Paul Reed Smith Silver Sky John Mayer Signature Model Orion Green

Paul Reed Smith Silver Sky John Mayer Signature Model Orion Green
Serial Number: 0351905
Weight: 7.8 lbs

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 vin- tage-inspired instrument that is at once familiar but also newly PRS through and through. This model was based o 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 electron- ics. The headstock shape is based on PRS’s trademark design, but in- verted 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 a er 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.

Body Wood: Alder
Finish Type: Polyester base coat, Acrylic urethane top coat
# of Frets: 22
Scale Length: 25.5″ Scale
Neck Wood: Maple, scarf joint
Fretboard Wood: Maple
Neck Shape: 635JM, between a C and a D. Flat back-wide shoulders
Nut Width: 1 21/32″
Neck Width at the Body: 2 7/32″
Neck Depth at the Nut: 53/64″
Fretboard Radius: 7.25″
Fret Wire: Tall/Narrow, similar to Dunlop 6230
Inlays: Small birds
Nut: Bone
Bridge: PRS Gen II style Steel Tremolo with bent saddles
String Spacing: 2 9/64″
Tuners: Vintage Style, locking
Hardware Type: Nickel
Treble Pickup: 635JM, 6.4k output
Middle Pickup: 635JM, 6.4k output, reverse polarity
Bass Pickup: 635JM, 6.4k output
Pickup Switching: One volume, Two Tone, 5 way blade pickup selector
Finish: Orion Green
Case: PRS Silver Sky Gigbag