Guitars and Equipment
Over the course of his career, Rogers has been most associated with a series of Rickenbacker 360F copies made by Sydney luthier Piers Crocker, affectionately known as 'Crockenbackers'. Rogers owns 4 of the 5 Crockenbackers in existence, including a 12-string, bought after borrowing Brad Shepherd's Fender Coronado 12-string to record Hourly, Daily. Rogers bought his first Crockenbacker just before the recording of Hi Fi Way, and has used them ever since. Previous to Hi Fi Way, his main guitar was a Gibson ES-345.
He has used various guitars alongside the Crockenbackers, predominantly Fender Telecasters, including a '52 Reissue, a 70s Telecaster Deluxe and a '72 Thinline Reissue. The latter guitar was given to Davey Lane shortly after his joining the band. During the recording of Dilettantes, Rogers also began using Fender Jazzmasters, using them on all subsequent tours to date alongside the Crockenbackers.
For acoustics, Rogers predominantly used a Guild JF30 dreadnought and a custom-built Piers Crocker acoustic. Recently he has made the switch to playing Cole Clark Fat Lady acoustics, though he has also been seen with Maton acoustics at various times.
Whilst recording Sound As Ever, Rogers became enamoured with Lee Ranaldo's Fender Tonemaster amp, and shortly thereafter bought one for himself, which he has used for all You Am I work from Hi-Fi Way onwards. For his work with The Temperance Union, however, he uses a Sunn combo amp.
Rogers uses an overdrive pedal and a tremolo pedal custom made by Colin Bloxom, as well as a wah and occasionally a Route 66 overdrive/compression pedal. Tim currently users an overdrive pedal built by Ramblin' Guitars.
Rogers has stated that one of his most important musical tools is a capo: "Probably 90 percent of every song I've ever written involves a capo ... When first using one, the possibilities of things become realisations, and you could write in different keys and things. I think I want to be buried with one."
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