Allan Holdsworth

Also played in the 80s by Allan Holdsworth his signature Charvel model

Allan used the Gibson SG Custom (Les Paul) quite extensively in the group Soft Machine back in the early 70s.

"These days, I typically use a Bill DeLap wood-bodied, headless guitar. I’m totally hooked on headless guitars. It’s hard for me to go back to a headstock and big body guitar. They don’t feel comfortable at all anymore. The DeLap is totally custom, but still all-Steinberger based. It has the Steinberger TransTrem and headpiece."

The guitar Allan used in the 80's his own signature model from Ibanez

"That would've been the guitar that I played in the Tony Williams days. The weird thing about that...I used to have two SGs, a white one and a black one, which was really rare. One of those SGs I had painted and it didn't come out right, it came out pink. And I was like, 'Oh, I can't play a pink guitar.' So I had the guy paint it blue. I had a number of SGs but the last SG I owned was sold by the woman who tour managed Tony Williams Lifetime...while I was out in the country. He didn't get paid so he took my guitar and sold it, and I couldn't get it back. There was nothing I could do about it. It was sold and was just hanging up there in the shop. And I was like, 'Jeez, I gotta buy my own guitar.' That was a blue SG with two pickups."

Here Allan talks with his relationship with Carvin and his featuring to create this new guitar.

In the video, made by the YouTube Channel of Carvin Guitars, Allan talks about this model he made in collaboration with Carvin!

According to the product website Allan Holdsworth uses these guitars too.

Allan Holdsworth occasionally played a custom-built Bill Delap Allen Holdsworth Double-Neck Headless Guitar, crafted for him in the late 1980s or early 1990s. He is seen performing with it in live stage settings, as depicted in the provided image.

In a YouTube video by magicaldog, Allan Holdsworth is seen playing his SynthAxe, expressing that it was something he had been waiting for all his life.

Allan's first guitar was a Hofner President as stated in this article.

"In 1972, I recorded with a trio called Tempest using an ES-335."

Allan Holdsworth is seen using the Steinberger ZT3 in videos featured on Steinberger's official website.

According to the product website Allan Holdsworth uses these guitars too.

"Emmett (Chapman) built me some custom Sticks that didn't have bass strings. There were two sets of strings, one tuned in 4ths and the other set in 5ths. It was like two guitars on one neck. He also loaned me a 3/4 size Stick that I wish I still had. I still own a regular size Stick with no bass strings. I like the instrument because of the string length. When yo do the tapping thing in the guitar the sound seems puny because the string is so short. I don't really play the Stick much anymore or acoustic guitar for that matter, after the Synthaxe entered the scene."

In this video Allan Holdsworth Talks about his Headless Kiesel Guitars.

A user-uploaded photo from an Enigma Records promo of Allan Holdsworth Live shows him using a Steinberger M Series Electric Guitar.

In the provided photo, Allan Holdsworth is seen using an Ibanez 2471 Single Cutaway Solid Carved Acoustic Archtop.