I playtested a Silver Sky today and was very impressed. I love the neck, and the playability.
I never jived with Strats, because I found them to be crude, for lack of a better word.
I liked that the Silver Sky had the famous "strat sounds", but unlike the Fender, actually felt like a polished, well finished, and hyper playable instrument.
Here's my conundrum: I walked in the store to playtest an S2 McCarty 594, which I also loved, although it sounded much mellower and darker than I anticipated, even on the split coils.
I've never longed for a Strat, mainly because to me, as I said, it felt crude and not something that tickles my fancy, other than the clean neck pickup sound, which I love.
There I am considering the Silver Sky, because it has that sound (and then some), and has none of the flaws I typically hate about Strats.
The Silver Sky is $1000 more expensive here than the S2 McCarty 594. Pretty huge difference.
I find the McCarty prettier and overall more appealing aesthetically. It is also a versatile guitar, and will be better to play with distortion than the Silver Sky.
However, I LOVED the neck on the Silver Sky, and loved the clean sound.
So my question is: which is the better buy? The Silver Sky seems in high demand. Assuming I eventually regret my choice, which one will I be able to resell the easiest between the Silver Sky and the S2 McCarty 594 and which one is more likely to hold its value?
Is it worth paying $1000 for the bolt-on Silver Sky?
Thanks for your thoughts!
I’ve always been curious about a Silver Sky, but have never seen, alone played one. I have Custom Shop Strats, but I’ve been more of a humbucker guy for several years. So...... If one of the first 500 was available at the same price as other used ones, and a Lunar Ice presented itself at the original published price without “flipper markup “, which would you choose and why? I have no real preference between maple and rosewood. As no price was mentioned, I assume I’ve broken no forum rules. If I have, I’ll delete ASAP.
Man, roll the tone back to around 7 on the bridge pickup on a silver sky with some high gain and hear it sing!!!!!I playtested a Silver Sky today and was very impressed. I love the neck, and the playability.
I never jived with Strats, because I found them to be crude, for lack of a better word.
I liked that the Silver Sky had the famous "strat sounds", but unlike the Fender, actually felt like a polished, well finished, and hyper playable instrument.
Here's my conundrum: I walked in the store to playtest an S2 McCarty 594, which I also loved, although it sounded much mellower and darker than I anticipated, even on the split coils.
I've never longed for a Strat, mainly because to me, as I said, it felt crude and not something that tickles my fancy, other than the clean neck pickup sound, which I love.
There I am considering the Silver Sky, because it has that sound (and then some), and has none of the flaws I typically hate about Strats.
The Silver Sky is $1000 more expensive here than the S2 McCarty 594. Pretty huge difference.
I find the McCarty prettier and overall more appealing aesthetically. It is also a versatile guitar, and will be better to play with distortion than the Silver Sky.
However, I LOVED the neck on the Silver Sky, and loved the clean sound.
So my question is: which is the better buy? The Silver Sky seems in high demand. Assuming I eventually regret my choice, which one will I be able to resell the easiest between the Silver Sky and the S2 McCarty 594 and which one is more likely to hold its value?
Is it worth paying $1000 for the bolt-on Silver Sky?
Thanks for your thoughts!
Man, roll the tone back to around 7 on the bridge pickup on a silver sky with some high gain and hear it sing!!!!!
You know what, I’m right with you, it’s not a thick neck. It’s more full than the wide thin necks I have, but not chunky. I went down to the local music stores to feel on some of the strats. I picked up a nick johnstons schecter and a few s-style guitars, a Jackson or two and a few epiphone les Paul’s for good measure. Most of the necks felt anemic, not thin.l (not the les Paul’s necks). Back to the SS because I’m not knocking another makers instruments. The neck is form fitting and highly playable. I don’t see the radius as an issue maybe a 10’ would play better, probably wouldn’t who know?So day 3, I’m trying to wrap my head around this fat, chunky, thick neck thing.
Maybe I’ve been playing the wrong things, P22 pattern regular, Collings 290, Martin OOO-18GE, R9, MC58.
This neck feels perfect and I don’t have big hands, it feels slimmer than my other guitars and is pretty much downright perfect.
I spent a good part of the day going back and forth between the 290 and the SS dialing in the Falcon Grande which is also new to me. Both vary quite a bit from an eq standpoint but after today I’ve got a good handle on each. The SS favors the Tweed channel and the 290 with P90s really favors the rhythm channel. The P90s are a good bit hotter.
It’s been a good day.
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Man, roll the tone back to around 7 on the bridge pickup on a silver sky with some high gain and hear it sing!!!!!
So day 3, I’m trying to wrap my head around this fat, chunky, thick neck thing.
Maybe I’ve been playing the wrong things, P22 pattern regular, Collings 290, Martin OOO-18GE, R9, MC58.
This neck feels perfect and I don’t have big hands, it feels slimmer than my other guitars and is pretty much downright perfect.
I spent a good part of the day going back and forth between the 290 and the SS dialing in the Falcon Grande which is also new to me. Both vary quite a bit from an eq standpoint but after today I’ve got a good handle on each. The SS favors the Tweed channel and the 290 with P90s really favors the rhythm channel. The P90s are a good bit hotter.
It’s been a good day.
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I watched that video yesterday. Pretty flippin' cool.