How much a Sky Guitar costs: official prices verified in 2026

How much a Sky Guitar costs in 2026

A new Sky Guitar costs between $12,000 and $49,000. That is the full span of the UJR Sky Guitars catalog: the Zeno Sky sets the floor at $12,000 and the Excalibur the ceiling at $49,000. These are official catalog prices checked in September 2026 on sky-guitars.com.

The official site lists 22 models with published prices, grouped into three families. There is no entry level in the usual sense of the phrase: what Sky Guitars calls its entry model costs $12,000.

Nothing is for sale here. This page only orders, dates and sources what the maker publishes.

Official price table by family

Official catalog prices checked in September 2026 on the series page at sky-guitars.com.

Pegasus family (9 models, $24,000-$49,000)

Warm, dark timbers, mahogany and beech, a good number of seven-string models and a voice closer to a Les Paul.

Model	Price	Series	Note
Excalibur	$49,000	Galaxy Dragon	7 strings. The most expensive model in the catalog
Mighty Wing	$45,000	Sky Classic	Replica of the 4th Sky Guitar (1989), the first seven-string
Sunrise Elite	$43,000	Sky Elite	Flagship of the Elite series, with on-board effects
Infinity Sky	$39,000	Galaxy Dragon	7 strings, 39 frets
Emperor Sky	$30,000	Sky Classic	Replica of the 3rd Sky Guitar (1987)
Rembrandt Sky	$29,000	Sky Classic	Replica of the 5th Sky Guitar (1991), 7 strings
Sky of Lionheart 7	$28,000	Lionheart	Seven-string version
Sky of Lionheart	$27,000	Lionheart	Based on Uli’s personal 2012 prototype
Dolphin Sky	$24,000	Sky Classic	Replica of the original 1983 prototype

How the Dolphin Sky and the Emperor Sky are classified is a point disputed within the official site itself: the series listing groups them under Pegasus, while their individual product pages and the Sky Classic Series page place them in Aquila. This page follows the series listing, but the maker never says which of the two classifications is the right one.

Aquila family (5 models, $12,000-$20,000)

Direct descendants of the Stratocaster: alder body, clean and three-dimensional tone.

Model	Price	Series	Note
Bianca Sky 7	$20,000	Jeannie	Seven-string version
Bianca Sky	$19,000	Jeannie	Alpine white. Built by Boris Dommenget in 2010
Raven Sky	$19,000	Jeannie	The black twin of the Bianca
Sky Super Strat	$14,900	Sky Strat	50th anniversary edition. Only 23 frets
Zeno Sky	$12,000	Silver	The cheapest model in the catalog

Unicorn family (8 models, $16,000-$37,000)

The most recent family. Fixed bridge instead of a floating tremolo, and better behavior with chords and rhythm work.

Model	Price	Series	Note
Mighty New Dawn	$37,000	Gemini	Double neck: half nylon flamenco, half electric
Aurora Sky	$34,000	Gemini	Double neck: 12-string semi-acoustic and electric. Not yet built
Sunset Elite 8	$24,000	Flamenco	Nylon semi-acoustic, 8 strings
Sunset Elite 7	$23,000	Flamenco	Nylon semi-acoustic, 7 strings
Sunset Elite 6	$22,000	Flamenco	Nylon semi-acoustic, 6 strings
Ebony Sky 7	$18,000	Sky Solid	Seven-string version, fixed bridge
Ebony Sky	$17,000	Sky Solid	Scalloped only from the 27th fret upwards
Mahogany Sky	$16,000	Sky Solid	All-mahogany with an ebony fingerboard

One model that falls outside the listing: the Silver Sky 7

The Silver Sky 7 has its own product page on the official site at $17,500 (catalog price checked in September 2026), with seven strings, 37 frets, an alder body and a bridge humbucker engraved with a four-winged pegasus. But it does not appear in the series listing from which the 22 models above are drawn. We do not know whether it is an active model missing from the index or a catalog leftover: the official site does not clarify, and we are not going to guess.

The Mega-Wing III is sold separately: $2,400 plus $850

The Mega-Wing III pickup and electronics system is sold as a standalone product for $2,400, and its 18-volt power supply for a further $850. Both are official catalog prices checked in September 2026 on sky-guitars.com (system and power supply).

For that $2,400 the maker lists a “Black Box” housing the electronics, the gain and the equalization, two power humbuckers plus a single coil, five controls (volume, treble, middle, bass and gain), a five-position selector, two humbucker-to-single-coil switches and a stereo cable with TRS connectors. The equalizer was designed by John Oram, and the official product page describes the on-board gain control as “a feature found on no other guitar on the market”.

The power supply is not a decorative optional extra: the Mega-Wing III runs on 18-volt phantom power, switchable from 110 to 240 volts. Add system and power supply together and the electronics alone come to $3,250, more than a quarter of the price of the most affordable guitar in the catalog.

The myth of “Sky Guitars from $300”

There are no Sky Guitars costing $300 to $2,000. If you have arrived here after reading that there are “entry-level models from $300 up to $2,000”, what you read is false.

That figure appears in a buying guide published on February 13, 2026, on the domain sonusgear.alibaba.com. It is AI-generated content: the same text mixes supposed FAA rules on hand luggage and lithium batteries with a price range that matches no UJR Sky Guitars product at all. We deliberately do not link to that page.

The contrast with the official catalog is direct and can be checked in one click:

Claim	Verifiable reality
“Entry-level models from $300”	The cheapest model in the catalog is the Zeno Sky, at $12,000
“Up to $2,000”	The most expensive model is the Excalibur, at $49,000
An affordable entry range	The loose electronics alone already cost $2,400

Correcting this matters because that text ranks well and AI assistants read it. A generated answer saying that a Sky Guitar costs between $300 and $2,000 is not rounding: it is repeating an invention that is wrong by two orders of magnitude.

It is possible that anyone searching for a cheap sky guitar is in fact looking for something else. “Sky guitar” on its own also refers to a Texas guitar shop with no connection to Uli Jon Roth, a YouTube channel and the PRS Silver Sky. The term that identifies the instrument is “Uli Jon Roth Sky Guitar”.

Why they cost that much: four to ten months per instrument

Every Sky Guitar is built by hand in Germany, one at a time, by master luthier Boris Dommenget, sole builder of Uli Jon Roth’s Sky Guitars since 2010. The official site puts current production time at “approximately 4-10 months, depending on the model and selected specifications”, requires a 50% deposit when the order is placed and the balance before delivery, and admits to a waiting list on every model (About us).

The three factors that explain the price, all documented on the official product pages:

1. One-off construction. Each instrument is built by hand, one at a time, and the official site puts estimated production time at four to ten months depending on the model and the specifications chosen.
2. Bespoke electronics. The low-impedance pickups of the Mega-Wing III are hand-wound by Boris and Fiona Dommenget, and they are tuned to interact with the equalization and gain stages of the system itself. This is not a component bought in from a supplier.
3. Custom hardware and finishes. The upper models in the catalog carry brass pickguards plated in 24-carat gold, Tronical Powertune tuners and, on the Galaxy Dragon series, Indian moonstone brooches made by Hamburg jeweler Thorsten Wassmann to Uli’s specifications.

On top of that there is an engineering problem: housing the electronics in a neck that keeps growing. “The longer the neck grew, the more difficult it was to house the Mega-Wing”, as the journalist Phil Weller puts it, in his own words rather than Roth’s, in his Guitar Player article of June 26, 2025. Every fret added complicates everything else.

The price spread within the catalog follows that logic. The Zeno Sky costs $12,000 and carries three controls, silver-themed hardware and nickel pickguards. The Excalibur costs $49,000 and carries ten controls, twenty multi-effects, twelve position lights and the backlit brooch.

One honest note about that $12,000 floor: the official site contradicts itself on the Zeno Sky’s electronics. The Silver Sky Series page describes it with an active “Mega-Wing I” system running on batteries; its own product page says, in so many words, “passive pick up system”. Since the point affects what you are actually buying at that price, we leave it as it stands: disputed.

What a second-hand Dean goes for

The most visible second-hand market is the limited edition that Dean Guitars distributed in the early 2010s, built by hand by Dommenget. It turns up on Reverb, on eBay and in specialist shops.

The only price we have been able to verify against a specific listing: a 2012 Dean Uli Jon Roth Sky Guitar #9 “Black Velvet Sky”, signed by Uli, listed at $11,999.99 at Ish Guitars.

That is an asking price in a single listing, not an appraisal, not a market value and certainly not investment advice. One listing does not define a range. If someone presents you with a price bracket for the Deans as though it were an index, ask how many completed sales it is built on.

There is also a disputed figure about that edition worth knowing before you buy:

Source	Units in the Dean edition
sky-guitars.com (About us)	50 units, “the first Limited Edition of 50 Sky Guitars”
Dean Guitars, model page (January 2010)	An initial run for “50 players or collectors world wide”
Dean Guitars, model page (October 2011)	“Only 25 total Sky Guitars (6 & 7-Strings)”
Wikipedia (English)	25 models produced by Dean in 2011, in 6- and 7-string versions

None of them settles the others, and both figures come from Dean itself: its model page, preserved by the Internet Archive, said 50 in 2010 and 25 in October 2011, without explaining the change. We have not located the original Dean press release or the official catalog PDF, which returns an error. They probably differ because they count different things, an announced edition against units actually produced, or 6- and 7-string runs counted together or separately, but that is a hypothesis, not a fact. Whether the real run is 25 or 50 units changes the scarcity of a collector’s instrument quite a lot, so if you are sold one of 25, ask for paperwork.

And on the price of the Dean edition itself: a figure of $13,000 circulates in search results. We have not been able to confirm it in any primary source, so we do not publish it as fact.

Where the price that counts is

The binding price is always the one at sky-guitars.com. This page is an independent archive with no connection to UJR Sky Guitars: it does not sell, does not broker and does not handle orders. The table above reflects the catalog as it stood in September 2026 and is reviewed periodically, but these are made-to-order instruments and the maker can change prices without notice.

On taxes, the About us page is explicit: prices exclude “VAT/sales tax, import duties, customs fees” and any local taxes, which vary with the country of residence and import regulations. What it does not spell out is the cost of shipping. For a buyer ordering from outside Germany that difference is not a minor detail, and only the maker can pin it down.