Gear

A vintage Montgomery Ward Airline — the plastic-bodied guitar on the early records.

The plastic-bodied guitar behind the White Stripes sound.

The guitar he and his father built by hand in 1963.

His signature Charvel.

His homemade partscaster — ash body, single humbucker, one volume knob.

His long-running signature Flying V.

The shape he is identified with, in a long series of finishes.

His legendary custom-built guitar.

The famous custom guitar with on-board effects loops.

His current signature 8-string on the road.

The ESP builds he has toured with for decades.

His signature ESP.

His signature ESP with active EMG pickups.

Acrylic body with an aluminum neck, made by Kevin Burkett.

Her hollowbody guitar.

An Epiphone Les Paul in the lineup.

Hollowbody with P90s, his main stage guitar.

His Epiphone Dwight.

His signature Epiphone.

The accessible version of his signature model.

Her signature model with a Bigsby vibrato.

His main Strat, fitted with a kill switch.

His signature Telecaster.

His battered stage Strat.

A '72 Tele with humbuckers.

One of his signature stage guitars.

His black signature Strat.

Brought out for a different flavour.

Used for the harder, more angular parts.

His 12-string.

Fender Custom Shop guitars in the rig.

His long-serving stage guitar.

He has had this guitar for 20 years.

His main guitar, with lace sensor pickups.

An unreleased signature model revealed in the rundown.

His famously cobbled-together main guitar.

The battered Strat he played for his whole career.

His signature Jazzmaster.

Her workhorse Jaguars.

A 1962/63 Strat with a left-handed tremolo and a battered finish.

His signature Strat.

Stripped and rebuilt with new electronics and a brass bridge.

A relic'd Custom Shop Strat, his go-to on Lights.

A '57 Tele, often tuned to open G for slide.

Her main electric for the soulful material.

His signature Strat.

His backup guitar on Clash tours.

His No. 1 since the start of his career.

His signature Jaguar.

Built by Brian Thrasher for Blink's 2023 tour.

Assembled from three Strats in 1970 and played for fifteen years.

Bought when the Cure entered the studio, with the Woolworth pickup installed.

Left-handed Fender offsets, often with a humbucker swapped into the bridge.

His signature Strat.

His signature Tele.

A core part of his RHCP lineup.

Part of the vintage axes he relies on live.

His signature paisley Tele.

A sunburst '54 and later his signature model.

For the cleaner, more soulful numbers.

His signature Strat.

His signature Strat.

His signature Strat.

His signature Strat.

His main guitar, with original neck and pickups.

His long-serving Sonic Youth guitar.

A backup used on Fleetwood Mac covers.

Her main electric.

Blocked tremolo and Vintage Noiseless single-coils.

The black Strat with a shortened tremolo arm — his 'Workmate'.

A production homage to his prized '60s Strat.

Prepared and retuned, central to his sound.

His signature Telecaster.

A core part of his stage lineup.

His signature polka-dot Strat.

The '52 Tele in open G behind countless Stones riffs.

Custom Shop Fenders round out his arsenal.

His long-standing guitar of choice.

Modified with a Fishman acoustic bridge pickup and an EMG preamp.

Part of his impressive collection of vintage Fenders.

A right-handed Strat strung upside down; his 1968 Olympic White is the most photographed.

A Telecaster fitted with Gibson humbuckers.

His main '60s Strat, kept close to stock.

A '50s Tele strung with the low E removed and tuned to open G.

Brighter and more cutting for the blues numbers.

A 1959 Telecaster used on the first album and for the 'Stairway to Heaven' solo.

His signature model, the guitar he is identified with.

His main Jazzmaster, bought from Mike Watt.

The vintage-white Strat he plays most.

Scalloped fretboard and stacked single coils.

One of two signature Thinlines he carries.

A '61 rosewood-board Strat, the guitar behind the early records.

His '74 Strat, the guitar behind the wall of guitars.

Seymour Duncan in the bridge and a Sustainer in the neck.

G&L's Tele-style guitar, relied on for the brighter parts.

His original '80s Rampages, still the core of the rig.

His main electric.

The acoustic he played, the same model Bowie used.

Vintage Gibsons sit alongside the Fenders.

Her No. 1 SG.

His No. 2 ES-175 and main guitar on the Yes tour.

The guitar behind his most famous sessions.

His 1976 Explorer, used on 'Pride (In the Name of Love)'.

One of the guitars Grohl bought him back in 1999.

Her signature cherry-finish SJ-200.

A Les Paul converted to nine strings for the low, chiming drone.

He kept the original PAF pickups when he traded it on.

The Junior is the core of his sound.

Vintage Les Pauls anchor his touring collection.

His own signature Les Paul.

His signature ES-345.

Used for doubled-string tunings that give rich, naturally chorused chords.

A vintage Les Paul in the lineup.

Built to order with '57 Classic humbuckers.

The vintage Burst at the centre of his current rig.

The white Custom on the Blizzard of Ozz sessions.

The 'Number 3' Les Pauls used from Woodstock onwards.

If the show goes well, he plays only this SG all night.

Loaded with his hotter Lace Nitro Hemi pickups.

The second of the borrowed Gibsons.

His 'Number One' — a 1959 Standard with a shaved neck profile.

His '87 Standard, the basis of his signature model.

His second signature Gibson, modelled on a '72 tobacco sunburst Custom.

A champagne sparkle V built by Gibson's Custom Shop.

A Flying V in his collection.

His iconic Les Paul.

In the live lineup for the I Want Blood tour.

A korina V played upside down, tuned to open F for slide.

Semi-hollow with the Varitone in the brighter positions.

His slide guitar.

The hollowbody on the early Chess records.

Semi-hollow with a Varitone switch, named after a 1949 club fire.

Used on the later, heavier Chicago sides.

Spare SGs, all set up identically.

A Gibson Explorer in the lineup.

A rotating collection of vintage bursts.

His later signature guitar.

An earlier Lucille with a stop tailpiece.

Set up for slide with high action and heavy strings.

Humbucker power for the late-'60s and Exile-era sessions.

P-90 loaded, later fitted with a Bigsby.

His signature semi-hollow.

Dates back to Blur's earliest LPs.

A '68 SG that has stayed his main guitar for fifty years.

His '59 burst, the guitar of the Fillmore East recordings.

A '61 SG used for open-tuning slide.

His main Explorer, fitted with EMG pickups.

The semi-hollow behind Oasis' biggest songs.

Borrowed from producer Ric Ocasek for the Blue Album.

P90s and a tremolo, smashed nightly through the '60s.

The ex-Peter Green burst, used for bluesier leads.

The humbucker-through-Marshall sound of the mid-'60s blues records.

His signature semi-hollow.

A '61 Les Paul Deluxe on tour.

The backup, used on the Back in Black world tour.

The Burst he moved to after the Goldtop.

The SG at the heart of the Black Sabbath sound.

The Everly Brothers acoustic.

The out-of-phase Les Paul that became his main guitar.

His signature instrument.

His signature bullseye Les Paul.

His trusty Les Paul, played without a pick.

Seen around his Hour Glass period.

His black 1960 ES-355, one of the most desired guitars in rock.

A variety of Custom Shop Tom Murphy reissue Les Pauls.

One of the guitars he experimented with.

His signature Les Paul.

A second documented '59 Burst in his collection.

His iconic Silverburst Les Paul.

His main SG, fitted with John Birch pickups.

The stripped Les Paul Custom used on the Ziggy Stardust era.

The cherry double-cut used through the Woodstock era.

His main Sex Pistols guitar.

Alnico V magnets with extra turns in the bridge coil.

One of the signature Gretsch models built with him.

His stage guitars with AC/DC.

Kept in the touring lineup.

Used on Friday I'm in Love.

He tours with a trio of 6120s.

A staple of his live lineup.

One of his favourite stage guitars.

His signature Tennessee Rose.

A signature solid body.

A '90s reissue of the original S-100; the tailpiece and strings behind the bridge are central to his sound.

A '79 with hotter stock DiMarzio pickups, used when he is the only guitar player.

Various Hamer Standards in his collection.

His signature Ibanez.

She travels with a pair of her signature YY10s.

His long-serving semi-hollow.

His signature guitar with the monkey grip.

His signature eight-string.

His signature hollowbody.

His signature Ibanez with DiMarzio pickups.

Her signature Ibanez.

His signature Jet-King.

Still uses the first prototype Ibanez built for him.

A 2008 prototype with a rosewood fretboard.

His signature Ibanez.

His signature Jackson.

His signature Jackson for the Drama tour.