Nile Rodgers

"Rodgers’ affectionately nicknamed Hitmaker is a 1960 Stratocaster with a 1959 neck. He got it for a trade-in long ago at a small shop in Miami Beach, Fla. Exceptionally light in weight, it has a maple fingerboard and bears a well-worn white finish. Rodgers says it doesn’t sound like any other Stratocaster in the world," reads this article.

"However, there is another guitar hero in my herd. It's my plexiglass Guitarman and it usually stands-in for The Hitmaker in videos and TV appearances. It doesn't get the credit it deserves because it's a great sounding instrument, but its main role is to play The Hitmaker's Body Double."

Nile Rodgers posted this photo on his facebook page. The post says, "This Gibson L5 Custom is one damn fine guitar and it sounded amazing in this space at Drexel"

GQ posted this excerpt from Nile Rodgers' autobiography, "Le Freak" in 2011. In it he describes the guitar that he traded to obtain one of the most important guitars in history.

"One day, following a gig in Miami, Nard got me to trade in my prized jazz guitar, a hollow-bodied Gibson Barney Kessel, for a sleek solid-bodied Fender Stratocaster, the six-string equivalent of trading in a Range Rover for a Porsche."

Nile Rodgers reminisces about jamming with Al Jarreau at his birthday party in London during the 80s, as shared in a Facebook post. The post includes a photo of Rodgers playing a Gibson Les Paul Standard, highlighting his use of this iconic guitar in a jazz, funk, and R&B setting.

At 1:55, Nile Rodgers uses a Fender Thinline Telecaster. In this video, he talks about his collaboration with Daft Punk for their last album "Random Access Memory"

In this video from Fender, Nile Rogers performs a song he wrote with an American Acoustasonic Stratocaster. On the videos YouTube description, Fender put the following from as a note from Nile Rodgers and Engineer Russell Graham:

The voices available on the Acoustasonic are designed to evoke the real-world sources that they are based on (core acoustic, alternate acoustic, electric clean, electric fat, etc.) without traditional guitar amplification…as such, most of the voice indications on this cue sheet are marked 'no amp.

HOWEVER, putting the guitar through a traditional guitar amplifier yields interesting and sometimes unexpected tones. In particular, we found that the acoustic/electric blended voice, with traditional guitar amplification applied, was reminiscent of a classic hollow-body jazz guitar - and so for the guitar solo we’ve noted that the tone is 'AMPED.'

In this photo you can see Nile Rodgers with his own Fender Nile Rodgers Hitmaker Stratocaster.

In this photo you can see Nile Rodgers with this Fender Stratocaster.