{"id":363957,"date":"2026-03-25T07:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363957\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:45:12","slug":"keith-richards-reveals-the-astonishing-number-of-guitars-in-his-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363957\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Richards reveals the astonishing number of guitars in his collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Richards<\/a>, like many huge artists, has a rather vast collection of guitars. In fact, he\u2019s not even sure of the exact number he has, and some of them he\u2019s never even seen.<\/p>\n

Richards\u2019 impact on guitar culture led to him earning his own Gibson ES-355 signature model<\/a> earlier this year. Two super-limited Collector\u2019s Edition models were released in January and were developed in close collaboration with Richards. Just 150 were made available in total, each based on his own treasured 1960 ES-355, which has accompanied him on every Rolling Stones<\/a> tour since 1997.<\/p>\n

These guitars were made using 3D scanning technology to replicate the true character of his original guitar, with 50 models signed both on the instrument and label, and 100 with only a signed label.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Guitar World<\/a> for the latest edition of its print magazine, he says, \u201cWhat a surprise, and what a fuckin\u2019 honour. I tell you, when they came at me with this one, I was like, \u2018How can I refuse?\u2019 It was a shock to me at first, because when I started, the idea of even owning a Gibson was pretty much out of the picture.<\/p>\n

Richards was then asked how many of them he\u2019ll get to keep: \u201cOh look, I have enough guitars already,\u201d he says. Asked if 3000 guitars is an accurate figure for the number in his collection, he continues, \u201cIt\u2019s something like that. You can call my guitar man, Pierre de Beauport, if you want the exact number, but it\u2019s around there. But it\u2019s not like I go around buying them or anything; a lot of these guitars have been given to me. I\u2019ve never seen them all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually only use about\u2026 Well, the working number is about 15 guitars in the rack, for different sounds and whatever. But the other 2,900, I don\u2019t know. They\u2019re taken care of, though. I mean, this is a prime collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Collector\u2019s Edition ES-355 models are now sold out online \u2013 view more at Gibson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Rachel<\/p>\n

Rachel began writing for Guitar.com in 2021 while finishing up her degree. A proud DIY guitarist, she has been playing for over 10 years and has written for the likes of Kerrang!, The Forty-Five, and MusicTech. An enjoyer of all things heavy, you\u2019ll find her at a festival or downtuning her guitars when away from her desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Richards, like many huge artists, has a rather vast collection of guitars. In fact, he\u2019s not even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1484,93,61,60,278,640],"class_list":["post-363957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-artist","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}