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Post subject: Hendrix STRATOCASTER
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:28 pm
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Anyone know if fender is going to produce a Jimi Hendrix signature strat?
I see all other artist signature series strat, except the one person that really epitomize the Stratocaster guitar!

what a shame


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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:34 pm
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The whole idea for the signature series was to build and sell them exactly as the artist plays them on stage...kind of hard to do with Hendrix. They have built enough "Hendrix" special editions anyway.

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Post subject: Re: Hendrix STRATOCASTER
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:24 pm
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marshallj wrote:
Anyone know if fender is going to produce a Jimi Hendrix signature strat?
I see all other artist signature series strat, except the one person that really epitomize the Stratocaster guitar!


what a shame


Which one would you suggest. He played several, to include older pre-CBS Strats.


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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 11:50 pm
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They did two Hendrix signatures in 1997, the Tribute and the Voodoo.

The Tribute was an exact representation of the olympic white '68 Jimi used at Woodstock in 1969 while the Voodoo a right-handed late 1960's Stratocaster with reverse angled bridge pickup and headstock. Both guitars sported three overwound vintage-style single-coil pickups with reverse staggered poles.


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The 1997 Hendrix Tribute Stratocaster introduced a feature that reappeared on both the 1998 Voodoo Stratocaster and the 2000 ’68 Reverse Headstock Strat: a relationship between the bridge pickup and the strings that is the reverse of the norm. In the case of the Tribute Strat this relationship is achieved by reverse stringing the instrument with no change to the bridge pickup itself.

On the Voodoo and the ’68 Reverse Headstock, it is accomplished by a combination of reverse stringing and reversing the angle and pole staggering of the bridge pickup (these two models are otherwise right-handed bodies). This changes (reverses) the traditional relationship between vibrating string and pickup pole.

For example the low E string now vibrates over the pickup pole that otherwise would be below the high E string, and vice versa. It is believed that this reverse relationship produces different tone characteristics – a somewhat brighter bass and warmer treble, a difference that some believe contributed to the “Hendrix tone”.


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Post subject: Re: Hendrix STRATOCASTER
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:40 am
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^^^^This.

They were dropped when FMIC and the Hendrix family trust could not reach an agreement to continue the models. That is why the "Hendrix VooDoo Strat" was renamed the "68 Reverse (Headstock) Special" for the rest of its model life (and it lost the engraved neck plate with the Hendrix portrait).


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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:37 am
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paris wrote:
He played several, to include older pre-CBS Strats.


+1

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He mostly played rosewood-neck models until the switch to maple fingerboards in 1968.

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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:08 pm
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I got the 97 white tribute but I want the black one so bad :( but I can't find any anywhere. Saw one about 6 months ago but missed the boat. I keep checking ebay/reverb.com/gbase.com for updates :p. I love the tone, color, and retro large headstock designs with these.


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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:44 am
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Fender have done a number of Hendrix Strat "Tributes", you can read about them here: http://guitarinternational.com/2010/05/05/jimi-hendrix-fender-stratocasters-that-pay-tribute-to-hendrix/, it's a pretty authoritative article.


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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:54 am
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cerebralanomaly wrote:
I got the 97 white tribute but I want the black one so bad :( but I can't find any anywhere. Saw one about 6 months ago but missed the boat. I keep checking ebay/reverb.com/gbase.com for updates :p. I love the tone, color, and retro large headstock designs with these.


I got my black Voodoo back in January '98. I love that instrument more than life itself, gigged it on 3 continents, but over the years it started showing some signs of wear and tear and while it's still in wonderful condition for a pretty heavily worked 16 year old guitar I decided I needed to get the 3-Tone Sunburst and Olympic White Voodoos as well to help take the load off my precious Black #1.

After about 5 years of hit-and-missing on eBay, I finally completed the trio in October last year, and here they are:

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Since then the Olympic White one got a brown tortoise shell pickguard installed:

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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:35 am
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Sebber wrote:
the Olympic White one got a brown tortoise shell pickguard installed:

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Tort guards match white bodies and maple necks to perfection! :P


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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:29 am
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jimi would walk into a music store and pick an everyday strat off the wall and use it(abuse it). no signature series, no so called custom shop, nothing special about them (except that the angels pooped them out and the devil peed on them).jimi had what does not exist today....talent.


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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 7:25 am
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hammer-t1d wrote:
jimi would walk into a music store and pick an everyday strat off the wall and use it(abuse it). no signature series, no so called custom shop, nothing special about them (except that the angels pooped them out and the devil peed on them).jimi had what does not exist today....talent.


+1!

Thanks to him the Strat legacy is still alive to this day. :D


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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:05 pm
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hammer-t1d wrote:
jimi would walk into a music store and pick an everyday strat off the wall and use it(abuse it). no signature series, no so called custom shop, nothing special about them (except that the angels pooped them out and the devil peed on them).jimi had what does not exist today....talent.



I bet he had no idea about names for different neck profiles, pups, reissues, and all that crap 'invented' by the manufacturer to increase the sales


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Post subject: Re: Hendrix STRATOCASTER
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 5:01 am
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You threw the ball, I'll bounce it back:

hammer-t1d wrote:
nothing special about them
jimi had what does not exist today....talent

Funny, I always thought he was constantly (to be precise: especially on his peak era) experimenting with different specialities on his guitars - like string gauges, pickups, trem arms etc; not to mention pedals and amps...
And talent... OK (maybe rather 'insight' or 'vision'), but accompanied with thousands of hours spent with his guitars, both practicing and playing with bands every chance he got.
:mrgreen:

(BTW, the white Woodstock Strat is and has always been the JH Strat...)


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