Mystery Stevie Ray Vaughn guitar here at Norman's Rare Guitars

Let us know what you think!!

[TheCandyButcher]

That's amazing how SRV was able to hand assemble this, himself, a year after he passed away.

[stevelynn]

HOW I MISS SRV!!! IN MY OPINION THE VERY BEST PLAYER I IN MY 60 YEARS HAVE EVER HEARD, BAR NONE, THERE ARE SOME GREAT ONES OUT THERE FOR SURE, BUT THE PASSION YOU FELT FROM HIS SOUL IS UNBELIEVABLE, !!! R.I.P. SRV !!!😔😕😞

[tree]

I have a really old Lincoln penny... I wonder if it belonged to Lincoln?😎✌🏼

[goransundstrom]

it's more fun reading all the comments than watching the clip. Thanks!

[fenderjagmeister]

every things a mystery at norms rare guitars especially the prices lol

[bullfrog]

No way on earth Stevie Ray had a personal guitar look that good. He played the shine off in the first five minutes

[eddie]

The sound is so clean crisp and clear I love it

[edphaze]

Whatever the history of this guitar it sounds absolutely gorgeous.

[igolfjtweetler]

Bottom line, SRV never touched this guitar.

[brodywise]

It's probably just a custom shop guitar with an SRV pick guard on it

[craigd]

I read an article about the prototypes they were working on when Stevie was still alive. They originally wanted something with those mailbox letters on the pickguard but went with the scrolled version. That's a beautiful piece. Maybe you could reach out to Rene martinez, SRV;s guitar tech and see if he has any knowledge of it

[jaymor]

A guy from China knows the answer to your "mystery guitar".

[merc]

Nice demo Mark. I love all the videos from Norman's. I wait a while and binge watch. You guys are the best! Peace out

[brianremington]

back in 2004 I was bidding on a strat on ebay that had been signed by SRV. Had all kinds of pictures and docs about the origin, some guy that was roadie had been given the guitar (so the story went). I after bidding about $4k for the guitar I asked the guy what was used to sign the guitar (as it looked like a silver sharpie) and he confirmed it was indeed a silver sharpie. Curiosity led me to talk to the people at Sharpie and a silver wasn't made until 2001. Fake.

[tylernoice]

Wouldn't be a prototype if it has a serial number on it.

[TheOldOakSyndicate]

There was a SRV signature strat in a local pawn shop in my town, and the guy that owned the shop was your typical "local pawn shop shyster"...He swore up and down it was one of the few SRV stratocasters that were released before Stevie actually died. He had an outrageous price on it. I was young then and didn't know enough about it to argue with him, and it was before most households had a computer or the internet so it wasn't really possible to look it up on the net. Knowing what I know now, I would have argued with the guy...I think I remember he wanted $10, 000 for it...But this was the kind of guy that would put outrageous prices on anything and make up a story to go with it....His shop had the perfect name too...."Middle Man's Pawn"...

[tonyvillalba]

cool video. what a sweet sounding guitar! and very nice job playing some Stevie!

[slickfrictionless]

In case you didn’t know this, H. Gastelum on the neck heal stands for Herbie Gastelum and he was Fender’s premier neck shaper. He would be the guy to do a neck on rare, custom shop pieces like that.

[joshuaholliman]

I know I’m a few years late, however...

The early SRV signatures all in early 90's have serial numbers that were leftover from the late 80's, Fender didn't bother tossing them, Instead, reused them.

[myownchannel]

I always loved the tremolo bar on top, it seems much easier to access and control 🎸