Jack White

In this scene from the Sony Pictures documentary "It Might Get Loud", Jack White says, "This is my main guitar, that I played for like 10 years in the White Stripes." In reference to his red 1964 Montgomery Ward Airline model Res-O-Glass guitar. Also seen in the music video for "The Hardest Button To Button."

"I designed a Gretsch “Triple Jet” by adding a third pickup to a Double Jet, and putting an MXR Micro Amp inside the guitar. You can instantly get an overdriven sound by clicking on that pickup. You can just plug into an amplifier. If it’s time to play a solo and break out a little more, just click that switch on the guitar. I had everything for that band made out of copper. All the pedals were made of copper. I had a copper microphone, and I had the guitar made of copper. We even went as far as putting copper frets on that guitar—just to see how it sounded. It sounded incredible! But copper is so malleable that the frets wore out after one show." -Guitar Player

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One of the main guitars I use in the Raconteurs is this copper Triple Jet that I sort of halfway designed. It was taking a Gretsch Duo Jet and turning it into a more contraption-filled monstrosity made out of copper. It’s just one of the colors of materials that I’ve always used in the Raconteurs, for some reason. It’s something that ties me into that band.

In this photo, Jack White can be seen playing a 1950's Kay Hollowbody Archtop electric guitar, which he tunes to open A. In an article from GuitarPlayer, White says, "I had the same three guitars in the White Stripes for about ten years: the Airline, a Hollowbody Kay tuned to open A for slide playing, and a red Japanese guitar I used for open-E tuning." (original article found here).

At the 52:53 mark of this video, Jack White explains how he received this guitar as payment after helping a friend move a refrigerator. A clip can be seen of him playing the guitar with a slide.

The Fender Highway One Tele is Jack White's guitar of choice in the video for Freedom At 21. A good look at the headstock can be had at 1:13 into the video. Some good shots of the entire guitar can be seen starting at 1:44. A look at the body at 2:08 reveals single coil pickups are being used, which resemble those on a stock Telecaster.

"I play a special-edition Gretsch White Penguin Jupiter Thunderbird [with the Dead Weather]. They only made 12 of them, and I found one in Texas ...around about 2007 [-] I got a ’57 Gretsch White Penguin, which is really rare."

"It's a beautiful thing I picked up. It's called an Army Navy Special, they made in World War I for soldiers to have on Army bases and in trenches but by the time they finished making them the war was over."

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Well, most of the time I have this Gibson Army Navy guitar from World War I. I played it a lot in my solo live shows. I probably shouldn’t have, because I’ve scratched the hell out of it. It’s really comfortable. It has a thick V-shaped neck, sort of like a baseball-bat thick neck. It’s very soft and bass-y and comfortable. I really like that. I don’t really like bright acoustics too much when I’m sitting around. I got that in St. Louis at a place called Killer Vintage. I’d never heard of that guitar, the Army Navy. They made it for soldiers in World War I. It’s supposed to be like a no-frills version of a Gibson L-1. By the time they finished making them, the war was over, so they didn’t really sell that many of them. It was supposed to be like a cheap, no-frills guitar to have at army bases. It has a great sound.

Jack White used the Harmony Rocket Guitar primarily during the White Stripes era.

jack white with the 3 custom gibson guitars he used during the recording of “help us stranger”. they were a gift from the gibson custom shop, they are all “fort knox” editions of guitars with the addition of maple necks, gold bigsby’s, and black interrupter switches. the les paul weighs 12 pounds 13 ounces!

A picture of Jack White and Nick Valensi. You can cearly see Jack White playing Nick Valensi's signature Riviera.

Jack White is seen using the Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent Signature guitar, as highlighted in an Instagram post by exclaimdotca. In the post, White discusses the innovative approach of his new album, "Boarding House Reach," and is pictured with the guitar, emphasizing its role in his evolving sound.

In this photo, one can see White playing white Gibson SG.

In a photo from jack's studio, there is a fender jazzmaster in the corner.

This is a guitar that was offered to him as a gift and contained a B bender usable with the strap. It was a Fender Nashville. Jack White modified it and added an E bender, a G bender, and a drop D using a hipshot bridge. He added three pick ups, one single coil, one p90, and one humbucker, controlled by a three-wat switch. He also added a kill switch. Originally, all of the hardware was painted black, but he painted some of them white. He first used this guitar with The Raconteurs and since on the Supply Chain Issues tour, along with a similar Fender Custom Shop Telecaster.

Full details about this guitar can be viewed in this video.

More recent information can be found in this article (https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/5-of-jack-whites-coolest-guitars)

Jack White is seen using a custom Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster in The Raconteurs' "Help Me Stranger" official music video. This unique model features a black finish with an orange top, a custom pickguard, and a design resembling three arrows. In an interview with Premier Guitar, White mentioned that Chip Ellis, a master builder at the EVH Custom Shop, provided him with the first Acoustasonic Telecaster from the Custom Shop. White values its versatility onstage, allowing seamless transitions between acoustic and electric sounds during performances.

From an interview with GuitarPlayer (Sept 2010):

GP: What acoustics do you prefer?

JW: Gretsch Ranchers. They are great for live use, because they produce more bass than anything else, and I like a lot of bass in an acoustic guitar.

GP: How do you amplify them?

JW: Playing an acoustic live is very difficult— especially when everyone else in the band is playing electric. It’s very frustrating. I don’t have any advice, other than it’s tough, and the best thing to do is stand really still and put a microphone in front of the soundhole.

GP: Who are the women portrayed on the backs of the Ranchers?

JW: Claudette Colbert is on the orange one I used in the Raconteurs and White Stripes. Rita Hayworth is on the white one you see me carrying around in the Great Northern Lights DVD. The white and gold one I use in the Dead Weather has Veronica Lake on the back. So I’ve got a brunette, a redhead, and a blonde—one for each band. An incredible tattoo artist in Cincinnati, Ohio, named Kore Flatmo did the work for me. I saw the portraits he had done tattooing, and I bought him a really nice wood-burning tool to burn those images into the backs of my guitars.

The full interview can be found here.

It’s sort of these new Telecasters and these golden Gibsons. The Gibsons were given to me as a present by Gibson. There was some Grammy event that was sponsored by them, and they said, “Pick out any guitar you want!” I said well, I usually only play Gibson acoustic guitars. I didn’t really know what to pick. I saw this Fort Knox gold Les Paul in their catalog, and I thought that’s crazy, it’s so gold! I wonder if they’d make me one of those with a maple neck. I didn’t know if they’d do that or not. They were nice enough to do that. They gave me the Flying V with the maple neck as, like, a second guitar, as a present. That was really kind of them. I like the number three, so I said, I wonder if you could make me another one: the Firebird Gold with the Fort Knox maple neck? So I had those three guitars.

Jack White is seen using a Crestwood Astral II guitar during The White Stripes' performance of "I Fought Piranhas" in the video "Under Nova Scotian Lights," uploaded by PeppermintCandy on YouTube.

Jack White plays the Gibson Hummingbird acoustic guitar on the Cold Mountain soundtrack, as highlighted in the Gibson article "You Don’t Know Jack: 10 Essential Performances from Jack White."

"I also got a Gretsch Bo Diddley factory model, and painted it white so that Alicia Keys and I could be like Bo Diddley and the Duchess— his female stage partner. We would both use those guitars on tour to support the James Bond theme. But when I got hurt and I couldn’t do the dates, Alison [Mosshart] ended up taking on that idea. She plays the rectangular Bo Diddley model, and I play the Jupiter Thunderbird—which is also called the “Billy Bo” because Billy Gibbons brought that idea back to Gretsch."

"I started with a Gretsch Anniversary Jr., which was the only small hollowbody guitar I could find. I made it a double cutaway instead of a single. I had a Bigsby installed, and I put in an old mute, too. When you pull a lever, the mute comes up and dampens the strings. I also had a light-activated Theremin installed that I could control with my wrist while I was playing. When I lifted my wrist, the Theremin would be added to the sound."

"Yeah, I played a Gibson L1 [on The White Stripes’ album Icky Thump]. That’s the Robert Johnson model. I have one from 1915. There are clips of me using that one all over the place on the last tour. We just put a surface-mounted pickup on it, one of those you tape on, like they use on a violin. It was hard to pull off live. But we do have songs where Meg wouldn’t play so loud and it would be okay. I love that guitar a lot. It’s probably my favorite."

Jack White can be seen in this video from a live performance using a white Danelectro double-necked guitar that has both a standard scaled neck and a baritone neck.

He teaches how to play "Seven Nation Army" to Jimmy Page and Edge with this guitar. You can see in this video..

http://youtu.be/PUwhutKZAEk

In this facebook post, Jack holds the guitar. You can tell the model by the killswitch near the neck-pickup and the chrome whammy bar. These are the only noticeable differences to the "normal" EVH Stealth guitar

From the Parsons Guitars website, "Built for Jack White's 2012 Blunderbuss tour. Named "Blue Randy" by Mr. White the instrument is based on White's Triple Jet design. The back, sides and neck are constructed from the American Holly tree. Known as the "whitest" wood on earth, it was also George Washington's favorite tree."

Jack White plays his Daddy Mojo Stove Pipe Cigar Box Guitar during a The Dead Weather live performance.

Here you can spot Jack holding a Gibson Firebird Skunk Baxter Signature guitar.

Jack White used multiple colour variations EVH Wolfgang USA Custom guitar during whole "Over and Over and Over" Music Video from his album 3rd "Boarding House Reach". The blue one became his main live guitar for that era.

And then I had these two Fenders. I was given a Fender B-Bender for Christmas. I played that on this song on the album called “Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying).” It was the first time I ever played a B-Bender on a recording, and I really loved it. I have another 1982 Telecaster that I equipped with a Hipshot B-Bender, and this other one.

(Under the rig list, the guitar is listed as a 1982 Fender Telecaster.)

At 3:35 into this video documentary, The Raconteurs – Live at Electric Lady | Presented by Spotify (Documentary & Concert Film), the narrator Jim Jarmusch explains how Jack White gifted him a 1905 Gibson Acoustic only because he had two of them, which proves White's ownership of this guitar. From the documentary:

When The Raconteurs made their first album Broken Boy Soldier they asked me to do the first video for Steady As She Goes. And back then Jack's spirit brought me back into music when he gave me a beautiful Gibson acoustic guitar from 1905 at the end of our video shoot. And I said, "no Jack no way I'm not taking that guitar," and he says, "Hey man, I have two of them. If I had one I would never give it to you!"

The photo used for this guitar is a screenshot from the documentary. If anyone happens to know if this acoustic has a proper model name, please contribute to this submission.