Paul's First Guitar with Bird Inlays | From the Archives | PRS Guitars
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- From the Archives is a series where we explore unique instruments and items from our company archives. In this episode, Paul Reed Smith and Marc Quigley check out at a very special build - Paul’s first guitar with bird inlays. This guitar was originally made for Peter Frampton, featuring an early PRS headstock design and a soon-to-be-iconic flourish: birds as fret markers inlaid on the fingerboard. Listen as Paul recounts showing Frampton the guitar and how this instrument shaped his early career.
Be sure to stick around for the end of the episode, where PRS Product Specialist Bryan Ewald plays the First Bird Guitar and Paul brings a few items out of his personal safe.
Always enjoy hearing Paul's stories!
Love your stuff Austin! I know you’re a Gibson guy, but you really ought to get more PRS’s on your channel. I know I (and probably many others) would love it! Your Silver Sky videos are excellent.
OOOOO we got Austin in here! I always check the channel when I get home, for new uploads!
I wonder what this guitar would auction for
Trogggg
Froggy!
It's amazing that he even remembers where he bought the timber and that he saw the cracks in the wood when building it 50 YEARS AGO
I love how one of the most iconic and defining features of a PRS guitar was basically just a random idea Paul had one day. Such a cool bit of information and history.
I bought my first core PRS yesterday - a custom 24. I’ve been watching Paul for a while and am proud to finally own a real PRS!
I envy you! ♥️ I am waiting on my first PRS. It is a S2 Custom 24-08. One day I’ll get a core. Enjoy it!
Congratulations! My guess is you will end up with other PRS guitars
You're fucked for life now bro.... Now you're gonna get another one and another one. It's an incurable disease🤘🏼😂
Enjoy, I'll likely never use anything else after getting mine, got 5 jacksons sitting crying
Congratulations on your purchase.... Hope that a year since your post you have became well acquainted with guitar...
I have a 408 10 top and its freaking fantastic..
Paul seems like such a down to earth and chill guy!
That first one is arguably the best sounding one
Many years ago (1993) to be exact I purchased a PRS custom 24 from a lady who won the guitar in the Guitar Player Magazine contest. It became my number one go to guitar and has traveled throughout the USA making music. I am retired now but still play it regularly and it is still my number one guitar. Still love it after all these years. RP
That guitar sounds fantastic!
I can’t believe these guys work with a living legend.
This was cool! I hand routed and glued 1000's of those birds in the 80's with a jig with those brass plates and graphite paint.
If they do a guitar with squirrel inlay I'm in!
Can’t say enough good things about Prs guitars. Paul reinvented guitars refined them and made art in the process. I have the silver sky, Core artist single cut and a custom 24. I cannot justify keeping any others as they will not get played. I was late to the party but was lucky to get in ! God bless 🙏
We love your beautiful guitars, Paul, but sometimes we forget what a great guitarist you are. Thanks for the little mini concert.
That's great to see the fret board at the end of the video with the natural rolled fret board from the thumb from all the playing that has been done on it ,fantastic sounding guitar.
I really dig this series. Paul himself telling the stories and explaining the hows and why's.
Paul is inspiring me to make my own guitar. I’m making a turquoise flame top explorer currently. If you have the itch, just do it!
I think we can all agree that this series is interesting and fun to listen to!
More of this Paul! Love to hear guitar stories!
Paul, your videos are inspiring for a beginner guitar luthier. I love when you talk about what you learned.
When I get to building my own necks, I'm going to make a squirrel inlay guitar neck and send it your way :D
Always gonna watch another
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Great story. Thanks Paul.
Sweet sounds!!
Legendary stuff!! Peace brothers
Thanks for sharing. Loved seeing the bird inlay templates!
Great history demonstration and story, thanks Paul, Marc and Bryan! Glad to hear that Paul is birdwatching. Bird inlays are unique and beautiful, but I love my moon inlays too.
very cool story.... i remember being 18 in 1976 and my mom and dad took us to Disney land easter week... we stayed in daytona beach and every car on the beach had the same station on playing Frampton comes alive! what a great memory you just brought back.... paul you are a great guitar smith!
I love those archives episodes
This is my favorite series from the PRS UA-cam channel
it occurs to me the twelve fret marker is what prs revolves around just seems to be a really strong feature on the guitar its self. .... has this been said before i wonder? yeh great story and seeing those original jigs !! history in the making .
My 30th anniversary C24 is far and away my best playing and favorite PRS so far...you guys baked some extra goodness into those 30th anniversary fiddles. Thanks Paul!!
These videos are great. Love the knowledge and passion on display. Bought my first PRS guitar last week. A beautiful 2003 Core PRS Custom 22 Brazilian Ltd Edition in blue. Stunning guitar. Love knowing what went into making it and I’ll likely keep it for life. Thanks
I'm anxiously waiting for my Tremonti Sig in faded whale blue that I ordered in December. Watching Paul in these videos and the way that he still chases building the best guitar is what made it an easy decision to buy one of the core guitars. Thanks for these videos PRS.
Love you guys!!!
amazing!!!
I've had something like 10 PRS guitars over the years from all factories at all levels except wood library and never connected with any of them but they were all great. Paul has inspired me on several occasions to build PRS-like guitars first from very refined kits and later not so refined kits. I think I'm going to try from scratch as soon as I can source decent wood and get a clear vision of what I want.
That guitar needs to be in the PRS museum.
That's pretty cool my mother's a bird watcher too herback garden is full of birdhouses and trees, lots of plants and flowers a litte sanctuary for birds, and Bees! She has an air B'n'B or two maybe more its hard to tell, for her bees because they are becoming endangered even here in Scotland its pretty sad but if everyone did something like this in their back garden itd definitely have a positive affect.
PRS guitars are awesome id love a job there
Finally, keep them coming. Please do the original west street.
Living legend.
The birds work because electric guitars and birds are both symbols of freedom!
The birds are the most striking feature, with the incredible Maple tops close behind. I own a pre-bird moon inlay PRS, with the original Duncan pickups they used at the time, and two other artist signature models.
In the midwest, there's a fishing vernacular that Muskie hunters use, and it goes like this: "There are two kinds of fish, Muskies, and the fish they eat"
I've owned many guitars, but since getting my PRS's, it pretty much sums up guitars for me. There are PRS's, and there are all the others.
So cool
Paul is awesome! Please make an ES style guitar, symmetrical double cut semi hollow. With P90s, that you make yourselves!
That would be cool to see. Like an es330 or 35
Probably hasn't designed and out 1 out due to copyright and patents that gibson own.
Gibson kind of reminds me of LOTR Gibson to rule them all, every other company is beneath us....
I prefer PRS over Gibson personally. I think Gibson's are wayyyyy to overpriced. PRS is also very pricey, but the have different options and price points. I have played a few 4 thousand dollar + prs's and under 1000 bucks and thwy are both great..
My 2002 McCarty P90 has super beautiful moons. The birds are really apparent at a distance. You need to be pretty close to the guitar to really see the moons.
I like the bird in the heel!
When Paul told about a "flying turtle", it reminded me instantly about some old Japanese sci-fi movie, featuring the "monster" gamera 🙂 PRS are unbeatable quality products. Great guitars, I've just bought a PRS SE, but unfortunately, it turned out I can't set it up as I like, so I got to send it back. The vendor said to me that it's a very unlikely thing to encounter on a PRS guitar the one that happened to me, but I know I'm not a very lucky person 🙂 I'm very sorry, because I really liked the overall aesthetic and the great sound of the model I've chosen. BTW, I'm going to buy another PRS, trying with a more 'high end' model, hoping for the best this time. Great instruments, even in the "entry level" range, I just have been unlucky.
I'm looking forward to the squirrel inlays.
My dream guitar is a Paul's guitar, or maybe a DGT in faded whale blue, one day I'll get one. But for now I'm happy with an SE Paul's guitar, it's as good of a guitar as I'll ever need to be honest. I want a core model just because they are such special instruments, and because I fell in love with the faded whale blue color a long time ago and I really want one in that color. DGT and Paul's guitar are my two favorite models, I want to try a few and see which one I'll want forever.
Coolness!
I've been the proud owner of a C24 'artist' for 30 years and it remains the best guitar I have ever played. Thanks for making it!
yep, I bought my '92 C24 new and still one of the best guitars I've ever played.
😎👍💗🇺🇸🎸 LONG LIVE PRS!!!
Relic free since 1985!
That’s the thing that defines PRS for me-the bird inlays thing. I really love it, looks unique and artistic. Hope to own a PRS one day…
It will be worth saving for. I bought my first in 2002. Nothing like a PRS. Start with an SE, they’re great. I love the S2 line, too. Eventuality make your way up to a core model.
@@richardnagamitsu1582 thank you, hope it will eventually come true at some point)
I was always intrigued with PRS guitars since I saw Ted Nugent in damn Yankees play one. It took me years to find the right one before I could invest in one. I ended up with the guitar that I’m so proud of owning now. 2018 Paul Reed Smith wood library with flame maple neck Ebony fretboard and abalone birds bonus it has a Floyd Rose. The difference is like being stuck in the paddleboat and having somebody pass you in a yacht. Thank you Mr. Paul Reed Smith for selling me my yacht.
I like the router jigs and neck templates.
Glad he got into guitars. I just bought my first PRS, Silver Sky core model.
Nobody cares about your social signaling.
well he failed as a guitar player , so ... he stole from Gibson and made enough to cover = litigation... POS
The first time a saw a PRS it was a pic from an advert of a white Custom 24... I saw the birds, then the headstock and THAT signature and I fell in love! I said to myself: "one day I'll must have one of those 'birded' guitars" and thanks to the SE line I'm now an oversatisfied owner of a stunning (and left handed) Custom 24!!! ❤️
Next step will be a Core one!!! We'll see...
I found an SE Custom 24 in white, and an SE custom 22 semi-hollow on the same day. Me and the 22 are still best friends, but I really miss the girl that got away! That carved white top was just so sexy!
I've never noticed this before but Paul is clearly from PA. it's so identifiable in his voice... he sounds just like my dad.
This is so cool! Paul please tell us another story..How did you decide to have the birds fly towards the body?
I have been try to teaching my self how to build guitars ,I was starring at my PRS Santa retro and thought I wonder if these inlay where a beautiful mistake . thank you for theses videos . have a great year
Hi. I taught myself guitar building a few years ago. My suggestion, if you want it, is to just build one without worrying if it comes out well. This is what I did. I was able to offset the cost of wood by using reclaimed wood, meaning I would literally drive around and scope out furniture that people threw out for garbage collection, throw it in the back of the truck and drag it home.
Things like hardware and frets, and pickups etc can be reused if the guitar you build fails, so buy good quality stuff in that respect. In fact, I'd go so far as to say, build your first electric guitar with no intention to ever wire it up. Perfect the neck, the fretboard, and learn how to do the fretwork. Watch tutorials. If you have any kind of inherent maker's skills, you'll do fine. Good luck.
PS: I have a few videos with guitars I've built on my channel.
PPS: Electric guitar bodies can be made from almost any wood, even just pine 2x4s jointed and glued together, so don'tvthink your first one has to be mahogany or flame maple.
Wouldn't mind that being the prs SE carve, it's historic too and has all most of all the defining looks to it
Had to stop working at PRS only a few weeks in due to my seizures....BUT! Not before Paul himself shared that his mother was a birdwatcher and thats where the birds come from😊
2026; Limited run of faithful copies of this first birds guitar, marking its 50 year anniversary. Yeah, I’m calling it!
Squirrel or worm inlays? I think birds were the way to go. The birds immediately caught my eye on the first PRS I encountered in the early 90s. Hmmm, maybe my first Private Stock build should have squirrel inlays.
PRS Guitars are amazing. Thanks Paul and crew for all your efforts! Birds speak in music so they are definitely legit for guitar inlays and they do look way cool.
I have a Tremonti Baritone Hybrid prototype - maybe it'll be in the archive after I'm gone?
Love listening to Paul speak. One dumb question. Why the huge neck heel ?
And birds have songs to sing!
"I thought 'Smith' was a terrible name to go on a guitar" - Ken Smith weeps 😂
Imagine if his guitars would have come with squirrel inlays instead of birds.
Read somewhere that if one is fortunate to live long enough you will watch birds.
Birdwatching. Same here. Really love large birds of prey.
Raaad history Paul
I love that this guitar is in the archives but I'm curious why didn't Frampton keep it?
I wondered the same.
I know Mr. Smith hates us lefties for some reason 😢 but I still enjoy his stories enthusiasm and, yes, admire the craftsmanship of PRS guitars. I will always long for that PRS SE Single Cut; please don't forget us lefties ✌
One question: why are the birds upside down on the fretboard?
Why did you want to get rid of the neck angle?
Could someone please do me a solid and tell me how I can see Paul Reed Smith's version of Machine Gun again? I watched it once, dug it so much, and then it disappeared
I've got 4 bird feeders in my backyard...lol
Birds - they live in Trees (Wood)...and they soar, and Sing...
I love the design of that guitar, but I’m glad he didn’t settle on that awful headstock 😆😆 Very cool to see the first bird guitar.
stolen from Gibson
@@carmineredd1198 Settle down, Beavis.
The sustain on that guitar is ridiculous. It’s a perfect match of pick ups and wood.
Forgive me my Italian friends, but Paul initially thought Smith wasn't a good name. But isn't Ferrari a variation on Smith / iron smith?
A Smith Testarossa!?
Can i work on PRS ❤️
Why are the birds flying toward the body that Guitar and not away from it? I don’t understand that.
Why does he have the guitar? (If it’s Frampton’s guitar)
Birds make music as well.
how tf he remember which lumber store he went to 50 years ago, i dont even remember where i buy my toilet paper
They probably don’t give him the code cause he’d take all the guitars home lol
Prs with tiny frets...sign me up
Alrighty then.
I can't afford one so ... that's that
Why would you want seagulls aka sky rats on your fingerboard?
why not cut the birds using a CO2 Laser
Moonstone Guitars (RIP STeve ) did the birds first , Plain and simple Paul is a LIAR