What do you think about the PRS SE Silver Sky? It's great to see PRS finally offering a second option. One lefty guitar in a range is not enough, and I'll explain why from a lefty experience. Drop a comment below and let me know your thoughts. :)
Another thing PRS is doing right is doing a preorder. I had tried to get the same Custom 24 like yours when they came out several years ago and it took forever to be in stock. Finally I gave up and canceled it 😢. Doing a preorder can both build up anticipation for this guitar and set expectations for delivery time.
I feel the same way, and I bought a PRS SE 277 lefty Baritone and I love it. I like PRS releasing a lefty Silver Sky in different colors. I have eight lefty Schecters and I support them the most since they are very lefty friendly. I'm travelling to my home state of Utah in a week and one of the shops there has lefty PRS SE 24-08 Standards and I am going to check them out.
I think it's about time !!! I don't own a Silver Sky but, I do have a MIK Zach Myer that I love other than the color Trampas Green ,I would much rather have the blue one,I did upgrade to Covered Seymour Duncan 59's which sound WAAAAAY better to my ear. Cheers mate !
Such a long time coming… PRS are obstinate with left hand versions claiming it’s not financially viable, it’s really frustrating. One could argue it’s discriminatory! I’ve wanted the Silver Sky since its creation. I’ve signed petitions, emailed PRS directly. Fingers crossed we get the USA version too. Cheers Shane, thanks for the vid!
Lefty here also Shane - I too own a PRS SE Custom 24 and love it! Stoked about the Silver Sky coming out! So limited in our choices but lately it's getting a little better with the Yamaha Revstar and now the Silver Sky. If Ernie Ball Music Man ever releases a left-handed Luke again I'll be all over that one too! Us lefties need to continue to ask manufacturers to offer more choices! Nothing changes if we don't ask!
I’m a lefty who plays right handed, because of the limited options available to me 33 years ago. It’s good to see more lefty options these days. If I was starting now I’d definitely consider playing left handed.
I get sad and upset when I hear lefties play guitar right handed. How limited is playing right handed sir? I’ll really be glad to know. I’m just imagining
I've heard of many good players who are left handed but play right handed. Ringo Star of the Beatles played drums that way ( which could explain why his back beat was strong on the snare) and among guitar players there is Mark Knofler, and Steve Morse, who both exemplify a strong and quick fretting hand, and expedient subtle directed picking technique which is usually rational and simple. ( good for players who can then use their stronger hand to do powerful string bends and vibratos).
I'm a lefty who plays guitar righty. I played violin growing up, and back then nobody even considered left-handed violin an option. So when I started playing guitar it was natural to play righty. I think it's matter of picking your poison either way. With most instruments, both hands are equally important, so either way your less dominant hand will need to step up. Lefty guitarists will find fretting, bending, and vibratos easier but may be disadvantaged with intricate picking compared to their righty counterparts. After years and years of playing stringed instruments as a righty, trying to play lefty feels foreign to me.
I was both shocked and pleased with the results announcement from of the lefty Silver Sky SE. Knowing that Paul Reed Smith is notorious for being dismissive on the subject of available lefty PRS guitars, I didn’t think the company would that move. It’s a step in the right direction simply because more people are picking up the guitar and a number of them are southpaws. We are living in a great time where so many great guitars are available to both right and left handed players. I’m definitely going to try and get one!😎😎😎🎸🎸🎸
I absolutely love my custom 24 SE. Just before march I picked up A60e too. The silver sky and Zack Myers announcement is a huge step in the right direction and im sure i will for sure own one of them when they drop.
I keep saying that over and over again. It's no different to build 1 out of 100 guitars lefty, this should be the standard or, really based on the number of lefty players, more like 1 in 10. The fact that only a few brands really cater to lefties and the rest just leave us in the dark completely is shocking. Especially with the numbers of good-to-great guitars coming out of Asia for great prices that we just can't even touch. The sheer number of really high-end and then super budget while totally missing the middle is frustrating as a player who doesn't want budget but also doesn't want to spend over 2k.
Never mind the CNC options. Its a head scratcher when companies actually make left handed guitars and end up with the blandest, most boring colour option available; like "black" I mean c'mon, is there left handed paint that also needs sourcing? Talk about 1 step forward, two steps back - and yes I'm looking at you lefty darling Schecter releasing the Nick Johnston st and t style signature models in the same colour: atomic green 🙄
You’re absolutely right Shane: I’m a righty, but it’s obviously ridiculous that there are so few lefty options. How much market are they missing? Crazy.
Thanks, Eddie. I never understood the one model offering. It's so limiting to guitarists and for sales. Epiphone had three of my purchases back in the day where, whereas PRS would only have one.
I’m also a Lefty… my previous band had 2 lefty players (and our vocalist was even left handed, lol). looking forward to the delivery of a Mayones 7 string this week 🤤
spot on. I'm a lefty and been playing since the mid to late 80's. Back then, there was bugger all lefties, especially where I lived (Central NSW). While there is a larger range available now, it is still very limited. Also, retailers used to add 10% on the guitar cost for lefties back in the day... I could never afford anything good, so I just owned garbage instruments most of my playing career... until fairly recently!
As a big fan of PRS (I damn near bought that SE you let me demo to accompany my Core model) you're bang on! You southpaws need some more options, glad to see it's starting to happen.
Theres also i believe zach myers 594 semi hollow coming as well. Im intrigued by both and feel it's about time the lineup was expanded. Always good to have options. Last winter I bought a custom 24 Eriza verde just because I always wanted the color even though I had a black gold 24 already. Only goodthing about being a lefty traditionally is it self limits how many guitars you can buy.
I think on prs home web page, if you scroll down theres an announcement. Also I think on zach myers ig. Always wanted a thinline tele, I figure it could scratch the itch. Against my better judgement, i bought a custom 24 eriza Verde last winter even though I had a black gold 24 just for color and I think different pups.
The Zach Myers was the one that got my attention as I've always wanted a PRS single cut. Although a Tremonti would have been first choice, this is a close second.
I'm a lefty who started out just playing RH upside down, then started using reversed strings so I could follow the chord books, then finally found a quality lefty guitar (Ibanez silver series) at a reasonable price due to a headups from a workmate and have appreciated Ibanez supporting me ever since. My 83 Roadstar 2 is my go to since I bought it new. Great to see so many options now, more would better!
Having bought a Korea made SE I fell in love with it and been awaiting for a Silver Sky. Having been frustrated with limited choices. I given up hope so I bought a Vola strat. Glad to see PRS offering more selections to lefties
When I saw this post on IG, I thought I was a fake ad until I realised it was true ! I’m very pleased to see PRS thinking more about us lefties, very happy about my Custom Floyd 24 SE which is flawless, now I’m tempted to get my hands on one of those Silver Sky 👀
I had a silver sky se. It played great and sounded great. Being that I bought it on impulse, after a while I hated the color. I ended up giving it to my nephew's 12 year old son who was starting to learn with a crappy cheap guitar his mother bought. He's now loving it.
You make an unimpeachable and unarguable point. I’m left-handed. Somehow, as a teen, a few decades ago, I had some basic wisdom to realize the market for left-handed guitars almost didn’t exist, and was pitifully small. I’m still left-handed, I play guitars, basses right-handed and have always been grateful for that effort to MAKE myself play and learn right-handed so I had purchase options. Still, in fairness to left-handed players, I’m always happy to see more options available for them. Great news!
DANG...Shane it's about flippen TIME. Thanks for the headsup. Now if only Epiphone would make that new ES-355 in a lefty. Even at 1300 I be all over it.
Yeh, bring on the lefties! It just makes sense. Flick a button on the CNC, and it’s (almost) done (just finish the job with bridges and pots). The market is out there. More strength (and music) to your arms, lefties! - from a supportive rightie.
PRS is one of a handful of brands I have absolutely zero interest in because they pay so little attention to lefty players. Which is a shame as they are located just an hour from me. My "hometown" brand completely ignores me as a player, and that doesn't sit right with me. Just adding in a lefty Silver Sky doesn't do enough for me. But it's at least a step. A very small step.
Amen, brother! Ive been hoping for years Fender would offer us Lefties some offsets in the Player Series. But NoPe. Eastwood offers us LOADS of lefties! Even in their weird models!
Great news. Done buying anything but Teles....but I've always wanted a lefty SE Silver Sky...gotta have one. Love my SE Custom with JBs...amazing in every way. I think PRS is doing lefty SS because the market is saturated with used Righties....going pretty cheap. Time to hit the Lefty market...I'm ready.
I am curious to try the silver sky for sure, but after decades of effectively being ignored by PRS, it would have to be a pretty special guitar for me to consider buying any PRS. Not hating on PRS here, it’s his business and he can run it any way he wants. I think it is great that he is finally seeing a lefty market he can tap into, but doesn’t instantly make me a want to jump on board.
I'm a little surprised that it has taken them this long. I think the SE Silver sky has been the world's best selling guitar for the past couple of years so 10% of that is still a lot of guitars. I'm a righty and I do own a SE silver sky that is a lot of guitar for the money that stacks up well with my other much more expensive guitars.
I'm happy to see more options for you left-handed weirdos! All kidding aside, it must be extremely frustrating to have so few options out there, so good on PRS for adding a left-handed version of the Silver Sky SE.
I get the feeling Paul Reed Smith the person doesn’t believe Left Handed people exist. (Although I do own a 2011 Lefty LMTD custom 22). The guy who runs the Carvin factory has recently discovered us Lefties are real and has figured out he can grow his customer base making guitars for us to keep the factory busy now every guitar shop has excess of righty models. Personally I’m sticking with my 03 Lefty Mexican Fender Strat that really doesn’t sound any different than a Silver Sky. But then Fender also don’t believe lefties exist these days either.
I bought a right handed PRS SE Silver Sky as a “DEMO” model from Sweetwater. It had the worst fret sprout of any guitar I’ve ever had. Sweetwater sells customer returns as “DEMO” so my guess is that it was returned for the fret sprout. I have the skills and tools to fix the problem so I kept it and took an hour or so to smooth out the fret ends. After I spent the time to remove the sharp edges the guitar was great.
G'day Shane, Alex from Sirius is building me a Mesa Boogie Mark 2C+ clone, have you played a Mark series amp? (You've probably done a video on one, excuse my ignorance) a little birdy told me you might get a chance to try it before me....
I'm a lefty and own two core models from 2017, a Mc Carty w Brazilian rosewood fboard wood library and a blue custom 24. Both ten tops. Bought them six months apart, May and November, shit my Mrs wasn't impressed with my midlife crisis, lol. I couldn't really afford the second one either😂 Both stunning guitars that get played a reasonable amount but if I succumb to my liking for glugging lager they stay in their cases. I have a couple of cheap "been drinking beer " guitars so can play pissed 😂 I have been eyeing preorder LH silver sky SE's here in the UK....... tempted
Don't worry. In 10 years PRS with have the same amount of lefties offered that other brands currently do right now. They will then act like they did something amazing. That is the PRS MO. Make a copy of something that already exists with just a slight tweak. Act like they created something entirely unique that has never been done. Charge an obscene amount of money for it. Its what they do.
Being a trained ambi and crossdomante who commonly plays a right handed guitars "Upsidedown" I don't get why guitars need to be one sided at all pianos are not and does it matter at all if all the controls are near/away from you?
I'm a righty who learned righty (because I was told it's a right handed guitar). My left hand struggled with dexterity to make chord shapes, and then speed to swap chords. I genuinely think it would've been more natural to have the dominant hand doing the fretting/bending/legato, and the useless spare doing the strumming/picking.
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough I've occasionally pondered the mechanical/geometry differences of manufacturing a universal guitar... Assuming it's a broadly symmetrical body (I don't want to try playing an explorer upside down!), the nuts are cut to string widths, so you either live with it and learn chords upside down (it's do-able, I know a guy who plays that way), or replace the nut. Not a huge job. Some bridges (Les Paul style) are angled to give enough intonation range - you're probably going to run out of adjustment if you reverse the strings. Redrilling bridge posts isn't really a consumer task, but as a designer you could make different hardware choices (strat bridges aren't installed angled etc). Tremolos - Floyd Rose alleged it's not as simple as just drilling a hole on the other side to make a trem ambidextrous. I'll take his word for it, but haven't dug deeper. SRV played an upside down trem, so maybe it's even moot, though others are maybe not willing to compromise. Controls. I can see how it's frustrating to be brushing your forearm into knobs and switches now on the "wrong" side, and potentially technique limiting (volume swells etc). So you'd need either a central control layout that works for both orientations, or some kind of easily swappable module for consumers to flip. If the hotswap pickup guys (Relish, Somnium etc) can make pickups modular, I don't see why control cavities couldn't be similar. You might need cosmetic top covers to hide the unused holes etc. It might not be pretty. So I think it's possible to overcome the technical necessities, but whether mega picky players would accept the cosmetic compromises, I don't know.
Shane, I wish I could play your collection you've had over the years being a fellow lefty, especially your strats. We're deprived! I was down in Sarasota Florida last summer but Jerry had already started moving his store to TN. By the way I don't play lefty to be annoying or to piss off Paul R Smith, for me, its either play lefty or don't play at all, having a lil bit of a handicap. What's funny is, I don't even have a left hand (that's the handicap if you even want to call it one.) lol
Definitely frustrating when I walk in to a store and only see one or two lefty guitars amongst 300 available and they are very low end models. Add to the frustration of the limited options online and the problem that you cannot play before you purchase. Thirdly, there is the reality that what a lefty purchases he has to keep because there isn’t a resale value on lefty guitars.
I am glad PRS finally succumbed to the pressure we lefties put upon them. I'm a bit diappointed by the price: €1099 at Thomann. Kudos to Epiphone for making so many left handed models. And boo's (is that English?) for Fender and Squier: all you can get for a normal price are a Strat and a Tele. Why no lefty Squier Mustangs, Jaguars, Jazzmasters (the one they made is no longer available), Thinlines, Starcasters, Paranormals? Even a 60's Strat is not available for a long time. Mod shop models? Not outside USA. And so on and sofort....
I have "almost" moved on from PRS (still trying to sell my PRS Custom 24 SE). I would rather give my money to Kiesel since they have so many options for Lefties and are Made In the USA!
Hi Shane. I would love to send you pictures of my reshaped and refinished lefty PRS SE custom 24. I'm so proud of it and happy. I won't send unsolicited pics/emails though so let me know here if you would be interested in seeing it. Trust me, it is cool man. 😉 No worries if you're not interested.✌ Great PRS lefty Silver Sky video dude. This was the first time I heard the news.👍👍
The question was put to Paul and Jack Higginbotham (SE lead) a couple of years ago on a prs product launch livestream. The gist of Pauls reply was ... We listened to our market analysts years ago. They told us we could achieve 15% of prs sales in lefty units. The numbers stacked up, it was worth the investment costs. We converted the production lines to produce lefties a few days each month. We hired lefty QA inspectors to play them. We achieved 2% sales. The reality is it isnt viable. Another anecdote from Andertons. When they custom order a Fender Special Run (200 units minimum order), they sell all of them in a couple of months. If they order lefties, they sell half of them in six months. From a retail perspective, thats a huge difference in inventory turns and finite warehouse capacity. So while I have sympathy with the small amount of choice, I dont think a lot of the "Paul/Andertons hate lefties" viewers comments are either justified or well informed. They dont hate lefties, they hate losing money on slow moving stock. Whether thats a left handed prs, or a right handed 8 string fretless bass, they want high inventory turnover and will avoid low turns. But as a righty who learned to play righty, from my experience my dominant right hand would've picked up fretting and chord changes much faster than my left. I genuinely think it wouldve been more natural to play leftie. Its a two handed instrument, like piano, but it seems to me we put the dominant dextrous hand in the simpler strumming job. To me the notion of left/right handed guitars are back to front.
Thing is it’s not enough to just make them, if the guitar shops just still hide them away in a corner for no one to see. Andertons made all those left handed Squiers but then made no actual effort to promote them to people. They also chose a polarising colour. Guitarguitar in the UK at least makes an effort. They do special events for international left handers day. Things like a free string change on all left handed guitars brought in.
@@littlebigcat Andertons is predominantly online sales. It dwarves their in-store sales. They're no more hidden online than any right handed guitar. iirc their numbers were in response to a comment on Danish Pete purple teles. That seems a pretty popular colour if they're selling 100 right handed a month. 100 lefties in 6 months in isolation seems a decent seller too - I don't think that example was an extreme marmite colour, or lacked promotion. If anything that was probably a better selling lefty for them, with other routine model being lower still. Its the contrast in volume that's stark - if you're running the shop/warehouse are you genuinely going to tie up much of your finite inventory space with lefty stock, knowing every inventory space you use for lefties is 1/6th of the profit/turnover you could achieve if you used that space for a righty? They're not charities, they're businessmen. If there was money in it, they'd be building more, stocking more and advertising more. PRS seem to be taking some small steps towards lefties. Their recent campaigns were based on building pre orders - it gives them certainty upfront in build volumes. Maybe that's a better compromise for manufacturers and retailers - minimised risk that either get lumbered with slow moving stock based on speculative marketing forecast for each model/shape/colour (on that stream Paul seemed suspicious and cautious of ever believing his own marketing people again!). Not ideal for lefty customers - longer wait times, still no guarantee you can see/play a lefty before ordering, but at least you'd maybe get a wider choice of colours. I dunno. It's hard to square the circle and please everybody. I sympathise with the limited choice plight of lefties, but also sympathise with insights from retailers.
@@PaulCooksStuff the point I’m making is about promotion. You can’t produce what is effectively for a variety of reasons, a niche product, and then claim no one bought if it you don’t try and sell it. Andertons produced a limited edition left handed guitar. And did no actually promotion for it. In the entire existence of the channel, they’ve done two left handed videos. Both were “joke can we play left handed” challenges. Nothing about left handed players or guitars. So far of predominantly online store, that uses a RUclips channel to promote their stock, they’ve gotten exactly the result for the effort put in. That’s the point I’m making. They’ve also misunderstood that the buyer of a purple Squier likely has a good few guitars already, a left handed player due to less choice is much more picky about the purchase they made. And again PRS made no effort to promote, or use its sales agreements with stores to push left handed guitars. They don’t want to sell them. Because they don’t stock them. Because they don’t sell. Because they don’t want to sell them. That’s a circle.
@@littlebigcat you're asking stores to spend more time and money and effort promoting a product that earns them 1/6th of the inventory turn revenue. Why would they do that? They're not charities, they're businesses. You promote your highest earning products, not your lowest. "PRS made no effort to promote" - they plastered the leftie preorder campaign all over their socials. They had videos on their RUclips channels. They banged the drum in the guitar magazine news columns (the ones I read anyway). I saw it, and I'm not even interested in lefty guitars. From what I saw they made the same effort in the same channels to get their message out as they do with any other product launch.
I've got a prs se as well and I was disappointed with it and loved it. Loved it for the sound and versitality, hate it for the neck. Too wide too sharp, no rolled edges....
I don't know where all these left handed guitars are I don't think I've seen anyone other than me play left handed in my life. I'm not really a fan of PRS but I don't understand why they refuse to make much of anything in the way of left handed guitars. I strongly suspect there's more of a market for a left handed PRS guitar than the 19th PRS that's almost exactly the same as all the other ones.
Ive said it before, but i think musicman /Sterling is the biggest offender among the big guitar companies. Its hard to purchase from a company if they dont make something you can actually use ( short ofthe $3000 rare exception). More squier options would be great as well.(thinline tele).
Companies that are lefty timid put out questionnaires about when colors we want. Those questionnaires always get the same result: 50% of people want black (Lord knows why) and blue gets about 39%. The reds, greens, yellows score in the low 30%. This results in every company producing the same black and blue lefties. Yamaha Revstar lefty line? Black and blue. Strandberg? Black and blue. Chapman? Black and blue. Yamaha has a great-looking green Revstar , but because of these damn surveys, no lefties in that color.
These companies spend a boatload of money finding their market demographic…so, are the numbers correct or is it something else…it always confused me but I’m not a multi-million dollar company owner
Sympathy to Lefty discrimination! There are also lefties that play right handed: Mark Knofler to my knowledge, Ringo Star on a right hand drum kit and Doyle Bramhall II playing right handed flipped with customs to bring the controls to the lower parts of the guitar. Progress is also being made in the acoustic world but you often have to custom order.
My brother is eight years older than he is left-handed. My sister is eight years younger than me is left-handed and I’m left-handed but when we were in school, I was the only one they wouldn’t let wright that way. And my handwriting is an atrocious.
As a kid I was really perplexed in the 1st grade when the teacher kept smacking the crap out of my left hand and grabbing my pencil and shoving it in my right hand. I can remember vividly the hatred on her face as I put it back in my left hand and went about my business. That went on for a whole day and she finally gave up.
Im not a lefty but my son is. Prs are so late to the party. Still waiting for the Vela SE. Many people seems to like it but nothing happends. Will not go for the S2 Vela its to expensive. Think this is just a market thing. Prs rather see players go for the more expensive S2. Sorry but im not doing that rather buy other brands. Glad though i get the Starla SE before they now are gone and maybe later come back more expensive as always
Agree with you, Shane - I'm looking forward to trying one of these when they finally hit the shops. The big test will be - do the volume and tone pots work properly (or do they use righty pots and wire them up "lefty/backwards" making the tone pot basically a useless on/off switch)? My lefty SE (exactly like your green one) had pots that weren't wired properly, and - although the guitar was impressive in every other way - I just packed up the guitar and sent in back in frustration. I could have rewired it, but I didn't feel like fixing their sloppy "engineering solution" for us lefties. Hope they'll do better this time.
He had no options when it came to Fender. He played lefty Gibson guitars, though, as they actually made them. Clapton got him a lefty Strat right before he died. If there's a choice and you don't play the strings upside down most people will go for a regular lefty so you don't knock into the volume and tone controls with your arms.
I'm a lefty too! Been playing 30 years, gigging as a younger player. Give me my Fender strats any day any time! PRS just trying to muscle in on someone else's classic!👎🎸
Left handed players have 3 options BESIDES buying a true left-handed guitar: 1) Just learn to play right-handed, like Duane Allman and Robert Fripp did. 2) Re-string a right-handed guitar for left-handed play, like Jimi Hendrix. 3) Just play the guitar upside down WITHOUT changing the string order, keeping the low strings on bottom, the way Dick Dale did.
If Mark Knopfler can do it, you can do it. :) I think times have changed enough now where there are plenty of great Lefties out there, unlike even the early 90s where there would be one Squier in the corner of every store.
@@inthebluesmaybe Mark Knopfler is naturally left-handed for writing, but naturally right handed for playing guitar. When we say someone is left handed, we usually refer to which hand they write with. However, other than those people who are completely ambidextrous (can do anything equally well with either arm or leg) or those people who are completely one-sided, many people are “cross-dominant”. Cross-dominant people are naturally left sided for some tasks and naturally right sided for other tasks (which side is best for some tasks will differ from person to person). That is why the argument that such and such a famous right-handed guitar player writes with their left hand therefore everyone should learn to play guitar right handed is based on a misunderstanding of the complexities of “dominant handedness” for a given task.
@@craigthomson3621 Yeah, this is a more complex issue than most people realize and telling other to just learn right handed it's not the best advice. This stuff is very person dependent and people should play the way they feel more comfortable. At the end of the day who cares if the guitar is black or fuchsia as long as it works for you....
Way over due. Cmon PRS. Tired of Paul's lame excuses. Make a full range of SE Lefty guitars. You have plenty of money. My SE Silver Sky was really, really good.
@@littlebigcat @intheblues You may be an exception but not the rule. I stand by my comment because as a beginner you are starting from ground zero and don’t have dexterity in either hand. Learning righty solves the limitations of guitar choices. Now if they would just make lefty guitar pedals…I would be in favor of that! 😆
@@PBRGuitar You might also be the exception and be actually cross-handed instead of full left handed either way telling people to just learn right handed is obtuse and not something that should be encouraged. It's not a matter to just "suck it up" specially when there's studies that prove people that were forced to write right handed when they were in fact left handed had learning problems while growing up. Not being a problem for you doesn't mean others might not face problems, also you will never know if you might actually learned faster or ended up better at guitar if you learned left handed. Just tell Hendrix to suck it up....
@@pinnacleevolution1634 I’m right handed so I’m not “exceptional” at all but when you walk into Guitar Center and of the 300 guitars on the wall only 3 are lefty it paints a sobering picture of what life is like for left handed players. So when one has not yet learned the instrument it makes sense to start on the “right” path.
What do you think about the PRS SE Silver Sky? It's great to see PRS finally offering a second option. One lefty guitar in a range is not enough, and I'll explain why from a lefty experience. Drop a comment below and let me know your thoughts. :)
Yeah, there should be more models. LH is ~ 10% so they should do 10% of inventory LHed!
Another thing PRS is doing right is doing a preorder. I had tried to get the same Custom 24 like yours when they came out several years ago and it took forever to be in stock. Finally I gave up and canceled it 😢. Doing a preorder can both build up anticipation for this guitar and set expectations for delivery time.
I feel the same way, and I bought a PRS SE 277 lefty Baritone and I love it. I like PRS releasing a lefty Silver Sky in different colors. I have eight lefty Schecters and I support them the most since they are very lefty friendly. I'm travelling to my home state of Utah in a week and one of the shops there has lefty PRS SE 24-08 Standards and I am going to check them out.
I think it's about time !!! I don't own a Silver Sky but, I do have a MIK Zach Myer that I love other than the color Trampas Green ,I would much rather have the blue one,I did upgrade to Covered Seymour Duncan 59's which sound WAAAAAY better to my ear. Cheers mate !
Such a long time coming… PRS are obstinate with left hand versions claiming it’s not financially viable, it’s really frustrating. One could argue it’s discriminatory! I’ve wanted the Silver Sky since its creation. I’ve signed petitions, emailed PRS directly. Fingers crossed we get the USA version too. Cheers Shane, thanks for the vid!
Lefty here also Shane - I too own a PRS SE Custom 24 and love it! Stoked about the Silver Sky coming out! So limited in our choices but lately it's getting a little better with the Yamaha Revstar and now the Silver Sky. If Ernie Ball Music Man ever releases a left-handed Luke again I'll be all over that one too! Us lefties need to continue to ask manufacturers to offer more choices! Nothing changes if we don't ask!
I’m a lefty who plays right handed, because of the limited options available to me 33 years ago. It’s good to see more lefty options these days. If I was starting now I’d definitely consider playing left handed.
I get sad and upset when I hear lefties play guitar right handed. How limited is playing right handed sir? I’ll really be glad to know. I’m just imagining
I'm right handed but play lefty so thus is good news for me.
I've heard of many good players who are left handed but play right handed. Ringo Star of the Beatles played drums that way ( which could explain why his back beat was strong on the snare) and among guitar players there is Mark Knofler, and Steve Morse, who both exemplify a strong and quick fretting hand, and expedient subtle directed picking technique which is usually rational and simple. ( good for players who can then use their stronger hand to do powerful string bends and vibratos).
I'm a lefty who plays guitar righty. I played violin growing up, and back then nobody even considered left-handed violin an option. So when I started playing guitar it was natural to play righty. I think it's matter of picking your poison either way. With most instruments, both hands are equally important, so either way your less dominant hand will need to step up. Lefty guitarists will find fretting, bending, and vibratos easier but may be disadvantaged with intricate picking compared to their righty counterparts. After years and years of playing stringed instruments as a righty, trying to play lefty feels foreign to me.
@@chrisgmurray3622 Mark Knofler is a lefty 😳….that’s cool. If you know who Cory Wong is, he is also a lefty that play right handed
I was both shocked and pleased with the results announcement from of the lefty Silver Sky SE. Knowing that Paul Reed Smith is notorious for being dismissive on the subject of available lefty PRS guitars, I didn’t think the company would that move. It’s a step in the right direction simply because more people are picking up the guitar and a number of them are southpaws. We are living in a great time where so many great guitars are available to both right and left handed players. I’m definitely going to try and get one!😎😎😎🎸🎸🎸
I absolutely love my custom 24 SE. Just before march I picked up A60e too. The silver sky and Zack Myers announcement is a huge step in the right direction and im sure i will for sure own one of them when they drop.
100%...and given how a lot of these instruments are made on CNC machines, we lefties should have WAY more options available.
100%
I keep saying that over and over again. It's no different to build 1 out of 100 guitars lefty, this should be the standard or, really based on the number of lefty players, more like 1 in 10. The fact that only a few brands really cater to lefties and the rest just leave us in the dark completely is shocking. Especially with the numbers of good-to-great guitars coming out of Asia for great prices that we just can't even touch. The sheer number of really high-end and then super budget while totally missing the middle is frustrating as a player who doesn't want budget but also doesn't want to spend over 2k.
Never mind the CNC options. Its a head scratcher when companies actually make left handed guitars and end up with the blandest, most boring colour option available; like "black" I mean c'mon, is there left handed paint that also needs sourcing? Talk about 1 step forward, two steps back - and yes I'm looking at you lefty darling Schecter releasing the Nick Johnston st and t style signature models in the same colour: atomic green 🙄
You’re absolutely right Shane: I’m a righty, but it’s obviously ridiculous that there are so few lefty options. How much market are they missing? Crazy.
Thanks, Eddie. I never understood the one model offering. It's so limiting to guitarists and for sales. Epiphone had three of my purchases back in the day where, whereas PRS would only have one.
I’m also a Lefty… my previous band had 2 lefty players (and our vocalist was even left handed, lol). looking forward to the delivery of a Mayones 7 string this week 🤤
spot on. I'm a lefty and been playing since the mid to late 80's. Back then, there was bugger all lefties, especially where I lived (Central NSW). While there is a larger range available now, it is still very limited. Also, retailers used to add 10% on the guitar cost for lefties back in the day... I could never afford anything good, so I just owned garbage instruments most of my playing career... until fairly recently!
I love LOVE LUUUUV our Silver Sky SE. think you’re gonna like it 🤘🔥
As a big fan of PRS (I damn near bought that SE you let me demo to accompany my Core model) you're bang on! You southpaws need some more options, glad to see it's starting to happen.
Yeah....as a righty who became a lefty due to injury...so glad more models and colors are coming.
You should invite Paul to be on RUclips with you Shane. He is a gem of a guy. #PRS .
Theres also i believe zach myers 594 semi hollow coming as well. Im intrigued by both and feel it's about time the lineup was expanded. Always good to have options.
Last winter I bought a custom 24 Eriza verde just because I always wanted the color even though I had a black gold 24 already. Only goodthing about being a lefty traditionally is it self limits how many guitars you can buy.
Nice! I didn't see the announcement for that. Was that also on IG?
I think on prs home web page, if you scroll down theres an announcement. Also I think on zach myers ig. Always wanted a thinline tele, I figure it could scratch the itch.
Against my better judgement, i bought a custom 24 eriza Verde last winter even though I had a black gold 24 just for color and I think different pups.
The Zach Myers was the one that got my attention as I've always wanted a PRS single cut. Although a Tremonti would have been first choice, this is a close second.
@intheblues Zach Meyers will be released too.
I'm a lefty too, hi from ATLANTA!!
I'm pre-ordering this as soon as it's available. Been waiting so long!
I'm a lefty who started out just playing RH upside down, then started using reversed strings so I could follow the chord books, then finally found a quality lefty guitar (Ibanez silver series) at a reasonable price due to a headups from a workmate and have appreciated Ibanez supporting me ever since. My 83 Roadstar 2 is my go to since I bought it new. Great to see so many options now, more would better!
Having bought a Korea made SE I fell in love with it and been awaiting for a Silver Sky. Having been frustrated with limited choices. I given up hope so I bought a Vola strat. Glad to see PRS offering more selections to lefties
Preordered a lefty Silver Sky SE in Moon White. Very much looking forward to it.
When I saw this post on IG, I thought I was a fake ad until I realised it was true !
I’m very pleased to see PRS thinking more about us lefties, very happy about my Custom Floyd 24 SE which is flawless, now I’m tempted to get my hands on one of those Silver Sky 👀
I had a silver sky se. It played great and sounded great. Being that I bought it on impulse, after a while I hated the color. I ended up giving it to my nephew's 12 year old son who was starting to learn with a crappy cheap guitar his mother bought. He's now loving it.
Congratz Shane, atlast you get an Prs Silversky.
I chosed the 245 in beutifull flame/orange (dont remember the name) and love it.
Thanx for the vid. 👍
Hell yeah I've been waiting for a lefty silver sky!
You make an unimpeachable and unarguable point. I’m left-handed. Somehow, as a teen, a few decades ago, I had some basic wisdom to realize the market for left-handed guitars almost didn’t exist, and was pitifully small.
I’m still left-handed, I play guitars, basses right-handed and have always been grateful for that effort to MAKE myself play and learn right-handed so I had purchase options.
Still, in fairness to left-handed players, I’m always happy to see more options available for them.
Great news!
I can't wait to get the lefty Silver Sky to add to my Custom 24 and AL60E.
DANG...Shane it's about flippen TIME. Thanks for the headsup. Now if only Epiphone would make that new ES-355 in a lefty. Even at 1300 I be all over it.
Yeh, bring on the lefties! It just makes sense. Flick a button on the CNC, and it’s (almost) done (just finish the job with bridges and pots). The market is out there. More strength (and music) to your arms, lefties! - from a supportive rightie.
PRS is one of a handful of brands I have absolutely zero interest in because they pay so little attention to lefty players. Which is a shame as they are located just an hour from me. My "hometown" brand completely ignores me as a player, and that doesn't sit right with me. Just adding in a lefty Silver Sky doesn't do enough for me. But it's at least a step. A very small step.
Amen, brother! Ive been hoping for years Fender would offer us Lefties some offsets in the Player Series. But NoPe. Eastwood offers us LOADS of lefties! Even in their weird models!
Great news. Done buying anything but Teles....but I've always wanted a lefty SE Silver Sky...gotta have one. Love my SE Custom with JBs...amazing in every way. I think PRS is doing lefty SS because the market is saturated with used Righties....going pretty cheap. Time to hit the Lefty market...I'm ready.
I am curious to try the silver sky for sure, but after decades of effectively being ignored by PRS, it would have to be a pretty special guitar for me to consider buying any PRS. Not hating on PRS here, it’s his business and he can run it any way he wants. I think it is great that he is finally seeing a lefty market he can tap into, but doesn’t instantly make me a want to jump on board.
I'm a little surprised that it has taken them this long. I think the SE Silver sky has been the world's best selling guitar for the past couple of years so 10% of that is still a lot of guitars. I'm a righty and I do own a SE silver sky that is a lot of guitar for the money that stacks up well with my other much more expensive guitars.
I'm a lefty and can't wait to get a left handed Silver Sky SE. But I do wish Fender would release another Left handed USA Thinline Tele.
Good for you Shane I agree 👍
Now that we are days away from September 2024, has a more specific release date been announced for the lefty SS SE?
I'm happy to see more options for you left-handed weirdos! All kidding aside, it must be extremely frustrating to have so few options out there, so good on PRS for adding a left-handed version of the Silver Sky SE.
I got a Harley Benton, SG and put Epiphone pick ups in it
I get the feeling Paul Reed Smith the person doesn’t believe Left Handed people exist. (Although I do own a 2011 Lefty LMTD custom 22).
The guy who runs the Carvin factory has recently discovered us Lefties are real and has figured out he can grow his customer base making guitars for us to keep the factory busy now every guitar shop has excess of righty models.
Personally I’m sticking with my 03 Lefty Mexican Fender Strat that really doesn’t sound any different than a Silver Sky. But then Fender also don’t believe lefties exist these days either.
Mate , that Santana SE young Benny reviewed a while back does it for me! But they don’t do it in Lefty’s!
Great news, but as im lefty and not big fan of strats i would like to se single cut se left handed but who knows i might grab silver sky one day
I bought a right handed PRS SE Silver Sky as a “DEMO” model from Sweetwater. It had the worst fret sprout of any guitar I’ve ever had. Sweetwater sells customer returns as “DEMO” so my guess is that it was returned for the fret sprout. I have the skills and tools to fix the problem so I kept it and took an hour or so to smooth out the fret ends. After I spent the time to remove the sharp edges the guitar was great.
Hi Shane, Do you have any update on Jerry's Lefty Guitars. His web site has not been updated since he moved.
I love the back of you PRS SE Shane! Wish they made that a top!
Thanks man! This is one of first run Korean PRS SE guitars.
G'day Shane, Alex from Sirius is building me a Mesa Boogie Mark 2C+ clone, have you played a Mark series amp? (You've probably done a video on one, excuse my ignorance) a little birdy told me you might get a chance to try it before me....
Thanks, Shane. I haven't found an S-style guitar that tops my Tokai, so it will be interesting to check it out.
I bet! Those Tokai guitars are great. Which model is it?
@@intheblues it's an ST50. I've had it since 1984!
Holding out - and obviously wishing - for a Single Cut McCarty 594 🤞
Yay about time Paul r Smith got his shit together
It only took all the other models being pulled from all stores for us to finally get a Silver Sky.
I'm a lefty and own two core models from 2017, a Mc Carty w Brazilian rosewood fboard wood library and a blue custom 24. Both ten tops. Bought them six months apart, May and November, shit my Mrs wasn't impressed with my midlife crisis, lol. I couldn't really afford the second one either😂
Both stunning guitars that get played a reasonable amount but if I succumb to my liking for glugging lager they stay in their cases. I have a couple of cheap "been drinking beer " guitars so can play pissed 😂
I have been eyeing preorder LH silver sky SE's here in the UK....... tempted
I'm a lefty... But I started learning to play on a righty at age 15.
I do wonder if I could be a better guitar player if I played Lefty
Damian, when you play “air guitar” do you naturally play in a left or right handed orientation?
@@craigthomson3621 I play righty because I have been playing this way for 40 years
Don't worry. In 10 years PRS with have the same amount of lefties offered that other brands currently do right now. They will then act like they did something amazing. That is the PRS MO. Make a copy of something that already exists with just a slight tweak. Act like they created something entirely unique that has never been done. Charge an obscene amount of money for it. Its what they do.
I hope you get a left hand prs se Silver sky!
Being a trained ambi and crossdomante who commonly plays a right handed guitars "Upsidedown" I don't get why guitars need to be one sided at all pianos are not and does it matter at all if all the controls are near/away from you?
I'm a righty who learned righty (because I was told it's a right handed guitar). My left hand struggled with dexterity to make chord shapes, and then speed to swap chords. I genuinely think it would've been more natural to have the dominant hand doing the fretting/bending/legato, and the useless spare doing the strumming/picking.
@@PaulCooksStuffSure but why can't a gutar be both sided? Which my right hand is faster strumming and my left more percise.both are the same fretting.
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough I've occasionally pondered the mechanical/geometry differences of manufacturing a universal guitar...
Assuming it's a broadly symmetrical body (I don't want to try playing an explorer upside down!), the nuts are cut to string widths, so you either live with it and learn chords upside down (it's do-able, I know a guy who plays that way), or replace the nut. Not a huge job.
Some bridges (Les Paul style) are angled to give enough intonation range - you're probably going to run out of adjustment if you reverse the strings. Redrilling bridge posts isn't really a consumer task, but as a designer you could make different hardware choices (strat bridges aren't installed angled etc).
Tremolos - Floyd Rose alleged it's not as simple as just drilling a hole on the other side to make a trem ambidextrous. I'll take his word for it, but haven't dug deeper. SRV played an upside down trem, so maybe it's even moot, though others are maybe not willing to compromise.
Controls. I can see how it's frustrating to be brushing your forearm into knobs and switches now on the "wrong" side, and potentially technique limiting (volume swells etc). So you'd need either a central control layout that works for both orientations, or some kind of easily swappable module for consumers to flip. If the hotswap pickup guys (Relish, Somnium etc) can make pickups modular, I don't see why control cavities couldn't be similar. You might need cosmetic top covers to hide the unused holes etc. It might not be pretty.
So I think it's possible to overcome the technical necessities, but whether mega picky players would accept the cosmetic compromises, I don't know.
Shane, I wish I could play your collection you've had over the years being a fellow lefty, especially your strats. We're deprived! I was down in Sarasota Florida last summer but Jerry had already started moving his store to TN. By the way I don't play lefty to be annoying or to piss off Paul R Smith, for me, its either play lefty or don't play at all, having a lil bit of a handicap. What's funny is, I don't even have a left hand (that's the handicap if you even want to call it one.) lol
Definitely frustrating when I walk in to a store and only see one or two lefty guitars amongst 300 available and they are very low end models. Add to the frustration of the limited options online and the problem that you cannot play before you purchase. Thirdly, there is the reality that what a lefty purchases he has to keep because there isn’t a resale value on lefty guitars.
I am glad PRS finally succumbed to the pressure we lefties put upon them. I'm a bit diappointed by the price: €1099 at Thomann.
Kudos to Epiphone for making so many left handed models. And boo's (is that English?) for Fender and Squier: all you can get for a normal price are a Strat and a Tele. Why no lefty Squier Mustangs, Jaguars, Jazzmasters (the one they made is no longer available), Thinlines, Starcasters, Paranormals? Even a 60's Strat is not available for a long time. Mod shop models? Not outside USA. And so on and sofort....
HECK YEAH!!!! Finally!
I have "almost" moved on from PRS (still trying to sell my PRS Custom 24 SE). I would rather give my money to Kiesel since they have so many options for Lefties and are Made In the USA!
Mr Smith has been very vocal as to he has no use for left handed guitars or lefty guitar players. That they even make any is a miracle.
Hi Shane. I would love to send you pictures of my reshaped and refinished lefty PRS SE custom 24. I'm so proud of it and happy.
I won't send unsolicited pics/emails though so let me know here if you would be interested in seeing it. Trust me, it is cool man. 😉
No worries if you're not interested.✌
Great PRS lefty Silver Sky video dude. This was the first time I heard the news.👍👍
dont forget the zac myers se lefty thats coming aswell
Paul Reed Smith is a known lefty guitar hater so I am reluctant to give him any of my guitar money.
Yeah, fair enough. They basically brought that upon themselves. lol
@@inthebluesthe problem when company CEOs go on social media too much is that they invariably say something they will regret.
The question was put to Paul and Jack Higginbotham (SE lead) a couple of years ago on a prs product launch livestream. The gist of Pauls reply was ... We listened to our market analysts years ago. They told us we could achieve 15% of prs sales in lefty units. The numbers stacked up, it was worth the investment costs. We converted the production lines to produce lefties a few days each month. We hired lefty QA inspectors to play them. We achieved 2% sales. The reality is it isnt viable.
Another anecdote from Andertons. When they custom order a Fender Special Run (200 units minimum order), they sell all of them in a couple of months. If they order lefties, they sell half of them in six months. From a retail perspective, thats a huge difference in inventory turns and finite warehouse capacity.
So while I have sympathy with the small amount of choice, I dont think a lot of the "Paul/Andertons hate lefties" viewers comments are either justified or well informed. They dont hate lefties, they hate losing money on slow moving stock. Whether thats a left handed prs, or a right handed 8 string fretless bass, they want high inventory turnover and will avoid low turns.
But as a righty who learned to play righty, from my experience my dominant right hand would've picked up fretting and chord changes much faster than my left. I genuinely think it wouldve been more natural to play leftie. Its a two handed instrument, like piano, but it seems to me we put the dominant dextrous hand in the simpler strumming job. To me the notion of left/right handed guitars are back to front.
Thing is it’s not enough to just make them, if the guitar shops just still hide them away in a corner for no one to see.
Andertons made all those left handed Squiers but then made no actual effort to promote them to people. They also chose a polarising colour.
Guitarguitar in the UK at least makes an effort. They do special events for international left handers day. Things like a free string change on all left handed guitars brought in.
@@littlebigcat Andertons is predominantly online sales. It dwarves their in-store sales. They're no more hidden online than any right handed guitar.
iirc their numbers were in response to a comment on Danish Pete purple teles. That seems a pretty popular colour if they're selling 100 right handed a month. 100 lefties in 6 months in isolation seems a decent seller too - I don't think that example was an extreme marmite colour, or lacked promotion. If anything that was probably a better selling lefty for them, with other routine model being lower still. Its the contrast in volume that's stark - if you're running the shop/warehouse are you genuinely going to tie up much of your finite inventory space with lefty stock, knowing every inventory space you use for lefties is 1/6th of the profit/turnover you could achieve if you used that space for a righty? They're not charities, they're businessmen. If there was money in it, they'd be building more, stocking more and advertising more.
PRS seem to be taking some small steps towards lefties. Their recent campaigns were based on building pre orders - it gives them certainty upfront in build volumes. Maybe that's a better compromise for manufacturers and retailers - minimised risk that either get lumbered with slow moving stock based on speculative marketing forecast for each model/shape/colour (on that stream Paul seemed suspicious and cautious of ever believing his own marketing people again!). Not ideal for lefty customers - longer wait times, still no guarantee you can see/play a lefty before ordering, but at least you'd maybe get a wider choice of colours.
I dunno. It's hard to square the circle and please everybody. I sympathise with the limited choice plight of lefties, but also sympathise with insights from retailers.
@@PaulCooksStuff the point I’m making is about promotion. You can’t produce what is effectively for a variety of reasons, a niche product, and then claim no one bought if it you don’t try and sell it.
Andertons produced a limited edition left handed guitar. And did no actually promotion for it. In the entire existence of the channel, they’ve done two left handed videos. Both were “joke can we play left handed” challenges. Nothing about left handed players or guitars.
So far of predominantly online store, that uses a RUclips channel to promote their stock, they’ve gotten exactly the result for the effort put in. That’s the point I’m making.
They’ve also misunderstood that the buyer of a purple Squier likely has a good few guitars already, a left handed player due to less choice is much more picky about the purchase they made.
And again PRS made no effort to promote, or use its sales agreements with stores to push left handed guitars. They don’t want to sell them. Because they don’t stock them. Because they don’t sell. Because they don’t want to sell them. That’s a circle.
@@littlebigcat you're asking stores to spend more time and money and effort promoting a product that earns them 1/6th of the inventory turn revenue. Why would they do that? They're not charities, they're businesses. You promote your highest earning products, not your lowest.
"PRS made no effort to promote" - they plastered the leftie preorder campaign all over their socials. They had videos on their RUclips channels. They banged the drum in the guitar magazine news columns (the ones I read anyway). I saw it, and I'm not even interested in lefty guitars. From what I saw they made the same effort in the same channels to get their message out as they do with any other product launch.
Here here Shane re: limited lefty options
I've got a prs se as well and I was disappointed with it and loved it. Loved it for the sound and versitality, hate it for the neck. Too wide too sharp, no rolled edges....
I don't know where all these left handed guitars are I don't think I've seen anyone other than me play left handed in my life. I'm not really a fan of PRS but I don't understand why they refuse to make much of anything in the way of left handed guitars. I strongly suspect there's more of a market for a left handed PRS guitar than the 19th PRS that's almost exactly the same as all the other ones.
Ive said it before, but i think musicman /Sterling is the biggest offender among the big guitar companies. Its hard to purchase from a company if they dont make something you can actually use ( short ofthe $3000 rare exception).
More squier options would be great as well.(thinline tele).
People obviously like the Silver Sky, but I still think it looks like a "close, but no cigar" strat copy.
Companies that are lefty timid put out questionnaires about when colors we want. Those questionnaires always get the same result: 50% of people want black (Lord knows why) and blue gets about 39%. The reds, greens, yellows score in the low 30%. This results in every company producing the same black and blue lefties. Yamaha Revstar lefty line? Black and blue. Strandberg? Black and blue. Chapman? Black and blue. Yamaha has a great-looking green Revstar , but because of these damn surveys, no lefties in that color.
How do I tag #PRS ?
Instagram or other social media, but no need mate. I will get one to test at some point I'm sure.
These companies spend a boatload of money finding their market demographic…so, are the numbers correct or is it something else…it always confused me but I’m not a multi-million dollar company owner
This is probably why my brother plays drums...
All hail the lefties!!
Haha thanks mate 🤣👍
Sympathy to Lefty discrimination! There are also lefties that play right handed: Mark Knofler to my knowledge, Ringo Star on a right hand drum kit and Doyle Bramhall II playing right handed flipped with customs to bring the controls to the lower parts of the guitar. Progress is also being made in the acoustic world but you often have to custom order.
I was born a leftie but forced over to right handed at primary school
My brother is eight years older than he is left-handed. My sister is eight years younger than me is left-handed and I’m left-handed but when we were in school, I was the only one they wouldn’t let wright that way. And my handwriting is an atrocious.
As a kid I was really perplexed in the 1st grade when the teacher kept smacking the crap out of my left hand and grabbing my pencil and shoving it in my right hand. I can remember vividly the hatred on her face as I put it back in my left hand and went about my business. That went on for a whole day and she finally gave up.
@@steventhompson8602 yeah mine was a nun she didn’t give up
@@stewarttomkinson3356 geez, sorry dude.
Fender needs to make the Vintera line in a left handed.
Im not a lefty but my son is. Prs are so late to the party. Still waiting for the Vela SE. Many people seems to like it but nothing happends. Will not go for the S2 Vela its to expensive. Think this is just a market thing. Prs rather see players go for the more expensive S2. Sorry but im not doing that rather buy other brands. Glad though i get the Starla SE before they now are gone and maybe later come back more expensive as always
The potential turnout for PRS in the Silver Sky might be a paradigm shift
Sire make almost their entire range left handed. Harley Benton manages more left handed guitars than Fender…
It must be very frustrating being a lefty. With modern production methods, CNC machines es ect, it shouldn’t be too hard or expensive to make Lefties.
agreed…alwayz thought prs was ass backwardz by not offerin more left hand budget models…
Fall? 😆
Agree with you, Shane - I'm looking forward to trying one of these when they finally hit the shops. The big test will be - do the volume and tone pots work properly (or do they use righty pots and wire them up "lefty/backwards" making the tone pot basically a useless on/off switch)?
My lefty SE (exactly like your green one) had pots that weren't wired properly, and - although the guitar was impressive in every other way - I just packed up the guitar and sent in back in frustration. I could have rewired it, but I didn't feel like fixing their sloppy "engineering solution" for us lefties. Hope they'll do better this time.
Can't believe I get to be the first to mention that Jimi Hendrix didn't complain about this issue.
He had no options when it came to Fender. He played lefty Gibson guitars, though, as they actually made them. Clapton got him a lefty Strat right before he died. If there's a choice and you don't play the strings upside down most people will go for a regular lefty so you don't knock into the volume and tone controls with your arms.
I'm a lefty too! Been playing 30 years, gigging as a younger player. Give me my Fender strats any day any time! PRS just trying to muscle in on someone else's classic!👎🎸
Left handed players have 3 options BESIDES buying a true left-handed guitar:
1) Just learn to play right-handed, like Duane Allman and Robert Fripp did.
2) Re-string a right-handed guitar for left-handed play, like Jimi Hendrix.
3) Just play the guitar upside down WITHOUT changing the string order, keeping the low strings on bottom, the way Dick Dale did.
1 - Not required past 1990
2 - Hendrix had no choice
3 - lol
I'm a lefty that plays righty. Started way back in 1994. Am I a traitor? Should I feel deep shame? …😉
If Mark Knopfler can do it, you can do it. :) I think times have changed enough now where there are plenty of great Lefties out there, unlike even the early 90s where there would be one Squier in the corner of every store.
Two words: Yes.
@@inthebluesmaybe Mark Knopfler is naturally left-handed for writing, but naturally right handed for playing guitar. When we say someone is left handed, we usually refer to which hand they write with. However, other than those people who are completely ambidextrous (can do anything equally well with either arm or leg) or those people who are completely one-sided, many people are “cross-dominant”. Cross-dominant people are naturally left sided for some tasks and naturally right sided for other tasks (which side is best for some tasks will differ from person to person). That is why the argument that such and such a famous right-handed guitar player writes with their left hand therefore everyone should learn to play guitar right handed is based on a misunderstanding of the complexities of “dominant handedness” for a given task.
@@craigthomson3621 Yeah, this is a more complex issue than most people realize and telling other to just learn right handed it's not the best advice. This stuff is very person dependent and people should play the way they feel more comfortable. At the end of the day who cares if the guitar is black or fuchsia as long as it works for you....
Way over due. Cmon PRS. Tired of Paul's lame excuses. Make a full range of SE Lefty guitars. You have plenty of money. My SE Silver Sky was really, really good.
The best advice a guitar teacher or salesperson can give a lefty beginner is to suck it up and learn right handed.
Then I would have never been able to play guitar. I sucked it up for six months and couldn’t.
@@littlebigcat @intheblues You may be an exception but not the rule. I stand by my comment because as a beginner you are starting from ground zero and don’t have dexterity in either hand. Learning righty solves the limitations of guitar choices. Now if they would just make lefty guitar pedals…I would be in favor of that! 😆
@@PBRGuitar You might also be the exception and be actually cross-handed instead of full left handed either way telling people to just learn right handed is obtuse and not something that should be encouraged. It's not a matter to just "suck it up" specially when there's studies that prove people that were forced to write right handed when they were in fact left handed had learning problems while growing up. Not being a problem for you doesn't mean others might not face problems, also you will never know if you might actually learned faster or ended up better at guitar if you learned left handed. Just tell Hendrix to suck it up....
@@pinnacleevolution1634 I’m right handed so I’m not “exceptional” at all but when you walk into Guitar Center and of the 300 guitars on the wall only 3 are lefty it paints a sobering picture of what life is like for left handed players. So when one has not yet learned the instrument it makes sense to start on the “right” path.
The majority of great left-hand guitars are in the possession of one P. McCartney. Tell him to stop bogarting the action 😊