Jack White

Jack White is a guitarist and singer known for the White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather and a solo career, and for a taste in unusual, often department-store guitars. For years his main electric was a Valco-made Airline "JB Hutto", which he used live from about 2006 and for much of Icky Thump; originals now sell for roughly $1,500 to $3,000 because of players like JB Hutto and White. He has also played a Gretsch White Penguin, Kay and Harmony hollowbodies, a 1954 Telecaster and a 1969 Telecaster with a Bigsby.

With The Raconteurs he moved mostly to Gretsch, in particular a Duo Jet modified into the copper "Triple Jet" by Randy Parsons, with a third pickup and an MXR Micro Amp built inside so he could switch the boost from the guitar. The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff is his main fuzz, and the DigiTech Whammy set an octave down created the bass-like part on Seven Nation Army, which was played on a 1960s Kay hollowbody. An MXR Blue Box gave Blue Orchid its octave riff.

Amps are long-time Fender Twin Reverbs and a pair of 100-watt Sears Silvertone 1485 heads with 6x10 cabinets. For acoustic playing he has used a Gibson Hummingbird and an antique Gibson L-1. Gear sources differ on some details, and White is also the founder of Third Man Records.