The guitar ended up featuring an alder body and a thick C-shaped maple neck with African rosewood and all the specs taken directly from the Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Stratocaster, which John was of course very familiar with from before (9.5” radius, 6105 jumbo frets, 25.5” scale length, 1.650” width at nut). Then I would start writing all the details out – what kind of pickups would it have, what kind of this-and-that… I would draw free-hand the Strat, the headstock, the tuning keys, and I would write “Fender John Mayer Signature Stratocaster”. Since I was a kid, I would draw my own item details for the Fender Frontline Catalog. So, as soon as I had any time off, I called you and said – can I come down and build a guitar. I had just gotten of a tour, and was just starting the get crazies from the second or third world tour. The guitar was delivered to Mayer in November 2004. It was built by Fender Custom Shop master-builder John Cruz in Corona, California in late 2004 – with direct input from John, who also participated in some of the handwork. This is perhaps the guitar that John is most often associated with, at least during the Continuum era. In 2015, he began performing with a few different PRS amps, most notably the PRS J-MOD 100 amp. In the mid-2000s he began using Two Rock amps almost exclusively. In the early days, he used Fender combos such as the ’65 Super Reverb and a blonde Vibro-King. In the past, he went through a few different phases in his career. John’s 2022 amp setup (right) as shown in a promo poster. PRS J-MOD 100 (left) – a guitar amp that John has been using very often since he signed with PRS.

More specifically, as of 2022, on stage, John Mayer uses a Two Rock Custom Reverb amp, a Dumble Steel String Singer, and a Fender Bandmaster guitar amp. John nowadays uses a combination of Two Rock, Dumblee, and Fender guitar amps. This is a limited-edition Dave Matthews signature guitar, which Mayer had used to record the entirety of the ‘Room for Squares’ album. Next to this one, John also used a DM3MD model. This is his own signature model from Martin. His main acoustic guitar throughout the years has been a 2002 Martin OM28-JM. John also has a pretty big collection of acoustic guitars. This is the guitar that he plays most often nowadays. PRS Silver Sky guitar – John’s most recent signature guitar from PRS. This second model is based on the Fender Stratocaster but featured some design and spec changes. A few years later in 2018, PRS introduced the second John Mayer signature guitar called the Silver Sky. This guitar he then used this with the Grateful Dead. Together with Paul Reed Smith, he designed his first signature model, the Super Eagle. In 2015, John decided to switch camps, as he went from Fender to PRS. This became his favorite guitar, and the one he still uses nowadays. During this same time, Mayer also started using a vintage early 1964 Stratocaster in sunburst. This guitar he used on the “Continuum” album and the following tour. In 2004 came the “Black one” (or BLK1) – a Stratocaster that John designed together with the Fender Custom Shop, to feature his favorite specs and looks. Fender Stratocaster BLK1 – a guitar that John designed together with Fender that his main instrument prior to switching to PRS guitars. These include another SRV Strat, a Fender Monterey Stratocaster, and a few different Custom Shop Strats, designed to his own specs. At that point, he started using a variety of different Stratocasters. He bought it around 1996 and would use that guitar as his main until around 2003. John’s first serious electric guitar was a Fender “Stevie Ray Vaughan” Stratocaster.

In the past, he used Fender Stratocasters, among them his own signature model produced by Fender called the BLK1. John plays a PRS Silver Sky guitar – or at least this is the guitar the plays most often nowadays. Summary of John Mayer’s gear What Guitar does John Mayer play?

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