The "Official Silver Sky" Thread

Shawn@PRS said:
Can we stop the love-fest and get back to hating this guitar please? Thank you
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Hey Shawn!
Do you know if the first 500 will come with anything that indicates that it's amongst the first 500, and that it came with a case?

I'm asking because...I got a Frost with hardcase, and I'm thinking of getting a tungsten with gigbag, and swapping them. Ha!
 
Shawn@PRS said:
Can we stop the love-fest and get back to hating this guitar please? Thank you
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I was at my dealer's last night (that's a story for another thread), and I was chatting to him about the Silver Sky. Sound like they've got 5 or 6 coming in. I told him I'm very interested in trying one out - it doesn't really fit my usual style all that well (the S-type, that is), but never say never. Above all, I just want to try one to see what they're like. Ironically enough, yesterday was Fender day at this dealer, and I overheard the Fender rep talking to someone about a Strat, and he said something like, "...and one of the nice things is this has a flatter radius, not like the vintage ones which were 7.5 or so, kind of harder to play."

My dealer did laugh at me when I said, "Never say never". He's seen me buy stuff I said I had no interest in.
 
alantig said:
I was at my dealer's last night (that's a story for another thread), and I was chatting to him about the Silver Sky. Sound like they've got 5 or 6 coming in. I told him I'm very interested in trying one out - it doesn't really fit my usual style all that well (the S-type, that is), but never say never. Above all, I just want to try one to see what they're like. Ironically enough, yesterday was Fender day at this dealer, and I overheard the Fender rep talking to someone about a Strat, and he said something like, "...and one of the nice things is this has a flatter radius, not like the vintage ones which were 7.5 or so, kind of harder to play."

My dealer did laugh at me when I said, "Never say never". He's seen me buy stuff I said I had no interest in.
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You're gonna like it;)

Looking forward to the NGD!
 
The video comparing the 3 guitars was as I expected - all were REALLY close and it would be hard to do a blind taste test. Playability is a key for me and I am sure PRS will beat F there. S is also good in this category but of the 3 that was my least fav as far as tone.
 
Shawn@PRS said:
Can we stop the love-fest and get back to hating this guitar please? Thank you
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Sure:

-Let's face it, this is just a stupid $xxxx S-type knock off;
-It's got a stupid radius that you can't bend on, I mean, at all. You can try but you'll instantly self-combust;
-The frets are a stupid size and they're not made out of titanium;
-They only come in 4 colours, and they're all stupid;
-They only come with a case if you get one of the first 500, and after that is a stupid gig bag;
-People are stupid and will buy anything with JM's name on it;
-The headstock is just a reverse PRS one, which is just the same as a stupid pointy guitar;
-The finish isn't made from stupid unicorn tears;
-It hasn't got fretlights, how stupid is that?
-Silver Sky? Stupid.
-What does 635 even mean? PRS are so confusing with their stupid 3 numbers. It used to mean "no. of pickups/pickup combinations" then it was "a metric conversion of the non-whole imperial component of the scale length" and now it's, well, I must be too stupid to work it out;
-The VIBRATO is flush with the stupid body, and there's way too much spring tension;
-They coloured in the stupid cutout on the lower horn, what's with that?
-They didn't put a backplate on it, stupid cheapskates;
-They built it to stupid John Mayer's specifications and NOT MINE. Now I won't buy one. I might pretend I might though, just so I can keep talking smack about a guitar I won't ever touch because of all of the above.
 
justmund said:
Sure:

-Let's face it, this is just a stupid $xxxx S-type knock off;
-It's got a stupid radius that you can't bend on, I mean, at all. You can try but you'll instantly self-combust;
-The frets are a stupid size and they're not made out of titanium;
-They only come in 4 colours, and they're all stupid;
-They only come with a case if you get one of the first 500, and after that is a stupid gig bag;
-People are stupid and will buy anything with JM's name on it;
-The headstock is just a reverse PRS one, which is just the same as a stupid pointy guitar;
-The finish isn't made from stupid unicorn tears;
-It hasn't got fretlights, how stupid is that?
-Silver Sky? Stupid.
-What does 635 even mean? PRS are so confusing with their stupid 3 numbers. It used to mean "no. of pickups/pickup combinations" then it was "a metric conversion of the non-whole imperial component of the scale length" and now it's, well, I must be too stupid to work it out;
-The VIBRATO is flush with the stupid body, and there's way too much spring tension;
-They coloured in the stupid cutout on the lower horn, what's with that?
-They didn't put a backplate on it, stupid cheapskates;
-They built it to stupid John Mayer's specifications and NOT MINE. Now I won't buy one. I might pretend I might though, just so I can keep talking smack about a guitar I won't ever touch because of all of the above.
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-You forgot no maple fretboard option!!
-JM's name is on the BACK...how am I supposed to show off that I bought a JM guitar with his name on the BACK!!
-635 => 6 + 3 + 5 = 14; 1 + 4 = 5. Stay with me here...
-$2300=> 2 +3 + 0 + 0 = 5. It's super mojo man!!
-it doesn't make me sound any more like JM than I did before
-should have done a JM portrait inlay on the headstock, ala the Ace Frehley sig Gibson. C'mon...for $2300 for a S-copy?? Put some effort into it!
 
justmund said:
Sure:

-Let's face it, this is just a stupid $xxxx S-type knock off;
-It's got a stupid radius that you can't bend on, I mean, at all. You can try but you'll instantly self-combust;
-The frets are a stupid size and they're not made out of titanium;
-They only come in 4 colours, and they're all stupid;
-They only come with a case if you get one of the first 500, and after that is a stupid gig bag;
-People are stupid and will buy anything with JM's name on it;
-The headstock is just a reverse PRS one, which is just the same as a stupid pointy guitar;
-The finish isn't made from stupid unicorn tears;
-It hasn't got fretlights, how stupid is that?
-Silver Sky? Stupid.
-What does 635 even mean? PRS are so confusing with their stupid 3 numbers. It used to mean "no. of pickups/pickup combinations" then it was "a metric conversion of the non-whole imperial component of the scale length" and now it's, well, I must be too stupid to work it out;
-The VIBRATO is flush with the stupid body, and there's way too much spring tension;
-They coloured in the stupid cutout on the lower horn, what's with that?
-They didn't put a backplate on it, stupid cheapskates;
-They built it to stupid John Mayer's specifications and NOT MINE. Now I won't buy one. I might pretend I might though, just so I can keep talking smack about a guitar I won't ever touch because of all of the above.
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THAT"S what I'm talking about! Here are some additional details to complain about.
-While the finish isn't made from unicorn tears, it is buffed using a unicorn mane. So there is that.
-The first prototype we sent John was the Tungsten color. He fell in love with it and named the guitar "Silver Sky". The name stuck.
-635 in this case refers to the year of inspiration, 1963 and 1/2. (no lie)
-You can set up the guitar to have a floating trem if that is what you want. Although the neck would need to be shimmed to achieve the proper neck angle for a floating trem. (Who'da thunk there was so much math involved with building a stupid guitar?)
-John wanted the lower horn to be accentuated with a complimentary color. (Has it been mentioned this is a JM signature model?)
-Back plate (please see "signature model" comment above)
 
Back to the Thomann video, I liked the rich lower mids of the Silver Sky, and the very articulate highs that still sounded round, not too spiky.

The SS and Fender definitely had a more vintage vibe; between the two, the SS sounded (to me) more like the guitar you find after a long holy grail 60s Strat search, but the Fender sounded very nice in a different way.

The Suhr definitely was more what I call “LA Modern”; Suhr’s amps sound that way to me as well. Picking between them might be kind of a John Mayer style vs Pete Thorn style thing.

Damn nice guitars!

I don’t get the hate. Different instruments suit different players...differently. They might even suit different songs more for a given player. F’rinstance, the SS really was most awesome on that little “Sultans of Swing” snippet.

People need to get over themselves. :)
 
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Shawn@PRS said:
THAT"S what I'm talking about! Here are some additional details to complain about.
-While the finish isn't made from unicorn tears, it is buffed using a unicorn mane. So there is that.
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Really lame. All the good companies are using unicorn tails for buffing.

Shawn@PRS said:
-The first prototype we sent John was the Tungsten color. He fell in love with it and named the guitar "Silver Sky". The name stuck.

-John wanted the lower horn to be accentuated with a complimentary color. (Has it been mentioned this is a JM signature model?)

-Back plate (please see "signature model" comment above)
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Too much catering to John Mayer's whims on this. Just because his name is on it doesn't mean he should have any say. Plus, I prefer a satin, non-sticky name.

Shawn@PRS said:
-635 in this case refers to the year of inspiration, 1963 and 1/2. (no lie)
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Huh - I thought it was the cost of a better S-copy from a good company.

Shawn@PRS said:
-You can set up the guitar to have a floating trem if that is what you want. Although the neck would need to be shimmed to achieve the proper neck angle for a floating trem. (Who'da thunk there was so much math involved with building a stupid guitar?)
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No, no, no - I don't want ANY shimmy in my necks. I want them to be solid!
 
Shawn@PRS said:
Can we stop the love-fest and get back to hating this guitar please? Thank you
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You used to have some credence! I believed you lived/loved the brand!!

“Disappointed” doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Now I know how you work! You got that “15 year employee” guitar and you showed your true colours.

A signature model, single-coil, double-cutaway, that most of your customers having been hoping for, for years!

You come on here and act like this?!

Explain yourself?!











:D;):D
 
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