Any Righties Ever Flipped a Lefty Strat ala the Hendrix Voodoo Strat

I have often thought of doing this, maybe even just a with a cheap Squier to try it out. Wondered if anyone else had.

I think a fuzz and wah wah pedal will go a lot further to bring you that special magic.

Oh yeah, a funky headband too.

Steve Miller used to play a lefty strat upside down.

http://www.vinylsurrender.com/Graphics/AlbumCovers2/The%20Steve%20Miller%20Band%20-%20Fly%20Like%20An%20Eagle.jpg

I always thought it looked interesting & wanted to try it, but haven't yet. Warmoth offers a "right handed reverse" Strat body which is the best of both worlds so to speak. It's shaped like a lefty body, but with righty body contours & control cavity/pickguard. They don't seem to have it listed anywhere in the body section & there currently aren't any in the showcase, but for fun you can mock one up in the body builder section:

http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/BodyBuilder.aspx?style=1

I would not like to play a left handed Strat body right handed.
I imagine it would somewhat limit my access to the upper frets.
I dont have massive hands like Jimi did.....so this would be a problem......

I did , however, put a lefty neck on a righty body( ala the VooDooStrat)
(MIM 60's Reverse Special with a Highway One Lefty neck)
Gives me the 'Jimi Vibe' but with complete fret access....
Gets me where I wanna go.......

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I flipped a few for guys when I worked as a tech years ago.

Minimal, if any, change in sound was offset by major loss of comfort.

I read a site recently that claimed Jimi's ability to wrap himself around an upside down Strat might have been due to a wrist deformity: http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/dysch.htm

I have one. It's awesome. I put a end pin jack in for the strap/jack and a switch in the old jack for more pickup combos. I think all bridge pickups should be slanted this way. Less treble from the high strings more balls from the low strings.

I'm not a fan of strat tremolos but the lefty bridge works better then the righty. I think it has something to do with the arm being mounted on the bass side. It just sounds correct when pushing the arm down.

I believe Tracii Guns played one in LA Guns video for "The Ballad of Jane." For whatever reason, I saw this video a couple months ago on YouTube and seem to remember noticing him playing a lefty strat upside down.

A guy here in a Hendrix tribute band used to play one like that. I dunno, seems kinda silly that way round, going out of your way to make it more difficult.

A guy here in a Hendrix tribute band used to play one like that. I dunno, seems kinda silly that way round, going out of your way to make it more difficult.

It plays the same way. Theres nothing difficult about it.

Not a fan of the look. I understand why Hendrix did it, but now that those wierd left-handed freaks have their own guitars I don't see the point.

I got a killer deal on a lefty MIM a few years back ($100--no kidding). I re-strung it righty for grins. It was an ergonomic disaster. I traded the guitar in for an amp after changing it back to lefty. I wouldn't do it again.

Shaun

I saw Bo Diddley at BB Kings a while back and his guitar player had one flipped over. I think it was Jon Paris. Great night.

Yes, I've tried this. I did not sound one whit closer to Jimi Hendrix afterwards.

The following urban legends surround this mod:

1. The redistributed mass of the trem block increases bass response.
2. The reverse angle of the bridge pickup emphasizes treble response.

I heard no evidence to support either conjecture.

It plays the same way. Theres nothing difficult about it.

I don't believe that the majority of people would feel the same way as you, if they were to play one.

Many of us lefties were forced to have had a righty Strat flipped over ala Jimi as our first guitar...and found it very... no, extremely uncomfortable.

I understand why a southpaw would have found it easier to flip a standard guitar than find a true lefty in years past, but it seems rather silly to me to do the opposite today.

Is there a shortage of right handed guitars somewhere in the world?

iv got one it is a bit of a pain to play.
but you do get used to it.
i dont know about distribution of metal in the trem block changing any thing.
but id say it feels a bit different on bends on the high strings due to string tension not being the same because of the legnth.
and on the plus side i got it really cheap because no one wanted it.

+1, I did the same on a custom build after owning 3 Fender Voodoo Strats. It looks really cool and I like what it does to the string tension.

dmarcus30 im actually in the process of building a strat at the moment loosley based on the woodstock strat one of the the things i really want to nail is the neck.

one part of the construction im having trouble with is the 2 piece maple neck and weather it was a veneer or a slab.

it would be a great help to know how the voodoo strats were constructed.

dont want to hijack any ones thread.

dmarcus30 if you reply probably best in the "help with maple cap neck" thread.

cheers

The following urban legends surround this mod:

1. The redistributed mass of the trem block increases bass response.
2. The reverse angle of the bridge pickup emphasizes treble response.

They both sound like complete BS to me (as in, a few moments' thought would reveal the stupid in either case)