Silversky_Classifier

Is the John Mayer signiture PRS Silversky a stratocaster clone?

This is the question I set out to answer - by retraining a tensorflow neural network (using transfer learning) and feeding it pictures of PRS guitars and Stratocasters. After this I asked it to classify a few pictures of the SilverSky - results below!

Control Photos

Testing to see the trained models accuracy on a PRS and Strat

PRS

97% PRS 3% Strat

Stratocaster

99% Strat 1% PRS

Looks like our model is working quite well

Silversky results

I tested 4 Silversky pictures;

1. Headstock (Expecting: High PRS %)

Result: High PRS %

2. Angled Body shot (Expecting: Medium PRS %)

Result: High PRS % - Probably due to fretboard inlays

3. Silversky banner pic (Expecting: Med-High strat %)

Result: High Strat % - Headstock is missing so probably drives Strat % up

4. Full body shot (Expecting: High Strat % but less than pic 3)

Result: High strat % (shocker)

Conclusion

This was probably a useless test - everyone knows Telecasters are the best guitars anyway, ok.