Jack White Guitar - [ Full list of White's Guitars, Amps, Pedals & Gear ] -

Almost every Jack White guitar is legendary for its looks and sound. He played many different guitars over his career and in this article we will look at almost all of them.

Jack White, whose real name is John Anthony Gills, was born on July 9, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan. White’s first instrument was not a guitar. It was drums. When he was 15 years old, he had a next-door neighbor that is a drummer. Thus, Jack switched instruments and learned how to play guitar, so they could start a band.

Their bands name was The Upholsterers. They released one album during the years that the band was active. The band broke up in 1997 and Jack started his own band and called it ‘’The White Stripes’’. This was a duo band with his wife (At the time, not anymore) and Jack.

Their second album called ‘’De Stijl’’ was very successful and it made the band popular worldwide. Jack White earned two Grammys with ‘’The White Stripes’’ for Best Alternative Music Album (which was for Elephant) and Best Rock Song (for his biggest hit song called 7 Nation Army).

He also earned a Grammy as a producer in 2004 for Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose, which won the Best Country Album.

Jack White plays the guitar with a unique sound. He ranked #70 in the “Best Guitar Players Of All Time’’ list which is made by Rolling Stones. He is also well known as using the whammy pedal very effective.

Chronological List of Jack White’s Guitars & Gear

Contents

1 Chronological List of Jack White’s Guitars & Gear
2 Jack White’s Electric Guitars
3 Jack White’s Acoustic Guitars
- 3.1 1915 Gibson L-1

Here is a complete list of Jack White’s guitars that he used in The White Stripes throughout his musical career on stage, recordings, albums, and on magazines.

Jack White’s Electric Guitars

JB Hutto Airline

Jack White had a big success with ‘’The White Stripes’’. During the years his main guitar was ‘’1964 Montgomery Ward Jb Hutto Airline’’. This is an iconic instrument from the years with The White Stripes.

The guitar was made by a company called Valco. It has a unique and special design. Most of the guitars have the volume pods and the switch under the strings, but this guitar has them over the strings. They are next to each other with a special design.

The guitar also has a two single coil pickup and Res-O-Glass fiberglass body.

1950 Era Kay Archtop

This guitar was also Jack White’s one of the main guitars during the ‘’The White Stripes’’ years. Guitar has a unique shape and a great neck. We can call this guitar a great vintage guitar.

Most of the guitar players, tune their guitars to E tuning. But Jack White has an open A tuning for this one. The reason doing this is playing the ‘’slide style’’ with a better result.

This guitar also has a single DeArmond pickup with on/off switch. The guitar’s bridge is also made of rosewood.

1970 Era Crestwood Astral II

This is another great guitar that Jack White played with. This guitar was also his one of the main guitars during the ‘’The White Stripes’’ years. He used this guitar while playing the songs like ‘’Let’s Build a Home’’ and ‘’I Fought Piranhas’’.

Comparing to his other main guitars that he played during the ‘’The White Stripes’’ years, this guitar is Japanese made. This guitar also has a tremolo bridge that helps Jack White to have some nice vibrato on the notes and also the chords.

The guitar has a plywood hollow body and it has two single-coil pickups. This guitar had some great results and some other companies tried to make the copy of this guitar.

1960s Harmony H73

This guitar is also used during the ‘’The White Stripes’’ era. It has a very similar looking to 1970s Crestwood Astral II guitar. Almost the same body. It has a tremolo bar too.

The biggest difference we can see is the tuning part has a different shape. This guitar has a similar one when we compare it to the other guitars. Guitar is also 6-string one and its also played by some other guitar players like Matt Baxter.

1963 Airline Res-O-Glass

That is another ‘’Airline’’ guitar that Jack White played. He played with this guitar before he switches to his well knows Airline that he played during his ‘’The White Stripes’’ years. This guitar is almost the same guitar with his well-known ‘’Airline’’. The main difference between two airline Stripes is the short scaled neck.

This one also has red and white colors on the body. It is a 6-string guitar and played with normal E tuning. Guitars head doesn’t have a unique design. All of the volume and tone pods are under the strings. This guitar fits Jack White’s musical ideas very well.

1957 Gretsch White Penguin

Jack White got this guitar in 2007. While recording ‘’The White Stripes’’ album called ‘’Icky Thumb’’ (the album that they released in 2007 and includes songs like ‘’Conquest’’ and ‘’Bone Broke’’). Jack was little bit not sure about switching to this guitar for the album. He had a discussion with his team and he decided to buy this guitar.

This guitar has an amazing white body. Which is supported with some golden things. It has an amazing look. Also on the guitars neck we can see that ‘’GRETSCH’’ that is write from up to down. It’s not something that we see on the other guitars.

On guitars body we see a penguin picture. This guitar also has a super unique bridge that we cant see on other guitars. Its golden color and has an amazing design. It makes a difference for this guitar. Guitars switch is also top of the body like other models similar to this one.

Gretsch Anniversary Jr. ‘’The Green Machine’’

Its always different when you see a guitar that is fully colure by green. We can say that this guitar has a classical Gretsch design. It’s similar to Jack White’s ‘’White Penguin’’.

This guitar has a tremolo bar. At the top of this guitar there is a microphone. It’s a Shure Green Bullet Microphone. We don’t see this on the other guitars. This guitar has 6 strings and it also has a double cutaway.

Jack White played this guitar with ‘’The Raconteurs’’. Its not his main guitar but sometimes we see him play this guitar. This guitars idea and first work came from the guitar luthier ‘’Randy Parsons’’

Triple Jet ‘’Copper Guitar’’

This is another Gretsch guitar that is also made by the luthier ‘’Randy Parsons’’. It has an additional third pick up to a double jet. The biggest difference in this guitar is it has a Micro Amp (MXR) inside the guitar.

It helps to switch tones faster when you play a solo after or before the rhythm playing. You just need to click to the switch on the guitar with the help of this Micro Amp; it’s very easy to switch between the two different tones. You can have more power and also have a softer tone with this Micro Amp.

This guitar’s frets are also made of copper. It has a unique touch on the frets and also a unique sound. But because of the material, this type of guitars cant is playable after one or two shows. Through all this, this guitar is one of Jack White’s main guitars in the band called ‘’The Raconteurs’’

Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird

This guitar has a different shape than other Gretsch Guitars that Jack White played with. It has a great silver bridge and the volume bods under of it.

This guitar was originally white but Jack White painted it to the red. There aren’t some big changes other than the color. Jack White used this guitar while making a song with ‘’Alice Keys’’ called ‘’ Another Way To Die’’.

Gibson SG

This is a great Gibson guitar that Jack White played with. He used this guitar for a short time and he didn’t play with this guitar for a long time.

Guitar has a great design and have new versions of this model. It has some different color options. Like all the other Gibson guitars, this guitar is great for a powerful sound and a great sustain. Other than this, it has a great sound on low volume solo playing. Which fits Jack White’s playing on a great way. Jack White played with this guitars white cultured version.

DiPinto Mach 4

DiPinto Guitars are unique guitars. They have some other artists like Earl Slick. White played with the red cultured version.

Guitar has a maple neck. Fretboards are sometimes made by maple and sometimes by rosewood. Frets are standard Jumbo. It has Dipinto Dual single in the bridge and Dipinto Single pickups in the neck. Jack White played this guitar in 2001/2002. He got it as a gift from Chris DiPinto.

Fender Highway One Telecaster

Jack White has been playing with guitar for 7 years (since2012). This telecaster has a great sound for crunchy tones and also funky rhythms. Telecaster guitars are easier to play faster when we compare to Jack’s all other guitars.

This guitar also has some different color options. It has a different option for using the switch. Not like up and down like most of the guitars in the world but from right to left. The switch is three ways.

The volume pod is right next to it. We can also see the tone pod next to the volume pod. It has jumbo frets. It has a head that has classical Fender logo. Jack White is playing this guitar while on being on the tour with the ‘’Blunderbuss’’.

Gretsch Rancher Falcon ‘’Nita’’

This is a custom acoustic guitar made for Jack White. He played with this guitar while he is on the tour for the album called ‘’Icky Thump’’. This guitar has more bass than the other acoustic guitars. This is something that Jack White requested.

The guitar has 6 strings. It also has a similar shape to the acoustic guitars. It has the unique ‘’Gretsch’’ logo on the guitars head. Guitar also has a small amp and a tuner on the body. It has some white thumbnails on the guitar for helping the guitar player to find the correct frets faster.

Jack White’s Acoustic Guitars

1915 Gibson L-1

This is the other acoustic guitar that Jack White played with. This is like his second acoustic guitar. He used this guitar when he played ‘’Love Interruption’’ on the ‘’Saturday Night Show’’.

It’s a vintage guitar. It has a great sound. As with all of the other guitars Jack played, this is a right-handed 6-string that is set in standard tuning.

Jack White Guitars