windmill wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:24 pm
Anyone seen one in real life yet ?
AFAIK none have arrived downunder yet. All the stores are rehashing the same bullshit rhetoric press release like they do for every new guitar until it turns up.... then we get the in-house shill reviews on store websites, in order to flog the dead horse and convert the hype and bullshit into sales revenue.
This is the exact same marketing crap in every result in the top 5 google hits on"PRS SILVER SKY SYDNEY PRICE" here:
Paul Reed Smith (PRS) Silver Sky Electric Guitar
The PRS Silver Sky is the result of a close collaboration between Grammy Award-winning musician John Mayer and Paul Reed Smith. More than two and half years in the making, the Silver Sky is a vintage-inspired instrument that is at once familiar but also newly PRS through and through. This model was based off of Mayer and Smith’s favorite elements from 1963 and 1964 vintage instruments, resulting in an idealized version of a vintage single-coil guitar. The attention that was paid to every detail sets this guitar apart.
Some of the more distinctive specifications include, the headstock shape, tuners, neck and fretboard, bridge, and pickups and electronics. The headstock shape is based on PRS’s trademark design, but inverted to both accommodate Mayer’s playing style and also to keep a consistent length of string behind the nut, which makes staying in tune easier. The tuners are a traditional vintage-style, closed-back tuner, but with PRS’s locking design. The neck shape was modeled after 1963/1964 vintage instruments, and the fretboard has a 7.25” radius. The moment your hand grabs this neck, it just feels right. Like the tuners, the steel tremolo takes a classic design and incorporates PRS’s trem arm and Gen III knife-edge screws. The bridge on the Silver Sky is setup flush to the body in the neutral position so that the tremolo bridge only goes down in pitch. By keeping the bridge in contact with the body, the guitar itself is acoustically louder, which improves the signal to noise ratio of the single-coil pickups. The 635JM single-coil pickups are very round and full, with a musical high end that is never “ice-picky” or brash.
Other high-quality specifications include a bone nut, a molded metal jack plate that is curved and makes plugging and unplugging a guitar cable hassle-free, retooled knobs, fretwire that is slightly smaller than what you’d find on most PRS electric guitars, and PRS’s double action truss rod (accessible from the front of the headstock for ease of use).
The Silver Sky comes in four colors with distinctive accents on PRS’s trademark lower horn scoop.
Body
Body Wood Alder
Neck
# of Frets 22
Scale Length 25.5”
Neck Wood Maple
Fretboard Wood Rosewood
Neck Shape 635JM
Nut Width 1 21/32”
Neck Width at the Body 2 7/32”
Neck Depth at the Nut 53/64”
Fretboard Radius 7.25”
Inlays Small Birds
Hardware
Nut Bone
Bridge Steel Tremolo
String Spacing 2 9/64”
Tuners Vintage Style, Locking
Hardware Type Nickel
Treble Pickup 635JM
Middle Pickup 635JM
Bass Pickup 635JM
Pickup Switching One Volume & Two Tones with a 5-Way Blade Pickup Switch
Finishes:*indicates opaque color Onyx*, Horizon*, Tungsten*, Frost*
So not only are stores just copy/paste/shill, they haven't even added their own individual store "flair".
It has been over-cooked, and we get a lot of that here. It's part of the reason I am so cynical about anything thats talked about but cannot be touched by a normal person in a store.
And if the store owners are the kind who put it in a glass case with a "please ask staff for assistance" then it's going to get even less interest from me.
I said as much to my local store guys, who routinely do this with new american elite series / pro series strats and teles, and les pauls or 6100 series gretsch's etc etc.
I'm straight up with them, and they know it. They have had plenty of my money in years past. The rule is simple. I have told them "if you aren't going to make the instrument accessible without hassle, then you're not going to see any of my money"...
to say it has changed their attitude towards me when I walk in is to understate the situation. I do feel for the less 'direct' people who walk in and don't touch anything because there is a sign on it.
instruments on display in stores are there to be played, handled and tested. If a store puts a don't touch tag on it, they don't deserve your money.
it is far more understanding to put a "handle me with care" or a "you break it, you bought it" tag on the instrument - at least then people will have a more careful attitude towards something that is not theirs - and might become someone elses instrument.
