Ron Asheton

According to this Vintage Guitar magazine article "Asheton’s finest Stratocaster – a ’57 Strat with a maple neck – ended up as the proverbial 'one that got away,' into the hands of Dan Erlewine, guitarist in the Prime Movers, a pre-Stooges blues band for whom Ron played bass."

According to an interview with Vintage Guitar "Asheton then bought a Gibson Melody Maker from Dave Alexander, when he started playing bass – it still wasn’t dirty enough."

Can be seen in this picture playing a Reverend Jetstream.

In this photo from an April 1968 Stooges show (then known as The Psychedelic Stooges) at the Ann Arbor Armory, Ron can be seen playing a Jazzmaster.

The Stratocaster remains one of Asheton’s primary guitars today (“..because of the whammy bar, and that good, clean sound it gets with wah-wah, that biting, hurts-your-ears sound”), but he also owns three Guild X79s (“It had the good pickups, and it just barked“), a Gibson SG Junior, and a 1969 Gibson Les Paul, which has “great sustain – but if you’ve got it on for a couple hours, it gets heavy on your shoulder,” he said.

Ron Asheton playing a Flying V at the 1969 Delta Pop Festival (as seen most clearly at the 1:44 mark). He played on this guitar for half of the songs on The Stooges' self-titled debut album before switching over to a Stratocaster.

Can be seen using the guitar in this pic of a live with Destroy All Monsters. He also said in an interview from vintageguitars.com that “It had the good pickups, and it just barked“

Ron also had a signature "Volcano" Flying V type guitar from Reverend Guitars

https://www.reverendguitars.com/artists https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/reverend-ron-asheton-signature-guitar-1

The Stratocaster remains one of Asheton’s primary guitars today (“..because of the whammy bar, and that good, clean sound it gets with wah-wah, that biting, hurts-your-ears sound”), but he also owns three Guild X79s (“It had the good pickups, and it just barked“), a Gibson SG Junior, and a 1969 Gibson Les Paul, which has “great sustain – but if you’ve got it on for a couple hours, it gets heavy on your shoulder,” he said.

“My first electric was a brand new Telecaster because [Yardbirds guitarist] Jeff Beck was playing a Telecaster,” he said. “I wound up not keeping it, because it was too clean. I was looking for a more dirty sound.” He pauses to deliver the punchline, “Because the distortion hides your lack of prowess and technique.”

One of two 3-pickup Reverend Avenger models custom made for him by company founder Joe Naylor. Reverend’s proprietary bass contour knob was developed at Asheton’s request. Later, Naylor created a V-shaped signature model for Asheton.

In this photo, Ron can be seen playing a Firebird at a 2008 gig in Toronto.

"Ronny’s Deluxe Les Paul Gibson. The guitar he used frequently playing gigs and writing music in between “The Stooges” band" says his sister post.