Fender Strat

The purple and black decal is still intact on this guitar. It's on the pickguard.
***Made for one year only: USA made authorized Jimi Hendrix Commemorative stratocaster. Wimbledon White, original case, all case candy, even the original strings.
This guitar was discontinued after the Hendrix family balked.
It will never be made again. The case alone sells for 400 dollars and the ACE strap alone sells for 285 dollars.

These come up for sale rarely. Mine was bought years ago on a whim, never played, never gigged, never taken out of the house actually.

Look this one up for yourself..........it's all backwards, even the headstock logos. Hendrix signature on back of headstock (a decal of course).
Neck plate engraved with Jimi's face. White coiled "telephone" cord.

A mirror image of the Stratocaster Jimi played at the '69 Woodstock Music Festival performance!

The guitar features the late '60s style large headstock on a maple neck and reverse staggered vintage pickups.This guitar also comes with a vintage style woven strap, white curly cord, tweed case, and Jimi's image stamped on the four-bolt neck plate.

Specifications:

Color: Olympic White Only
Part Number: 010-6822 Maple
Body: Contoured Alder
Neck: Special Shape One-piece Maple (7.5" radius)
Machine Heads: Fender/Schaller Vintage "F"
Fingerboard: Maple
No. of Frets: 21 vintage
Pickups: 3 Staggered-pole Vintage Single-Coil
Controls: Volume, Tone (neck), Tone (mid)
Tremolo: Original Sychronized
Pickup Switching: 3-Way (5-way kit included)
Pickguard: White/Black/White (With Hendrix Tribute logo shown above)
Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
Neck Width @ Nut: 1.650" (42mm)
Strings: Fender Super 250R
Fender Case: Black Tolex®

Made in California-- new in 1997-----the only year of issue ----this guitar is still as new!

quote from *Blue Book Publications, Inc.'s "Blue Book of Electric Guitars, 8th Edition"

Notes: The 1997 Hendrix Tribute Stratocaster introduces a feature that will reappear on both the 1998 Voodoo Stratocaster and the 2000 '68 Reverse Headstock Strat: a relationship between the bridge pickup and the strings that is the reverse of the norm. In the case of the Tribute Strat this relationship is achieved by reverse stringing the instrument with no change to the bridge pickup itself. On the Voodoo and the '68 Reverse Headstock, it is accomplished by a combination of reverse stringing and reversing the angle and pole staggering of the bridge pickup (these two models are otherwise right-handed bodies).

The importance?

This changes (reverses) the traditional relationship between vibrating string and pickup pole. For example, the low E string now vibrates over the pickup pole that otherwise would be below the high E string, and vice versa. It is believed that this reverse relationship produces different tone characteristics - a somewhat brighter bass and warmer treble, a difference that some believe contributed to the "Hendrix tone".

On Jul-08-10 at 12:28:28 PDT, seller added the following information:

Anybody seriously interested in this wonderful guitar let me know what your offer is.