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deadhed

I was looking through guitars online yesterday and I saw this guitar:

http://music123.com/Item/Item.asp?po=Fen0116602

It says that it has a special "elusive" sound and I would imagine it would since the string lengths would be different from regular guitars and with the reverse pickups and all.

My question is, though, is this. Does anyone know of an artist that plays with a guitar like this? It says that "For years players have been putting left handed necks on their Strats in search of that elusive sound." It's a '68 model, so maybe a late 60s artist?

 

schwadood

I know that Jimi used to play right handed guitars strung lefty and that had an impact on his tone. Its a Jimi inspired thing. Fender has put out a few models of strats with reverse neck and pickups. I saw Kenny Wayne Shepherd play one on Voodoo Chile when i saw him open for B.B. King. But I don't know of anyone who uses them mainly. And I would think that most backward necks you see are lefty's who strung righty guitars backwards. This guitar is also a '68 reissue. $1,000 would be so amazingly cheap for an actual '68 strat.

You probably already knew most of this, but if not, there ya go.

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deadhed

I had thought that Jimi just flipped the guitar upside down without restringing...I'll look at some pictures to see.

schwadood

I was almost postive that he restrung it. I could be wrong though. There was a lefty blues player that didn't restring his right handed guitars but I can't remember his name right now.

DoritosMan

I saw a video of Star Sprangled Banner and they had close up of his hands, but i cant quite recall how the guitar was strung backwards....i dont think it was strung backwards.

And what does a elusive sound sound like?

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schwadood

I'm not even sure, DM. I think its just that Jimi's strat had a certain tone that other strats didn't, and it was because he had to restring his guitars backwards to play them because he is left-handed. If you've ever noticed, all Jimi's guitars appear upside down but the strings should be normal, low closest to Jimi and high, farther away. He could have learned to play upside down (with the high string on top). Other people have, but I'm pretty sure Jimi didn't. Left-handed guitars are more expensive than right-handed simply because there are fewer left-handed guitarists than right-handed guitarists. It was probably cheaper for Jimi to get a right handed guitar and flip it than it was for him to get a lefty guitar. And he probably liked it and kept playing'em like that. (I used to be a HUUUUUUUUUGGGGEE gearhead so I could go on afor hours about guitars, amps and effects)

deadhed

I would imagine that reverse-stringing a guitar would have the effect of giving the low E string more of a "thud" sound and the high E string a crisper twang.

schwadood

I would agree with that.

DoritosMan

No, duh! Heheheh just pulling your leg man, yeah i know his guitars are upside down

i still dont know what elusive is. I need to go look at a dictionary.

schwadood

Elusive is like hard to get, hard to find.