Description

Player’s Perspective

We’re proud to offer up this absolute masterpiece Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Strat Relic from our friends over at the Fender Custom Shop! If you’re like us and a die-hard SRV fan, then just the mere sight of this gets you excited and ready to reminisce and share stories. Stevie’s “Number One” guitar became almost as iconic and legendary as the man himself. The master luthiers at the Custom Shop have absolutely hit it out of the park with this faithful tribute.

The build quality is the first thing that you notice. It’s absolute perfection with an ease of playability that lets you know this is a Custom Shop guitar, but doesn’t lose that sense of connection and familiarity that we’re used to having with an old Strat. Since most of us mere mortals aren’t playing on .013’s on our Strats like Stevie did, this one comes strung up with 10’s and nice low action. But of course, it can handle absolutely anything that you want to string it up with.

The pickups are hand-wound Texas Specials and they sound absolutely phenomenal! It’s just that iconic and classic blues sound that we all know and love so well, in a wonderfully refined package that both pays homage to the past and is built by some of the best that Fender have under their roof today.

Details

If there were a Mount Rushmore of Stratocaster Masters, Stevie Ray Vaughan would be one of the greats enshrined there. Almost single-handedly responsible for the electric blues revival of the 80s and 90s, he used his beloved Strat®, to blaze his way to the top of the charts. Only the artisans at the Custom Shop could craft this guitar that Vaughan co-designed with us before his untimely passing. It’s one of the most revered guitars in the world, and we’re proud to make it a permanent addition to the Custom Artist Collection.

SRV heavily modified his Strat to match his energetic, yet controlled, playing style. We included a trio of hot, high-output Custom Shop Hand-Wound Texas Special pickups for fiery, authentically Fender tone that’s as big as the Lone Star state. As an homage to his personal hero, Jimi Hendrix (who’s also been known to pick up a Strat) SRV used a left-handed vintage-style synchronized tremolo bridge on his guitar, allowing him to work the tremolo arm with his elbow—a modification we cheerfully recreated. The two-piece body is crafted from alder selected for its weight and grain, and its Relic lacquer finish will age and wear in a distinctly personal way, just like the original. The tinted riftsawn maple neck has an “Oval C” profile that’s slightly thinner on the treble side, making it easier to bend those strings into the Stratosphere—a precise recreation of his favorite guitar’s neck profile.

Other features include 5-way pickup switching, vintage-style wiring, 3-ply Black “SRV” pickguard, vintage-style tuning machines, rosewood fingerboard, bone nut and wing string tree. Includes deluxe hardshell case, strap and Certificate of Authenticity.

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