Mayer approached Paul Reed Smith about essentially building a “Strat” that ultimately became the PRS Silver Sky, much of the online commentary erupted into heated debates over its Strat similarities — or justifying how much Mayer and Smith successfully reimagined what a Stratocaster should be. Now, with the simultaneous launch of the PRS NF 53 (the guitar reviewed here) and Myles Kennedy Signature models (covered on page 33), which are coincidentally similar, many peanut gallery naysayers have already dubbed these new
