The PRS Silver Sky is the best sounding, best playing "Strat" I've ever owned...

[Stratafied]

Id like a maple neck strat. I’ve already got rosewood covered.

I prefer maple myself, but I’m sure there are exceptions.

 

[CyFan4036]

PRS makes an S type?

 

[Stratafied]

My Silver Sky SE seemed very similar to the Core model although the fingerboard feels a little flatter so string bending seemed easier. It has a 1 11/16" width at the nut, which is pretty normal. I don't like 1 3/8"...too narrow. And 1 3/4" usually feels too wide. So I'd say the neck feels pretty much in the same range as my Teles and other Strats. See if you can try both the SE and the Core model. They are not very different from each other and the SE goes for around $850.

Are you using 10s on it , or did you switch to 9s . I know it comes stock 10s.

 

[Lewguitar]

 

[EC Strat]

OK. I'll just suggest that ANYONE thinking about spending $850 or more for a Stratocaster should try a PRS Silver Sky SE along side that Strat you're thinking of buying.

Go back and forth between the two. Listen to them both unplugged and plugged in.

I think that person will end of buying the PRS because it's a better playing, better sounding guitar.

FFS

 

[Stratafied]

Can’t we all , just ya knowGet along

 

[Lewguitar]

Are you using 10s on it , or did you switch to 9s . I know it comes stock 10s.

I use Curt Mangan or D'Addario .010 - .046 Nickel wound

 

[simoncroft]

In the end, we buy the guitars that work for us. We can talk about why we like them more than seemingly similar alternatives, but 'better' is a difficult territory.

If more sophisticated engineering won the day, the Kahler vibrato system, would have been the leading design today. After all, it used two ball-races (ball bearings to you non engineering types), so it had to be better than Leo's crude six-screw design, right?

Er... no we nearly all hated the way the Kahler felt.

A number of guitarists have said to me "I played an xxx guitar, and it seemed really nicely made..." but never bought it. They just didn't like whatever guitar.

 

[Lewguitar]

Can’t we all , just ya knowGet along

Fine with me. Always has been.

 

[Stratafied]

Fine with me. Always has been.

I know, I’m just joking around.

 

[Stratafied]

Fine with me. Always has been.

What color did you get ?

 

[PonyB]

I don’t hate copies if they are well made. It’s still a copy. I make my own but I call them what they are Tele Copies or Strat Copies. My acoustics are copies of the old figure 8 body design and I call them Figure 8’s. My son makes vintage Martin Copies and if he builds a D-45 he calls it that, a JC Baxendale D-45. He doesn’t call it something like “Heavens Manna” or some dumb chit like that. If I make a Slope D, I call it a Baxendale Slope D.

Placing my order for a new Baxendale Heaven's Manna as we speak.
I went for the deluxe package with angel inlays and Shroud Of Turin polishing cloth.

 

[Lewguitar]

What color did you get ?

Mine is green. It's in my profile photo to the left with my other two Strats. I would have preferred white, and they did have one in white. But there were a few Silver Sky SE's in the store and after playing them all both unplugged and plugged in and listening to the sustain, listening to how chords rang, and feeling the resonance against my body, the green one was the one I chose. I liked it even better than the USA version that was 3X more money.

 

[Nate D]

Paul Reed Smith made himself a name and a product by building "not your father's guitar", while building nothing but copies of your father's guitar. There's nothing wrong with that, but a Strat or Tele is whatever Fender says it is, like a Les Paul or SG is whatever Gibson says it is. Not what Paul says it is. He makes great PRS guitars that are whatever he says they are. Some point in time from now somebody will be building better PRSii, you can count on it, like somebody has always built better <fill in the maker name>s. And the old school PRS guys will be doing exactly what old Fender poops like me are doing, sticking with what works because we never saw or felt or heard a need to change, based on our experience and use of our guitars.

Enjoy your Silver Skys and whatevers. I don't compare my guitars to other makers, I just use them and enjoy them. You should do the same. The imperial you, not you you anybody in particular. You don't have to be endlessly comparing them as "better" this or "better" thats.

rct

Well said.

I hope everyone digs their guitars like I dig mine. I was just telling somebody yesterday how grateful i feel to be blessed with my dream guitars hanging on the wall of my man cave.

 

[Lewguitar]

One more video:

 

[Stratafied]

Mine is green. It's in my profile photo to the left with my other two Strats. I would have preferred white, and they did have one in white. But there were a few Silver Sky SE's in the store and after playing them all both unplugged and plugged in and listening to the sustain, listening to how chords rang, and feeling the resonance against my body, the green one was the one I chose. I liked it even better than the USA version that was 3X more money.

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Very nice, it’ll be interesting to see if they add more colors and possibly maple necks to the se line.

 

[sunburst_xxii]

Give me Fender, or give me death

 

[Lewguitar]

Very nice, it’ll be interesting to see if they add more colors and possibly maple necks to the se line.

The Core model is now available with a maple fingerboard. I don't think the SE is available with a maple fingerboard. Personally, I like rosewood. It seems to give the guitar a little warmer sound. But maple is fine too and seems to give a little more "pop" to the way the strings ring. If the SE comes out with a maple fingerboard I will definitely give it a try and maybe get one.

 

[Wound_Up]

Players want to see "Fender" on the peghead but obviously there is no one working for FMIC that was there when Leo was running the company. The company has gone through a few owners and moved to new locations since Leo was at the helm. In a way, Paul Reed Smith is the new Leo Fender and he's right here in the world making wonderful instruments of his own design TODAY. The new PRS guitars are, IMO, the best PRS guitars that have been made since the company started. They have steadily improved in quality, finish and electronics. The pickups PRS is making now are better than any they have used in the past. Now is the time to check out PRS, because these are the guitars that are going to be the '59 Les Pauls and '50's and 60's Strats of the future.

Forget Fender. They're just a tribute company now. Nobody from the original hiring is there. They haven't been Fender for 50 years. They're just a Fender cover company now. Fender ceased to exist when Leo left and all of the people he hired left.

 

[orneryduck]

Players want to see "Fender" on the peghead but obviously there is no one working for FMIC that was there when Leo was running the company. The company has gone through a few owners and moved to new locations since Leo was at the helm. In a way, Paul Reed Smith is the new Leo Fender and he's right here in the world making wonderful instruments of his own design TODAY. The new PRS guitars are, IMO, the best PRS guitars that have been made since the company started. They have steadily improved in quality, finish and electronics. The pickups PRS is making now are better than any they have used in the past. Now is the time to check out PRS, because these are the guitars that are going to be the '59 Les Pauls and '50's and 60's Strats of the future.

I’m inclined to agree, I went into another Stratocaster out if nostalgia and my own historic preferences, and I’m not disappointed with it. — However, I tried this PRS before I found my Elite and it is still on my mind. I haven’t warmed up to the headstock and tuners, but if I HAD one, I’d likely come around.

It is absolutely stunning in all other respects for me.