Some pieces of gear are timeless, but players shouldn’t limit themselves to tried and tested formulas During a recent interview with Reverb, Jack White explained why his early playing days were defined by oddball guitar gear picks, saying that swimming upstream was fundamental to his growth as an artist. He had the peculiar 1964 Montgomery Ward Airline Res-O-Glas, a guitar with a fibreglass body, his own in the White Stripes, while it was a 1950s Kay hollow-body that he used