i want a stratocaster that has the hendrix sound because i play more hendrix and other 60s stuff than any thing else. i have enough money to go over to custom shop but i dont want to if i dont have to, i just want the hendrix sound

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Find yourself a white, 1968 standard issue CBS Strat. There was nothing special about Hendrix's guitars. The Custom Shop built 4 clones of Jimi's Woodstock Strat in 2002. If you have enough money, maybe they will build one for you too.

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Bill

Any white strat will do it!

Which Hendrix sound?

He had his guitars wired all differently. In phase, out of phase, neck+bridge, all 3 on.

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No no and no

Personally, I thing the biggest contributor to the "Hendrix sound" was Jimi himself and that can't be cloned.

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Yeah, and I wonder percentage-wise where how much of his "sound" is due to a specific model Strat when you consider amps, technique and effects... Sounds like a standard white MIM Strat would be a reasonable starting point... The technique, well, that might take awhile...

Make sure you have long fingers to play those chord that he used .

Call Dweezil...

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Well said..... Mike

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If your right handed you must get a lefty flip it and restring it. Then all you have to do is play like hendrix. Its that simple

Why ????

Use what Hendrix did, out of the box playing that is, find your own unique sound, why would anyone want to be a clone ?

Seriously, finding one's own musical identity is the journey, spending countless hours, weeks, or even years replicating someone else's sound is always going to be second-best.
This is not an insult but all the musicians we talk about and listen to and emulate have their own signature sounds, the closest to Hendrix I've ever seen and heard live was/is Frank Marino of Mahogany Rush but that style has been done before by the original.
Copy, learn, and use their style but don't try to be a clone, sooner or later, the audience has had enough of the Memorex play backs and walks out.
That is one reason why I refuse to go and hear tribute bands...

Good Luck

well he ran it through a ton of effects as far as i know so guitar maodel really wont make a HUGE difference.... but a righty strung left (or assuming youre right handed lefty strung right) is actually more important than you might think.... something about the bridge that give the high e a more mellow sound where as low E is brighter than usual

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Hi, just one thing.

If you take randomly 50 pictures of jimi Hendrix you will find more rosewood strat than maple neck strat. I don"t know why, but people just remember Woodstock strat ?

I've seen pictures of Jimi with both rosewood and maple neck Strats. In fact, the poster of him hanging on the wall of my room shows him with a three-tone sunburst Strat with a rosewood neck. And he played several Gibsons too, the most famous of which is probably his painted Flying V. But I bet he'd sound just like himself no matter what guitar he played.

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