His guitar collection will blow your mind. 

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It makes me happy to know that there are guitar nerds like me out there!

Your channel is absolutely amazing. I just subscribed. I am 69 and a wounded combat veteran with 12 years service in Norway’s Jaegerkommandoen (Norway’s version of America’s Navy Seal). I have played guitar since the age of 5 or so. My father was a traveling Jazz guitarist who played club dates all over the U.S., with Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Thelonius Monk and many more. I have played Jazz of course but focused more on Blues, Brazilian, Country , Gospel Blues, Modern Fingerstyle and more. Your episodes are so well done. Keep on making this great content. You deserve a million subs.

One of the most intriguing, eclectic collections I've seen. Fantastic!

we need some more 5 string videos i just got my 1880 buckbee flush frett and a 1900 or 1920s unknown fretted instrument.

What a collection and what a beautiful interview. Thanks for posting.

Love to meet that man, great collection….!

Your channel has much more interesting content than 99% of the other guitar channels on youtube. Keep going!

28:15 This is my favorite one, the 6 String Banjo (aka Banjitar) as played famously by the Great Johnny St Cyr who played with Louis Armstrong. This instrument goes way back to the 1920s and 30s before we had amplification where Guitarists needed to compete with the Horns. The 6 String Banjo could easily be heard over the Horns because the Drum Head acted like a super loud amplifier.

Eb, you're really good at doing these videos.I enjoy them.Looks like you've become quite the luthier

I remember Charlie Hoffman’s shop very well. I was the wild guy bringing in custom electric guitar projects, custom finishes, probably all to the chagrin of Charlie! Ha!

Simply amazing, Thanks for this Kyle.

A lifetime of guitar treasures. Thanks for the wonderful tour!

This is so good kyle,thanks man 🙏

Wow what a lesson thru time , thanks for sharing your collection it’s wonderful to know it’s out there and it’s made.🎸🎸🎸👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻☮️😍

such a beautiful video thanks for make it

Amazing collection xxx

Wonderful video love the guitar’s

Most enjoyable tour and discussion, thanks

I loved that last banjo he played, it almost has an old upright piano quality sound, it definitely want to sing some ragtime

I think I might have done a guitar deal with Dave years ago. Never met the man face to face but I'm glad I got to see him in this video. Neat guy for sure.

Great collection and presentation. I gotta say, that little black LG-00 spoke e to me.. The biggest banjo I ever saw was a bass I built out of hundred-year-old Ludwig 26" marching band bass drum that really worked. I used it a lot for recording and it had its own unique voice in the mix. I used a regular upright bass scale length, strings and tuners. Raffelled it off at a friend`s music store back in 2016 before I moved to Europe, no idea where it ended up.

Absolutely great video and an intelligently creative collector!

theres alot of guitars in there collecting dust, i hope you have kids /grand kids !! but sir i am a collector also but i only have around 50 or so but all kinds of guitfiddle's and basses !!! What a beautiful collection sir !!

Cool video, that fretless national looks really great

Love the collection and commentary, I would like owning a 6 string banjo and a resophonic guitar, owned a cheap resonator 20 years ago.......half successful learning some Leo Kottke... Still finger style and flat pick my early 90's martin D16H. Just had a partial refret to 12th fret due to wear!

Incredible collection. I'm in awe. I will say that while I agree with the sentiment on new vs vintage Nationals...I prefer to fight the vintage pieces for the history. My late friend Paul Villagi taught me a few tricks to getting them playing better, including intonation.

I have two 3/4 size solid bodies that I put really light (.007) strings on and tuned up a 4th to A. They sound great and are really fun to play.

WOW KYLE ! What a Museum I could spend a month in that place , only if Dave would let me play those guitars AMAZING collection... What a Cool Guy Dave is . If I ever Get to Minnesota That is my Go to place . Thank you for the Cool video visit .

Missed the opportunity to stare up close at the guitars

I curated a vintage, not replica colletion twice as big in Akron Ohio in the late 90's. It filled 7 apartments above the once Ross Music Store.

IDK why, but I really like that NATIONAL BARITONE STYLE 1.5 TRICONE. i have never ever played a resonator.

good stuff

Nice

What a lovely guy :o)

This man is a national treasure...

cool

Dave brought quite a few guitars in his collection by the Podium to show them off, many of them jaw dropping for sound and looks. I've even worked on a few. His CD collection is monumental.

I recently saw a Larson Big Boy on Reverb for 100k. That would be cool to say I play the biggest guitar made. I bought a Guild 8 string baritone as a cheap stand in for a much more expensive 12 string baritone. It's a huge guitar with a huge sound. Highly recommend as a budget friendly big baritone guitar.

0:52 As a bicentennial baby, this is making me feel so old. Proceed. 😅

Quite the guitar historian.....aside from his collection which is amazing itself...endless knowledge

I got to play the very first guitar Charlie Hoffman built.

Fairbanks guitars are literally triple the price of a Gibson... met those guys at NAMM back in probably 16'...

I wonder if Dave has any opinions about Waterloo guitars, by Collings of Austin TX, which are high quality copies of depression era 00s by Gibson/Kalamazoo and single 0s by OS Stella from the 20s.

It totally did.

Q: How many guitars does one man need? A: ONE MORE!!

It would be nice to have the right speaker audio of this video working. You know, since it's a music channel and everything, one would expect the sound to be working 100%

He needs a Highwayman pan resonator by Highway Key Guitars !!!

Maybe I am a little slow or something - but I would have liked a little more explanation on some of these. What was it about the National single cone that was different? It sounded sort of like there were no frets, but I could see frets. He said he had tried "it" on a flat-top but that guitar didn't have enough sustain. However, he never said what "it" was.

Not an arc top in the bunch. Dave's missing the first couple decades.

This was great.

I can’t.

hey, look at the collection i made, of stuff other people made! this is how i keep this stuff out of the hands of players! the hell with them!

All collectors do is hoard the best guitars and make it hard for musicians to find good instruments.

Lovely microphone blocking every guitar.