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Guitar World revisits the business story behind John Mayer leaving Fender for PRS

Market impact medium importance Source: Guitar World

Guitar World traced John Mayer’s move from Fender to PRS and the commercial rise of the Silver Sky, giving the current cease-and-desist dispute a clearer business context: the model is not just another S-style guitar, but one of Fender’s most visible modern competitors.

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This note is one entry in the AltGuitar Legal Timeline — a chronological record of the Fender-style guitar-shape dispute, court rulings, cease-and-desist reports and market reactions. See the full timeline for the surrounding context.

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