K. K. Downing

At the start of the video, KK opens by talking about his Flying V that he used on various albums such as Sad Wings Of Destiny and Sin After Sin. At 0:30, he directly says that it's a 1964 Flying V that he bought at a second-hand shop at Birmingham. It's very easy to find videos and photos of him using it as it's one of his main guitars.

In this video, we can see Downing with his signature Mini V Guitar in.

This guitar has a Red Finish with two rows of metal studs on the top and bottom of the body, a Shadow Neck Humbucker and an EMG Bridge Humbucker, two selectors and one Fender control Pot, a Kahler Tremolo, and a Scalloped Rosewood Fretboard with Trapezoid Inlays (as can be seen at 1:02).

This guitar is one of four Mini V's Hamer made specially for Downing. Downing considers this an important guitar in his career and it was played extensively during the "Turbo", "Ram It Down" and "Painkiller" tours and onward.

It was customised by Downing whilst on tour in the U.S., he said that he didn't think it was quite "Metal" enough, so went to a Hardware Store and bought a quantity of Upholsterer's Studs which he then proceded to hammer into the guitar's body to create its now-famous look.

Unfourtunatly, Hamer refused to mass produce these Guitars for the public, as the only ones in existance are in Downing's possesion, however these Guitars have been subject to many replicas over the years and there are many videos on how to make one.

KxK Guitars, established in 1997, is a guitar company whose specialty lies mainly in custom guitars for heavy metal artists. All their instruments are made in the United States and are handcrafted. The company will start doing a new KK Downing signature series.

K. K. Downing used a Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar during the early 1980s, as evidenced by a user-uploaded photo on Guitarplayer.

In a 1979 photo from Rocksceneauctions, K. K. Downing is seen playing a Fender Stratocaster with a reversed headstock.

K. K. Downing played a Gibson SG Standard during his early years, as depicted in the provided image.

Seen at 1:57s in Judas Priest's "Love Bites" music video.

Here is K.K. Downing of Judas Priest holding his Gibson Medallion Flying V

In this photo, Downing can be seen playing a Black Babicz Spider Acoustic Guitar.

On March 18, 2020, this Guitar was put up for auction, the Guitar's estimated value was $2,000-$4,000 and sold for a winning bid of $2,560.

The items description read:

A Babicz Identity Series Spider acoustic guitar owned and stage played by Judas Priest’s K.K. Downing. The guitar has a black gloss finish body with satin black finish top. Serial number 0582505. Accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity from Downing and the original Babicz hardshell case. An online link to an image of Downing playing the guitar is available upon request.

A link to this auction can be found here

In this Bonham's authenticated lot, we can read that Downing used this specific ESP custom explorer for recording during the "Ripper" years of Judas Priest (1996-2003).

He is seen holding one on this page of the 1999 ESP Catalogue