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

[Bruxist]

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

[WickedGTR]

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.

[big-daddy-59]

Steve Miller used to play a lefty strat upside down.

[EunosFD]

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...r.aspx?style=1

[HWY1Strat]

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.......

[BradKM]

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.

[Matthias]

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

[Mightyaxeman]

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.

[Mightyaxeman]

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.

[Leep Dog]

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.

[AJBaker]

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.

[Mightyaxeman]

Originally Posted by AJBaker

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.

[gtrguru]

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.

[Shaunpski]

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

[Mightyaxeman]

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.

[Arbiter]

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.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Mightyaxeman

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?

[timtim]

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.

[dmarcus30]

+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.

[timtim]

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.