Steve Wariner

For acoustic, I play a Gibson-J-45 and a Gibson Hummingbird. I also take a couple of Signature Steve Wariner Takamines.

For acoustic, I play a Gibson-J-45 and a Gibson Hummingbird. I also take a couple of Signature Steve Wariner Takamines.

For acoustic, I play a Gibson-J-45 and a Gibson Hummingbird. I also take a couple of Signature Steve Wariner Takamines.

I play some custom-made guitars: a Tele-style by Joe Glaser with a B-Bender, a Tele-style by Senn he calls the Pomona and a nylon-string classical electric by Kirk Sand that I take on the road.

Speaking of my signature Gretsch, I just wrote an Atkins fingerstyle piece, “The Nashville Gent,” and it’s based on the guitar. As a child, I’d gaze at rows of Gretsches in our local music store. Occasionally the owner allowed me to play one. I only dreamed of owning a Gretsch, let alone having my name on one. This guitar took two years to make. I enlisted Ryan and Jeff Senn to help design it. We have unique features, including the 6120-size body with the longer scale neck, big medium-jumbo frets, a Tru-Arc bridge, TV Jones pickups and a push-pull tone knob that turns the pickup into single-coil. You can get a variety of sounds. There’s the pure Gretsch-type sound. And with that single-coil conversion you get a different kind of twang, more of a Tele or Strat sound. It has the brass nut and Gotoh tuners.