The four guitars I CAN'T live without 

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You deserve a signature model.. the Les Paul Davids

As a seventy year old grandmother, I needed to scratch an itch I’ve had since I was a teenager. So, a couple of weeks ago, I bought myself an Epiphone Les Paul 50s with the beautiful cherry sunburst finish and am delightedly following your videos. Got a lot to learn. Got a beautiful guitar.

"Learning how to play guitar? Wait! Don't touch the skip button, this is gonna change everything! Me: *skips*

Life lesson: don't buy guitars from Paul Davids, he knows which ones to sell. Excellent video nonetheless.

Production year: 2009 Model: 1959 reissue Sequence number: 79 Manufactured in Nashville for the les paul! like this comment so paul will see it, like deze comment zodat paul het ziet!

The guitars I can’t live without: my old ass squier stratocaster cuz i’m broke af

Paul, You are the Bob Ross of the guitar world. "Pretty noisy as well but thats just how guitars are." Beautiful

What Paul inspired me is, not just the tech or the mindset of playing guitar, but maybe more important, attitude. I don't know why, just whenever you get tired of playing or learning how to play better, this kind of video just inspired me, made me feel like, "oh yeah the instrument I love is actually so beautiful and lovely" things like this.

Your playing is amazing (as everyone clearly agrees) but I have to also say that your video production is fantastic - with all the subtle inserts and edits - you obviously are as precise and clever with your video editing as you are with your playing and teaching. I just wanted to be sure you knew this does not go unnoticed. Thanks for the quality content and keep 'em coming!

Paul's hands: *shreds Paul's guitar: *screams Paul: "yeah"

Love it when he talks about the certificate from the Les Paul so coveted like, then when he’s ready to move on, just throws it on the floor like a piece of trash.

Every Guitarist needs a minimum of six guitars. Strat, Tele, a single cut Les Paul type, a semi hollow ES-335 type and two acoustics, steel and nylon string. I currently only have two 😞

* got two red guitars * "I don't like red to be honest"

"Had to be a Strat and it had to be Red!" - Has Mark Knopfler said...

“I’m not German, I am Dutch. It’s an entirely different thing, and I do not like the comparison.” 🤣

The Duesenberg on clean would be soooo perfect for a slow dancing in a burning room cover.

That feeling when you only have 1 guitar... *cries in corner* (Edit: Chill people! it's a f*cking joke!)

The tone on that strat is heavenly

Vintage 1968 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty. Plays like an absolute dream.

Paul, ask Austin at Trogly's guitar channel about your les paul, he knows everything about gibsons

Knew you were Dutch the second I heard your voice. Spent some time in Netherlands about ten years ago. Wonderful people that really made me feel at home. Really miss it sometimes.

I bought my first guitar last week, so I guess that’s the one I can’t live without. It’s a Gretsch 2622TG P90 Special Edition

My roots were in Strats but I played a Les Paul for years. Finally went back to Fender Strats when I tried a Jeff Beck model. It spoke to me and I'm glad I picked it up. It covers all the styles I play (Rock, Jazz, Country, Blues, R&B). I love the way I get different textures based on how hard or soft I hit the strings or roll off the guitar volume/tone. Definitely my go to guitar.

The moral of this story- never buy a guitar from Paul!

From now on, I will call them “electrical guitars”.

That intro... I've been playing for 20 years+, I started out wanting to play like that and I still can't.

I love the improvised authenticity you present with. The humility balanced with the confidence…The personal quirks that you don’t understand. Very easy to relate to. You also sound like a badass in your brief samples. I don’t usually sit through many instructional vids without speeding them up. 🤦🏽‍♂️. Never has occurred to me with yours.

My dad had a bunch of guitars and equipment when I was growing up so when I had my teenager playing rock music phase I was sorta spoiled. I got to play a 69 Strat and a 1974 Yamaha SG-175. I also got to plug them into an early 80s Mesa Boogie. Definitive experience for me not having to thrash away on a crap cheapo guitar so that when I finally picked one of those up for myself I felt the difference immediately. Luckily my dad has all of those things still so I can still totally play them anytime I want.

The four guitars I’ve always said I need not want, are a les Paul, a 335, a tele, and a strat. I love this video :)

The tones on all 4 guitars are amazing, congratulations! 👍🏼👍🏼

Absolutely fantastic collection, Paul! Congrats!

Thank you, bro, for putting together such high quality videos. I can tell you are hard working and focused.

Your guitar tones are my favorites out of all the RU-vidrs. Sounds great every time.

Thank God for music!

The most likable person in the guitar world ever! How can you NOT like this guy? 179 haters what the hell?!?

My 1976 Gibson L6-S Deluxe is my prize possession. I spent a long while trying to find a guitar that spoke to me and this one just feels so right. It makes me want to play more. It's quirky and twitchy, the pickups are hot and it sounds absolutely FILTHY with distortion and some compression. It's mine and I love it.

Every note this guy ever plays sounds amazingly good to me...i guess i probably oughta buy his album

2:26 bro I freaken died when you dropped that thing 😂

Super cool to hear you talk about the deusenburg! I’ve been playing it for a while and fell in love, but couldn’t find that much information on them. Absolutely gorgeous guitar and so versatile too!

Man, that Haar Guitar sounds amazing.

This guy is an excellent guitarist! Wow!

The one guitar I can´t live without is the PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo. Changed everyhting in my guitarplaying. Most of time I use the bridge PU with a little bit of piezo sound. I play it fingerstyle (if my nails are not broken) clean on a Acus Akoustic Amp. Now I found the sound what I was looking for a livetime. And with the sound came the insperation. May be, I am the happyest man in the world.

Another great video, Paul! Thanks for showing us your electrics.

My favorite two guitars are the only two I own. My acoustic is a 2019 Taylor 414ce-r special edition v-class and my first ever electric, an Epiphone Les Paul Standard. Learning with you my friend. Keep up the good work.

I owned a strat most of my life and gave it to a friend when I moved and basically went full acoustic. Was shopping around and that it might be cool to own a Les Paul... but I realize that in every video, the Strat is always my favorite. Les Paul’s are cool for heavy, fuzzy riffs, but I like Strats.

How smooth you're playing is.. great work

Great video! Really enjoy your stories!looking forward to hear more about your earlier guitars, like the ones you use when learning guitar playing.

Hi, Paul! Nice vid, as always! Thanks for sharing! My favorite guitars are: my standard fender strat 2007 MIM, but with customize locking tuners, pickups and hipshot tremolo and stock epiphone rock bass 1998 made in South Korea. They are both my favorite and amazing!

As French i really appreciate « le plat de résistance » nice accent Mr Paul Davids ! By the way, amazing guitars and video ! Thanks for your work 👍

Dude that LP is frikken perfect. Gorgeous! Love that Strat too!

Fall in love with this gibson

It’s really cool how different people’s tastes can be. I went out of my way to buy an American Vintage 52 reissue tele and it is by far the best guitar I’ve ever played. I love everything about the design, sound, and the look

I loved the sound of that duesenberg fullterton. Sounds like my strat, but in a domesticated way. I may get one of that

Love the storytelling here.

Great post! Thank you for sharing Paul.

Good collection, my dream guitar is a Les Paul standard. In the future I would like to have: my dream guitar, tele, strat and a SG.

6:55 “ringing” That’s a unique... same with me on my strat first string 😄

Your videos are awesome. Great sense of humor and great descriptions of things.

You are such a good player, that you make everything sound good.

I never thought I'd own a tele. However one day I went into sweetwater and a guy brought out a daphne blue sandblasted telecaster made exclusively for sweetwater by fender. I must of sat and played it a hour in the store I could not put it down. After having the luthier there lower the action ,put a different pickup in the bridge and a set of locking tuners I took it home. And out of all 11 guitars I own that is the one I'd keep if I had to sell every last one!!

Great show, Paul! My favorite guitar is a 1963 Strat I own since 1976. Still plays beautifully (had to re-fret it though...)

Someone put guitars on earth to enjoy for a reason. You enjoy the best and I thank you for inspiring those of us to do the best we can. We would be in in a hopeless space without music and those who make it.

Another excellent video Paul. Loved the playing and the Bruce Hornsby clip followed by the punchline. Lol. Thanks for taking the time to show us your favorite guitars and why you chose them. Really enjoyed the challenge videos with your friends too like looper one and the metal riff one. Keep them coming...

How on earth do you do all this amazing video editing?? It must take aaaaaages!!! It's definitely worth it tho!

Paul, I really love your work. You're a gem in the (oftentimes) wastelands of RU-vid. I apologize in advance for this long message but I feel you will understand my query: Right now I play Squier 50s Classic Vibes, both the Telecaster and Stratocaster. I have no frame of reference for owning such lovely guitars as you do, but I do enjoy both of these lower-end guitars well enough, I guess. However, I have a thought: In 2024, I will turn 50 years old. My first idea was to buy a vintage guitar from my birth-year. Not an original idea, but I could save and have one (hopefully). My thought was Tele, but I wouldn't know til I played a few '74 Teles, Strats, Les Pauls, etc. I don't feel I'd be too precious with a vintage guitar, it wouldn't be a wall-hanger. I would play it, and I would leave it for my kids to fight over after I'm gone. It would be played. Then I thought maybe, instead, and for probably the same money (or close), I could get a Custom Shop guitar, brand new, and start with it at 50 years old myself. That could also be very lovely. I wouldn't (maybe) worry so much about nicks and dings with a relic job. My third thought was to just try guitars until one spoke to me. Maybe 'The One' would be cheaper than vintage or Custom Shop, I should just play them all until I found the one that felt like I was *home*. But that could take forever, potentially, and in these Covid times right now, I do not get to be in guitar shoppes very often (we only have one in my small city, and it's a chain store) and I live 3 hours from Toronto, which is off-limits to me right now anyway, virus-numbers-wise. Maybe by 2024 it will be all back to whatever normal will be... Lastly, I could just stay with my Classic Vibes, let this whole idea go. Really, they're quite OK. And maybe I could put some money into a better amp than my Boss Katana 50 Mk.1 and my Yamaha THR5. But, guitar-wise, I'd always have that lingering thought in my head... what if... What would you do? Just find one that speaks to me, whether it be vintage, Custom Shop, or whatever else (if I can ever get somewhere to try them out)? Or is there one clear choice? I don't feel like it's an easy answer, but perhaps I am over-thinking this. Thanks again for all that you do. Keep up the amazing work!

Lovely guitars, thanks for sharing.

My Favorite I own is a Fender Troy Van Leuwan Copper Jazzmaster, I named it mojo within 2 hours of owning. Thing is flawless. Thanks for your guitar course! I am learning so much every week!!

I like it when you say ‘electrical’ instead of electric. It’s a trend I’ve been trying to spread for years 😃 Thanks for another interesting video! My favourite is my 1997 LP Classic fitted with Saturday Night Special pickups. I also have a Jeff Beck Strat from 2007 which is lovely. I have got a ‘52 Tele reissue like you had, that I have never really grown into, so I’m thinking of selling it. Cheers!

11:01 best part haha. Love your vids btw!!

In 1978 I got hold of a four years old blonde original Telecaster. I customized the top notch rightaway for a selfmade messing one but haven't have to alter anything since then. The buzzin and rinklin personalize my sound. A few excelent instruments came my way by heritage or (lately) a Hohner strat saved from the garbage can, but nothin compares with the blonde. Few years ago the neck element broke up because the wire isolation was worn. At first a guitar shop build in a standard issue element but the sound fell flat dead. Then I send the original element to an expert (also called Paul) who handwired the element to original specs. He even knew which woman working in the Fender workshop and could recognize their specific signature by the way elements were wired. When I sound bad, I can't blame the instrument. We are aging together

The one guitar that I miss the most is my 97 Parker fly deluxe. That guitar had it all and I never should’ve let it go

Thanks for another great vid. Love that Duesenberg! Have not come across Haar guitars before so that is very interesting :)

Can I also say, I bloody love the sound of that strat. It’s very warm, mid scooped. Love that sound. I actually think it was hearing your strat in several videos that inspired me to build a custom strat. We bought an unfinished, licensed neck, but we made the body ourselves out of huge piece of ash (hot piece of ash it was too lol) and put a lot of focus on playability. Turned out really nicely and it plays great! Yosemite pups so a slightly different sound but not far off, especially that neck pup. Mmmmmm. Nothing beats a strat neck sound. Pure sex.

For variety, I have a '62 Martin D21, a '79 LP standard, a '97 Ric 330/12 and an '07 US strat. The Mrs said 'it's me or the guitars'. I really miss her.

Thanks for sharing ! Very informative

My obsession right now is the 'Gretsch Streamliner' which is a bit like the Duesenberg. Ohh I looooove it😍 the tremolo system is just awesome (it's bigsby) and the pickups and everything is absolutely wonderful 😍😍 Yeah... You need to have dreams so.. maybe one day I'll have it in my collection 🙃

the high E on the tele has a nice sitar sound ;-) My guess its that the nut is the culprit. When the slot is unevenly filed or the angle is not steep enough the string can buzz in the nut... groetjes uit België

5:31 telecaster sounds amazing

My favourite guitars are my 64 Strat, 68 ES335, 68 Tele, 72 Harmony H671, 63 Gibson Southern Jumbo and a 1992 Les Paul Standard. These are the ones that just have a thing that inspires and are so addictive to play as all of them have had a lot of play on them and the necks are naturally worn down so amazingly smooth.

I just bought a les paul special with p90s and i love it! Grat guitars, great sound, great channel.

2:22 It has a sticker on the back of the COA paper that says "NEW GOLDEN AGE 50 ANNIVERSARY"

That exact Duesenberg is my DREAM guitar!

I once had a guitar rack full of beautiful guitars. Had a American Strat, Les Paul Standard, USA Jackson Soloist, American Tele and a Taylor acoustic. Got hurt at work, lost my job and now I have none lol I miss those guitars.

I like your Haar the most. It says Paul Davids signature. Mr. Haar could fix that high E string. But that Big D sounds so smooth.

Duesenberg - White; wow, I thought it was a beautiful guitar with great tone. The Les Paul was awesome and the Dutch Tele sounds great. I choose the Duesenberg as the overall choice for me.

The sound of your strat is a real dream.! 🎸🇵🇹

That Duesenberg !!! Beautiful

Can you make a video about Slow Dancing In A Burning Room?

Hi Paul, I got an acoustic guitar in Morelia, Mexico that sounds great. For $20 USD, it sounds way better than $500+ guitars I’ve tried out. It’s a Gilb guitar. The action is maybe a little high for me but I love it😊

Im in love with my 1977 Stingray II Musicman guitar. Purchased it used, body was cracked, light blue paint was like if someone pulled a fork back n forth on it, but after few moves I've made- she sings so sweet.

Warm, rich videos almost like listening to Vinyl. They have a relaxing quality. Can we see more of your shows/performances please. From the UK 🇬🇧

Sometimes that tinny buzz that you hear on the high e string of your Telecaster can be cause by the contact point on the string tree (on the headstock)

Hey Paul, to fix the sound of yoyr tele's e string you'll need to lower your magnets from that side.

Beautiful tele sound

Most of these are guitar types I'm not typically drawn to but I love the sound and look of every single one of these guitars

Hi Paul, congrats, your guitars and your channel are fantastic! I'd like to ask you a question. Does your custom shop strat has a fingerboard of 7.25 radius? If yes, do you suggest this kind of radius rather than the 9.5 of modern strat? I'm going to buy a new guitar and I'm so undecided. Many people says that it's hard to bend with 7.25.

My favourite guitar??🤔🤔 SRV's guitar Paul,your collection is a door to heaven,I wouldn't ask more if I hade your collection

I can watch Paul Davids and Darrell Braun all day. Great channels!

Great video . Out of my collection I will say my 92 American Standard Strat, 91 Natural Gibson Les Paul, and my 2010 ES 339 Custom Shop.