Joe has used various guitars throughout his career. Below are some example of what Joe is currently playing.


ESP Joe Stump Custom S
This guitar has a Alder body, scalloped 21 fret maple neck with Dunlop 6000 frets. It has a DiMarzio HS-3 in the bridge and a DiMarzio YJM in the neck. The middle pickup is a stock ESP single coil. Other variations on the "S style" theme is a Graphite Nut which provides low friction and locking tuners helping to keep the guitar in tune after Joe's heavy tremolo bar abuse.


ESP Custom S Style
As above this guitar has a Alder body finished in a vintage white (cream colour). The neck on this guitar is 22 frets deeply scalloped and fitted with Dunlop 6000 frets. The pickup configuration is the same as above (fitted to a pearloid scratchplate) as is the graphite nut and locking tuners. A very classy looking guitar.


ESP Floyd Rose Custom S Style
This guitar features a white Alder body fitted with a Gold Original Floyd Rose tremolo and locking nut. It has 22 fret scalloped rosewood fretboard (once again with Dunlop 6000 frets) and the pickup configuration sees a DiMarzio Fast Track 1 in the bridge and a DiMarzio YJM in the neck.

ESP Custom S Style
This guitar has a Alder body finished in a fiesta red. The neck on this guitar is 21 fret deeply scalloped and fitted with Dunlop 6000 frets. The pickup configuration is DiMarzio HS-3 in the bridge and YJM's in mid and neck, it also has a graphite nut and locking tuners.

ESP Custom S Style
This guitar has a Alder body finished in a artic white. The neck on this guitar is a rosewood 22 fret deeply scalloped and fitted with Dunlop 6000 frets. The pickup configuration is DiMarzio HS-3 in the bridge and YJM's in mid and neck, it also has a graphite nut and locking tuners. This instrument gets a lot of use from Joe.

Special thanks to Matt Masciandaro and everyone at ESP for making such outstanding high quality instruments. Joe owns a ton of Fender Stratocasters from many different years as well as some Blackmore and Malmsteen signature models and these guitars out class them all.

Joe has been an avid Marshall user over the years. Mainly utilizing early 70's 50 watt Non Master volume heads (Mk.II and JMP models) as used by Yngwie Malmsteen. Joe also uses late 1970's 50 watt Master Volume heads characterized by their white piping and larger Marshall logo, these amps are responsible for Michael Schenker's huge sound heard on UFO and early MSG recordings..

Joe also has an early 70`s 100 watt Super Lead Mark II that sounds massive when really opened up (very Gary Moore Corridors Of Power sounding).

Joe's most recent addition to his set up is an Engl Ritchie Blackmore signature head which sounds unbelievably good with tremendous tone at all volume levels with great dynamics. This amp can be heard on Conquer & Divide.

Live Joe uses the Engl Blackmore head in conjunction with 1 or 2 Marshall 50 watt non master volume Mk.II's as pictured below.

For cabinets Joe has some of the older basket weave Marshall 4x12`s with 30 watt Greenback Celestions and also some newer Marshall cabinets with the 75 watt Celestion speakers. He uses them both depending on the head.


As of May 2002 Joe has become an endorser of Rhino amplification. Joe features heavily on the company's website showcasing both the 100 watt head The Beast (seen above) and the Yngwie Malmsteen Black Star 50 watt head. Joe is very impressed with the quality of the product and the sound that the Rhinos produce.

Joe's pedal board is relatively simple. He prefers floor stomp boxes to rack gear. The most utilized piece in the chain below is the DOD 250 Overdrive/Preamp which is used to slam the front end of the amps.

  • DOD 250 overdrive pre-amp.
  • Dunlop crybaby wah-wah.
  • Bob Gjika Hot Box tube preamp.
  • Boss NS-2 Noise gate.
  • Boss DD-3 digital delay.
  • Korg SDD - 2000 digital delay.
  • Boss CE-3 chorus.
  • Boss CS-2 compressor/sustainer.
  • Boss BF-2 Flanger.
  • Boss octave box.

Joe uses Dean Markley strings gauge 008, .011, .014, .024, .032, .046 and 1.5mm Dunlop Delrin picks.

Here Are Some Of Joe Stump's Endorsement Pages:

DiMarzio Pickups

Dean Markley Strings

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