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Post subject: Re: SRV white guitar with "hook" headstock (Stevie Ray Vaugh
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:37 am
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It appears that SRV had a lot of unusual guitars in his collection, including the custom-made Strat-style "Hamiltone" guitar made by Jim Hamilton, better known as "Main" or "Couldn't Stand the Weather".

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"Main" was a custom Hamiltone Lurktamer Strat-style guitar built by James Hamilton of Buffalo, NY. The guitar was given to Stevie as a gift from Billy Gibbons in 1984. Main featured a neck-through-body design, unlike any other guitar Stevie owned. The neck shape is similar to that of a Gibson Super 400 and very much like the neck on Number One. It's fretboard is ebony with an SRV pearloid inlay.

The pickups were active EMGs with an onboard SPC active mid-boost preamp. Stevie regularly used Main on stage for "Couldn't Stand The Weather" and "Cold Shot."


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Post subject: Re: SRV white guitar with "hook" headstock (Stevie Ray Vaugh
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:06 am
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There is a lot of info about "Main" on the internet... But this one:

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http://www.premierguitar.com/Stream/Str ... Type=image

I´m still lookin for any info about it...
If anybody has any info, please, share it with us!!!

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Post subject: Re: SRV white guitar with "hook" headstock (Stevie Ray Vaugh
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:25 am
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Found it!!!!
http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2012/Jan/Book_Excerpt_Stevie_Ray_Vaughan_Day_By_Day_Night_After_Night_His_Final_Years_1983_1990.aspx?Page=3

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The only known photo of the guitar that resulted from the work that Stevie and Gordon Van Ekstrom started in 1984. April 5th, 1988. © Wayne Blagdon

April 5: Metro Center, Halifax, NS, Canada
By 1984, Stevie had mentioned his desire to build a custom guitar, or even mass produce the guitars, in interviews. One of the persons who tried to help Stevie bring this dream to reality was Swedish guitarist Gordon van Ekstrom.

“We’d been collaborating on a guitar,” Gordon recalls, “for quite a while. He was very interested in making this guitar. I had a telephone book that I took a bunch of notes in on all the technical data; he drew in that too. We were eating, breathing, crying, laughing guitars–24/7. Lenny thought we had an affair [laughs]! We were just absolutely having a ball guitaring. We were up all hours of the day.”

As for the guitar design, a number of things were discussed, including having the pickups formed into the shape of his initials. Gordon recalls that he talked with Seymour Duncan about the idea, but it was not technically feasible. Stevie wanted a left-handed tremolo based on a Fender but “incorporating some changes that would stabilize tuning somewhat.” They made a template for the body and had one or two bodies cut, but Gordon lost contact with Stevie for a while due to Stevie’s substance abuse.

At some point, someone cobbled a guitar together to see how it would sound, but you can tell from the photo that the guitar is not finished, and not just in the sense that the wood was not sealed. The pickguard and pickup assembly appears to be in a standard Stratocaster shape, which doesn’t fit the custom body and was not what Stevie originally designed. Whether the guitar was ever worked on or even played again is not known. The photographer recalls that Stevie only played the guitar for one song that night.

Any other info is still very welcome!!!
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Post subject: Re: SRV white guitar with "hook" headstock (Stevie Ray Vaugh
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:36 am
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Hi, guys!
I´ve found another SRV guitar with hook shape headstock.
It´s a surf green hollow body stratocaster with lipstick pickups.
You can see it during SRV´s interview inside a bus in this video:


Does anybody know anything about this guitar???
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