Ry can be seen playing a Fender Strat in this image.

"I have often been asked how I got involved in the guitar pedal business. In 1982 Ry Cooder came to me asking if I could make him a tremolo pedal, as none were being made at the time. After some experimentation, and Ry's old Fender twin amp as a sound model, the Tremulator was born."

"The guitar was a vintage Gretsch Duo Jet tenor from 1959. “I went into the store and asked about the guitar, and the guy was really snotty with me,” she remembers. “He said, ‘I’m saving that guitar for Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick!’ And then I heard this voice go, ‘Let her try it out, he’s probab...

This site states that Cooder uses a Takamine J-15E.

This site states that Cooder owns a Jerry Jones 12 Shorty.

This site states that Cooder owns a Gibson SJ 200.

Cooder is the proud owner of three instruments that came from Mike Seeger: a 1926 Gibson F-5 that belonged to Bill Napier (seen on pages 71-72 of FJ #32), a 1929 Martin 000-28 and this Gibson Style 6 Granada banjo. Both the banjo and the F-5 have matching diamond block inlays.

This site states that Cooder uses a Rickenbacker Electro Spanish Model B.

Cooder still owns a 1950s Martin 000-18, which Turner believes he used to record the theme from Paris, Texas.

“Boris” is the name Cooder has given to this 1937 Martin D-28 that was retopped sometime in the ’40s at the Martin factory. Cooder picked the instrument up from TJ Thompson, who also replaced the neck with one from a ’35 Martin.

Ry Cooder's main acoustic guitar, according to his guitar repairman Rick Turner, is a Gibson Roy Smeck model from the mid-30s. Frets were added to this guitar, which was originally designed for lap-style playing.

On this pic you see one of the pedalboards of Ry; one piece is the Black Fountain delay

In this pic of his live pedalboard you see a Quicksilver pedal build bij Black box / Oohlala

In this pic the Moog Analog delay is visible

On this pic you see a live pedalboard of Ry

According to this site, Ry Cooder owns Guyatone LG-200T.

Ry Cooder can be seen playing Teisco Spectrum 5 in this photo. (1992)

Here's a picture of Ry Cooder with a (Musitronics made) Dan Armstrong Purple peaker plugged into his stratocaster.