15 Signature Jack White Guitars
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Jack White worked with a lot of musicians from Beyonce to Bob Dylan. What to know the best guitars White used? Here is the list.
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Recording King RM-991 Tricone Resonator
During his appearance on "Live From Here" Jack can be seen playing a National Style 1 tricone resonator guitar.
Gibson Flying V Electric Guitar
When the camera pans around Jack White is seen with a Flying V with a Bigsby Tremolo System.
Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent Stealth Electric Guitar
Jack White uses this guitar for live performances. St. Vincent even reacted to it : "JACK WHITE PLAYED MY GUITAR ON SNL LAST NIGHT!! WHA?!!! F— YES!!", she tweeted.
Skunk Baxter Firebird
You can spot Jack holding a Gibson Firebird Skunk Baxter Signature guitar.
EVH Wolfgang USA Edward Van Halen Signature
In this facebook post, Jack holds the guitar. You can tell the model by the killswitch near the neck-pickup and the chrome whammy bar. These are the only noticeable differences to the "normal" EVH Stealth guitar
1955 Gretsch 6130 Round Up w/ OHSC
This guitar was used by Jack during his performance of "Shakin' All Over" on "Late Show with David Letterman" in 2011.
Gibson SG Standard Electric Guitar
In this photo, one can see White playing white Gibson SG.
Gibson Robert Johnson L-1
I played a Gibson L1 [on The White Stripes’ album Icky Thump]. That’s the Robert Johnson model. I have one from 1915. There are clips of me using that one all over the place on the last tour. We just put a surface-mounted pickup on it, one of those you tape on, like they use on a violin. It was hard to pull off live. But we do have songs where Meg wouldn’t play so loud and it would be okay. I love that guitar a lot. It’s probably my favorite.
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Epiphone Hummingbird PRO Acoustic/Electric Guitar
The Gibson Hummingbird Acoustic Guitar is played by Jack White throughout the Cold Mountain soundtrack.
Gretsch Guitars G6118T Anniversary with Bigsby Hollowbody Electric Guitar
I started with a Gretsch Anniversary Jr., which was the only small hollowbody guitar I could find. I made it a double-cutaway instead of a single. I had a Bigsby installed, and I put in an old mute, too. When you pull a lever, the mute comes up and dampens the strings. I also had a light-activated Theremin installed that I could control with my wrist while I was playing. When I lifted my wrist, the Theremin would be added to the sound.
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Gretsch G5445T Double Jet Electric Guitar
I designed a Gretsch “Triple Jet” by adding a third pickup to a Double Jet, and putting an MXR Micro Amp inside the guitar. You can instantly get an overdriven sound by clicking on that pickup. You can just plug into an amplifier. If it’s time to play a solo and break out a little more, just click that switch on the guitar. I had everything for that band made out of copper. All the pedals were made of copper. I had a copper microphone, and I had the guitar made of copper. We even went as far as putting copper frets on that guitar—just to see how it sounded. It sounded incredible! But copper is so malleable that the frets wore out after one show.
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Gretsch G6134LH White Penguin
I play a special-edition Gretsch White Penguin Jupiter Thunderbird [with the Dead Weather]. They only made 12 of them, and I found one in Texas ...around about 2007 [-] I got a ’57 Gretsch White Penguin, which is really rare.
Kay Reissue 1957 Barney Kessel “Artist” Electric Guitar
In this photo, Jack White can be seen playing a 1950's Kay Hollowbody Archtop electric guitar, which he tunes to open A. In an article from GuitarPlayer, White says, "I had the same three guitars in the White Stripes for about ten years: the Airline, a Hollowbody Kay tuned to open A for slide playing, and a red Japanese guitar I used for open-E tuning
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Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster
He [Chip Ellis, master builder at the EVH] got me the new Acoustasonic Telecaster, which was the first one out of the Custom Shop that they’d done. That’s been really helpful onstage, because you can switch from acoustic to electric in the middle of the song. I’m using that a lot onstage. Then this other one, this B-Bender that I really customized and put new pickups and all these contraptions in… I can bend the high-E string, I can bend the B with the strap, I can bend the G string, and then I can drop-tune the E with this flip-switch, which is something that the Wolfgang guitar did that I wanted to carry forward. So it’s sort of making these new guitars full of contraptions. It’s really, really interesting.
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