Claudio Sanchez

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Claudio's Gibson E2 Explorer can be see at :24s. Claudio's guitar tech Kevin says "this is probably his main guitar it's a '79, 1980 Gibson E2 Explorer. It's really neat the cool part about it is it's sandwich board, sort of sandwich body it's walnut and maple I think? Don't really see many people using these".

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar", Claudio's other main explorer can be seen at 3:30. In this accompanying article, *Premier writes "His second, most-used Explorer is a 2005 '76 Reissue with a calibrated set of Bare Knuckle Nailbomb pickups..."

Claudio uses this Explorer Baritone for Sentry The Defiant as well as Holly Wood the Cracked. It is customized, white inner smoke paint, black around the edges. (Completely stock aside from paint). Tuned B to B

This is Claudio's' custom Minarik Medusa. The Medusa was custom made with special decals in the neck, and the famous Keywork logo can be seen in the headstock of the guitar. from footage of tours and in videos on Minariks' YouTube Chanel we can see Claudio using on the No World for tomorrow tour. In the second interview with Minarik he said that " I am a pretty shy individual and I think she takes the attention off of me."-1:00 into the video

In a live performance of "Gravity's Union" in Atlantic City, Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria can be seen playing an ESP STEF B-8, as featured in a video by Tom Whaley.

At 7:28 of this video, claudio can be seen using an Antigua finish telecaster deluxe. He used This guitar along with afew others during the recording of Coheed's album Color Before the Sun

At 2:11, in a Premier Guitar interview, Claudio uses a Telecaster for "The Afterman"

He talks about this guitar in Guitar World interview.

"I also played a ’77 Fender Tele Deluxe that belonged to [producer] Jay Joyce. I ended up using that on a lot of the songs. I liked it so much that I found one at this place called Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville and I bought it."

So, in fact, he played 2 1977 Fender Telecaster Deluxes.

It this video, Claudio has been spotted using a Olympic White Fender Stratocaster.

In this post claudio can be seen using a gibson sg live with coheed

Claudio uses this Taylor GS8 interchangeably on Iron Fist and Wake Up with his Martin HD-28.

In this video Claudio can be seen using a Gibson flying v for the debut of coheed's song Dark Sentencer

at 8:09, Claudio can be seen playing a G6122 for part of Coheed's 8th studio album "The Color Before the Sun"

Claudio uses this HD-28 on a song called Iron Fist and another called Wake Up.

For this live preformance of dark sentencer, claudio uses a gibson flying v custom.

In this rg rundown Claudio shows off his 1963 sg custom. He is unsure wether it was loaned or given to him by gibson. Claudio likes to use the middle pickups for more of an “andy summer” style sound

Claudio has a sg special in his collection. He played it live in the early days of coheed until the headstock snapped. At the time he didn’t know that was reparable. He lost track of the guitar over the years, and it was possibly stolen when his house was vandalized. Afew years later he saw the guitar on social media. He knew it was his because of the Puerto Rican flag sticker, chipped paint, and repaired headstock. He traded to get the guitar back while in Chicago on tour

Claudio has a gibson j45 standard in his live rotation. This guitar was given to him by Gibson. He uses this guitar when coheed play the song ghost

I’m this YouTube video you can see Claudio holding his Gibson custom explorer at 44.20.

Claudio Sanchez uses a Fender American Standard Stratocaster Electric Guitar, as shown in his Instagram post. He refers to this guitar as the “Shabütacaster,” a name derived from his former band. Sanchez mentions that he modified the guitar with a set of EMG DG20 pickups.

Claudio Sanchez is seen playing a Kevin Allen Custom "Jackhammer" guitar during Coheed’s performance at the When We Were Young festival. This guitar was custom made by his guitar tech Kevin Allen. The guitar features a unique design that combines elements of V, Explorer, and SG body shapes.

At namm 2025 claudio released his new signature guitar the jackhammer. This was released under the evil instruments name. The production of the guitar is done through dunnable. The guitar is based on a custom guitar built for claudio by his guitar tech Kevin Allen. The guitar’s shape looks to be a combination of a sg, explore, and flying v. Claudio states he has always wanted a signature guitar, but since that never happened, he decided to create one from the ground up. He states that he wanted to create a guitar that was completely his own and that makes sense for him

In Premier Guitar's "Rig Rundown - Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez & Travis Stever," Claudio Sanchez's guitar tech Kevin Allen demonstrates a Gibson Custom Shop EDS-1275 Double-Neck Guitar, used exclusively for the song "Welcome Home." The guitar is customized with Seymour Duncan JB pickups in the bridge positions of both necks and has had a knob replaced, while the rest of the instrument remains stock. This information is presented around the 4-minute mark of the video.

Claudio Sanchez is seen using a 1967 Gibson Les Paul Special in TV Yellow in an Instagram post shared by the artist himself, captioned "The Broken #67 😉".