PRS Silver Sky Defender Limited Edition - Willow Green

The Interstellar Tone Traveler has always believed that the best color stories start somewhere specific — a place, an object, a moment that locks a shade permanently into memory. For John Mayer, that place was his garage. The Silver Sky Defender Limited Edition began with Mayer's personal collection of Land Rover Defenders, drawing a palette of four heritage colorways that live as naturally on a guitar as they do on the vehicles that inspired them. Willow Green is the quietest of the four — a soft, grey-inflected green with the kind of understated elegance that doesn't announce itself and doesn't need to. Under high-gloss nitro lacquer on an alder body, with a matching painted headstock that carries the color all the way to the tuning machines, the whole instrument reads as one cohesive, carefully considered object. This is a limited run of exactly 500 guitars worldwide, each one carrying a neck plate engraved with "Willow Green" and "1 of 500" — and it arrives in a PRS ATA Molded Case bearing a custom DEFENDER badge that marks its origin as clearly as the finish does.

Beneath that finish lives the Silver Sky that players know: an instrument Mayer and PRS developed together around the sound, feel, and response of the vintage guitars that inspired it, refined through PRS design and construction. The 635JM-R neck profile — 55/64" at the first fret, 63/64" at the twelfth — sits with the comfortable authority of a well-worn vintage neck, and the 7.25" rosewood fingerboard radius keeps the playing feel authentically period-correct across 22 frets. Three 635JM single-coil pickups, developed specifically for the Silver Sky, deliver the clarity, warmth, and harmonic detail that made Mayer's playing on this platform so immediately recognizable, while the PRS Steel Tremolo and vintage-style locking tuners handle the mechanical end with quiet precision. Satin nitro on the back of the neck, bone nut, Small Bird inlays — every detail is resolved. The road trip starts the moment you open the case.

**This Listing is for Pre-Order, guitars are schedule to ship from November 2026 - February 2027**

Model: Silver Sky Defender Limited Edition 
Body Construction: Solidbody
Body Wood: Alder
Frets: 22 
Scale: 25.5"
Neck Wood: Maple
Neck Construction: Scarfed
Truss Rod: PRS Double-Action 
Neck Shape: 635JM-R
Neck Depth at 1st Fret: 55/64"
Neck Depth at 12th Fret: 63/64"
Fretboard Wood: Rosewood
Fretboard Radius: 7.25" 
Fretboard Inlay: Small Birds
Headstock: Matching, Signature, Decal
Neck/Body Assembly: Bolt-On
Body Finish: High-Gloss Nitro
Neck Finish: Satin Nitro
Bridge: PRS Steel Tremolo
Tuners: Vintage-Style, Locking 
Hardware Color: Nickel
Nut: Bone
Truss Rod Cover: Silver
Treble Pickup: 635JM
Middle Pickup: 635JM
Bass Pickup: 635JM
Controls: One Volume and Two Tone Controls with a 5-Way Blade Pickup Switch
Strings: PRS Signature 10-46 
Case: PRS ATA Molded Case w/ Defender Badge 
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