I wonder why Jimi Hendrix didn't play a left-handed Strat

[Reverend Conehead]

As many of you know, Jimi Hendrix turned a right-handed Fender Stratocaster upside down and strung it left handed to accommodate his left handedness. Once he made it big, I'm sure he could have afforded a left-handed Stratocaster. A lefty Strat would have had the advantage of the guitar's contours fitting his body ergonomically and of the high notes being easier to reach. But Hendrix never did that. He stuck with his righty upside-down Strat. Maybe he just stuck with what he was used to.

 

[GhostOfPelluer]

I guess when you are a bad*** at something you don't fix what ain't broke

 

[OmerV]

As many of you know, Jimi Hendrix turned a right-handed Fender Stratocaster upside down and strung it left handed to accommodate his left handedness. Once he made it big, I'm sure he could have afforded a left-handed Stratocaster. A lefty Strat would have had the advantage of the guitar's contours fitting his body ergonomically and of the high notes being easier to reach. But Hendrix never did that. He stuck with his righty upside-down Strat. Maybe he just stuck with what he was used to.

It may be simply that he learned to play with a guitar strung backwards and that became comfortable for him.

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

Because his father believed playing left handed was a sign of the devil. Jimi learned to play right handed and did so around his father with a right handed guitar. But when Al wasn't around Jimi simply flipped it over and played the way he was most comfortable. Jimi could play both handed, with his teeth, and blind in a rain storm. Nobody flowed a guitar like Hendrix and Vaughn. It poured from them like sweat on a fat girl.

 

[jsb357]

Don't know how this figures into the question but how many Stratocasters were manufactured left handed
back in the days of Jimmy James and the Blue Flames.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Don't know how this figures into the question but how many Stratocasters were manufactured left handed
back in the days of Jimmy James and the Blue Flames.

I think they had them back then. I could be wrong.