Voodoo Chile ...SRV tops himself.....excellent ! https://youtube/watch?v=OEJh2FFUUoU The Story behind the Number One guitar : Throughout his career he relied on Stratocasters. His main guitar was simply known as Number One. His bandmates called it Stevie’s “first wife.” This guitar was a work in progress, since Vaughan and his guitar tech kept rebuilding it. The original guitar is rumored to be a 1959 model, based on the date stamped on the pickups. However the body is marked 1963 and the original neck has 1962 penciled on its end. This guitar was a gift from the owner of Ray Henning’s “Heart of Music” store in Austin Texas around 1973. Stevie Ray Vaughan used it on all of his albums. There is a burn mark at the bottom of the headstock where Vaughan had wedged a cigarette between the strings and left it there too long. The neck has a thick D profile. The nut width was very wide at 17⁄8 inches.The radius was 7.25”. It had been refretted many times. The relief at the 9th fret was .012” The nut had been changed to a bone nut. Stevie Ray’s friend and guitar tech, Rene Martinez took care of all of his guitars. At some point a piece of stage rigging had fallen on Number One, damaging the neck. Rene replaced the neck with another one off of a guitar that Vaughan called Red.As a tribute to Hendrix, Stevie Ray put a left-hand bridge saddle on the guitar so the tremolo bar would be on the top of the guitar. After Vaughan’s death, the original neck, which had been saved, was reinstalled on Number One. Jimmie Vaughan now owns this guitar.
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