Fender Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster

FEATURES

• -Early-’60s oval neck profile
• -Pau ferro fingerboard with jumbo frets
• -Texas Special™ pickups
• -Engraved SRV pickguard
• -Gold-plated hardware
• -Reverse vintage-style tremolo bridge

TEXAS SPECIAL™ PICKUPS

Single-coil Texas Special pickups are over-wound for big Texas-blues tone with dynamically scorching output. With alnico 5 magnets, enamel-coated magnet wire and staggered pole pieces for balanced output across each string, they sing, scream and everything in between with tight bass, focused midrange and crystalline highs.

LEFT-HANDED STRATOCASTER TREMOLO

Vaughan is said to have preferred the left-handed (or upside-down) tremolo because its placement on a right-handed guitar was more like the arrangement used by Jimi Hendrix—with the trem arm above the strings rather than below them.

“SRV” PICKGUARD

Surely the most distinctive visual element of this instrument is its black pickguard, engraved with the big, bold initials of the man himself.

THICK OVAL NECK

As Vaughan himself preferred, his signature model features a thick oval neck profile (the shape of the neck in cross section) that imparts a distinctively comfortable fretting-hand feel, and more mass for improved tone and sustain.