Fender® 0109200800 Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster Pau Ferro Fretboard 3 Color Sunburst  E-mail this product to a friend

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Stevie Ray Vaughan Artist Series Stratocaster

Shortly before his tragic death in 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan collaborated with FENDER® guitars to produce an Artist Series Stratocaster®. Few guitarists have had as much impact on popular music as Stevie, except maybe Clapton, Beck and Hendrix. He seemingly brought blues into the mainstream singlehandedly, just when people began to forget the genre even existed and this signature Strat® is a fitting monument to the man's brilliance. It features an deep, early '60s oval neck shape, a pao ferro fingerboard with 21 jumbo frets, three Texas Special^TM single coil pickups, a reversed (left-handed) tremolo and a black three-ply pickguard engraved with "SRV".

The Guitar SRV Helped Design
Much like fellow Strat slinger, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray literally burst upon the music scene and blew everyone away with his fierce, passionate playing style, though he actually paid his dues for years in hundreds of gigs in dark, smoky clubs in and around Austin, Texas. Like Hendrix, his career was tragically cut short. Sadly, he was not able to see the Artist Series Strat he helped Fender design, which was officially introduced in 1992. The special SRV features are immediately recognizable by any fan of Stevie's music and include an alder body with a rich three-color sunburst polyurethane finish along with that distinctive black pickguard (with SRV engraved boldly for everyone to see). Just like Stevie's own guitar, this Artist Series Strat has a reversed (left-handed) tremolo and comes with three blistering Texas Special single coil pickups that deliver all the raw tone and power you'd expect!

A Blistering Strat Sound
The original Strat had three single coil pickups, so it was able to produce sounds that no other guitar could deliver, particularly once players discovered they could lodge the three-position blade switch in those "in-between" positions to access neck / middle and bridge / middle pickup combinations. These were often erroneously referred to as the "out-of-phase" settings. The Stevie Ray Vaughan Strat comes standard with a modern five-way blade switch, making it easy to access all the pickup combinations. To deliver that signature SRV tone, this guitar comes with a matched set of Texas Special single coil pickups, so you can go from the classic Strat "spank" to a screaming, red hot lead sound with ease.

Fast Playing Maple Neck with Deep, Thick Oval Shape
The Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster comes with a one-piece maple neck that sports a special early '60s deep, thick oval shape and it's the only Strat in the Fender line to come standard with a pao ferro fingerboard. Pao ferro is an exotic type of rosewood that's most often used in bass guitar fretboards. Next add 21 jumbo Dunlop frets and a special gloss polyurethane finish, which our resident guitar gurus swear makes this one of the fastest-playing Strats in existence (at least in a production guitar) and you have an instrument worthy of the initials SRV!

Fender Stevie Ray Vaughan Strat Features:

* Color: Three-color sunburst.
* Body Type: Solidbody electric.
* Finish: Polyurethane.
* Neck Wood: Maple.
* Neck Shape: Deep, thick oval with 12-inch radius.
* Body Wood: Solid alder.
* Machine Heads: Fender / Gotoh vintage style tuners
* Fingerboard: Pao ferro.
* No. of Frets: 21.
* Position Markers: Dot inlays.
* Pickups: Three Texas Special single coils.
* Controls: Master volume, two tone.
* Bridge/Tailpiece: Reversed (left-handed) American vintage synchronized tremolo.
* Pickup Switching: Five-position blade switch.
* Hardware: Gold.
* Case: Vintage tweed case.
* Scale Length: 25.5 inches.



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Model:	0109200800
Manufacturer:	Fender®