Craig Nicholls' Guitars

Craig Nicholls of the Vines commissioned this guitar - he saw one of producer Rob Schnapfs' S&S guitars and liked its light weight and sound. Quilted Maple top with Rosewood fingerboard, 2 TV-Jones Filtertron pickups.

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As can be seen in the source photograph, Nicholls was spotted playing a white Fender American Standard Stratocaster with Rosewood fretboard on stage.

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Although it is not 100% what kind of Fender stratocaster he uses, from the looks it is close to a 1970s one. This was his main guitar in the Outthataway era.

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In the Music video for Get Free he can be seen using a Black Gibson SG Standard (Standard not Special).

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In this article Nicholls can be seen holding his Fender Jaguar

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At the Electric Ballroom on February 19th 2004 Craig switched to a Fender Strat-O-Sonic for Animal Machine, TV Pro, and Amnesia. Footage of this show is on YouTube. On Animal Machine in particular at 46 seconds in you get a good shot of him playing his Strat-O-Sonic. https://youtu.be/DZIhkdVPuLI

This guitar also makes an appearance on the cover of issue #121 of Guitar Part magazine. https://archive.org/details/guitar-part-200404

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Craig can be seen playing this Guild in a photo on The Vines' official website.

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Craig can be seen playing this guitar in the attached youtube video.

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