Duane gave a Stratocaster to Delaney Bramblet. Delaney loved the guitar and always wanted to play it when he saw it around. After Duane decided the fat tone of a Les Paul in the bridge position was how he wanted to sound he eventually parted with that particular Strat by gifting it to Delaney Bramblet who uses it for years.
This is my recollection of reading about the guitar, Duane and Delaney some years ago.
@robertdee I did some reading on Duane's Strat's (at Muscle Shoals). He had TWO - one had the "pre CBS" head stock and the other had the "post CBS/ "modern"" headstock. The former was a 1961 and the other a 1966? He painted the pickguards black on both of them (didn't replace them - the new owner apparently replaced or re-whited it?) . I have read about one that he gave to Delany Bramlett.
Here's a couple of interesting reads:
https://www.groundguitar.com/duane-allman-guitars-and-gear/duane-allmans-1961-fender-stratocaster/
https://strat-talk.com/threads/duane-allmans-strat.334971/
@rusty Manny noted guitar players are always tinkering and trying different guitars and amps etc. Some tour with many guitars and change guitars through out the show. Many also play their current number one all night unless they break a string. This I gathered from reading dozens of interviews.
Apparently Duane was always looking for something he might like better. Duane Allman switched to a Goldtop Les Paul in 1969. By 1971 Duane was on his third Les Paul, a tobacco burst with DUANE fashioned on the back of the body with old frets when he died. Plus by then he was often using a SG Gibson that Dickey gave him for slide. This was Dickey's idea so Duane wouldn't have to tune his Les Paul to open E I think it was when he wanted to play slide.
Dickey was on a Gibson ES-335 when the Allman Brothers Band formed. In the Jokers Dickey played a Fender Jazzmaster or Mustang. I've read both.
Then in early 1970 Dickey switched to a Strat for several months then to the SG and not long Dickey decided he wanted a Les Paul too and gave the SG to Duane. According to Red Dog, Dickey didn't like his first Les Paul which he bought in Detroit and went through four or five including a beautiful sunburst LP with zebra pickups. Unfortunately it wouldn't stay in tune and he finally found Goldie, a1957 Goldtop LP at a pawnshop in New York City in 1974. Dickey stayed with it as his number one for 20 years moving to a Paul Reed Smith in 1994 supposedly because he was mad a Gibson for ignoring him.
Dickey didn't say with the Paul Reed Smith long and got a 1961 dot neck ES-335 but soon afterwards he put a hot rail pickup in the neck position on an old 1956 Fender Strat he had owned for years plus added a 1960's Mary Kay Strat also with a hot rail for his second guitar. He finally got back with Gibson in 2001 when they came out with a Dickey Betts signature Les Paul Goldtop which Duane Betts uses as his number one today.
I've read about Clapton and Jeff Beck's guitar evolution. Both basically went from Les Paul's to Stratocasters. Duane when the opposite way!!
All three have also used Telecasters too. I like a tele. Duane had a tele with a strat neck for awhile as his number one I've read.
