Other than Willie Nelson and “Trigger”, what other celebrity guitars are somewhat fam

[Mark E]

Tommy Emmanuel's "Mouse".

[Brucebubs]

The late, great Chris Squire and his Rickenbacker bass.

[Rosewood99]

I thought this was the "acoustic" guitar forum. How about some more acoustic guitar examples?

The man in black:

[Paleolith54]

Originally Posted by Sonics

Probably the most famous single-cut Gretsch White Falcon in the world and one of the men responsible for resurrecting the Gretsch brand. God bless you Billy Duffy!

Another Duffy fan, cool! Dan Fogelberg, as I recall, was another White Falcon player.

[Paleolith54]

Originally Posted by whvick

All that I have come quickly to mind is the Andy Griffith D-18.
What other guitars are famous like that?

Since we're including electrics, few specific guitars are identified with an individual as much as Billy Gibbons' LP "Pearly Gates."

EDIT: sorry to repeat, missed it first time through.

[Brucebubs]

Originally Posted by paulzoom

I thought this was the "acoustic" guitar forum. How about some more acoustic guitar examples?

[M19]

Originally Posted by paulzoom

I thought this was the "acoustic" guitar forum. How about some more acoustic guitar examples?

The man in black:

Ok, Steve Howe and his Martin 00-18:

[Tube Sound]

This is going to be a long thread. He would be rolling over in his grave as a "celebrity", but Gallagher and his Strat. And no, it's not an acoustic.

[Brucebubs]

Speaking of Steve Howe ... if you google 'gollum with guitar' and click on 'images' these 2 pictures are both there .. no kidding!

[Bob Womack]

Duane had three. "Hot Lanta"


The first sunburst from "Live at Fillmore East:"


the gold top from Layla sessions:


They all got together for the last Allman Brothers concerts:


Jimmy Page's '60 Les Paul with the shaved neck that he bought from Joe Walsh:


Joe Walsh's '60 Les Paul:


Billy Gibbons and "Pearly Gates:"


Duane and Joe Walsh were the reasons I started on Les Pauls.


Bob

[pjmacd]

David Rawlings' 1935 Epiphone Olympic:

[Basalt Beach]

David Gilmour's "Black Strat"

A Standard Fender Stratocaster, "the Black Strat," as it's affectionately known, came from the Fender factory finished in black, but it had been sprayed over sunburst and was fitted with a maple neck.

He played it live at the Bath Festival in June 1970, and it quickly became his main guitar and a cornerstone of Pink Floyd’s ethereal, psychedelic sound, appearing on landmark albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979) and 2015's Endless River, in addition to David’s acclaimed solo albums David Gilmour (1978), About Face (1983), On An Island (2006) and Rattle That Lock (2015).

Over the years, the Black Strat underwent many changes and modifications, as Gilmour and longtime equipment and guitar tech Phil Taylor were often experimenting with its neck, hardware and electronics. In fact, Taylor wrote an entire book — Pink Floyd: The Black Strat — A History of David Gilmour’s Black Fender Strat — documenting its chronological history.

One of the first mods Taylor covered occurred in December 1971 and consisted of changing out the standard volume knob to a silver one similar to one on a guitar made for him by luthier Bill Lewis.

“This was an attempt to replicate the feel of the volume knob on David’s Lewis guitar, which had a rubber banding around its circumference,” Taylor wrote. “It made a subtle difference by making a more tactile, smoother and easier operation of the control whilst playing.”

The knob was subequently removed after the filming of the groundbreaking concert film Live at Pompeii later that year.

More mods followed, such as the fitting of seven different necks, multiple pickup swaps, tuner adjustments and the installation of an XLR socket (followed by its eventual removal). In the summer of 1974, the guitar acquired a black 11-hole pickguard, thus assuming its darkest and most famous incarnation and earning its enduring nickname.

The current Fender Custom Shop version of the Black Strat includes a Fender 1983 ’57 reissue "C"-shape neck, a shortened vibrato arm measuring 4.25", a 5-way pickup selector that replaced the original 3-way in 1985 and the guitar’s original Fender synchronized tremolo bridge, which was re-fitted in 1997.

In the electronics department, the guitar boasts custom hand-wound neck and machine-wound middle pickups, both wound to exactly match David’s 1971 originals and only available on the David Gilmour Signature Strat guitars, plus a Seymour Duncan bridge pickup to replicate the custom SSL-1C pickup that was installed in late 1979.

[pjmacd]

Chris Smither's Collings OM 12-fret cutaway:

[M19]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

Speaking of Steve Howe ... if you google 'gollum with guitar' and click on 'images' these 2 pictures are both there .. no kidding!

Well, Steve does call his ES-175 "My Precious!"

[Brucebubs]

Originally Posted by M19

Well, Steve does call his ES-175 "My Precious!"

It's cruel Marty, I'm a huge Yes fan too.

I saw them here in Melbourne on their last world tour with Chris Squire - they played 'Fragile' and 'Close To The Edge' in their entirety in correct album track sequence.
You could hear a pin drop when Steve played 'Mood For A Day' - note perfect, looked like he was using a SCGC guitar.