Srv Number One Strat

When a guitar player achieves so much using just one guitar.

Srv number one strat. Pure srv sound and style if there were a mount rushmore of the stratocaster stevie ray vaughan would be one of the greats enshrined there. The old sunburst finish not yet so consumed and lived had an irresistible charm on stevie and its big neck seemed made. Rene martinez who maintained the guitar since 1980 saw the year 1963 stamped in the body and 1962 on the neck. Number one originally had a white pickguard which was replaced with a black one that now adds the srv logo and a right handed tremolo bar now gold plated left handed.

Get up close and personal with stevie ray vaughan s number one strat. Stevie ray vaughan s guitar called number one number one also called first wife a 1959 strat body with 1962 neck received in 1973 in trade of 1963 strat with ray hennig heart of texas music. Click on the graphic to see a larger version. Shares in november 2003 fender announced that 100 stevie ray vaughan number one replica strats would be made by its custom shop all by john cruz priced at 10 000 each.

The guitar was built using a 1963 stratocaster body and a 1962 neck even though stevie believed it was a 1959 stratocaster. Number one was stevie ray vaughan s favorite stratocaster. Number one also called first wife was the nickname given by stevie ray vaughan to his favorite fender stratocaster built ca. Number one also known as vaughan s first wife was a fender stratocaster used by vaughan for most of his career.

It was rebuilt more times than a custom chevy vaughan always claimed it was a 1959 model since that date was written on the back of the pick ups. Many of the photographs on these web pages were taken by w. Fender s stevie ray vaughan stratocaster is a finely crafted like new version of vaughan s favorite guitar the famous number one strat with which he electrified listeners everywhere and seared scorching texas blues into the top of the charts. The stevie ray vaughan stratocaster is the signature model electric guitar of american guitarist stevie ray vaughan based on his favorite guitar number one the guitar debuted at the namm show in january 1992 and began selling at various music stores.

Fender stratocaster number 1 stevie ray sometimes referred to his main first wife number 1 strat as a 59 as that was the date written on the rear of the pickups but it was in fact a hybrid built with a 1963 body and a late 1962 rosewood curved fingerboard neck which fender s custom shop replicated it precisely with the srv signature stratocaster model from 1992.