pickup Configuration
  • SSS
Model Family
  • PRS Silver Sky
Color Family
  • White
Series
  • PRS Core
  • PRS Artist Signature
Right / Left Handed
  • Right Handed
Body Shape
  • S-Style
Nut Width
  • 1.656"
Number of Strings
  • 6-String
Neck Material
  • Maple
Offset Body
  • No
Finish Style
  • Gloss
Body Type
  • Solid Body
Body Material
  • Alder
Bridge/Tailpiece Type
  • Tremolo Bridge
Wood Top Style
  • Opaque
Scale Length
  • 25.5"
Artist
  • John Mayer
Fretboard Radius
  • 7.25"
Neck Construction
  • Bolt-On
Number of Frets
  • 22

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Product Overview
Paul Reed Smith and John Mayer collaborated on Silver Sky Signature, aiming to bring to market a modern, idealized version of a vintage single-coil guitar. Mayer and PRS were inspired by and tried to include their favorite elements from vintage instruments released in 1963 and 1964, like neck shape and radius. It also features a special inverted headstock to accommodate Mayer's playing style and keep consistent length of string behind the nut for better tuning consistency. The tuners are vintage-style and closed-back with PRS's locking design and it also features a trem arm and Gen III knife-edge screws.
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