Ruben Block
Lead singer of Triggerfinger
Ruben Block's Guitars
Ruben is using an old Pelham Blue SG with a rail humbucker in bridge and with vibrola uninstalled, it first appears on 0:47 in this video.
Also in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7AFyfJLTQ&t=70s) where he talks about it; it has a Danny Gatton pickup
Ruben Block, the guitarist for Triggerfinger, uses a Gretsch G6118T Anniversary guitar, featuring a TV Jones Supertron in the bridge and a Hi Lo Tron in the neck position. He owns two of these guitars in different colors: one red and one white. This usage is visually documented in a user-uploaded photo on Rootstime.
In this live video on Pinkpop you see Ruben playing a Stratocaster (model to be identified) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0k4cpk66Ko (minute 2:15)
In this interview on JudgeFredd's website, Ruben Block of Trigger Finger says that the two guitars that he owns that he will probably bring on a desert island are his Red anniversary Gretsch and his Gibson 1952 ES-295 -"Aaaah celle-là... donc oui pour résumer la Gretsch rouge et l’ES295 sont mes deux guitares favorites, celles que j’emporterais si je devais finir mes jours sur une île déserte".
In this video we can see Ruben Block playing with this Fender Telecaster Danny Gatton signature series with a black pick up. The guitar can first be spotted at :28s.
In this pic you can spot this guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKqxPx05AhA In the song starting at 17:00 minutes Ruben can be seen playing a white and pink copy of a Gretsch Princess. It's build by a local Belgian guitarbuilder: Stijn Kenens. He also made one for Ruben with a gold guard and bigsby B5.
In this vid, @3.39 he talks about this guitar
In this article a Jazzmaster is seen on the bottom of the page
In this facebook post you can spot the Jr next to the Magnatone amps
In this pic you can spot Ruben with a Gretsch 6131
In this pic you can spot the Gibson LP special inb the hands of Ruben
In this user-uploaded photo, Ruben Block is seen with a Gibson Custom Shop EDS-1275 Double-Neck Guitar among his collection of impressive guitars.
In this pic you can spot the Electromatic G5128
You can spot a P90 in the bridge; my best guess is that this was added later
On this pic you can spot Ruben with a vintage ('55) Gretsch Electromatic Corvette 6184
I first thought he was playing a (new) Electromatic line but soon saw the 'no-cut' shape of his guitar and knew I was wrong!
This guitar was presumably modded with a P90 in the bridge position and a selector switch was added
In this vid you can spot Ruben playing a ES model (@0.35)
After some research (double parallelogram, P90's) I think the most common model to fit these specs is the Gibson ES350
The Bigsby was added later
(NB: @4.25 you can see a close-up of the guitar. In this close-up you can see three holes in the body: this guitar had a CC pickup in it before!! Maybe a Gibson L7?? but the L7 had a different headstock)
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