In a recent mag there was a interview with some fender custom shop luthiers (guitar builders) who actually got permission by Jimmie Vaughan (stevie rays vaughans brother) to remove his guitar from its vault, take it to pieces, take photo's then rebuild it in order to get get the exact details so they could make 100 perfect replica's of his famous number 1 guitar (these are not the signature model you can buy in the shops there is only 100 being made, 6 of which are coming to the uk & all 100 were pre-sold before the luthiers began working on them)

The Mag gives details of all his gear & his guitar setup. so here it all is for you's who want to emulate his sound.

guitars: strats, martin acoustic & a national

amps: fender super reverb, vibroverb, twin reverb; dumble

effects: tube screamer, vox wah, fuzz face & tycobrahe octavia

other comments: he used heavy gauge strings 0.13 to 0.15 (top E), he strung his guitar with very high action, he had a tendancy to snap a lot of strings so he started to strip a piece of wire and use the plastic shielding and loop that over the string and send it through the block so that it rested on top of one of the arcs on the bridge the mag says this wouldnt really kill the tone of the string (it may have coloured his tone slightly though so you may want to try this when emulating his sound) but it would help prevent friction building up and breaking the string, his pickups were stock 63's but has some shielding tape around them to lower the inductance of the pickup & all control pots were standard of the era & finally the three-way switch was replaced with a five-way switch.