For standard tuning, I use a late-eighties David Wren acoustic. David was a Toronto
luthier who no longer builds; mine is his last guitar. I use a '79 Larrivee
for open tunings (mostly DADGAD). They're both great workhorse guitars. Each
is equipped with a Sunrise soundhole pickup and a pair of 12th Fret transducers.
I run two lines out of each guitar into a Mackie 1202VLZ mixer with an Alesis
Quadraverb for effects. It gives me a pretty consistent and reliable sound, and
it sounds great until someone shows up with a 40's D-18 puts a mic in front
of it.
For electrics I use an old Fender Stratocaster. It's been beaten to death
but is probably my favorite guitar. I also like a blonde Gibson ES-300 from circa
1950-51. It has two P-90 pickups. It's just a big, warm, juicy guitar with
a lot of bottom.
I occasionally bring out a 1940 National Style 0 (the Silver one with the palm
tree: the Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" model) that I got from the
original owner in Minnesota. He'd played it in a dance band before going
to Europe on the American plan in '42.
The electrics go through a pretty simple pedal board: delay, reverb, Tube Screamer,
tremolo and out in stereo to two amps. Lately I've been using a '63
Vox AC-10 and a Matchless DC-15 Lightning on stage. Both great amps. In the past
I've used a pair of 50's Fender tweed Twins, 50's Fender Tremoluxes,
and an assortment of weird, off-market obscure stuff.
I have a few pre-war Gibson flat-top acoustic guitars; I collect them; they're
my favorite guitars. But I'm hopeless; I love them all
(This is a bad question, by the way. I could go on for days about this arcane
stuff.)