Jimi Hendrix Fender New Model For 2015

How many will be inspired to build a Hendrix Replica
HENDRIX LIVES Fender release their new 2015 VOODOO CHILE tribute Stratocaster signed by Jimi Hendrix the adopted by London superstar TODAY with a huge nod to the explosion of interest caused by Jeff Beck's Todd Krausse / JBlack reverse headstock JB stage guitar with longer string length for the bass strings, creating a tighter playing feel with easier bending and vibrato on the treble strings. The October 2015 Hendrix Strat sports American Vintage ’65 single-coil pickups includes a reverse-slant bridge pickup, producing uniquely inspiring tone with tight, warm sound and enhanced upper harmonics and definition. The highly versatile 9.5”-radius “C”-shaped maple neck with medium jumbo frets offers a flatter playing surface—ideal for chording while simultaneously allowing you to bend notes to the stratosphere during scorching solos. Commemorating Hendrix’s unrivaled legacy, the large ’70s-style headstock bears the guitarist’s signature on the rear. A unique neck plate displays a silhouette of the man himself and the engraved inscription, “Authentic Hendrix,” leaving no doubt as to the inspiration behind this guitar. Jimi's London flat was declared permanently open to visitors today by the BBC worth a visit to London to see his bed, worn-out sofa and his 1968 black Strat on the wall here: handelhendrix.org

http://intl.fender.com/en-AU/guitars...erboard-black/

Wokka your wish is my command lol. Here is pic best I can find at the moment.

sounds good KB, any idea of the price and had a quick look on the website couldn't see a pic of the axe ?
How can they call 9.5" radius neck a flat playing surface would be a fair bit more curved than the PBG standard of 12"

EDIT just got the Fender link cheers KB, price must be well over $10-15k at a guess. Thats rubbish the Fender website doesn't even show a pic of the autograph on the back of the headstock or the neck plate

I reckon about $1,500 - $2,000 bucks in Oz.

http://www.andertons.co.uk/solid-bod...mpic-white.asp

ah that sounds like a much fairer price Ponch.
I just assumed they would call it a custom build and add a ridonkulous price to it.

Looking at it, the horns on body are still not Jimi style. Wouldn't it just work doing the opposite of Hendrix - get a left hander, restring and use right handed?

yeah I picked that up Ponch. I don't remember Hendrix playing a reverse headstock. He played a right handed strat upside down and restrung so the headstock looked reversed. Luckily he had big enough fingers to reach the high frets with a smaller lower cutaway

Sorry, but more contemptuous rubbish bought to you by the big f....

Leo would be spitting chips right about now, may he rest in peace...

have to agree DB, more overpriced axes from the big F trying to be a Hendrix axe

As I said who's going to be first to build a tribute, and get it historically correct unlike Fender have lol

I guess the answer to that would be one of our Leftarian members :)

could still do a right hand version I spose - lefty axe upside down.
I couldn't play it that way, fingers need to be Hendrix sized to get to the upper frets, unless you put a nice scoop in the upper cutaway

Almost bought a lefty Squire Strat a while back as it was going cheap to do exactly this but ended up buying a right hand Yammy Pacifica instead as you just end up with controls and tremolo in all the wrong places. Not so sure the slight difference in tone or sound is worth the grief just to get that look, and if you can't play like Hendrix you would just be labelled the wannabe that could never be.

The lefty who does my head in is Doyle Bramhall II, he plays left handed but strung & tuned as a righty.

As noted by DB this is a poor attempt to cash in, money stays in pocket

Lol, he must be a lefty like me - who does everything right handed and/or back-to-front!

@ DK I have a mate who plays righty with it strung for a lefty so all the chords are fingered very differently
@ Ponch we are alike, I'm a lefty but play axe, use scissors and PC mouse righty. What things do you do Ponch back to front ? It must mean we use both sides of the brain haha

For example, I use right handed scissors left handed upside down. I think my brain has to use both sides just to figure it out!

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haha classic Ponch that's a strange technique but as long as it works.
Since your Kwaka is from the US hope they didn't swap the throttle to the left hand grip ?

Another lefty who also uses a mouse, cricket bat (and similar sporting equipment) and plays axe right handed too...

so you play a mosrite (cricket bat) right handed Pest haah

how about tennis/squash ? I play left handed

i do everything leftie

IMO if the big F want to build an historically correct Hendrix reissue, then simply trot out a right handed strat, it's what he mainly used.

this is marketing guff, not interested

I don't know how Hendrix played with the pots stuck under his arm. I was fortunate to be given a silver ring of Jimi Hendrix's. Always loved His amazing playing but didn't love all of his music.

The one person that really freaks me out is my dear old Nanna.
She can write the most beautiful copperplate script with both hands simultaneously......

Yeah DB youve obviously developed her Artistic skills working on two guitars at same time lol.
Was that what your Grandmother Did as her profession ?

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so you play a mosrite (cricket bat) right handed Pest haah

how about tennis/squash ? I play left handed

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Yhep, lefty for tennis too...

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Yeah DB youve obviously developed her Artistic skills working on two guitars at same time lol.
Was that what your Grandmother Did as her profession ?

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Nanna was a Dairy Farmer and came from an Orchardist back ground.
She left school at 15 to work on her Dads orchard, then joined the land army during the war.
Pity really, she had the most beautiful natural Soprano voice, she used to sing to the cows at milk time and it sounded like an angel...
Had times been better she would have gone to study Opera, it was her Dads dream that she would sing in the great concert halls of Europe but it wasnt to be....
But she has had a long and happy life with Grandfather, married now for 77 years!

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The lefty who does my head in is Doyle Bramhall II, he plays left handed but strung & tuned as a righty.

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Albert King and Otis Rush also played this way.

really Fretty so their chord structure was upside down, No wonder they were such awesome musicians

@ DB/Gav I think Fretty needs an avatar he's an old member and never had an avatar !

Ok Guys if you thought the Hendrix Fender was pricey. What do you think of this lol
http://www.emirates247.com/news/emir...10-29-1.608551

I just threw up in my mouth....

haha a bit overpriced and why would you put diamonds all over a guitar !

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The one person that really freaks me out is my dear old Nanna.
She can write the most beautiful copperplate script with both hands simultaneously......

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genius, Leonardo Da Vinci was able to do the same, with one being a mirror image of the other....

Wokka if your a jeweller and Gibson come to you and ask you to supply and set 400 carats of diamonds, that equates to approx 11,441 pieces of diamonds, set in 1.6 kilogrammes of 18K white gold you do it lol. 68 jewellers And guitar makers spent 700 days to build and set it

Dam Kimball you discovered my latest build lol....:)

I think Vickie would love the diamonds you get the guitar.

I can't even guess how many days off shore that would cost me.

You've done it already surely your never home Jarrod

Home in a couple of days and nothing on the books till Febuary. Oil and gas is heading for a down turn so I should be home a bit more often.

Might be nice for you and Vickie to take a months holiday just chill

Not a bad idea...