Editing Richie Sambora (section)

==Instruments and equipment==
[[File:Hard Rock Cafe London 10.JPG|thumb|upright|left|Sambora's Fender Stratocaster at the [[Hard Rock Cafe]], London]]

Sambora has been known to use a wide variety of equipment throughout his career. He has an extensive guitar collection, featuring more than 130 instruments,<ref name=GuitarWorld2010>{{cite web |author=Staff |website=Guitar World |url=http://www.guitarworld.com/dear-guitar-hero-richie-sambora |title=Dear Guitar Hero: Richie Sambora |publisher=guitarworld.com |date=2010-11-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609004155/http://www.guitarworld.com/dear-guitar-hero-richie-sambora |archive-date=2011-06-09 |access-date=2020-03-31}}</ref> about a third of which are various [[Fender Stratocaster]] models.<ref name=Stratocaster2015/>

In the 1980s, Sambora mostly played [[Kramer Guitars|Kramer]], [[Jackson Guitars|Jackson]], [[Charvel]] and [[Hamer Guitars|Hamer]] [[superstrat]]s as well as modified and custom [[Gibson Les Paul]] models, such as his Rod Schoepfer model. In early-mid 1987, Kramer put out a Richie Sambora signature model with three [[humbucker]]s, pointy headstock, gold hardware, star-shaped fingerboard inlays and a Floyd Rose Original locking tremolo. In the early 1990s, Fender put out a Richie Sambora Stratocaster signature model with Floyd Rose locking vibrato and three pickups: a DiMarzio humbucker at the bridge, and two single coil Texas Special pickups, one at the neck and one at center.<ref name=Stratocaster2015>{{cite book |author=Terry Burrows |title=The Stratocaster Manual |page=177 |publisher=Voyageur Press |date=2015 |isbn=9780760349229}}</ref>

[[File:RS Barcelona 2008.jpg|thumb|220px|Sambora with a twin-neck [[Fender Telecaster]], 2008]]
In 2000, [[Taylor Guitars|Taylor]] started the production of a Richie Sambora signature model, a six-string acoustic made of koa wood, called the RSSM. Only 100 were made. All of his double-neck acoustics feature a six-string neck on top and a 12-string neck on bottom, opposite of normal. Sambora's guitar solo in the song "Bullet" from the 2009 album [[The Circle (Bon Jovi album)|''The Circle'']] was played through a [[Dunlop Cry Baby]] wah pedal. In 2010 he said that he was keeping his vintage guitars at home for studio work, and bringing his less expensive guitars on the road to his concerts, including "some Strats, a few Teles, some Les Pauls and Les Paul Juniors" along with a number of Richie Sambora signature models made by [[ESP Guitars]].<ref name=GuitarWorld2010/> Other notable guitars in Sambora's collection include the Kramer Jersey Star, [[Gibson SG Junior]], [[Gibson ES-335]], [[Gibson Firebird]], [[Gibson Flying V]], [[Gibson Explorer]], [[C. F. Martin & Company|Martin]] guitars, [[Ampeg]] Dan Armstrong Plexi, [[Ovation Guitar Company|Ovation]], [[Taylor Guitars|Taylor]] and Fender Telecaster double neck guitars, and an Ovation triple neck guitar.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Davies|first1=Claire|title=Access All Areas: On the road with Bon Jovi|url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/access-all-areas-on-the-road-with-bon-jovi-487744|website=musicradar|date=August 11, 2011|access-date=2 March 2017}}</ref>