No. 8037, weighs 7lbs 3oz. Factory Deluxe Gigbag is Inlcuded

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). Includes gig bag.

Features

• Gloss-finished, solid alder body
• 25.5" scale maple neck with 22-fret, 7.25" radius rosewood fretboard
• Custom John Mayer signature PRS single coils with 5-way blade switch
• PRS-designed vintage-style steel-plate tremolo, PRS locking tuners

Body

Body shape: Double cutaway

Body type: Solid body

Body material: Solid wood

Body wood: Alder

Body finish: Gloss

Orientation: Right handed

Neck

Neck shape: Custom signature

Neck wood: Maple

Joint: Bolt-on

Scale length: 25.5 in.

Truss rod: Dual-action

Neck finish: Gloss

Fretboard

Material: Rosewood

Radius: 7.25 in.

Fret size: Medium

Number of frets: 22

Inlays: Birds

Nut width: 1.65 in. (42 mm) Bone

Pickups

Configuration: SSS

Neck: Custom single-coil Artist Signature

Middle: Custom single-coil Artist Signature

Bridge: Custom single-coil Artist Signature

Brand: PRS

Active or passive pickups: Passive

Series or parallel: Parallel

Controls

Control layout: Master volume, tone 1, tone 2

Pickup switch: 5-way

Hardware

Bridge type: Tremolo/Vibrato

Bridge design: PRS plate-style

Tuning machines: PRS locking

Color: Nickel

Other

Number of strings: 6-string

Special features: Signature model

Case: Gig bag

Country of origin: United States