Thursday, September 17, 2009

The 'Triple Jet'

Jack White has been using Gretsch guitars for a while now, but there's two SWEET ones he's been using for Raconteurs gigs.

One started off as a single cut-away, but he sent it to a luthier in Seattle to have it turned into a double cut-away. And install a theremin near the bigsby. And install a green bullet microphone on a retractable cable on the body of the guitar. Hard to explain.

The other one is a custom made guitar, based on the Duo Jet, that has a copper finish and a 3rd pickup wired to an internal MXR Micro Amp effect inside the guitar. He dubbed this guitar the Gretsch "Triple Jet." He added the three stripes seen on lots of White Stripes posters and on his Silvertone amps grill cloth. Its a sweet sweet sweet guitar.




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