Cory Wong

'As befits a man who swims deep in the groovy waters of funk, Cory is rarely seen on stage without a Stratocaster – and one Strat in particular. Cory’s Sapphire Blue Highway One model might not be the most high-end guitar for a globe-trotting guitarist to trust every night, but this one has been his faithful companion for a long time.

“I’ve had this guitar since high school – my first real guitar was a Strat,” he explains. “I wanted to play guitar so bad. I went to a pawn shop as a sixth grader and bought a Gretsch Traveling Wilburys guitar – they’re still out there somewhere! It was this $75 used guitar and it didn’t stay in tune. It’s probably actually a nice guitar, but the one that I had… well there’s a reason why I was sitting in a pawn shop!”

But Cory persisted with his ungainly Gretsch, all the while badgering his dad to buy him a real guitar, desperate to convince him that this wasn’t a passing infatuation.

“By that time, I’m in seventh grade. I’ve got a punk rock band. I’m playing with my friends, and I said, ‘I have this much money saved up. And I’m wondering if we combined Christmas and my birthday and everything else…’ And I live in Minnesota, so I was like,‘If I shoveled the driveway 100 times this winter… could you buy me a guitar?’

“And my dad says, ‘Alright, but here’s the deal – you need to get a Stratocaster.’ ‘Okay, why?’ ‘Well, look at Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Nile Rodgers…’ he’s listing off all these legends. ‘I rest my case!’ And I’m like,‘Okay, cool.’

“So I got a Strat, and here we are, it just feels like home. When I play a Strat, it just feels like my voice. I love other guitars, but the Strat is just home.”' - https://guitar.com/features/interviews/cory-wong-motivational-music-for-the-syncopated-soul/

At 52:53 we can clarly see the Music Man Guitar. He used it during the live of Vulfpeck at the MSG Theater. He use it as a second guitar.

In the YouTube video "THE FEARLESS FLYERS /// Ace of Aces" by Vulf, Cory Wong plays the Bacci Guitars Leonardo Baritona, specifically the first model with a double output.

This is Cory's new signature guitar based of his heavily used and modified Highway One series Stratocaster. it features the fourth position panic switch, a scaled down body and the Cory Wong signature hair ties in its tremolo system. It comes stock with Cory's signature Seymour Duncan pickups

Cory is playing his Eastman in this live recording https://youtu.be/XJojzloJwHI You can also see it in the background of this interview - https://youtu.be/9AvMVt-r2LQ

Cory used this Eastman alot through his "jazz phase" as well.

In this Instagram post, Cory Wong thanks John Mayer for gifting him a PRS Silver Sky in the limited Nebula finish. In the comments section, John mentions it is the last Nebula finish as well.

For the bulk of this show, Cory plays his American Ultra HSS Strat in Cobra Blue, because he breaks the A string on his main Highway One at 7:46 of this show. He can be seen switching to the American Ultra at 8:10ish.

He is seen playing a Telecaster-style guitar. (Identified as a Suhr Classic T) throughout this video - this is one of the only instances where he is seen playing a Telecaster style guitar. The guitar has a roasted maple neck. This is probably a Suhr Select Classic T or a Classic Pro.

Cory demos the Valentine for EBMM.