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.
Body
- Body Construction : Solidbody
- Body Wood : Alder
- Top Carve : Flat Top
Neck
- Number of Frets : 22
- Scale Length : 25.5"
- Neck Wood : Maple
- Neck Construction : Scarfed
- Truss Rod : PRS Double-Acting
- Neck Shape : 635JM (Maple Fretboard)
- Neck Depth at the 1/2 Fret : 27/32"
- Neck Depth at the 12 1/2 Fret : 31/32"
- Neck Width at the Nut : 1 41/64"
- Neck Width at the Body : 2 15/64"
- Fretboard Wood : Maple
- Fretboard Radius : 7.25”
- Fretboard Inlayv : Small Birds
- Headstock Logo : Signature, Decal
Neck/Body Assembly
- Neck/Body Assembly Type : Bolt-On
Finish
- Finish Type : High-Gloss Nitro
- Neck Finish Type : Satin Nitro
Hardware
- Bridge : PRS Steel Tremolo
- Tuners : Vintage-Style, Locking
- Hardware Type : Nickel
- Nut: Bone
Electronics
- Treble Pickup : 635JM
- Middle Pickup : 635JM
- Bass Pickup : 635JM
- Controls : One Volume and Two Tone Controls with a 5-Way Blade Pickup Switch
Additional Info
- Strings : PRS Signature 10-46
- Tuning : Standard (6 String): E, A, D, G, B, E
