John 5

In this video, John 5 talks about his signature Squier Telecaster, the Squier J5 Telecaster. At 1:40, he says, "The guitar is just like my main Telecaster exactly. I mean, the exact same neck. The pickups are different, but the exact same feel and it sounds incredible. I mean, you can't really tell the difference in the sound."

John 5 and Fender have produced a Custom John 5 Telecaster. It’s a “double humbucker rosewood Tele,” according to John 5 in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown video at (0:23). “The white stripe here from the fender custom Teles and stuff like that back in the ’60s, and you know, [it’s a] great guitar,” John 5 says. The “toggle switch is moved up here for the little movement stuff, and regular Tele headstock, not like my models that I usually have.”

In this video, John 5 presents his rig and we can see the Lava Guitar at 00:47.

John 5 talks about his Squier Tele in this promo video for Fender. At :42s John says "it really has become my main telecaster I play all the time."

“This is called a Flat Head that Fender made,” John 5 demonstrates in this interview at (3:07). “It’s got the nice neck design, and it’s great, you know, nice... Fits the body and it’s very light, and it sounds really, really good. I used to use this a lot during the last tour, but now, I’m just... I have it as a backup.”

Similar in design to the John 5 Custom Telecaster, the Subsonic Telecaster is “a baritone guitar…it’s tuned down to B,” John 5 says in this interview at (1:04).

John 5 must've had this custom paint job done for him by Ibanez back when he was endorsed by them. He debuted this guitar at the 1998 MTV awards, which was his first live performance with Marilyn Manson as his new guitarist.

John 5 used a custom Ibanez AX120 model during his endorsement period with Ibanez, as evidenced by a Google image search.

John 5 posts to Instagram with a black Les Paul Standard:

"Hope everyone’s having a great Labor Day"

He also posts here with another Les Pau Standard.

In the last photo of John 5's Instagram post, he is pictured with his black Gibson Flying V guitar.

Young J5 playing a Les Paul copy, 7 years old Christmas morning

In Premier Guitar's video "Rig Rundown - Rob Zombie's John 5 (2013)", John 5 says that "But I cannot find a Bowling Ball Tele, I cannot find a Bowling Ball Tele so Fender just reissued some and I just have this and actually I got it on Haloween and I played it on the Jimmy Kimel show and I didn't even check with it, I just put it on and played it and played it live on Jimmy Kimmel".

At 11:37 on Premier Guitar's "Rig Rundown - Rob Zombie's John 5 (2013)" video John 5 pulls this guitar out stating "This is one of those, the MC5 guitar and uhh, ya know, just rad and I put a DiMarzio in there and this one is actually made in Mexico but still sounds rad and I love playing it, it's really cool".

"John 5 used the Gold Sparkle Ibanez AX120GN during his endorsement period with Ibanez, as evidenced by images found through a Google search."

You can see John 5 holding an EDS-1275 in the photo.

John 5 is seen playing a Gibson Custom Shop SG Custom Reissue VOS in an Instagram post by @john5official. The caption describes his experience playing Jimi Hendrix’s guitar at the Hard Rock Vault in Orlando, highlighting his excitement and enjoyment.

In this article taken from John 5's website, he shows off the gear he uses, including a Fender J5 Triple Tele Deluxe.

“This is one of the first, my first John 5 model,” the Rob Zombie guitarist explains at (4:22). “It has the cool Bigsby on it, twisted Tele, hot rail pickup, and you know, I use it a lot too, and it’s got the cool headstock on here, and you know, this is one of the first ones. This is what I had on the cover of Vertigo and I do a lot of pictures with this guitar. It sounds great. I did all the Marilyn Manson songs with that guitar and [it’s] a great-sounding guitar.”

At 5:01 onwards in Premier Guitar's "Rig Rundown - Rob Zombie's John 5 (2013)" video, John says "Just a great sounding guitar, this one is tuned down to C and I use this all the time aswell".

This is a John 5 Custom Shop version of Buck Owens Telecaster, John's has the same paint job in honor of Hee Haw which he explains at 5:25 "Is the reason I play guitar is because of Hee Haw and I would see them all pickin' on Hee Haw and just thought that the telecaster was the only guitar ever made".

In this music video of John 5's ''Noche Acosador'', There's a great shot at 0:57 of him playing the Martin D-28 Authentic 1937.

In this article taken from John 5's website, he shows off the gear he uses, including a Fender acoustic signature John 5.

In this video from Fender, John 5 discusses his signature Ghost guitar.

In a YouTube video titled "MTV AWARDS 1998 dope show.mp4," John 5 plays an Ibanez RG320Z Electric Guitar. He mentions in an interview that this particular guitar delivers a clean sound suitable for acoustic styles, yet it can also handle metal genres. The guitar is also featured in several of his concerts from 1998 to 2003, often used for drop B songs like Antichrist Superstar.

In this video from Fender, John 5 talks about the Fender Telecaster Ultra II. He says:

I loved television. I just was obsessed with TV and my dad would always watch Hee-Haw, and everybody had a Telecaster. And I always thought, 'Oh, that's what an electric guitar looks like.' It burned into my mind as a Telecaster. And that was that was what it was for me. And it was all because of TV. So you never know when influence is going to hit you and how much it will affect your life. And how it affects my life still to this day. You know, thank God for the Telecaster, 'cause I don't know what I'd be playing.

The genius about the Telecaster, if you think about it, nothing really has changed from all these years. You know, they got it so right in the beginning. But now you have this beautiful high-performance Telecaster that can do everything. It's just it it really you can go on stage with the highest gain or the cleanest tone, and this guitar will absolutely do anything you want. It feels perfect and it's so easy to play. It's just one of the greatest Teles I've held.

When I first picked up this guitar, I was blown away by how easy it was to play and how it just felt really comfortable to me. And the first thing I felt was the Contour back here. And when I started playing also the incredible cutaway here that felt just so comfortable. And again, on most Teles you don't get that, but you can get have such easy access way way way way way up in the neck. You can bend this guitar and it does not fret out. It's the radius and that's what's so cool. I mean, you can bend as far as your hand will let you go. Just does not fret out. And that is this beautiful radius. And you have this nice round feel up here and then it gets flatter up the neck so you can just really bend those notes and it just does not fret out. Things like that which, guitar players it's so important, so important with weather changes and stuff like that. You know, your guitar will start to fret out, but this thing is just incredible. You can bend it as much as you can and it's just sounds perfect.

Another thing, if this guitar wasn't top top top super cool, is the dots here on the side of the neck glow in thee dark like Luminlay and like I've been on every stage I've been on I'm like trying to like look and stuff and I'm just using the Jedi mind force and just hopefully I'm hitting the right notes but with these that glow in-the-dark it is you know what more could you ask for, it's amazing. I love these locking tuners here and because most of my guitars don't have a tremolo I do a lot of stuff behind the nut and bending it having these locking tuners on here is just a godsend. You can really go crazy on it and you will always be in tune and how brilliant is that.

Another really cool thing about this is the S1 switch here which is super super smart because it's in the top of the volume knob. Now this will control both pickups in series also in any position which is super cool, so it will work in any position which is pretty incredible to me. Okay, this is something that's so smart. You have your pickup selector at a slant. It's absolutely brilliant. Any Telecaster picker can totally agree with me cause you're picking like this, okay, you're picking like this and when that toggle switch was that way you're 100% hitting that you're hitting that pickup selector so this slant here has got to be the smartest thing ever. It's just like putting the plastic ends onto a a shoelace or something. What a smart idea.

What's really special about this guitar and I would say probably my favorite thing about the guitar are the pickups. Now I'm playing with high gain and you know there's noise and all that stuff, but with these noiseless vintage pickups you don't get any of that hum, you don't get any of that 60 cycle hum, and you can do that with these pickups. They're absolutely brilliant. So yeah, you get no noise and no 60 cycle hum from these noisless vintage pickups from the Ultra 2. It's incredible.

Here's the deal. I'm being honest. This is to me just the incredible incredible guitar and I would definitely pick this over a 60s, 70s Telecaster just because of all of the upgrades, the S1 switch, the side toggle, I the side pickup selector, the glow-in-the-dark inlays, the the locking tuners, the contour, the cutaway, I mean the noiseless pickups. It is the perfect Telecaster in my eyes.

In this video, John 5 demonstrates the Troublemaker Tele from Fender's Parallel Universe series.

In a Rig Rundown video by Premier Guitar, guitarist John 5 introduces his new "Phantom" Telecaster

In a video titled "John 5 Rig Rundown" by Premier Guitar, at the 14:07 mark, John 5's guitar rig is shown to include a white Fender Supreme Stratocaster.