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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:31 am
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the man is obviously a legend!!

i think if he was still with us he would of had the best selling signature guitar of all time.

i can imagine it being like off white. with some nice custom art. flowers or something hippy. not too much tho.

and some nice custom shop wear. on the pick guard where his teeth have scratched it. lol

comes with hard case, spattered with bright colours, and a multi coloured head band!!!! :lol:

what you guys think it would be like?? and would you buy it if there was one?

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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:12 am
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I think you have a good idea, but what about the body? Most of us are right handed, so would it have a left handed body for us to turn upside down? I think this would prevent a lot of sales. I think the guitar you described would be great, but if it had a body I had to play upside down, I wouldn't buy one because playability comes first. A few years back Fender made a special mia strat that had a large reverse headstock, reverse bridge pu angle, and left handed pu's (to give it a reverse pole-piece stagger). The idea was to give us a strat that would sound much like Hendrix's flipped strat but still have a normal, comfortable feel of a regular right-handed guitar. Sadly, they discontinued it before I could get one. :cry:


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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:29 am
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bluez81 wrote:
I think you have a good idea, but what about the body? Most of us are right handed, so would it have a left handed body for us to turn upside down? I think this would prevent a lot of sales. I think the guitar you described would be great, but if it had a body I had to play upside down, I wouldn't buy one because playability comes first. A few years back Fender made a special mia strat that had a large reverse headstock, reverse bridge pu angle, and left handed pu's (to give it a reverse pole-piece stagger). The idea was to give us a strat that would sound much like Hendrix's flipped strat but still have a normal, comfortable feel of a regular right-handed guitar. Sadly, they discontinued it before I could get one. :cry:


The strat you mention from the mid 90's was called the VOODOO strat. It was released directly after the Woodstock JH strat that was a regular olympic white 69 lefty strung for righthanded play. I think it didnt sell well and was dropped quickly. It could of been a limited run although i dont think so. I looked into em quite a bit and was on the verge of buying until i saw someone gig a lefty strung right and decided it looked like a ridiculous rippoff.


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bluez81 wrote:
I think you have a good idea, but what about the body? Most of us are right handed, so would it have a left handed body for us to turn upside down? I think this would prevent a lot of sales. I think the guitar you described would be great, but if it had a body I had to play upside down, I wouldn't buy one because playability comes first. A few years back Fender made a special mia strat that had a large reverse headstock, reverse bridge pu angle, and left handed pu's (to give it a reverse pole-piece stagger). The idea was to give us a strat that would sound much like Hendrix's flipped strat but still have a normal, comfortable feel of a regular right-handed guitar. Sadly, they discontinued it before I could get one. :cry:


yeah right i completly forgot he was left handed. yeah that would be rubbish to have to flip the body...


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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:25 pm
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A few years ago I bought a used left handed Strat and turned it over right handed. I discovered a problem a lot of you guys could probably figure out without trial and error. The nut is grooved for the individual size strings, so I had to replace the nut because I had problems with the strings binding in the nut and then there was a slight problem with the string tree. The upside down tremolo arm was really annoying to me, as was the location of the tone and volume controls. I put a stock nut back on it and sold it to a left handed friend.


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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:43 pm
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There are 3 offical Hendrix Models:

Jimi Hendrix Tribute Stratocaster: This is the iconic, Olypic White Guiatr, Maple neck and completely reversed.

Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster:This guitar just has the reverse headstock

Jimi Hendrix Montere Stratocaster: This guitar is modeled after the one Jimi played then burned at the Montere Pop Festival.

I owned the Tribute but it was ultimately stolen out of my truck. :(

I hate to admit it but if Hendrix were still alive, I honestly believe that he would have chose something else besides Fender. Santana went Gibson-PRS, Fogerhty Gibson-Ibanez etc. Hendrix was an strange Cat with an odd playing style so I can see him teaming up with a guitar Co. with more "out there" features. It sickens me to say so but I believe Jimi would be playing on some Parker/Ibanez garbage. If you look at Jimi's progression, he was starting to use his White Gibson SG the more and more his tastes changed, especially in Gypsies Sun and Rainbows. I could see him using a PRS or something like that too.


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always thought he'd of gone with a parker or a steinberg with a roland pickup


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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:08 pm
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Red_Scare wrote:
There are 3 offical Hendrix Models:

Jimi Hendrix Tribute Stratocaster: This is the iconic, Olypic White Guiatr, Maple neck and completely reversed.

Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster:This guitar just has the reverse headstock

Jimi Hendrix Montere Stratocaster: This guitar is modeled after the one Jimi played then burned at the Montere Pop Festival.

I owned the Tribute but it was ultimately stolen out of my truck. :(

I hate to admit it but if Hendrix were still alive, I honestly believe that he would have chose something else besides Fender. Santana went Gibson-PRS, Fogerhty Gibson-Ibanez etc. Hendrix was an strange Cat with an odd playing style so I can see him teaming up with a guitar Co. with more "out there" features. It sickens me to say so but I believe Jimi would be playing on some Parker/Ibanez garbage. If you look at Jimi's progression, he was starting to use his White Gibson SG the more and more his tastes changed, especially in Gypsies Sun and Rainbows. I could see him using a PRS or something like that too.



yeah you maybe right, he was totally into taking the guitar to other places.
god!! who knows where his tastes would of gone!


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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:48 pm
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I'm a lefty who was playing a Stratocaster through a Marshall amp with effects in the late sixties. All this guitar tribute about Hendrix makes me laugh. He struggled with his guitars. I know what it's like playing upside down, and even Jimi had to cope. Waiting lists for lefty parts and guitars were usually over a year long. You got what was sent you, at least twice the price of righties. If Fender had made a lefty for Jimi back then, now you could be talking about anniversary issues. Dick Dale's gold Strat comes closest. It's hard to think that with all Jimi Hendrix had going for him, he wasn't able to rest his hand on the bridge at the high strings with the right-handed tremolo arm in the way. You can still let the arm slide between your fingers with a lefty tremolo. I can't see him playing anything other than a Strat. Jimi was over 6"1', needing the longest scale and widest neck. The first improvement, other than lefty body contour to allow upper fret access, would be shortening fret scale for 24 frets, while maintaining width. I saw Jimi in '69 and have been watching ever since. I've never seen a picture with him and a lefty Strat.


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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:06 pm
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I'm also a Lefty. Jimi said he thought Fender took better care making the righty guitars then the lefty ones. So he wouldn't play the lefties.
And if I may complain for a moment: hey Fender, how about making a Hendrix guitar for lefties?
I'm not picking on Fender, about 25 years ago I went to Sam Ash or Alex Music (here in NYC) to try out the new (Kramer?) Eliot Easton guitar. They only had righty versions instore. Wouldn't order me a lefty one to try out.
Oddly, I have a solution of sorts. My son is 16 and righty. We're gonna buy a matched pair of Strats. One lefty and one righty. Then we're gonna just mix and match so we both have Jimi Strats.

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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:39 am
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eric clapton found a left hand strat in a guitar shop and bought if to give to jimi when he was supposed to meet him later that night, never got a chance to see him that night and the next morning jimi was gone...saw an interview on you tube where eric talks about it and gets pretty emotional...don't have the time at work to post the link but i'd say check it out if you can


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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:19 am
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I never heard that story about Clapton.
(How many people has he lost?)
Thank you.
Here's another bit of info: Jimi liked the upside down headstock. He thought it kept the strings in tune better and he liked bending the low E using all that room.

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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:09 pm
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Said interview with Clapton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d96ngpR9TQ
He starts talking about Hendrix at the 3:57 mark.

All I know about a Hendrix tribute Strat is that my local guitar shop has one of the Custom Shop Monterey Tribute Stratocasters in their Custom Shop Display Case. If I was a single man that guitar would be mine. :D

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