NIgel Tufnel

"I've got the Gold Top, 1955, completely original with the soap bar pickups. A lot of people have put humbuckers in and I said I don't want to do that because the value of the guitar goes down, plus there's something about the soap bar, even though it's a bit raunchy and noisy, that I like. I like that sound. It's a very characteristic sound and I said I didn't want to change it."

"I've got a '58 Junior that I've had for about twenty years."

"Jeff Beck gave me one of his new Strats and it's a lovely guitar. But it's got a huge neck on it. I say. 'Jeff, who's supposed to be playing this, three people?' And he says, 'Nige, are you a woman?' I say, 'No' and he says, 'Belt up then.'"

"...on 1967's "Rainy Day Sun" he played a Hofner Verythin through a Vox AC-30."

"When he came out on stage on the 2001 reunion tour at the House of Blues in Las Vegas with this guitar, I said I have to get one of those..."

"It is a fully functional working instrument personally used by Nigel Tufnel during some of Spinal Tap's most memorable tours....This guitar was Nigel's mainstay for many European shows."

"...on 1967's "Rainy Day Sun" he played a Hofner Verythin through a Vox AC-30."

According to Fulltone's website, Tufnel used Fulltone Clyde Wah for the purposes of recording the 2006 Volkswagen commercial.

In the beloved “guitar collection” scene in 1984 rock “mockumentary” This Is Spinal Tap, Tufnel (Christopher Guest) shows filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) several of his most cherished guitars. One of the instruments is so special to Tufnel that he’s never even played it; indeed, it still has the price “tagger” attached to it. Tufnel admonishes DiBergi not to touch it, point at it or even look at it. And while viewers get barely a glimpse of the instrument during the scene, Tufnel’s prized instrument is in fact a Bass VI in a rare Sea Foam Green finish.

"I go through an SE-50 BOSS effect processor, so it's got a little bit of chorus and delay,"