PRS SE Silver Sky Lefty RW Storm Gray
Discover the PRS SE Silver Sky John Mayer Signature in detail
About John Mayer
John Mayer initially attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, which he left during his second semester. At Berklee he had wanted to develop further as a guitarist, but he increasingly focused on songwriting. Instead of continuing his studies, he went to Atlanta in the summer of 1998 with a college friend to pursue a career as a musician. After several festival appearances he released his 2001 debut album Room for Squares. The album produced numerous radio hits in the US, including No Such Thing, Your Body Is a Wonderland and Why Georgia. In 2003 John Mayer won a Grammy for Your Body Is a Wonderland in the category Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. His first four albums all reached platinum status; the following three albums Born and Raised, Paradise Valley and The Search for Everything achieved gold. John Mayer, regarded as a passionate guitar lover and collector, now owns around 200 guitars. Besides the Martin OMJM in various versions and the now discontinued Fender "The Black One" Stratocaster, the PRS Silver Sky is probably his best-known signature model.
Reach for the stars!
The SE version of the John Mayer Silver Sky is significantly cheaper than the US version. The SE Silver Sky is a reissue of the original Silver Sky model, first introduced with John Mayer in 2018. This workhorse offers plenty of sounds and good playability and is available in many different colours. The PRS SE Silver Sky features a poplar body, a bolt-on maple neck and a fretboard of maple or rosewood with PRS's signature bird inlays. The 22-fret neck with a 25.5" scale length features the original 635JM neck profile and an 8.5" fretboard radius. When you plug it in, the three single-coil 635JM "S" pickups come alive. This guitar is fitted with a two-point tremolo, a synthetic bone nut and vintage-style tuners. Other design features include the reversed PRS Silver Sky headstock shape and the easily adjustable PRS truss rod. The SE Silver Sky comes with PRS Classic 10-46 strings and a gig bag.
Product information "PRS SE Silver Sky Lefty RW Storm Gray"
- Body Material: Poplar
- Body Shape: PRS-Style
- Bridge / Tremolo: PRS 2-Point Steel Tremolo
- Bridge Pickup: PRS 635JM "S"
- Color/ Finish: Storm Grey
- Colour: Grey and Silver
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
- Country of Origin: Indonesia
- Custom shop: no
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Fretboard Inlays: Small Birds
- Fretboard radius: 10"
- Frets: 22
- Hardware: Nickel
- Includes: Gigbag
- Middle Pickup: PRS 635JM "S"
- Neck: Maple
- Neck Pickup: PRS 635JM "S"
- Neck Profile: 635JM
- Neck construction: Bolt on neck
- Pickup Configuration: S-S-S (3x Single Coil)
- Pickup Selector Switch: 5-way switch
- Pickup type: passive
- Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
- Scale Length: 25,5" (648 mm)
- Signature Model: yes
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Technology: Solid Body
PRS Guitars sets its own standards when it comes to electric guitars. At session you'll find not only the high-class PRS Custom Shop guitars but also mid-range models and PRS electric basses. At NAMM 2016 PRS looked to the past and reintroduced CE 24 models to the main range after many years, featuring bolt-on and maple necks — an interesting alternative to the traditional construction. Later, a hugely successful instrument emerged through the collaboration with John Mayer: the Silver Sky series, which was initially expanded with more colours and later complemented by the more affordable SE series.
Through a great passion for guitar making and meticulous research and optimisation of his models, founder Paul Reed Smith has been creating instruments for over 40 years that are rightly regarded as true works of art. Not only guitar legends like Carlos Santana play the high-quality PRS guitars from the Standard line, the exclusive Private Stock or the more affordable SE production.
Paul Reed Smith makes a name for himself
Officially the American guitar maker PRS Guitars was founded in 1985, but founder and namesake Paul Reed Smith has been active in guitar making since around 1975. By giving his guitars to stars like Carlos Santana, Al Di Meola and Peter Frampton and convincing them directly, his instruments became increasingly well known. In 1985 serial production of the Custom 24 began. With former Gibson president Ted McCarty as an experienced advisor, Paul Reed Smith set the course for success for the guitars with the characteristic bird inlays on the fretboard.
Every guitar a Custom Shop model
PRS guitars are generally positioned at the higher price points due to high-quality materials and careful workmanship. Since the 1990s there has also been the SE line, manufactured in Korea, which despite more affordable materials still competes at a high quality level. The S2 series forms a bridge: the instruments are made in the USA but remain relatively affordable.
PRS refers to all its instruments as Custom Shop instruments because of the high quality and the options for customisation, but with the Private Stock instruments the company goes one step further and sets real benchmarks in terms of materials, quality, originality and individuality. One thing all PRS guitars have in common: they are true workhorses with great versatility and they look outrageously good. This is also evident from the countless endorsers who swear by their PRS, as well as the numerous signature models from artists like John Mayer, Carlos Santana, Orianthi, Mark Tremonti and Chad Kroeger.
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