David Bowie

In this video of "Rebel Rebel", Bowie can be seen playing a Hagstrom I Kent PB-24-G at 3:06.

David Bowie played a heavily modified natural finish Fender Telecaster during the 1976 Isolar tour. This Tele had a standard bridge pickup, a single coil middle pickup, and a humbucker neck pickup. It also had three knobs and did not have a standard three-way switch but instead had three individual mini switches.

David Bowie can be seen in this photo, standing beside Marc Bolan, playing a Fender Stratocaster.

David Bowie can be seen in this photo playing a Gibson Les Paul.

In this photo, Bowie is seen playing a Supro Dual Tone.

In this picture from 1972 David Bowie can be seen with a Fender Jaguar.

Bowie liked the look of the guitar and requested his own from Steinberger. Steinberger had another L-series that was used for the test run of the chrome body treatment which he sent to Bowie. The Bowie guitar did not have a Mylar- covered fretboard and was a playable guitar. Bowie used the guitar for the 1991-1992 Tin Machine tour and during the recording sessions for 1991 album "Tin Machine II." The guitar is accompanied by a letter from the consignor, who worked with Bowie from 1987 through 2000, a video of the Tin Machine Live featuring Bowie playing this guitar and a DVD of the video “You Belong In Rock and Roll.”

Bowie can be seen in this photo with a Vox Mark XII.

In the photo, David Bowie is seen playing a Kramer Ferrington KFS-2 acoustic-electric guitar.

David Bowie plays an acoustic Espana 12-string guitar to promote the album Space Oddity in 1969 in London. Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images

In this picture from the music video of his 2013 song Valentine's Day, David Bowie is playing a Hohner G2T, as is visible by the Hohner logo just below his right hand.

In the Guitar.com article "Chord Clinic: How to Play David Bowie-style Chords (Part Two)," David Bowie is seen playing a Gibson Flying V, highlighting its role in his distinctive sound.

In this 1991 Brian Aris photograph, Bowie is posing with a pair of metal Steinberger guitars that were made for him by Ned Steinberger.

More information is available about the guitar at this auction website, which tells the story of the guitar's creation. "With graphite and carbon fiber body and faceplate, with micrometer style tuners for use with double ball strings and double EMG pickups. The guitar is one of two custom chrome-finished guitars created by Ned Steinberger.[My emphasis added, as it explains both guitars in the photo.] Steinberger sent Bowie another L-series that had been used for the test run of the chrome body treatment... Bowie used the guitar for the 1991-1992 Tin Machine tour and during the recording sessions for the 1991 album Tin Machine II."

In this picture Bowie can be seen playing this guitar.

This guitar owned by Bowie is exposed at the Hard Rock Café, Warsaw

In this photoshoot Bowie can be seen with this guitar.

In this image, Bowie can be seen playing a National Resophonic Student Model 1133.

Bowie can be seen with a Dan Armstrong London guitar in this photo.

David Bowie used a Gibson B-45-12, a 12-string steel-string acoustic guitar with a sunburst finish, during the 1970s. This is evidenced by a photograph from Myrareguitars.

Here is David Bowie (with Tin Machine) playing his Takamine 12-string dreadnought acoustic/electric guitar, model FP 400SC, during a rehearsal.

Eccleshall B model 12 string. Referenced in the 4th article on the page, "Southern Strumfort" from Guitar magazine, September 1996.

Bowie can be seen in this photo playing the instrument.