It appears Kirk Hammett and Jack White are making a behavior of swapping guitars now and again.

In January, Hammett made headlines when he shared images of himself taking part in Jack White’s well-known Triplecaster. It seems he was simply returning a favour after Hammett let White play Greeny, the enduring 1959 Gibson Les Paul Customary as soon as owned by guitar legend Peter Inexperienced.

“I despatched him a Greeny. He’s performed the unique,” the Metallica guitarist mentions in a brand new interview with Guitar World.

“I turned up at one in every of his reveals with Greeny and stated “Bro, test it out, and play her on stage!’” he says. “He used that guitar for a number of songs.”

Watching White play Greeny gave him an concept. “When the replicas got here out, I despatched him one as a result of I knew he’d dig it. He was blissful and wasn’t anticipating something. So a few months in the past, I obtained a textual content from him saying, ‘You’re gonna get a package deal within the mail.’”

The package deal contained one in every of White’s Triplecasters. “Then a guitar case confirmed up, and after I opened it up, I used to be so blissful. He sometimes sends me his Third Man pedals, that are completely psycho. I like them.”

This comes after Hammett stated that different guitarists had the chance to purchase the legendary guitar, named after Fleetwood Mac founding guitarist Peter Inexperienced, earlier than he snapped it up himself.

In a brand new interview with The Telegraph, Hammett defined: “It’s been provided to different main gamers, and so they handed on it for no matter purpose, however after I noticed Greeny, I knew in lower than a minute that I used to be by no means gonna give it again! I had such an immediate connection to that guitar, it’s such an incredible supply of inspiration and it’s my best-sounding guitar.”