What a great testament to a great leader. Paul, you transformed the guitar and make the most beautiful, functional, and amazing sounding instruments. The fact that you have trained the best management, luthiers and techs and allowed them to consistently improve the processes and quality and variety of end product is the mark of your leadership. Thank you for your enduring contribution to the industry and for your inspiration!
@@itsyeboykp most guitarist are clueless and just regurgitate incorrect garbage they hear from others, so that makes sense. I didn't like PRS guitars until I picked one up that had a design I liked. In a given price range there is no competition side by side. The soul is in me the guitar is just a tool to reflect that soul and PRS is F'in reflective! P.S. I consider myself a tele guy
@@itsyeboykp What does tonal soul mean? There are many models. They don't all sound the same. I've heard demos of some very expensive models that don't have much bloom. That comes down to wood density and rigidity. Hard to beat a good es-335 wood combo for bloom. Mahogany and the maple/poplar ply are part of the equation. I think the FB wood on all PRS guitars is torrefied. That can make the attack sharper in a way some players don't like. They may have the same issue with Ebony FB's.
Paul and I were born the same year (1956) and ever since the late 80's I have owned a PRS guitar as well as many others...my PRS guitars are my "soul "guitars. At our age with all the history behind the modern guitar Paul has been that generations keeper of The Flame within the magic of guitar players around the world. I think he's an amazing human being...he cares about us.
Every team would benefit from having their manager take a test like this; not to expose how little the manager knows, but to reveal to the manager just how on top of things their team really is! Love it. Thanks PRS
Good one. I love what he does and am so glad he is still around. Very gracious every time I have met him. Have a few of his guitars and every one is great. 😊
A very humble and brilliant man what a good sport such a super guy I worked at prs in 87 and Paul made every employee his business so thankful for his passion and amazing contributions to the industry
During my life I have only met a few people who have this integrity and deserve all the respect and appreciation, and Sir Paul Reed Smith is definitely one of the top in this list, thank you Sir.
You gotta love Paul. I love that he protests any ambiguities. That’s how I am with any tests. I’ve been fortunate to meet Paul several times and be next to him and listen as he reveals personal memories and stories about PRS and also general topics too. He’s such a cool man.
LOL. When your very experienced, and don't see a clear answer, question the question. It's always worked for me. Congrats Paul!! It is also very funny, congrats to the PRS team for doing it, and Paul for allowing it. It says a lot about Paul and the biz he has created!! 8) --gary
I absolutely love Paul Reed Smith. I bought my Vela after seeing interviews of him on youtube: the passion he has for what he does is what I like the most. The Vela was a gamble: I couldn't try it before buying it. The gamble paid off.
I took the quiz prior to watching the video. Question three (pressure used to glue top to the back/core) was interesting, simply because it requires specific pre-knowledge in order to answer correctly. 8'000lbs of pressure is simply a machine setting. As a professional industrial woodworker, I would need to know the sum contact area of the workpieces within the press any any one time plus the specifications of the adhesive and material being pressed. The typical body blank for a guitar is around say, 400in2 at the top end. With a PVAc glue, pressure is ideal around 200PSI and the pic shows a single stack of bodies in each press, calculating down to about 20PSI. This is on the low end of the scale for a PVAc, so I guess that PRS use something like a phenolic resin or similar? The forbidden caramel.
Paul needn’t worry, here in the UK 70% is the threshold for the highest grade possible at University level, so he’d still be on track to receive a 1st class degree with honours.
Here’s a question… why do prs finishes still ghost, haze, cloud, etc ? Just had a 2022 se 245 standard, shipped to me & already has it by the knobs. This issue seems to be prevalent with prs only, regardless of factory.
How many CEO's would let themselves be the butt of the joke? He really cares about delivering a tool that just works. That is his thing and is why PRS guitars are typically so well set up out of the box.
A business like this is fun where the number one guy could go to the shop and put up the product any day, knows all the details. Not just learned from a brochure but because he's done it. Catching the trick questions too. I wonder if Paul would prefer making the guitars over being the head of a company still. Probably yes if it was an option? Merry Christmas and thanks for my PRS Åkerfeldt. I play it all the time, always pick it up first. Even though it wasn't meant to become the number one. I needed a versatile guitar like that and it was so unique, partially because I'm a fan of Michael and it had beautiful visual design. It had the thickest neck and I thought I was a thin Jackson neck guy. Wrong, it's so comfortable to play and you can get such nice sounds out of the coil tap. It rings god damn loud and the bridge+springs make it sound like it had spring reverb unplugged. The only complaint was rough spotty fretboard sides towards the body and a bit too hot pickups. Other than that it's just perfection.
Guaranteed there’s a least ONE PRS “Ken Jennings” out there who got all 10 legitimately, and in about one minute total. “How could he MISS THOSE?!” he’d ask, totally exasperated, his entire worldview seriously shaken. A real guitar spec Trekkie. A “Plekkie,” maybe?
So, 75 people built my PRS Wood Library Custom 24 guitar and yet the nut was still cut incorrectly! A brand new 5k guitar which needs to be sent back… excellent!!! 👌