#6031 – PRS JM Silver Sky Maple Fingerboard – midnight rose – ex-display/2021

£1899

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New Low Price on this new/ex-display PRS JM Silver Sky Maple Fingerboard in midnight rose – was £2190 – Now £1899

There has been no shortage of talk, praise, questions and queries regarding the PRS JM Silver Sky, probably more so than any other PRS Guitar – I believe the PRS web site actually crashed the day the guitar was first launched, due to the high number of visitors to their site – Numerous video clips of the Silver Sky in action can be found if you tour YouTube – Whilst a great review, courtesy of Dave Burrluck and Guitarist Magazine, can be found, if you click here – Today I can offer for sale a new, yet A2 stock model, with a 2021 serial number – It is a new model, that I recently acquired, direct, from the PRS UK warehouse and is now offered for sale at a more attractive price – A2 stock is essentially a new guitar with a minor finish blemish, yet still complete with warranty, gig bag and tags etc – Sometimes I’m offered such guitars that might have been on display at a PRS Guitar Show, dealer day event, or similar – Sometimes a review model from a magazine – Either way they are now treated as an A2 model – in this instance, you’ll need a better eye than me to find any such blemish so effectively nigh on perfect

The web site pics do not do justice to the midnight rose finish – It looks so cool and fresh, when viewed in the flesh, certainly compared to the usual traditional finishes we associate with Strats – It possesses a subtle ‘metallic’ vibe about it  – Still complete with a full warranty, the deluxe gig bag, plus the appropriate tag – It has spent time on my bench for a check-up, a new set of 10-46 gauge strings, plus set-up, so that slick action awaits any potential buyer

A few key details :-

Playing performance :-  You would not expect any PRS to be delivered with anything other than a slick easy action, that responds to a light touch – And the Silver Sky continues with that tradition – Granted a 25.5″ scale length will always ensure a slightly stiffer feel to a 25″ or 24.75″ scale length, but that goes with the territory – The neck some how feels a bit more meaty than many Strats I’ve played in the past – Some might say a meaty C or a less deep D – Either way it has some comfortable girth to it – Not to chunky – Not impossible to play – Somehow the more you play it the more you settle in with it – In many ways, the size and shape of the neck on its own, is rarely the deal breaker, as the action and set-up come into play to determine if it is an easy guitar to handle – Overall this is a very playable guitar but might just need you to spend some time with it, getting to know it and settle in with it – Before you know it, it just feels as though you’ve known it for a while – What makes the playing experience more enjoyable is the slick and positive feel of the PRS trem – A mix of features and spec from a vintage Strat and Paul’s famous trem’s found on many PRS models – You’d have to give it some serious abuse to have any tuning issues with it – For many of us it is responsive, smooth and stable – Again old meets new when you look at the tuners – Look at the front face of the headstock and it looks modern with the usual locking features of a PRS Guitar – Look on the back and you’ll find the vintage character of a good old Strat with Kluson tuners – Somehow, the whole PRS build quality, perfectly polished and crowned frets, plus tweaks to the trem/saddles, leaves you with a guitar that is ‘more in tune’ regarding the intonation

Tonal character :- If I said it sounds like a Strat, then I’m sure most of you would expect and accept that – There is what I’d call a Strat voice – Yet the finer nuances within this format can change so much – A 50’s Strat doesn’t sound the same as an early 60’s Strat, which again sounds different to a late 60’s model – I could go on about noiseless, active , Lace Sensor and other pick-up options etc etc but I’m sure you get the drift – With John Mayer’s history of playing Strat based guitars, then hardly a surprise that such a guitar has that traditional Strat tonal character – I agree with the review (see above) that points out that there is not to much ‘scoop’ within the tonal character and that it somehow has more ‘girth’ about it – Almost more ‘positive’ and less ‘percussive’ – Yet always sounding like a Strat or should I say a versatile Strat – Always rich in tone and always musical – The big plus is how responsive the volume and tone pots are – This in my opinion is the heart of the guitars tone, certainly with regards to soul, expression and emotion – I never leave the volume pot on 10 – 6 or 7 is my base camp and whilst I require a slightly ‘softer’ output, I still want to preserve the guitars full goodness and expressive tonal character – 10 is then a place I can move towards when I require a little bit extra – A turbo boost – This format works well on a clean amp to allow for more emotion, but comes into its own when you add some gain on the amp – This approach now allows you to control the gain, directly from the guitar – So 6 or 7 for  a cleaner ‘Little Wing’ voice, to more of a full on approach, that the likes of Rory Gallagher would adopt when required, with the pot now on 10 – The more I explored the guitars tonal options, the more I wanted to carry on playing it – Occasionally I might tweak the tone pot to damp the highs – It sounds funky aka Chic, when required – The out of phase settings are instantly infectious with more quack/snap from the bridge/middle combination and more full on the neck/middle combination – Maybe the be all and end all doesn’t exist in one single Strat – As I mentioned earlier, there are many great Strats out there and 2 different Strats can both be great at the same time, yet slightly different – The Silver Sky is a great guitar that can compete with the best of them – It can easily sit in a collection amongst other Strats – It can easily sit in a collection as your only ‘Strat’ based guitar – It can easily be your only guitar ( not that many players/customers I know only have 1 guitar) – Like any good Strat, it can easily be a guitar that you can play all your Hank, Eric, Rory, Stevie, Buddy, Jimi, John, songs/licks on,  or anything else as you require

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