Does Fender's Hendrix range of Strats annoy anyone else?

[57joonya]

Sorry for a little random rant but I was looking on the Fender Website this morning and saw this Jimi Hendrix Stratocaster® | Electric Guitars (fender.com)

I really don't understand why Fender sticks a left handed neck on their Hendrix strats, for some reason this really annoys me .

I get it that Jimi used right handed strats, turned upside down and restrung. So why does't fender just sell Lefty strats, strung as right handed? Even a right-handed version with right handed neck would be more accurate, it just doesn't make sense to me.

Does it make sense to anyone, let me know?

OK, rant over and back to playing my Tele

The only think I can say is that lefty fenders and Gibson’s just don’t look right to me . Maybe Jimi thought the same and obviously must have preferred where the controls/whammy bar were

 

[JJLC]

didn't read all replies but the lefty neck on a right hand body offers more access to the upper frets for a right handed player than a lefty neck on a lefty body

maybe that's why Fender puts the lefty neck on the right hand body?

 

[Peegoo]

Can't blame marketing; they're just responding to market demand. If they don't sell, they change things so they do sell.

Hero worship is a thing with most guitar players, and playing a guitar like one's hero provides inspiration. The problem with the Strat is having the controls and jack right under the forearm (as Jimi did) makes it very weird for most Hendrix freaks. Yeah, they love the guy, but screw the idea of 100% adoption of his technique

So they keep the Strat body conventional and flip the neck. It satisfies the Jimi freaks without having to accommodate the backward controls.

 

[G.Rotten]

Sweet Gibson . What is the amp?

It was a 1979 Lab Series L5. A joint venture between Gibson and Moog while both were owned by Norlin. The goal was a tubeless Twin Reverb.

I don't have it anymore. After A/B'ing it against my 75 Twin Reverb I chose the Fender.

But B.B. loved the Lab Series amps. I think I saw a quote where if he got to a venue and discovered he had to play through a Twin Reverb that night, he was as little disappointed. Obviously, he spent more time learning how to get the most out of his gear. I couldn't get anywhere near his tone even though there are many pics on the internet with his amp settings.

 

[Blackmore Fan]

BUT What I do know is that the Seymour Duncan Pickups in my strat sound more like Hendrix than the actual Fender Hendrix line that is/has been put out there.

The Seymour Duncan SSL-1s I own in my black Strat sound amazing.

 

[Blackmore Fan]

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Why not a Hendrix tele at this point?

Because the headstock is atrophied.

*ducks*

 

[Mike M]

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Why not a Hendrix tele at this point?

"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature"

 

[Hodgo88]

"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature"

Never seen that before. What a great scene.

 

[Mike M]

Never seen that before. What a great scene.

It was on the edge satire when it came out in 1976, now its a documentary.

 

[Wildeman]

As annoying as having to stand in line at the grocery checkout and listen to Mariah "Jim" Carrey doing her signature vocal histrionics on a simple tune like Jingle Bells. I've never vomited in a grocery store, but damn I came close yesterday.


News Flash: Jimi didn't play a signature model.


I H8 signature models! I'd rather play a Les Paul anyway.








heh heh

 

[Jeru]

Let them market their crap to other folks.
I don't care. Boy do I love not caring.



A little bit off topic but related:
I'm taking updated (guitar) family photos this wknd, both for insurance and geek-out purposes.
I've ended up with 8 electrics in total -- all are nice playing instruments, but maybe five of which
I would feel comfortable playing at a show. Between 3-4 of them are worth so little on the used
guitar market that it makes no sense to sell them, one nice strat was given to me so I could never
sell it and that leaves a faded-series SG with really nice pickups and a ~$1,000 thinline partscaster
that I just built. 8 guitars, certainly worth <$3k all-in.

My honest feeling / no intent to denigrate or offend those who feel otherwise -- I am grateful not
to need or want any of the guitar makers' new products.

 

[Hoodster]

Most annoying is that they have failed to reissue this one: