Fender Artist Series Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster vs Fender Custom Shop Black1 Stratocaster (John Mayer)
The Fender Artist Series Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster and the Fender Custom Shop Black1 Stratocaster (John Mayer) are both electric guitars sharing transparent, dynamic, mid-forward. The Fender Artist Series Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster leans full and sustaining.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.49% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Blues
- Blues Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- transparent
- dynamic
- mid-forward
Fender Artist Series Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster
Fender · electric guitar
Fender Custom Shop Black1 Stratocaster (John Mayer)
Fender · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$599via Reverb
The Fender Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster, part of Fenders Artist Series, reproduces the specification of Vaughans heavily modified Number One Stratocaster, including his preferred left-handed tremolo installed on a right-handed body, oversized frets and a pickup configuration voiced for his aggressively driven blues tone. Buddy Guy, a foundational influence on Vaughan and a fellow titan of Texas and Chicago blues guitar, is associated with this signature model in this catalogue.
Black1 is John Mayer's main road Stratocaster, built at the Fender Custom Shop by master builder John Cruz in October 2004 as a deliberately heavy-relic guitar modeled on the kind of beaten-up road-worn Strat Stevie Ray Vaughan would have played. Fender later produced a limited commercial run based on it starting in 2010, an 83-unit masterbuilt tier with pickups matched to Mayer's own guitar and a larger 500-unit factory-relic tier at a lower price point, marking one of the first times the Custom Shop replicated a working artist's personal instrument rather than a vintage original. On stage it has carried much of Mayer's biggest material, valued for a blues-rock voice indebted to Vaughan's tone. Mayer has also spoken about extreme methods, including freezing the guitar, in his ongoing search for a specific relic'd feel and sound.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Classic Rock
- Rock
- Soul
- full
- sustaining
- bright