SRV Lenny Fender Strat Senior Master Built by Todd Krause
Brand New.... You be 1st owner.. MANY Sold at $17,000
You could go buy it Now at 17k or $18,339 (see 2nd picture)

Made by Senior Master Builder Todd Krause:

Calling Todd Krause the “Builder to the Stars” would be a vast understatement. He maintains and builds guitars for Fender signature artists Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Stu Hamm and Roscoe Beck. Further, he has built custom instruments for Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, Roger Waters and Gene Simmons, to name only a few.

Krause’s guitar-building apprenticeship began in March 1981 at Jackson/Charvel guitars. He started at Fender in 1991 and quickly donned many hats, including that of a one-off builder, R&D model maker, woodworking machinist, and, eventually, master builder.

Weighs 7.4lbs.. Ships in Orig Box. Book in 2011 Vintage Price guide is still 12k. This is 1 K@@L Axe!

The guitar itself has an almost mystical heritage that can be traced back to the very beginning of Vaughan's rise to stardom.Lenny's body is similarly storied; its most notable feature is a batwing-shaped inlay believed to be from a 1910 mandolin pickguard and reproduced in exact detail for the replica. The original sunburst finish was removed by heavy sanding, giving Lenny a much more rounded, smoother and softer contoured body than any Strat before or since. Subsequently refinished, the original sunburst finish still peeks through the clear mahogany lacquer. It's easy to imagine Vaughan pulling into a truck stop and adding the SRV stickers to the shrunken, warped and cracked pickguard. The pickguard hides yet more treasures - a humbucking pickup cavity, unusually routed in the middle position, and a haphazardly wired control pot assembly with tone pots mounted in reverse. Re-creating the non-original bridge and strap-lock hardware is further evidence of the fastidious attention to detail. Ultimately, however, it's all about Vaughan's music, and he summed Lenny up best when he said, "It's always meant a lot to me. And I love what it sounds like." Stevie Ray Vaughan was just a struggling young guitarist in Austin, Texas, in 1980, when his wife, Lenora 'Lenny' Vaughan, gave him a used Stratocaster that had recently caught his eye in a local pawnshop. It was a 1965 Fender Stratocaster guitar with the original pickups that, from the look of it, had seen better days. Nonetheless, there was something about it that clearly and immediately resonated deeply with Vaughan. As Vaughan himself said during an interview published in the Feb. 1990 issue of Guitar Player magazine: It's called Lenny. It's always meant a lot to me. And I love what it sounds like. He was thrilled. He took the guitar home and, sometime that night, as Lenora slept, wrote a new song on it. He played her the song he had written that night, "Lenny." The song later became one of Vaughan's most well-known instrumental pieces, and he continued to perform it exclusively on the Lenny guitar. Without a baseball or bat nearby, Stevie offered up his beloved guitar to be touched with the magic of the American sporting legend

Click on link for more info on SRV Lenny

I also want to point out. In taking this Strat apart for pictures, that neck pocket to neck fit was the tightest of EVERY single I Ever had. It took Muscle to get neck out and back in. I was scared I was going to split the wood on lower part of neck pocket.. lol Also no finish in the neck pocket. Thus wood to wood Sustain and Bell Tone. the brown tape on the resistor on Vol pot is like SRV was. Rene did that. Also I did not show in sound clip, when you roll the 1 tone pot to zero, it still has highs but a jazz tone to it. Very different, Very SRV. I like the pickguard is shrunk some in truss rod area, Just like real 1965 will have.. All in All, you feel and look like a part of Stevie's world. The Strat haunts me, to like pick it up everyday. It truly is Neat...

SRV-sanded, contoured body

Billy Gibbons-customized neck

Reflective SRV stickers

1900s-style mandolin body inlay

Mickey Mantle autograph

"Stevie Ray Vaughan 80" etched by SRV onto neck plate

Meticulously replicated wear and tear—

stratches, nicks, dings, and paint wear

Cigarette body burns recreated using SRV's cigarette brand

Reverse-mounted tone pots

SRV's non-original bridge and non-standard strap buttons

Recreation of cracked headstock end and worn-in string winder impressions