Jared is definitely RIGHT about playing a semi-acoustic on a gunned amp.
It's really something else.
I have a 2002 Gretsch 6120 JR (smaller hollow-body) with a Setzer PU set, and there's nothing like playing it really really loud with gain. It's like being on a stormy sea. The guitar wants to throw you overboard. It's really a fight, but it's a fun fight, and the sounds that it produces are absolutely EPIC.
I guess Jared must know that well as he's played with Ted Nugent a couple of times, and Nugent is an ABSOLUTE MASTER at taming a Jazz Box (Byrdland Florentine, short scale hollow-body) played at high volume and with a good amount of gain.

LOVE YOU JARED !
God bless you man !

I have an all original 1956 Stratocaster totally reliced times 10!

Awesome guitars! Cheers Paul and Jared!!

JJN see you in Hamburg next month

Proper size guitar for Jared - 335. 🥂 Great video about great guitars. Jared plays so good 👌

That was very fun! great guitars

You may not be ready for this video, but your kids are gonna love it...

The rock world should not sleep on Jared James Nichols.

The 335 stole the show… what an instrument!

The host pretending not to know about positions 2 and 4 was classic. Awesome video.

It’s funny that the most wanted LPs now 58 to 60 bursts were the least popular back then. Gold tops? Another story. You’d pay way more for a 58 plain top burst than a 58 gold top even though they’re the same guitar. I have a 56 CS Strat with the compound V neck and it’s wonderful. I even bought a CS 52 Tele with a 57 neck which again is a compound V. Best playing neck I’ve ever played. So when Jared spoke about the Strat neck I understand.

I had the black light Zep poster when I was 10👍 not sure if JJN could make a guitar sound bad?

The value of the instrument is in the mind of its owner. In this economy, its a buyer's market and the used market is completely flooded. Add that to the unemployment numbers and people who have no disposable income and you have a recipe for a vintage guitar market that will be available for people who could never even imagine purchasing one of these type of instruments.

I be nearly 50 years old by the time this gold top is 100 years old 😅 next 25yrs hah

Are you selling these guitars??

Having two pickups with equal output, somewhat limits whats possible in the middle switch position. For my personal tastes, I prefer the bridge pickup be wound hotter than the neck.
Then I set the heights to get them balanced. This allows the middle switch position nearly unlimited tone variance. I tend to actually back the bridge down a touch, to get my preferred fat tone. A hot wound bridge pickup on 10 should be borderline scorching. That way when you back it down with 50's wiring, you'll always be able to find a sweet spot. I'm not at all a fan of any guitar that only sounds good wide open. Thats wasting half or more of your potential range.
Peace

The 50’s Les Paul’s were so good that nobody bought them and Gibson discontinued production.
SG’s are better.