So where’s the HSS Silver Sky?
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Bowtiefanatc
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But….John doesn’t play an HSS, does he?
Rider1260
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Max Headroom
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I will go with the EG-1 from way back in the nineties with HSH…
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1992 Paul Reed Smith EG-1 | Reverb
If you've ever given PRS a hard time for the Silver Sky, you probably haven't seen the EG Series, which debuted in 1990. These guitars feature bolt-on necks and slab bodies with all the electronics housed in the pickguard. Despite the slick finishes and John Mayer's endorsement, the Silver Sky wa...
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sergiodeblanc
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They won’t do it! Under any circumstance, until they do.
RickP
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I hear Neal put a humbucker and a Floyd on his… a Nebula, no less.
ViperDoc
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Shocker. Looks super cool. Rebuilt outside of PRS, I’d guess.I hear Neal put a humbucker and a Floyd on his… a Nebula, no less.
JasonE
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There is a shop out there that is modifying silver skys and putting humbuckers in the bridge. I have seen a few for sale on Reverb. They look good.
I doubt PRS will do it. They will say buy the Fiore, which I gave some thought to more than once.
I doubt PRS will do it. They will say buy the Fiore, which I gave some thought to more than once.
Lovely rig! Yeah I'm looking at them.Remind me to never show you my Tele that a Dremel under the influence attacked late one night after a gig about a million years ago, trying to turn it into Steve Morse's guitar even though I had no idea how to wire 3 pickups, let alone 4. Nuclear ant farm.
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I’d buy an HSS Silver Sky. Mayer doesn’t use an HSS one, but he also doesn’t use maple fingerboards and PRS released maple SSs. So anything’s possible!
Jimi D
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Jimi D
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Nope... no splitting in the 2 position... I've thought about retro-fitting the split but I'm worried that it might weaken the bridge side too much; truth is I really like the sound of the 2 position now, so I don't really want to mess with it (despite the fact that I compulsively fix things that ain't broke all the time, often to their detriment)
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I set up my HSS strat to autosplit. Dig it.
Ovibos
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The SE was the number one selling new guitar on Reverb, PRS probably doesn’t see a need for an additional model yet.
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The silver sky has starting winning me over to the PRS side recently. Not because of JM which I give hats off to for working with Mr Reed to develop this guitar. I have many different guitars like ibanez az's , fender, Yamaha revstar but mostly am a Strat S style player. The silver sky has the best Neck carve and feel out of all my guitars and I instantly bonded with everything about it except the bridge pickup which isn't prs fault but I always put a hum bucker in the bridge for my style of playing. So needless to say I modded my SE silver sky and loved it so much I bought a core silver sky in frost white and am getting ready to insert a hum bucker in it also. Would be nice if PRS would just make a model with the same neck profile in HSS. Im sure they would be a hot seller
Oh and the hum bucker I used was the seymour duncan Lari Basilio which I love the pickup.
Oh and the hum bucker I used was the seymour duncan Lari Basilio which I love the pickup.
