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PRS SE Silver Sky Lefty RW Piano Black
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.
Features
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Fretboard: Rosewood
Warm, dark tone, excellent resonance. -
Pickup Configuration: S-S-S (3x Single Coil)
Clear tone with pronounced highs and precise mids. -
Fretboard radius: 10"
Flat fretboard radius for comfortable playability. -
Body Material: Poplar
Light tone, shorter sustain. -
Technology: Solid Body
Clear, focused tone with high sustain. -
Neck construction: Bolt on neck
Bolt-on neck construction, offers percussive tone. -
Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
Classic 25" scale length (635 - 659 mm).
- Strings: 6 string
- Country of origin: Indonesia
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Technology: Solid Body
- Body shape: PRS-Style
- Body Material: Poplar
- Neck: Maple
- Neck Profile: 635JM
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Fretboard radius: 10"
- Fretboard Inlays: Small Birds
- Frets: 22
- Neck construction: Bolt on neck
- Scale Length: 25,5" (648 mm)
- Pickup Configuration: S-S-S (3x Single Coil)
- Neck Pickup: PRS 635JM "S"
- Middle Pickup: PRS 635JM "S"
- Bridge Pickup: PRS 635JM "S"
- Pickup Selector Switch: 5-way switch
- Pickup type: passive
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
- Hardware: Nickel
- Bridge / Tremolo: PRS 2-Point Steel Tremolo
- Color/ Finish: Piano Black
- Includes: Gigbag
The PRS SE Series stands for the iconic PRS look, reliable build quality, and versatile tones at an attractive price-to-performance ratio. The SE family originated in 2000, when PRS began developing more affordable versions of its popular models. The idea came from Carlos Santana, who encouraged Paul Reed Smith to make high-quality PRS guitars accessible to beginners as well. The name SE stands for “Student Edition” – yet these instruments clearly exceed expectations for their price range.
PRS SE Series guitars are manufactured in South Korea or Indonesia. To ensure the high quality standards PRS is known for, every instrument is fully inspected and set up at the PRS factory in the USA before being shipped to dealers and customers.
The SE Series offers an exceptionally wide range of models: from single- and double-cut guitars to semi-hollow and hollowbody designs, as well as signature and special variants – ensuring there is an SE model for virtually every playing style.
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PRS Guitars sets its own standards when it comes to electric guitars. At session you will find not only the high class PRS custom shop guitars but also models from the mid-price range and electric basses from PRS. At NAMM 2016, PRS is taking a look into the past and, with the CE 24 models, has been presenting guitars with screw-on neck and maple necks in their main range for many years, which offer an interesting alternative to traditional construction. Later, the collaboration with John Mayer resulted in an incredibly successful instrument, the Silver Sky series, which was initially supplemented by additional colors and later by a cheaper SE series .
Through his great passion for guitar building and meticulous research and optimization of his models, company founder Paul Reed Smith has been creating instruments that are rightly considered true works of art for over 40 years. Not only guitar legends like Carlos Santana play the high-quality PRS guitars from the standard series, the exclusive Private Stock or even the cheaper SE production.
Paul Reed Smith is making a name for himself
The American guitar maker PRS Guitars was officially founded in 1985, but the company's founder and namesake, Paul Reed Smith, has been making guitars 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 more and more famous. Series production of the Custom 24 finally began in 1985. With former Gibson President Ted McCarty, Paul Reed Smith was able to gain an experienced consultant and the course was set for success for the guitars with the typical bird inlays in the fretboard .
Every guitar is a custom shop model
PRS guitars tend to be in the higher price ranges because of the high-quality materials and careful workmanship. The SE line, which has been manufactured in Korea and is of a high quality despite cheaper materials, has existed since the 1990s. The S2 series forms a link because the instruments are made in the USA, but are still quite affordable.
PRS calls all instruments custom shop instruments due to the high quality and customization options, but with the private stock instruments the company goes one step further and sets real standards in terms of materials, quality, originality and individuality. All PRS guitars have one thing in common: they are real workhorses with a lot of flexibility and look outrageously good at the same time. This can also be seen in the countless endorsers who swear by their PRS , as well as the numerous signature models from artists such as John Mayer, Carlos Santana, Orianthi, Mark Tremonti and Chad Kroeger.
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