“Lefties, thank a rightie today”: John Mayer on why right-handed guitar players were responsible for the eventual creation of the left-handed SE Silver Sky
John Mayer’s PRS Silver Sky signature guitar and its affordable SE variant may have been Reverb’s best-selling electric guitars in 2022 and 2023, but it wasn’t until midway through 2024 that a left-handed version of the hugely popular electric guitar was made available.
In fact, maple-fretboard versions and a colorway designed to look like a faded band tee arrived sooner than any southpaw spin-offs. Fortunately for lefties all around the world, though, PRS finally told them that “your voice has been heard” back in April, releasing the first-ever left-handed Silver Sky model.
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A freelance writer with a penchant for music that gets weird, Phil is a regular contributor to Prog, Guitar World, and Total Guitar magazines and is especially keen on shining a light on unknown artists. Outside of the journalism realm, you can find him writing angular riffs in progressive metal band, Prognosis, in which he slings an 8-string Strandberg Boden Original, churning that low string through a variety of tunings. He’s also a published author and is currently penning his debut novel which chucks fantasy, mythology and humanity into a great big melting pot.
