It was a 1965 Fender Stratocaster guitar with the original pickups that, from the look of it, had seen better days. 2020 Fender Custom Shop Relic Stevie Ray Vaughan Strat! The question I was wondering how is the Pau Ferro Fingerboard compare to a Rosewood? Great quality and very light and resonant. The guitar was originally set to be made for Stevie in 1979, but the plan was dropped when Vaughan started using his middle name "Ray", as he was known as "Stevie Vaughan" at the time. Named for the great Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Fender Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster was built to honor the late rocker by building an axe that fits the specs of his famous "Number One" Strat. I currently own a Classic Player 60 which also have 12" radius. The EMG pickups and Gibson style amber top hat knobs were changed in June 1984. Comes with original hard case, COA, paperwork, A Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster fit that criteria. Long story short, I really don't like to do any mod to guitar like pickups and such. Its fingerboard is ebony with a mother-of-pearl inlay that read "Stevie Ray Vaughan". Stevie Ray Vaughan collaborated with Fender to produce a signature Stratocaster guitar shortly before his untimely passing in 1990. Stevie Ray Vaughan was just a struggling young guitarist in Austin, Texas, in 1980, when his wife, Lenora 'Lenny' Vaughan, gave him a used Stratocaster that had recently caught his eye in a local pawnshop. “Number One” consists of a 1963 body fitted with pickups taken from a ’59, and a 1962 neck, which has an unusually thick D profile that clearly suited SRV’s unique approach. The SRV Stratocaster comes in a sunburst finish with a black pickguard, just like SRV's, as well as Texas Special pickups. Sometimes also referred to as the “First Wife," Stevie acquired the guitar at Ray Hennig’s Heart of Texas Music in Austin. It features an alder body and an early '60s oval neck profile, pau ferro fingerboard with jumbo frets, three Fender Texas Special single-coil pickups, gold-plated hardware and a reversed left-hand vintage tremolo unit. He allegedly traded a '63 Strat for it. How is the Texas Special pickups compare to a Tex-Mex from like Jimmy Vaughan Stratocaster? Really a great example of a Fender Stratocaster! This is a list and description of the guitars and other equipment played by musician Stevie Ray Vaughan.Vaughan played a number of Fender Stratocasters throughout his career, one of which, a 1963 body and a late 1962 rosewood (curved fingerboard) neck, became "the most famous battered Strat in rock history." The guitar is very lightly used though it does have one scratch/scrape on the top where you rest your arm as shown in photos.