Forget the desert island; which ONE GUITAR are you taking to a session?

Published 2024-07-22
I get a version of this question often: "What's your favorite guitar?' "Which guitar is the most versatile?" "If you had to take only one to work, which one would it be?" Tough to answer for sure, but I think my criteria may help explain my answer. Thanks for watching!

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All Comments (21)
  • @fiddlefolk
    They all sound great in your hands so....with that said, the Novo would nail it all!
  • @MrNocaster
    Speaking of sessions, I saw you on a session with Nicky V. Seemed like you were enjoying yourself. Looking forward to the class.
  • @Dave-rk2nl
    So J you know what everybody's gonna buy now
  • @TexasJackdaw
    That Supra is super jangly. Kinda reminds me of one of my Gretsch’s. Also - SO true that in the end, we sound like ourselves. I could sit and watch you noodle for days, brother. Thanks for sharing such good content. 🙏
  • @WSBM
    Acoustic: Maton 808...electric: tele
  • @Timtime67
    So now i have to get a jassmaster. Lol Love your stuff.
  • @rickyrayreid
    My Suhr HSS strat with a thornbucker covers all I need! I do some jazz fusion, pop and Jpop stuff!
  • I'm playing my Les Paul every day, so that would probably be it for me. One day, if i have choices, I'll have to think about this again. Dig those bends toward the end!
  • @aminahmed2220
    What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Justin ❤😊
  • I’ve been a Strat guy for 30 years but in the last few years my PRS semi hollow body S2 with upgraded pups is the one.
  • I am not a good enough guitar player to consider all the stuff you do on the jazz master. But I get it.
  • @ggman946
    Wow! That Normandy sounds killer! It’s doesn’t hurt that it’s been tuned down a step. To be honest, I thought you’d end up with either a tele or a 335 as your do-all guitar.
  • @TonyThomas10000
    Have you thought of building a custom parts guitar from Warmoth? You could build it to your custom specs and dimensions.
  • @r0bophonic
    3:14 Is this true for a Bigsby as well? I’ve been doing compound bends on a B7 equipped Casino recently and haven’t noticed any issues.
  • @jupjuck
    Hey Justin, I saw your video on channel jumping a deluxe reverb, do you ever jump channels with reverb dimed and go from there with vol/eq?
  • Thanks so much for allowing us to take our own pedalboards with us! 😅 I totally understand your choice for your Jazzmaster. What an amazing guitar. ❤ My choice would be relatively easy. I don’t have a crazy amount of guitars, but still enough to doubt my choices. However, 37 years ago I worked really hard for a couple of months full time when I was still living with my parents. It was a now or never decision, knowing it may be the only and last opportunity I would ever get to save enough money to buy any guitar I could possibly want, with the exception of certain vintage instruments that were starting to become unobtainable already. Anyway, I knew I wanted the best 335/345/355 I could find. I still remember that day. I literally spent hours and hours to carefully listen and playing and inspecting a beautiful selection of new guitars, going back and forth from one guitar to the other and I kept coming back to this amazing black ES-347. So that’s what I took home with me and it never let me down. Even after 37 years of playing that guitar it still fulfills me with pride and joy. It feels like coming home. So many great memories of all the gigs I played with it. 🥹 I don’t have to tell you how versatile a good 335 can be. The 347 has a coil tap switch and this switch was one of the reasons why I kept coming back to it, because unlike the bad reputation (at least, so it seems, because I hardly ever hear anything positive about guitars that have a coil tap option) the sounds I can get from it are incredible and I actually use that switch quite a lot, like 30% of the time. The only thing it doesn’t have is a vibrato system, or ‘tremolo’ (I don’t want to start a debate 🫣). I have been thinking about buying the Deusenberg Les Trem combined with a roller bridge, but even though I know that I can literally bring it back to its original state within just a few minutes, I just don’t want to change anything that’s already perfect in my opinion. So, to make a long story short, if I can only bring one guitar, it will most probably be my trusty old ES-347. 😅
  • @setheverhart
    Very cool. If you don’t mind, what are the guitars on your list that hold up well tuned down? I’m on that very search at the moment. Thanks for all the great videos.