Where is jimi hendrix stratocaster

The last guitar shown, which was given to Mitch Mitchell, has obviously been tampered with. I find it hard to believe that Hendrix would play that guitar with the nut being as is. Which from string to string is not spaced correct. So I assume someone redid it poorly. Being a Luthier and player over 40 years I would certainly know. These are the kind of things that make us wonder about the authenticity of these instruments. The wood grain does seem to match quite well, meaning that the EMP Strat is likely the real deal.

What do you mean Jon, they match pretty well to me. Of course, you need to take into regard different exposure and contrast of the photos, and it just seems that a lot of details wood patterns are lost in the Woodstock footage.

I took some detailed photos and video of the Woodstock Strat last year, showing all of the woodgrain, scratches, and other detail. I looked for the notch — One of many photos attached here.

I see some evidence that there was a notch there at some point. Happy to share more if it helps solve the mystery! I would love to see the video and the rest of the photos. You can send them to danko groundguitar. I saw a late 68 strat with 22xxx serial ….. Hi Glen. According to my source, model is to As far as the stain, it is visible on numerous photos, so it would indicate it is indeed a permanent scratch. Cheers, Dan. The mark on the strat is from dirt on his finger tips as you will notice his hands strumming position and with a little research you can see in photos he clearly drops his fingers over that area when strumming all the time.

Took me a long time to figure this out. Remember before it went to the EMP museum a tech actually cleaned the whole guitar and stated after that was a mistake. Dirt mark gone but same other scratch marks. Still other mysteries exist and why with this famous of an artist was nothing documented properly other that the few serial numbers that exist. What are they top secret or something??

Hi Scott. I agree. Anyways, I added a section about the guitar being cleaned, and pointed out the possibility that this was just a dirt mark. He was not trying to sell it to me and I was surprised that he would admit to stealing it. If someone took the time to pick out the black carbon marks from the cigarette burns, is it not also possible that they had the notch painted over? No Strat.

I think it was in when the guitar was on loan Kenny Wayne Shepherd, so maybe that was it. You can look up a video of him playing it on Jimmy Fallon. Perhaps that is the Woodstock Strat? That done, I cut off the strings and threw them in the bin. Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? Having cleaned the whole guitar and polished the frets the next step was to restring it and set the action. It was weird to realise that the last person to do this might well have been Hendrix himself, as there are well-known photos of him doing it backstage before a gig.

I threaded each string through the guitar's tremolo block, over the individual saddles, up over the reversed nut and onto the 'F'-stamped Kluson tuners. It didn't need a lot more doing to it, but I tweaked the saddle heights, made minor intonation and pickup adjustments and that was it. I did plug it in to an amp, but as I am right-handed and it was strung upside-down, a quick Little Wing was out of the question so I simply played a few notes to check that the electrics worked.

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