Mark Knopfler received a Gibson Chet Atkins Custom Shop Edition SST as a gift from Chet Atkins around 1988, as documented on the website "Mark Knopfler and his guitars."

Prince played a Gibson Chet Atkins SST on the Diamonds and Pearls and Act I & II tours.

In this YouTube video of the KISS Symphony concert, during Act 2 (28:26-51:22) Tommy plays a black Gibson Chet Atkins SST. Tommy had also mentioned that guitar previously in the "Ask Tommy" section of his website.

In 1989, Roger Daltrey used a Gibson Chet Atkins SST, a steel-string, solid-body acoustic-electric guitar with an antique natural finish. This information is documented in Roger Daltrey’s guitar timeline on Whotabs.

Kaukonen has two Chet Atkins SST models; a 1993 blond, and a 1999 cherry burst. They are used mainly for Hot Tuna performances, according to a 2012 Guitar World interview.

When I play electric in Hot Tuna, I use two guitars: a Chet Atkins SST with acoustic strings for finger picking and a Gibson Les Paul Standard for rock and roll.

SST's were also used on Hot Tuna's 2011 album "Steady as She Goes", according to 2012 Vintage Guitar interview.

I have a Gibson LP-295 I used on the electric stuff where I was fingerpicking, I used a Gibson Chet Atkins SST I’ve had a long time. I have a ’67 Fender Deluxe – which is not vintage to me, because I bought it new; it’s just old. I also used a Louis Electric 2×12, which is what I use onstage. On “Angel Of Darkness” I used a ’50s Bogan PA amp that’s been made into a guitar amp, and on “Children Of Zion” I used my SST through a ’30s Oahu steel-guitar amp.

The guitar was used for Hot Tuna's Last Waltz tour in 2023, according to 2023 Guitar World interview.

I also use an Atkins SST for the fingerpicking Hot Tuna stuff. I’ve got a couple of them, but my favorite is a 1993 from the Custom Shop. It’s just a really, really good guitar.

In the Premier Guitar "Rig Rundown" video featuring Halestorm's Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger, it is confirmed that Joe Hottinger uses a 1999 Custom Shop Gibson Chet Atkins SST. This guitar features a solid top, a mahogany body, and a bridge transducer with an active preamp.

In the performance of the song "The Flame" at the New York State Fair on August 21, 2025, Robin Zander is seen using the Gibson Chet Atkins SST, as captured in the video by NYCentral21 on YouTube.

In Anymore from the Live & Kickin' performance, Travis Tritt can be seen playing a Gibson Chet Atkins SST model in a red finish.

Listed under Adam's gear on Vividgreen.net. Bandmate Joe Pisapia expanded on Gardner's use of it in this interview.

PM: So when you're not on the bass, is somebody else on the bass? Or some songs don't have any bass? JP: Yeah, exactly. Ryan is usually the other go-to guy on bass. PM: Ah. But somebody is always on the bass--or not necessarily? JP: Well, here's what they do, and this is from the old-school Guster: Adam uses one of those Chet Atkins guitars, the solid body ones, because they're so--I don't know, they're just solid. PM: I'm not a big fan of those, particularly. JP: It's like driving a U-haul through the city. PM: [laughs] JP: But he has one of those midi pickups on there, and he gets bass out of that. PM: Oh, does he pick up the strings separately, or something? JP: It only picks up the back two strings for the bass. PM: Oh. JP: And then he can play like a little guitar. Like if he does an A bar chord, it's going to have an A in the bass, and then you'll hear the strings ring on the other one. PM: Oh. JP: It's kind of wild. And that's how they used to get away with it back in the day. PM: So does it drop the bottom two strings down an octave or something funky? JP: It actually samples like a bass sample, like a stand-up bass, it triggers a midi thing. PM: Oh, my God. That's totally cool. JP: Yeah, it's pretty wild. PM: But is it a quality bassy sound, or just kind of a kitschy bassy sound? JP: I never heard it out front. I'll tell you one thing, it's like really deep-- PM: Wow. JP: --because it's kind of artificial, it gets all that sub stuff going on that you can't get on the bass guitar. PM: Subsonic, yeah. JP: Yeah. When I first saw them, I didn't know how they were doing it. I thought they were just triggering a tone down below to make it appear like there was something filling up the low end, because it wasn't even defined. [laughs] But they didn't have the best sound then, back then.

Kenny Mehler clearly performs live using several different versions of the Gibson Chet Atkins (SST) The exact guitar (Gibson Chet Atkins SST Celebrity Edition) is visible in the majority of the artist's live images and videos all over the internet. Here are a couple examples from youtube of the artist performing with the guitar.

1. Kenny Mehler performs live at Trinity College on Saturday, February 27th, 2016. video link: https://youtu.be/Ctlpz3MsD68

2. Kenny Mehler performs live from The Royale in Boston, Massachusetts. video link: https://youtu.be/leak0Eb7oig

In the live performance of "John Deere Green" at the Arizona State Fair in 1996, Joe Diffie is clearly seen using a Gibson Chet Atkins SST, as captured in the video by Tattbook on YouTube.

Raine Maida used the Gibson Chet Atkins SST guitar from around 1997, coinciding with the rise of "Clumsy." This usage is documented in a user-uploaded photo on Geocities, titled "raine014.jpg." He continued to play this guitar until approximately 2003.