Tom Waits

In this source, Tom Waits is pictured holding and playing a Danelectro 5005 Convertible guitar with a pickup in it in white finish.

In this source picture, Tom Waits is photograph singing and playing a Harmony H44 Stratotone.

Tom Waits plays a beat-up Gibson L-1 on Late Show with David Letterman.

Waits can be seen playing a Gibson Hummingbird in this photo.

Mentioned in this interview from the October 1987 issue of Musician Magazine, as documented in this page from the website Tom Waits Library.

MR (1987): "Not too surprisingly. Waits prefers "mostly tube stuff' to digital equipment. Microphones of choice include a Ribbon ("Dave Garroway") and RCA high-impedance mikes; Waits usually sings through a Shure Green Bullet (used mostly by harmonica players). Also an Altec 21D vocal mike- "because Sinatra used it." On guitar, Waits likes his Gretsch New Yorker "with old strings" played through an old Fender tweed basement amp. When recording, he says he uses a lot of heavy compression with room sound; to do that he'll sometimes push the track into the room through Auratone speakers, and then mike that. It's not his only technique, "but I don't want to give away all my secrets." (Source: "Tom Waits is flying upside down (on purpose)" Sidebar. Musician: Mark Rowland. October, 1987)

In this live photo, Waits can be seen playing a 1942 Gibson ES-150.

In this photo, tom waits can be seen holding his Martin 0-15. This guitar has been misidentified as a very similar guitar, the martin 0-17, which has always had 20 frets. The difference in fretboard extension and resulting soundhole placement are the primary differences between the two models. Although new "custom 0-15" guitars have 20 frets, All vintage martin 0-15 guitars have 19 frets,. Every photo of Toms Waits holding a mahogany Martin is a guitar with 19 frets, which means it is definitely a 0-15 and definitely not an 0-17.