Stevie Ray Vaughan’s ‘Scotch’
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s number one guitar was, obviously, ‘Number One,’ and it’s clear that ‘Lenny‘ was his number #2. Number One was his wife, and Lenny was his mistress, and everything was groovy.
…until ‘Scotch’ came along and messed up SRV’s happy home.
Variously referred to as a 1960, ‘61 or ‘63 Strat , ‘Scotch’ had cream-colored body, maybe even ‘butterscotch’ if you’re looking for a connection between the name and color. I personally will attribute it to Stevie’s taste for whiskey.
Like Lenny, Scotch kept the original right-hand tremolo, but that was about all that Scotch wanted to do with Lenny… this axe had it’s eye on the prize: replacing ‘Number One.’
It already shared the rosewood fingerboard of Stevie’s favorite. It added a flashy new non-standard “tiger stripe” pickguard made by SRV’s guitar tech, Rene Martinez.
Around the time Stevie was recording In Step, Number One started having neck problems, and ‘Scotch’ stepped in as his main squeeze. In late ‘89, Stevie replaced Number One’s neck with the neck from Scotch, and gave Scotch a new left-handed neck.
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