Paul Stanley

Paul's amp heads are described as "...loosely based on the R. Blackmore model, but powered with EL84s instead of the stock 5881s" in this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

Here we see Paul playing an Ovation Breadwinner from the recording of the first KISS album. It's unclear if this actually belonged to Paul because Ace played a Breadwinner during that time too.

Paul Stanley’s preferred guitar is a Washburn PS2012 Starfire. In this Premiere Guitar video at (17:04), Stanely’s tech show off “the classic look of the classic guitar he played back in the day. This would be his main guitar,” he said. It’s “a big speedboat metalflake guitar. A Seymour Duncan Custom 5 and '59 in the neck. It's pretty straight up. A solid piece of mahogany. It's got this great classic looking tailpiece, which really makes it ring nice.”

According to Stanley’s tech, “these are great sounding guitars. All the guitars are identical, same pickup configuration, same wood, just different colors.”

The production models come with, “mini-humbuckers,” he said (18:19).

Paul Stanley uses the Randall Colossus Head, a signature model amp head, as verified by a listing on PicClick FR.

Paul purchased a Gibson Les Paul Custom after one of his LaBue guitars was stolen. He used this among other guitars live and on recordings from 1973 to 1976. via axeology.com

At the 21:47 mark in a YouTube video, Paul Stanley's Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor is visible, but it appears he doesn't use it during the performance.

Paul Stanley uses studded guitar straps made by Red Monkey, as shown in a post by officialinmercuriam on Tumblr.

This custom leopard skin BC Rich was one of Stanley's main guitars in the 'Creatures Of The Night'-era Kiss.

Paul Stanley is seen with an Epiphone Coronet in this backstage photo from some time around late 1975.

Paul used a Gibson Firebird I live during 1974 up until 1976. His first Firebird I was a second hand Sunburst model which was later painted black. It was produced between 1963-65 and was broken during the Destroyer Studio sessions in 1976. Gibson handmade him a replacement with a Dimarzio Super Distortion full sized humbucker instead of the usual Firebird mini humbucker. via axeology.com

Very rarely used at all, Paul used an E/2 Explorer live in 1979 and the Gibson logo was covered with tape due to Paul being associated with Ibanez at the time. via axeology.com

In this photo, Paul Stanley of Wicked Lester and KISS is holding a one-of-a-kind Hamer Scarab Electric Guitar.

Forgotten guitar! This is a new take on an old idea. Paul moved from Ibanez to Hamer to BC Rich I. The early 80's. This is his Warlock with the cracked mirror design. More rare than the original Iceman with the same finish. Even hard to find pics of it. Used mostly on the Animalize tour circa 84-85

Main iconic guitar used by the Kiss frontman in the 1970s. Quotes from Paul discussing the guitar can be seen in the image.

A picture of Paul Stanley at age sixteen in his childhood bedroom with a red Gibson SG and ‘65 Fender Twin Reverb Amp. In a 1979 Guitar Player interview Paul was asked, “Is it true that you used to use empty speaker cabinets onstage in the old days just to look impressive?”

“Yep.” Paul responded.

“That is part of the show?”

“Yes. When I couldn’t afford a Marshall—I was dead broke—I had a great pre-CBS Fender Twin amp, and I took the brains out of it and built a little cabinet for it, like a Marshall-type cabinet, and I bought two speaker bottoms that were from Holland. They were called Marquis, and they looked very similar to Marshall’s. The only problem was that they were made out of thick, really chintzy fiberboard, and they sounded rotten. It sounded like we were playing through cardboard boxes with speakers in them. But they looked great. We were playing clubs with 80 people, and we had what looked like a wall of amps.”

As seen 0:21s into KISS' "Reason To Live" music video.

In the 1979 "Sure Know Something" music video, Paul Stanley can be seen playing the iconic Ibanez Iceman Cracked Mirror Electric Guitar.

Paul Stanley used the Gibson Marauder as his guitar for encores, where he would often smash it and hand it to the audience. This practice is documented in a 1976 advertisement from Axeology, featuring the Marauder.

In this video Paul Stanley says that he uses Ernie Ball 2221 Regular Slinky 10-46

Paul used Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar live only for a short time in 1974 and can be seen playing it in this image from a live performance.

During Hot in the Shade tour Paul Stanley used this Les Paul model

Paul helped in the design of this guitar and used it from late 1973-August 1974 when again another of his guitars were stolen being this one stolen from recording sessions for the Hotter Than Hell album in Los Angeles. via axeology.com

Paul used this guitar after KISS had signed up with Gibson in 1975 and he used it live and on The Midnight Special T.V show in 1975. via axeology.com

Paul is seen with a Gibson Explorer, which it is believed he only used from 1976-77.

Paul used a customized Hamer Standard (as opposed to a Hamer Standard Custom model) from as early as 1979-83.

Paul used this guitar on certain songs during the Unmasked Worldwide tour in 1980 and later in Video Filmclips around 1981-82. via axeology.com

In 1980 Steve Carr built the guitar extension of Paul's onstage character, the Carr Star guitar. The star-shaped guitar had a rhinestone-covered top, star inlays, a custom star/sword inlay on the headstock, and, according to some sources, an attachment on the back that allowed for the guitar to be spun overhead. The headstock also features an inlay of Steve Carr's "logo".

in this video you see a commercial of paul stanley showing off the silvertone apocalypse, he also used a cracked mirror variation of this guitar for the melbourne syphony show

Paul Stanley after recording bass track for new song "Tears Are Falling" (Kiss Asylum 1985) https://sun9-70.userapi.com/c4748/u8476853/117915268/x_0e85a6ca.jpg

Can cleary see in the picture that Paul Stanley used this guitar. Paul used this guitar during the unmasked era of KISS, roughly around 1990.