Love everything about Silver Sky, except the headstock

[jl789]

It caught my eye since it was released, and I tried one and liked it a lot, but really wish it had the regular headstock.

I’ve been wanting to pull the trigger many many times. I know it’s John’s idea and why but, I really think the regular one looks better.

Anyone else feels the same?

 

[Jimi D]

I was with you until the “except…”. Honestly, I’ve heard people complaining about the regular PRS headstock shape for thirty years and never understood it; I personally don’t look at the headstock when playing a guitar. The Silver Sky feels like home under my hands, and I love the SS enough to have two.

 

[DodgyVox]

I get it, there has been 70 years of us accepting the Fender headstock as standard. But personally I love the SS headstock. I love the look and I love that’s it’s different. Best wishes to you.

 

[Mike J.]

I was with you until the “except…”. Honestly, I’ve heard people complaining about the regular PRS headstock shape for thirty years and never understood it; I personally don’t look at the headstock when playing a guitar. The Silver Sky feels like home under my hands, and I love the SS enough to have two.

Same here as far as not looking at the headstock. I have a 2019 Epiphone SG Pro that has the old, bigger headstock design. (This is the design prior to Epiphones "inspired by Gibson" designs.) Some folks can't stand the old headstock but I've never given it a second thought.

 

[bodia]

The headstock shouldn’t be your deciding factor.

 

[DISTORT6]

Swap necks with a CE.
(That won't work.)

 

[JTB]

PRS makes guitars that play and sound amazing with their own unique look. Putting birds and a PRS headstock on a Strat body is hard to accept after looking at Strats for all these decades. I still want an SS.

 

[BrianC]

I hated it at first and now like it.

 

[shinksma]

I was with you until the “except…”. Honestly, I’ve heard people complaining about the regular PRS headstock shape for thirty years and never understood it; I personally don’t look at the headstock when playing a guitar. The Silver Sky feels like home under my hands, and I love the SS enough to have two.

Yeah, I have heard that the PRS "normal" headstock is too small - but dang, do I want a huge late-70s Gibson Les Paul headstock on all my guitars? One is enough.

And since the change in the Silver Sky headstock is for a very specific functional reason, I'm more than OK with it.

Also, based on your tagline under your avatar, are you a Hip fan?

 

[d^rren]

Swap necks with a CE.
(That won't work.)

Swap necks with a Fioré.

 

[JTB]

Yeah, I have heard that the PRS "normal" headstock is too small - but dang, do I want a huge late-70s Gibson Les Paul headstock on all my guitars? One is enough.

And since the change in the Silver Sky headstock is for a very specific functional reason, I'm more than OK with it.

Also, based on your tagline under your avatar, are you a Hip fan?

Where the Great Plains begin!

 

[d^rren]

I have no insight into the process that went into designing the Silver Sky headstock, but it's not simply a "reversed" PRS headstock. To me, it looks like the design goal was to make the first fret position feel like a Strat.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I have no insight into the process that went into designing the Silver Sky headstock, but it's not simply a "reversed" PRS headstock. To me, it looks like the design goal was to make the first fret position feel like a Strat.

It was!

 

[direwolf08]

I was with you until the “except…”. Honestly, I’ve heard people complaining about the regular PRS headstock shape for thirty years and never understood it; I personally don’t look at the headstock when playing a guitar. The Silver Sky feels like home under my hands, and I love the SS enough to have two.

The PRS headstock sure is polarizing! Personally, I like it, but a lot of people can't stand it.

 

[KentuckyBoiledChiccan]

It caught my eye since it was released, and I tried one and liked it a lot, but really wish it had the regular headstock.

I’ve been wanting to pull the trigger many many times. I know it’s John’s idea and why but, I really think the regular one looks better.

Anyone else feels the same?

See I'm 180 degrees on this. I like the headstock, can't really say the same about the body

 

[RC Mike]

I'm rather headstock agnostic, at least when it comes to how they look. It's one of the millions of things in life I don't care about.

 

[shinksma]

I have no insight into the process that went into designing the Silver Sky headstock, but it's not simply a "reversed" PRS headstock. To me, it looks like the design goal was to make the first fret position feel like a Strat.

Yes, feel, as you note, due to the shape. But also the e tuner location on the headstock is right about the distance from the nut where the string tree for the e string would be on a strat - so you get the same "resonance" from that specific length of string between nut and tuner/tree.

 

[dmatthews]

SS = awesome... nuff said...

 

[DISTORT6]

Swap necks with a Fioré.

No rosewood.

 

[Rider1260]

I do love the PRS headstock and the Silver Sky shape just as much.
But I have always loved the Santana headstock the most