Yeah man,the word was out and somebody close by would show you if you didn't know it.
Some people here just don't believe us older guys who were using the guitars back then....and if we knew it...Jimi knew it!

@ Negative Creep as with all Jimi's guitars my '65 Strat has the 3-way switch but it was a pretty common practice at the time to just balance the pickups 1/2 way between pup settings to get the "out-of-phase"tones.Some people used to wedge in a match to make sure that it didn't budge from these settings but as guitars got older and accumulated some crud ,jamming the switch became much easier.BTW the 5-way switch came out about 1978 and my '78 came with a 5-way switch which I promptly replaced with an old 3-way that I swapped with a guy who had an old '62.There were a lot of the pickup switching effects that Jimi made use of that I couldn't execute with the 5-way.The '78 was a lefty strung right.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Ah i see that now, this may be true but hey im goin with the solid facts that the people that were presnt at the recording say he used a Tele, thats a good as it gets for evidence, i mean nailing a tone doesnt necessarily require an exact replicated setup as far as guitslingers point goes

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