Guitars used by a famous player no-one else seems to use...

CaseOfAce · August 3

Lindsay Buckingham - Turner Model 1
Johnny Winter - The Lazer
Johnny Ramone - Mosrite (ok The Ventures but try naming the guitarists without wikipedia-ing!)

Go!

OilCityPickups · August 3

Jack White ... pretty much any bust up tub-bucket guitar that nobody else would be seen dead with till he made them hip :-)

(note tongue in cheek element here)

Jonathangus · August 3

Mark Knopfler - Pensa-Suhr.

steveh · August 3

Allan Holdsworth - lots!

guitarjack66 · August 3

Paid promotions with the hope that somebody would buy it based on a top player using it? Lipstick on a Pig syndrome?

EricTheWeary · August 3

Mark Farner (Grand Funk) seemed to have unusual choices and used a Musicraft Messenger for many years.

Tannin · August 3

Bryan May

stickyfiddle · August 3

Ignoring signature stuff like Nuno, Johnny A, EVH, etc (and clearly demonstrating my age as mid-teens around 2000...)

Kelly Jones - Gibson CS-336
Pat Smear - various obscure Barney Kessel Gibsons
Johnny Borrel - Gibson L6S
Adrian Belew - Parker Fly

guitars4you · August 3

Bo Diddley and that Oblong Gretsch G6138

RocknRollDave · August 3

Billy Bragg - that green thing he played for years…Burns, maybe?

EDIT: it was a Burns Steer

https://reverb.com/uk/item/3551687-burns-steer-electro-acoustic-guitar-case-billy-bragg

guitars4you · August 3

Hamer 5 neck - Cheap Trick

Hamer Steve Stevens

guitars4you · August 3

Macca and a Hofner Violin Bass

Funkfingers · August 3

Electra Outlaw MPC - Chris Squire.
Gibson ES Artist - Steve Howe x3!
Starway guitar (broken) - Pete Shelley.

stickyfiddle said:

Gibson L6S

Carlos Santana and Mike Oldfield each had L6-S or Custom phases in the Seventies.

stickyfiddle · August 3

Johnny Buckland - Tele 72 Thinline (also Jason whatsit from Spiritualised but that's getting pretty niche!)
Jonny Greenwood - Tele Plus
the guy from Franz Ferdinand who isn't Alex Kapranos - red sparkly Hagstrom that I don't know the model name of
the guy from Kasabian (:vom) - that Ricky-bass-looking Ricky-guitar
Ben Gibbard (Death Cab..) - Fender Mustang (not literally the only guy but you don't see them often)