Chords for The PRS Silver Sky | Demo with Bryan Ewald | PRS Guitars

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[E] Hey everybody, my name is Brian Ewald and I'm here at the PRS [B] factory in Stevensville, Maryland
And I'm very pleased to introduce you to the Silver Sky, the John Mayer signature model guitar
Although it is obviously a very familiar
Design and inspired by a classic [N] instrument.
This is 100% Paul Reed Smith through and through and by that
I mean if you know Paul Reed Smith
The level of attention to detail that goes into every guitar design is certainly present in this one, too
Let's go through and have a look at some of the finer points of this instrument
For starters, the Silver Sky comes in four different colors comes in Horizon
Onyx, Frost and Tungsten and
Within each of those there's a subtle accent inside the trademark PRS scoop on the lower bow
And for the hardware the tuners started from a classic closed back design
with Paul's added modern touches including
Brass bushings also his patented locking system
The bridge is a plate steel bridge with steel saddles and a steel block
Paul's
Threadless trim arm with a set screw to adjust the tension
Also the PRS Gen 3 set screws that hold it into the body which have a knife edge on them
Which help with tuning stability and bring the bridge back to its original position easier as per John's request the bridge comes set up
flush to the body as opposed to floating so that it has better contact with the body to give you better sustain and
resonance comes with a bone nut and
obviously the headstock shape is
PRS designed but inverted
and elongated so the
Elongating it will do two things one
It gives you more length behind the nut a little more string length which changes the way it sounds but definitely the way it feels
when you bend
Also kind of elongates this area along the treble side
To give more room as you're playing down lower here
John has big hands and likes the slightly more carved out feel of the lower side of the headstock
The Silver Sky features a bolt-on maple neck
22 frets with a slab rosewood fingerboard.
The fingerboard radius is seven and a quarter
It does feature the PRS patented double acting adjustable truss rod and the access for
That is here on the headstock, which is a lot easier with this cool little
inset little truss rod cover
the fret wire is the traditional PRS fret wire except slightly shorter and thinner than what you would find on a
Custom 24.
Let's say you can see it has slightly smaller birds on it
The neck shape is the 635 JM shape the the two necks that were used as inspiration with us
They brought a 63 and a 64 vintage that were their two favorite neck shapes and kind of sculpted
kind of a medium between the two
Paul loves to name things based on numbers of year of inspiration
So you take the 63 the 64 and get 63 and a half
That's where the 635 comes from.
The alder body is a reworking of the PRS
DC-3 model and the pickguard has been recontoured to better suit the lines
On the back you can see the back plate has been left off
per John's request which gives you easy access to the to the springs and adjustments if you need to and
The neck plate you can see features in engraving of John's signature and the model name PRS designed a jack plate
That's slightly raised to facilitate easier access for the cable
The knob layout the first knob here is the tone control for the bridge
The center knob actually will control the tone for both the center and neck pickups and a single master volume and five-way blade switch
the pickups also known as the 635 JM just like the neck again referencing the kind of blend between the
63 and 64 vintage the the pickups to me really have a warm characteristic and
Less of that ice pickiness that you can sometimes get with certain vintage pickups
All any any
inconsistencies that you normally get with vintage pickups have been addressed
You know the modern technology and everything Paul's learned over the past decade or so and pickup building
Has yielded beautiful results.
I mean they really sound like vintage pickups to me, but consistent from guitar to guitar
So that's basically the nose detail of it as they say the devil's in the details
This has been more than two years in the making between John and Paul and the entire design team here at PRS
With the idea to [E] create an idealized version of a three pickup single coil guitar
I really think they knocked it out of the park.
Let's have a listen and take it for a spin _ _ _ _ _
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