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What guitar does Jeff Tweedy play?

Jeff Tweedy has used a stripped Fender Jaguar with one Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker, a Fender Jazzmaster, a Kawai MoonSault, a Greco SG copy and an Epiphone Casino, a 1954 Fender Deluxe, and a pedalboard built almost entirely from Fairfield Circuitry pedals such as the Accountant and Meet Maude.

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What guitar gear Jeff Tweedy uses: a sourced gear guide

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What guitar does Jeff Tweedy use?

Jeff Tweedy uses a stripped Fender Jaguar with a single Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker as his main guitar, plus a Fender Jazzmaster, Kawai MoonSault, a Greco SG copy and an Epiphone Casino. He has said an Esquire top-loader is his main studio guitar.

What amp does Jeff Tweedy use?

Jeff Tweedy uses a 1954 Fender Deluxe, a 5D3 model he bought in 1994 that still has its original speaker and transformer, per Premier Guitar's 2025 Rig Rundown.

What pedals does Jeff Tweedy use?

Jeff Tweedy uses a board of Fairfield Circuitry pedals: the Accountant, Barbershop, ~900 fuzz, Randy's Revenge, Shallow Water and two Meet Maude delays, with a TC Electronic PolyTune 3 Noir, Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail and Black Mountain volume pedal.

What acoustic guitar does Jeff Tweedy play?

Jeff Tweedy has said his first serious guitar, a late-1950s Gibson J-45 with 'Wilco' spelled out in stickers on the neck, is still with him. His acoustic board uses a Radial Shotgun and Rupert Neve RNDI-M boxes.

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Jeff Tweedy is the singer, songwriter and guitarist of Wilco, and a solo artist whose triple album Twilight Override came out in 2025. This guide covers the pawn shop guitars, tweed amp and Fairfield Circuitry pedalboard from his 2025 Premier Guitar Rig Rundown plus the guitars he named in Guitar World interviews.

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