Grant Nicholas

Grant Nicholas uses a custom "Jazzbird" guitar, crafted by Combat Guitars in Japan. This unique instrument combines a Firebird body with a Jazzmaster neck and is equipped with Tom Holmes Humbuckers. A distinctive Combat logo replaces the usual Firebird emblem on the pickguard, and the headstock features a multicolored Playboy bunny design. A photo on Flickr showcases Grant with this guitar, further highlighting its distinctive features.

Grant Nicholas clarified on Instagram that the guitar in question is a 1966 Fender Jazzmaster with block inlays, not a 1978 model. A user-uploaded photo supports this claim.

Grant used the M20 during his solo work.

Pictured in the article, Grant owns a 1967 ES-340.

At 6.24 in this festival video, Grant is using a blue Telecaster for Buck Rogers.

At 0.40 onwards Grant is seen to be using a Fender Stratocaster for the music video of Buck Rogers but this may be just for show as he uses different guitars to play Buck Rogers live (eg https://youtu.be/DHR6c9APFqk?t=406).

Grant is famous for playing mainly Jazzmasters. He has a few visible on his websites gear page.

Grant has a 1967 Gibson J45 as seen on his websites gear page.

In Buck Rogers music video, Grant Nicholas can be seen using this guitar

From Grants gear page on his website. His is a 1976 J200.

Grant has a 1992 Gibson Hummingbird as seen on the gear page of his website.

Grant has shown the new Fender Acoustasonic Jazzmaster on his Instagram stories. He was interviewed as part of the Fender takeover on Anderton's YouTube as part of the product launch.

"I was mixing it up between Teles and Jazzmasters. I got it from where Tommy [Gleeson Feeder touring guitarist and former Slaves To Gravity frontman] used to work, Vintage And Rare. "

From the article: "When I bought that guitar I was with Taka, we used to go to this guitar shop in Richmond quite a lot, and this guitar was just there for sale. And at the time no-one was really playing Explorers unless they were in a metal band, but I quite liked that, and it was a cherry one as well, so it didn’t look quite as metal. It originally belonged to Mick Ralphs from Bad Company apparently. Well it had his name on the case, and that’s what they told me! I haven’t touched anything with it – the pickups are Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbuckers in there – they’re my favourite humbuckers actually. It’s been used since the Polythene period really – it’s been used on practically every Feeder song since. It just plug it straight into a Marshall and track it, it just does that one thing – it just rocks."

Posted on Grant's Instagram is a picture of a silverburst player plus Meteora, which Grant has decorated with his usual star stickers. It appears Grant has been given the guitar by Fender to promote.