Wow! All I can say is, WOW! Only 100 replicas made! That makes it really special!
From Wikipedia:
“Vaughan’s blues style was strongly influenced by many blues guitarists. Vaughan is recognized for his distinctive guitar sound, which was partly based on using heavy guitar strings (anything from thirteen-gauge to 16-gauge) that he tuned down one half-step. Vaughan’s sound and playing style, which often incorporated simultaneous lead and rhythm parts, drew frequent comparisons to Hendrix. By utilizing his index finger as a pick a la Albert Collins, he was able to coax various tonal nuances from his amps.”
“Stevie Ray’s main guitars were Fender Stratocasters. His most famous was a sunburst 1963 Strat with a Brazilian rosewood veneer fingerboard fretted with Dunlop 6100 Jumbo fretwire (an equilvalent to this fretwire is Stewart-MacDonald 0150 fretwire); it had 1962 stamped on the neck and body, but 1959 written on the pickups leading Vaughan to mistakenly believe it was assembled in 1962 from 1959 parts. On this particular guitar, he also had a left-handed tremolo installed. This guitar was known as Number One. It had a D-shaped thick neck that was perfect for his large hands and thick fingers. It possessed a deep, dark growl of a tone that was immediately identifiable. The guitar also had a prismatic sticker just below the bridge with the word “Custom” in script letters. This sticker was given to Vaughan soon after he bought it in 1973. Vaughan also had some custom-made stick-on plastic letters reading “SRV” on one of the body cavities. Even though Number One used all stock Fender Strat parts, about the only original parts it possessed by 1990 were the body and the pickups. Over the years, Vaughan and Rene Martinez, his guitar tech, replaced the pickguard, tremolo, and neck. The guitar was meticulously examined by Fender Custom Shop workers to gather specifications for a run of 100 exact copies in early 2004. The pickups were never overwound purposely, but were from a batch of pickups made at Fender in 1959 that had been overwound by mistake, producing Number One’s distinctive sound. The neck was damaged during a stage accident, and a spare was used from another of Vaughan’s Stratocasters. After he died, the original neck was put back on and the guitar was given to his brother.”
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