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    Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    Hello!
    I finally found Fender Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster! I have been looking for this modell years now. Feels great...sounds great...looks amazing...i cant stop looking at it!







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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    Very cool!

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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    Loverly, for sure. I just dig those headstocks.
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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    Nice!

    I've got the MIM version from MF.
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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    Quote Originally Posted by Guitar_Mc View Post
    Nice!

    I've got the MIM version from MF.
    I have one too and have always wondered how they compair sound and tone wise
    Oh the tone

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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    I have a John Jorgensen hellecatser with the same headstock and left hand designation,, The e-string does sound different reversed. in essence it requires more tension to achieve pitch as the distance of the string is longer

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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    Call me odd, just because I am.

    Seems a true Hendrix for a right handed guitarist would be a lefty strung right handed.
    Otherwise you just have a reverse headstock strat, right?

    An original:

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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    I tried one, It sounded nice enough but it confused me ! It's a reverse headstock, reverse angle bridge pickup Strat, and surely, part of Jimi's sound was that the balance of the pick ups would be different to normal with having right handed pickups on a guitar strung left handed (pole piece heights all "wrong"?)

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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    The idea behind this Strat is to give you most of the feel and tone of a reverse strung Strat w/o the wierdness of a reversed body and controls.

    I like the concept a lot.

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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    The first voodoo was a left hand neck upside down with a RH body

    This model was discontinued because of a dispute with the hendrix family and estate, The next version actually was a lefty strung right
    I believe

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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    Excellent guitars. I own four of them (Three Tone Burst, White and Black w/Maple Neck) and one White with Rosewood neck.

    Necks are very large U shape and there is a definite difference in sound from a regular strat due to the bridge pickup angle switched.

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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    Hello all!
    Believe what you will about the LH p/u output of a reverse string configuration. My '02 mim body has enough room, in the individual p/up routs, to reverse the p/ups on a stock pickguard in the mid and the bridge positions. The neck p/u wasn't switched. So, you get the inverted p/u arrangement w/out switching body hand. My '02 mim body is routed for ssh, but it seems more liberal than that, unlike a specific sss, (avri62). RIP Jimi
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    Re: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster

    I almost owned one until the shop I had it on laway forged the date and signature so they could sell my layaway to someone else before i could come up with the cash
    very cool guitars indeed

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