I Feel Free, nice little reference to the Clapton 335 era there! Beautiful guitar mate, congratulations on the acquisition

Everyone needs a 335 in their collection. So versatile , jazz, blues, rockabilly, R n R, even country.It can do it all.

I had SO much fun watching this vid! Almost thought I had snagged the golden ring- good vibes to ya' mate, and enjoy the hell out of that 335...

Good for you my brother Paul. Glad to see a fellow guitarist go for the guitar he needs because it's what actually suits him/her, their specific style, and tone that pairs with the player and not just getting a guitar because it's the status quo, or its so gorgeous to look at etc. I am a PRS guy, but I also love Strats, Charvels, Jacksons, some Ibanez. Always go for the guitar that best does the job for you. Variety is crucial though as well. Cheers to my brother from another mother

Sweet axe, sounds great lots of luck with it!! Cheers from America!!

And that is why we love our 335's. Cheers Neil (Australia)

BB Cook, sounds and looks great, if a little strange, size wise! Another great addition!

Love that tone! Sounds and looks like you made a great trade.

Looking forward to hearing more of this 335 Paul. Hope you enjoy it lots. ( I feel free licks = Cool. 👍

Sounds killer Paul, congrats.

It’s gorgeous and a must have in any collection I think.

Excellent trade, very happy for ya Paul!

Beautiful guitar. I have to admit I like that color the best with the dots. With the cherry red color, I like the neck with the block inlays best. Killer tone you got there. I think you made the right choice with swapping the PRS for the 335.

Congrats on that new baby! Good choice!

Great sunburst finish on that one. I like how it extends a bit up towards the horns. Good choice.

You sounded great.

with the marshal it sounds amazing, grtz from the netherlands 🇳🇱

that thing SCREAMS! congrats my dude!

I just got the exact same guitar today...my favourite one in my collection... Neil Canada

Man, through the Katana Sounded awesome! And then you plugged into the Marshall!, I can’t unhear it! That’s just magic.

Very nice. Hope you enjoy it. I've got an Epi ES 339 Pro., really like it. It's a vintage sunburst also.

I am with you on the swap . I bought a PRS about 15 years ago , so beautiful and well made , sold it in a month because I was not in love with it ! If I can not be enamored with a guitar , think about it , worry about it , and constantly want to pick it up and play , then it is not right for me . There are too many beautiful guitars that I cannot live without , then to keep something I am luke warm about !

Faces of pure Joy. That guitar is a beast. Congrats. Greetings from Ecuador southamerica . I have a copy of that...epiphone dot with Seymour Duncan's on it. 1000000 light years below of what you have.

Well done that man--you know it makes sense! I too have a 335--a 1989 Dot Reissue which looks very much like yours except mine doesn't have any flame.

Beautiful!

That my friend was a decent swap!!! I also have a 335 but a vintage white. Not a Gibson but anyway. You cant go wrong with this regarding true bluestones 🤘🎸😉

If you ever have a doubt as to whether you did yourself right, just review your this video of you at 3:48. That to me said it all. Great choice. The tonal quality of the Gibson es335 is utterly amazing!

i did literally this same thing today! traded in a PRS for a 335. Loved the PRS, but it lacked the vibe and something was missing from the sound. Needed to have a 335 again. that thing looks and sounds gorgeous! Enjoy, cheers!

As I mentioned I traded my PRS custom 22 for the same nocatser 51 you have and never for one second looked back. You made the right the right choice in my opinion...your 335 sounds like dynamite and one can feel the legacy pf Larry Carlton, Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton and the great Freddie King. The hard part as you say is not to fall in love with a new guitar or fake old one. I have bought probably fifty guitars in the past even a Music Man which had little sustain four PRS (none of which I kept) and I have sworn to myself to keep to my current collection which is down to four. As we know its all in the fingers. I do feel however that when it comes to acoustic guitars it is hard to make a cheap one really ring...when I was 15 I heard CSNY and had an epiphany and when I was in my 50s I could afford my first Martin and not a day goes by without me deeply appreciating the bell-like beautiful tone and when I play out it always hits the spot. I feel PRS are making too many weird kitch coloured instruments and have fallen into that American trap of excessive marketing and the new bird inlays strike me as cheap and nasty.

That 335 looks stunning. Nice amp set up too.

Beautiful guitar. Enjoy !

Congrats! Great trade, I love 335’s. Certainly couldn’t afford one but I’ve looked really hard at a couple Epi Dots. Maybe one day.

Great choice, was the best decision from PRS to ES 335, I got the same guitar like you but 2004.

Excellent swap!

Hello Paul, I just subscribed to your Channel. My name is Andrew Moore. I met you yesterday in the park. You were playing a Stevie Wonder song. NumbuggaStudios is my channel. Numbugga is a place in the Bega Valley NSW Australia. Lovely to hear you play yesterday. It was a bright spot in an otherwise tourist drenched mayhem that was yesterday. Thanks for brightening up my world.

Oh my word! That is gorgeous! Completely on your wavelength regards the PRS. Currently looking for a 335 (cherry) to call my own. Enjoy 👍

I purchase new a 2016 Natural ES-335 with a 65 Twin Reverb Fender 85 Watt Amp back when I was crazy....all I can say is WOW!!! Weird thing though, 3 years later it still smells brand new. I do keep it in the case when not playing. Thanks for the video.

Great choice Paul. Always difficult on YT with the natural compression however like you l'm a massive Gary Moore fan and remember seeing him at the Barrowlands when he wheeled out his 335 for a couple of numbers and it blew his LP's away. I knew then l had to get one. There's that " air movement " so difficult to describe but immediately apparent when you play one that separates them from solid body guitars . Love them. Enjoy yours !

Nice Paul! I got a 08 PRS Core Mira and it’s a great guitar! Ultimately gave to my youngest Son to learn on! PRS’ quality and build are incredible and maybe a bit Hi-Fi? Discovered in my heart I’m a traditionalist and like the imperfections and wrestling with gear lol! Landed a 14 Rich Robinson Es that is ultimate 335 for me! Worth every embarrassing penny haha!! Cheers!

Yep. At 3:49 is exactly why I own one of these. I exclusively play 335 style guitars.

What a beautiful guitar mate.

Agree, don't blame you for trading in the PRS. Yes they're gorgeous and intelligently constructed, but there is something in the sound of a 335, that you CANNOT get with any other guitar...cannot. And it's killer! I own a studio 335 that sounds fantastic and absolutely worth the price. It sounds killer irrespective of what I play it through.

I have a 1989 Heritage H535 ASB. Plays and sounds beautiful.

beautiful!!

I just did the same thing! I bought a brand new PRS 594 McCarty 594. It was an amazing guitar, but I couldn't bond with it. I traded mine for a new Gibson 335 Figured. I love my 335

Smart man!

That Guitar carries the sound of golden era 60s/70s , very tasty playing as well

I'll be saving the best till last as well. With 2x strats, 2x LP's, 2x Taylors and others Ive only just realised what Ive been missing for 40+ years ! I bought a Epi Sheraton 2 and love it - logic stated that it wasn't a lot to waste if I didn't. Now I'm just waiting for these troubled times to end and I'm going shopping ! Just love the tonal range of this guitar - why didn't I suss this earlier !

I had a PRS McCarty 594 shipped to me. First thing is they are beautiful guitars and very well made.. No flaws at all. I was surprised how thick the neck was on the PRS. The PRS lacked the character I was looking for which is what my Les Paul has. Though the PRS is a great guitar I sent it back as I didn't bond with it. The Gibson 335 was next. It took about 10 minutes to bond with it. I was not used to a larger body guitar. Once I got used to the neck and body I stopped playing all my other guitars. It has that Gibson warm tone while still having a bright open sound

Sounds lovely Paul, I think probably the 11s and the raised action ( besides of course your skill) make the tone more visual! A pleasure as always doing business with you my friend and it takes a serious player to travel over 600 of miles on a round trip, even the Proclaimers would only walk 500! 😉🎸

I bought a black 335 from 2003 and I got to tell those 00s Memphis semi hollows really have serious mojo

i think you got a good deal. Anyone out there who wants to swap my Suhr classic mint, in sunburst for a Gibson ES 336 get in contact

Excellent decision 👍🏻

PRS just never did it for me. looking to buy a 2019 335. great video

Congratulations on your new arrival!! I never thought the PRS stood up to the 59 Custom LP, Those first few notes through the Katana were like a morning chorus on Valentine's Day. I'm still on the fence regarding the Marshall especially with the volume cranked, I don't mind a little crunch in the right setting but when it crushes note definition, for my ears anyway it takes away some of the finess. An excellent example is Mark Knopfler and "Wild Theme" usually played on a Schecter strat with lots of sparkle and jangle. However in Montserrat he uses the Gibson 59 LP, just on the edge of breaking up, many commenters took a dislike to unclean sound, preferring the original. I and others heard a new quality, a depth of tone and a voice like that of someone crying whilst singing, a tune which always had lots of feeling now had heart and sole to match. I don't know if you watched it yet but "Blues Jives at the Crossroads" is up although I rushed it and did it in one take and the settings on the effects pedal, combined with those on the Katana and palm muting gave too much of a muted effect. I tried it, same settings on another guitar and the difference was chalk and cheese. A re-do is called for, funny how different pickups sound so different on the same setting!!

Thanks for videos in KZfaq

Hi Paul, your sound is spectacular, you bend so high with 11/52 !! are the pickups 57 classic? I have a 335 like yours 1995 but with the 57 was very dull ,i put at the neck a Bill Lawrence HBR and now i can't stop playing my 335!! So much definition, articulation and dynamic!! Thanks again for your sound culture!!!

While I don’t own a 335, I do have a Heritage H-555 30th Anny edition. Very figured curly maple top. Has a set of Seth Lovers in it that sound phenomenal, a real tone machine. It’s a really dressed up version of a 335. I have a Yamaha A 2200 also, fantastic semi hollow. With all that said, I have two 3 PRSs. Two of which will go to my kids. One is a whale blue Wood Library DGT with a Korina neck, Rosewood fretboard. The other is a Custom 24 in Autumn Sky, that was taken to the 2012 PRS Experience. It has a Private stock flame maple neck with Brazilian Rosewood fretboard. Simply stunning. They are both unbelievably well made, great looking and sounding guitars. I know it’s easy, even fashionable to bash PRS but if you get the right ones, they are wonderful. Your 335 sounds killer!

I completely understand the decision to surrender the PRS for the 335. I made the same kind of decision when I traded my PRS McCarty against a 57 Custom Shop Les Paul Junior. No regrets (Paul, you helped inspire that move with your own Junior demo). Maybe Richard Thompson best expressed the general sentiment in Red Molly: “Now Nortons and Indians and Greeves won't do, Ahh, they don't have a soul like a Vincent 52". Cheers. Tom

Woow, impressive👍

PRs are stunning finish and looking guitars but sterile for me ! My telecaster and Es 335 P90 ( 2007 Ltd) are awesome sounding !!!! Love your channel...kindest regards from France...

Yours sounds really good. I'm looking for one and I'm definitely going to look for a 2005. Is your figured or plain top? Thanks, Bruce San Diego

Most watchable fella on you tube, creased up here, great playing to :)

Nice acquisition, and sound. Its a coincidence, Im in the same boat: Have a PRS c24. Love the feel, playability, comfort. Also a real pleasure just to look at. However, not exactly jiving with some of the tones. The more I pick it up, the more I'm convinced I gravitate towards Gibson/Fender. I'm also intending to replace it with another Gibson. A couple times I thought maybe a Mccarty is more my jam, but it doesnt quite hit the spot, doesnt have the same vibe.

I'm happy for ya, Paul! So how are you and your es-335 getting on? Still loving it four years on, I do hope?

The YT algorithm has us meet again. I have a space on the wall that needs some 🔥🔥🔥 … On the prowl for one of those 335 beauties … Cheers from Socal …. 🤘

Yeah, I’ve been jonesing for one too.

It sounds awesome. I own a 335 and I am looking for an amp. What amp did you use on this video?

Just got a walnut 335! I LOVE IT

Hi Paul just today I was looking at a Gibson 335 in cherry red after having played an epiphone 335 and wondering how I could justify/afford itThen I thought as beautiful as my 2 PRS guitars are, I don’t really play them maybe I should trade them in. Found your video by accident or kismet and decided Paul is a traditionalist and so am I! Off to the shop tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Nuts? Nuts if you wouldn't trade it... i wouldn't trade that gibson for 10 prs guitars. The ring is addicting... check this roll the vol back to 8 on the neck through the marshal and hold on. You taste buds will dance....

My fingers are getting a bit sore these days so can’t play very much now as I’m 78 . I still love the guitar . I tried Georgia . I think it was pre Ray Charles. I started it in F A7 G7 then it’s anybodys guess as you can impro like crazy into the zone for for a while

What are your preffered tone/ vol settings for each pickup on the guitar?

I can't decide between one of these or a gold top, I've got a couple of grand to spend, that 335 sounds great

A good Scot. Let’s do things the HARD way. Let’s struggle with those heavier gauge strings 🤣 It was a good trade. Like you said PRS are lovely. Almost too perfect. The ES-335 is stellar 👍 I sold a PRS 22 ten top and I had to take a big price drop and it took forever to sell. They do not retain their value like Gibsons, Fenders and Martin’s.

Good choice.

That flame said it all

Great guitar man! I had a '68 and sold it when fell on hard times..it was my favorite. I finally 12 years later got another semi hollow ..i scored a Guild Newark IV Starfire St for $500 USD and am loving it! Question.. Was that a Rivera Quitana you were playing through 1st?

Lol this guy must be readin my mail!!!

Is this from the new series (new CEO) the gloss one? I am considering buying the satin one because I like satin necks. Do you recommend?

Git my katana 100 delivered yesterday oh boy it’s heavy . I’m going to put castors on it. It’s overwhelming me so far I think I’ll need another degree to use it

You need a flying V...... they sound amazing and I'm talking about a custom shop 58, vintage 70s or early 80s korina V... they have a really nice midrange sound like no other . Sg are my favs and I own a couple of vintage 60s models that are excellent . You said you dont like firebirds but I like the non reverse birds much more. They are way more comfortable to play when sitting down and I like the 3 p90 pickup combination. Everyone needs at least 1 p90 guitar in there collection . A les Paul special dc is also great sounding guitar......

Hi Paul looking forward a 335 ! But keep heading to a PRS McCarty semi hallow ? Any thoughts Just another quick one - have you seen vids on string gauge and sound ?

That difference between the katana and the Marshall was just stunning

This 335 sounds absolutely insane

That sounds beautiful. I'm sold also! Is this this the vintage burst? Love it

Nice !!!

What part of Scotland do you live? I’m from the USA (Ohio) and last year took a trip around Scotland: London > Edinburgh > Glasgow > Iona > Jura > Skye > Inverness > Aberdeen > St Andrews > Edinburgh. LOVED the traditional Scottish breakfast. Hated the single-wide roads with give-way spots, especially in the Highlands. 😱😬Scotland is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful!

Cracking guitar Paul....I have to get an es335!! In the meantime I'll just have to put up with my Epiphone Sheraton. :-(

Wonderful guitar. Wonder: why do you do this string “wrap around” at the bridge. To me it looks like there is very little string angle. But man it sounds great :-)

mine doesn’t sound that great as yours - which model is it exactly you have?

I swapped my Gibson es-335 for a PRS ce24 semi hollow, and it stays in tune!😊

Great video! What amps are you playing through?

try a set of Thomastik-Enfeld be bop .011's....expensive, but they sound great and last a long time.

Congratulations beautiful guitar and choice.

You did the right thing. Es335 rules. They are the stradivaries in guitars!

good deal Nice guitar

The Phil Jones of guitar faces. Nice geet fella

I NEED that guitar too..lol. Awesome, I will never get to own a Gibson 335. I am happy for you!

Sweet Carolina !!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸