Description
Back in March of 1968, a teenage Seymour W. Duncan carried Jimi Hendrix’s Strat onstage – a guitar loaded with pickups he’d wound himself. That moment planted the seed for a career, and decades later, this set is the closest most of us will get to standing in Jimi’s shoes.
- Custom-wound bridge pickup with a bite that cuts through the mix without losing the warmth of his lead tone
- Neck pickup built for thick, singing chords, bluesy melodic runs, double-stops, and that Hendrix hybrid rhythm/lead phrasing
- In-between positions deliver the glassy, quacky character every Strat player chases
The trick behind the tone lives in the magnet stagger. Jimi played a right-handed Strat flipped upside down and restrung for left-handed playing, which reversed the relationship between the pole heights and the strings. Seymour Duncan replicates that quirk here with a reverse stagger, giving the high strings a rounder, fuller push while easing back the output on the low strings – the same imbalance that made Jimi’s tone so distinct.
Whether you’re chasing Electric Ladyland tones or just want a Strat set with genuine historical DNA, this white-covered trio brings you a documented piece of rock’s origin story, wound the way it actually happened.
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