Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Stratocaster

The 'Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Stratocaster' is an artist series electric guitar made by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation for Texas blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan.

pecifications

* Body: Alder
* Neck: 1-Piece Maple, Soft "V" Shape
* Fingerboard: Maple, 9.5” Radius (241mm)
* Scale Length: 25.5in (648 mm)
* No. of Frets: 21 Medium Jumbo Frets
* Width at the Nut: 1 11/16 (43mm)
* Machine Heads: Fender/Gotoh Vintage Style Tuning Machines
* Pickups: 2 Tex-Mex Calibrated, Overwound, Single-Coil Strat Pickups (Neck and Middle), 1 Tex-Mex “Hot Bridge” Single-Coil Strat Pickup (Bridge)
* Pickup Switch: 5-position blade
* Controls: Master Volume, Tone (Neck), Tone (Bridge)
* Pickguard: 1-Ply White
* Bridge: American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
* Strings: Fender Super 250L, Nickel Plated Steel, (.009 to .042)

The Jimmie Vaughan Stratocaster is one of the Fender Artists Series guitars. It was designed by him and made at the Ensenada plant in Mexico using American made electronics. He wanted a strat that was simple yet had more powerful pickups and a ‘V’-shaped maple neck. The wiring on this guitar is a little different than others as well.

The body of the guitar is made of Alder and comes in 2-Color sunburst, Olympic White, Black, and Candy Apple Red colors with a Polyester finish. It has a single-ply white pickguard. The bridge is an American Vintage synchronized tremolo.

The 25.5 inch scale length neck is made of a single piece of maple and has a soft ‘V’ shape profile with a satin polyurethane finish. The radius of the neck is 9.5 inches with 21 medium jumbo frets. The nut width is standard at 1.6875 inches while the headstock has Jimmie’s signature on its backside. The machine heads are Fender/Gotoh vintage tuners.

The pickups used for the neck and middle pickups are Tex-Mex overwound vintage types. They use Alnico 5 magnets, which are stronger than those in other pickups. Polysol wire is used for the windings. The middle pickup is reverse-wound causing get hum canceling for pickup selector positions 2 and 4. The neck pickup is a Tex-Mex hot bridge pickup which is a part of the Tex-Mex pickup set. Another unique feature is the lack of a tone control on the middle pickup. Instead, the first tone knob is used for the neck pickup and the 2nd for the bridge. The 5-way pickup selector is wired normally, except for the above-mentioned hum-cancelling effect.

External links

* [http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0139202305 Official Fender Page]