Dustin Kensrue's Guitars
In the pursuit of tone video you can spot the headstock of his "JM" style guitar that says Nash.
Dustin: “[The Dear Hunter frontman] Casey Crescenzo built it from us just talking about it – I told him I wanted it to look like a mix between a Jazzmaster and a 50s Blacktop Les Paul with the black and the yellow binding. Something went weird when he was making it, and he ended up doing that split pickguard, and I absolutely loved it. I was like, ‘That’s the best thing about it!’
It’s got the same pickups as the Jags, and it sounds great; it’s semi-hollow, which adds an interesting percussive quality that actually I think helps with the lower tuning. I don’t use the Bigsby a ton, but it’s fun to play with. That one’s tuned B to B, or drop A.”
Dustin with his modded 1966 SG Jr. It only has a bridge pickup and has the tone knob removed. Very barebones.
Here, Kensrue is wielding an all-black Fender Tele with a P90 in the neck. Not sure what model or years it was used.
In this picture, Dustin is using a sunburst SG.
This is Dustin's signature model through Music Man. He began using it sometime between tours for the albums "To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere" and "Palms".
He plays it throughout their show "Live in Hawaii at the Republik" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlGYNLnJlaM
"That's quite an excellent Ernie Ball @music_man guitar that @dustinkensrue of @thrice is playing " - Ernie Ball on Instagram
An apparently custom model Music Man Stingray, with a single coil pickup in the neck, humbucker in the bridge, and a maple fretboard, that Dustin has been seen playing recently.
In an image titled "DustinTele.jpg" on Blogger, Dustin Kensrue is seen with a Nash T-72 Deluxe Guitar, identifiable by its dual humbucking pickups and '72 pickguard.
No, not selling these. Just sharing the recording process. Horseman number 2 - 2007 Gibson Southern Jumbo TV
In a photo on Blogger, Dustin Kensrue is seen using a Line 6 Variax 300 electric guitar.
At namm 2019 Music man released a signature guitar with dustin. THis guitar is a version of the stingray model that dustin uses. the guitar has a single coil in the neck ans a humbucker in the bridge
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