{"id":80071,"date":"2025-08-19T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80071\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:09:12","slug":"i-of-course-fully-endorse-any-mods-done-to-any-of-my-designs-let-alone-from-the-great-hammett-kirk-hammett-orders-up-custom-thinline-version-of-jack-whites-fender-tripleca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80071\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI of course fully endorse ANY mods done to any of my designs, let alone from the great Hammett\u201d: Kirk Hammett orders up custom Thinline version of Jack White\u2019s Fender Triplecaster \u2013 and gets one for White, too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirk Hammett<\/a> has done the impossible; he might just have made Jack White\u2019s Fender Triplecaster even cooler. <\/p>\n

The Metallica<\/a> lead guitarist ordered up a custom version of White\u2019s factory-Frankenstein\u2019d Tele signature guitar<\/a> that reworked the Triplecaster\u2019s body as a Thinline in the classic fashion, i.e. complete with f-holes. And Hammett had the Fender Custom Shop make one for White, too.<\/p>\n

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White has been building himself an arsenal of bespoke electric guitar gear in the past few years, with his Third Man Hardware brand racking up collaborations with the likes of Donner, Anasounds, Coppersound, MXR<\/a>, Gamechanger Audio, Eventide and of course Fender \u2013 a collection that also includes an PanoSonic hybrid acoustic electric guitar<\/a> and the Pano Verb tube amp combo.<\/p>\n

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But the former White Stripes frontman has been sharing the wealth, offering swaps and gifts of his Triplecaster with whomever he meets. When he bumped into Living Colour\u2019s Vernon Reid at the airport<\/a>, they agreed a swap; White\u2019s Triplecaster for Reid\u2019s Reverend Totem Series signature model in Mystery Tramp graphic finish. Reid was a childhood hero of White\u2019s.<\/p>\n

White then had Joe Glaser install a G Bender in one Triplecaster before darting off across Tennessee to drop it off with country phenom Brad Paisley<\/a>. Paisley then let him play his original Broadcaster. When he was in Tokyo, White gave one to Yoyoyoshie from Otoboke Beaver. The man can\u2019t stop giving them away.<\/p>\n

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So maybe it was fitting that someone would get one for him, too. Enter, Hammett. White had Olivia Jean demo this Hammett custom job on his Instagram<\/a> and explained how this gnarly Triplecaster remix came into his possession.<\/p>\n

\u201cNotice something different about this here Fender Triplecaster that the Detroit style guitar slinger Olivia Jean is riffing on? This was dropped off to me yesterday by the Fender Custom Shop in Nashville,\u201d wrote White. \u201cWhy? Because Kirk Hammett<\/a> (another great Filipino American guitar player like Mz. Olivia here, you may have heard of him) asked them if they could make him a Thinline version of the Triplecaster and if they could also \u2018Make one for Jack too.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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That, they did. What\u2019s kind of cute in all of this, besides the joy White is taking in this guitar, is that Hammett felt the need to ask White\u2019s permission first. For the record, White does not simply approve of modding his signature creation \u2013 he actively encourages it. And he wants to see others embrace the modding spirit and make this their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cKirk asked me if I approved and I of course fully endorse ANY mods done to any of my designs, let alone from the great Hammett,\u201d continued White. \u201cAnd this one is especially cool because a lot of folks don\u2019t know that the Triplecaster is already chambered!\u201d<\/p>\n

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As it ships straight from Fender\u2019s Corona, California facility, the Triplecaster has a body of chambered ash, a bolt-on maple neck with a Soft V profile, no f-holes, but thereafter it gets weird. It gets very Jack White.<\/p>\n

All that was needed at the Custom Shop was to get the patterns out for the F hole and voila<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the trio of electric guitar pickups<\/a>, from which it gets its name, with a CuNiFe humbucker at the neck, a Custom Jack White JW-90 single-coil in the middle, and a Custom Jack White humbucker at the bridge, and the controls are pretty far-out, too.<\/p>\n

There is a \u201cStutter\u201d switch, an arcade-style kill-switch for staccato effects. We also have a three-way switching that lets you mute the guitar, run it as normal, or bypass the tone\/volume controls to send it direct to the jack for extra oomph.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a lot of bespoke hardware on this design. There\u2019s the Bigsby B5. Those Fender-branded tuners have been augmented by a Hipshot Xtender drop D tuner \u2013 a sort of of Eddie Van Halen<\/a> powermove from White, drop D on the fly. There is also a metal banjo-style armrest, all of which is finished in powder white. That\u2019s a lot of metal, hence why White had it chambered to bring the weight down. This made Hammett\u2019s mod easier.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll that was needed at the Custom Shop was to get the patterns out for the F hole and voila,\u201d writes White. \u201cCool mod, and thank you Kirk for getting me one too, a great match with the CuNiFe wide range pickup like the old \u201972 tele. Can\u2019t wait to dig into this today (that is IF I can snag it back out of Olivia\u2019s hands though!).\u201d<\/p>\n

Are these modifications sacrilege? This is a radical overhaul of the Telecaster<\/a> \u2013 the world\u2019s first mass-produced electric guitar, one with a ton of history behind it \u2013 and this is guitar, ergo, some of the cork-sniffers might take umbrage at all this radicalism. If so, good, says White. He wants you customise his guitar as you see fit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope this pisses off some more Tele purists!\u201d says White. \u201cWe have enough ‘regular’ boring guitars out there right folks? Haha, Y\u2019all send me photos of your Triplecaster mods, I want to see them, and maybe I\u2019ll post \u2018em here too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just remember, at \u00a33,499\/$3,679 street, it ain\u2019t cheap. If in doubt, leave the serious mods to the pros. But wait, that fourth pic shows Hammett also kitted this out with a Glasser G\/B Bender, too \u2013 and that Fender has called it the “Fender Triplecaster Whammett”. Incredible.<\/p>\n

With Bigsby, a Glasser Bender, three pickups, kill-switch, Hipshot Xtender\u2026 This guitar can do anything. And it\u2019s still in keeping with what White said when the Triplecaster got launched last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found the best of the old, with the best of the new and mixed innovation with the history of Fender to do something that we think Leo Fender would have been very proud of if he was alive today,\u201d said White.<\/p>\n