Fender Hendrix model pickup specs?

[DrStrangelove]

[re: Hendrix' guitar] Hey at least I touched that guitar, got the mojo you know?

You wuz raised Catholic, weren'tcha?

That "secondary relic" meme didn't come from nowheres.

-drh

[jonson]

Hofner pups

Yeah this thread is done and the information got and gone off track but its Hendrix and it's retro which some of you guys love so here is those pickups.
Brass covers and backplates. steel inner container. usuall Hofner cross slotted pole pieces with 5 small ceramic slugs in between each pole on a steel keeper. Air coils that look like 44awg but i'm not gonna measure it as they are working. Readings are 5.2k and 5.6k so that could be the reason for using these as most diamond logo pups iv'e come across have come in at the 4+k range.

[Spence]

Yeah this thread is done and the information got and gone off track but its Hendrix and it's retro which some of you guys love so here is those pickups.
Brass covers and backplates. steel inner container. usuall Hofner cross slotted pole pieces with 5 small ceramic slugs in between each pole on a steel keeper. Air coils that look like 44awg but i'm not gonna measure it as they are working. Readings are 5.2k and 5.6k so that could be the reason for using these as most diamond logo pups iv'e come across have come in at the 4+k range.

Jonson, I bow to your knowledge of the quirky Euro pickup. But I think that wire's closer to 45 AWG. I'm sure it was something like 0.045mm by design.

[GlennW]

That's the stuff that made the studio "Red House" sound? Thanks for the pictures and numbers.

[Possum]

Wrong ID on Hendrix auction guitar.....

I have a German customer who read the forum posts and sent me this:
David Schwab writes: "The last one is one of his Hofners being auctioned off."
http://music-electronics-forum.com//...3&d=1200260310

No Dave, it is a Framus guitar. Ugly. The electronic was never made by Höfner that way. Have a look at a similar Framus guitar:
one for the controls
http://www.framus-vintage.de/modules...tID=4626&cl=DE
one for the pickup:
http://www.framus-vintage.de/modules...tID=4626&cl=DE

[David Schwab]

No Dave, it is a Framus guitar.

Oops, my bad! I actually meant to say one of his guitars being auctioned off. I didn't know what it was. Almost looked like a Hagstrom.

[Mark I]

Well, i was wrong, when i said it was a Framus, because it was an ugly Klira. http://www.stromgitarren.net/Bilder/bild12.htm

I think, Jimi never played it, maybe it was a gift to him. When i posted to Possum yesterday i remembered, that a friend of mine had just this guitar in the early seventies. The sound was incredibly bad, he bought a Hofner 176 on my recommendation.

By the way, i know the sound of the 176 very well and listened to the "Red House" versions, i have at home. None of them was played on a 176, but on a Strat. There is no "Red House" in the 176.

[Possum]

Yeah It Was A Strat.....

STRAT, and nothing else

[GlennW]

If Jimi played that Klira he never bothered to string it for a lefty unless someone later restrung it right handed, and what about the nut slots...

There's another way to tell if it's possibly a Fender or not, and that's if he played or bent the high D or A on the first two strings. If he did the guitar had 22 frets and wasn't a Strat.

I've always thought one reason he favored Gibsons for that song was the extra fret since it's played in B.

Edit: just checked Mike's Guitar Site UK for the tab and didn't see anything showing Hendrix played that high on that cut.

[Sam Lee Guy]

STRAT, and nothing else

I know Hendrix was clever, but to get a Strat to sound like bass and drums as well is something else! Don't know about the windings on that violin, but it certainly has no bridge. That piano is a Hamburg Steinway and I think they missing out by not issuing a Hendrix model Steinway.

[jonson]

clever bugger

Not sure about the violin windings either just think they changed model to model, sort of Stratovarious.
Don't think you were trailing your rickshaw round the UK in the 60s Sam but I got to see Jimi many times including one night when he sat in with Zoot Money down the Flamingo in Wardour Street. Took a right hander and just turned it upside down and played it. Def not of this planet.

[Possum]

....

You know I read his biography and he could actually play right handed, I think his Dad didn't like him playing lefty so he would play righty when he was around.

Here's a link to the Hendrix close encounter when he was with Curtis Knight:
http://members.tripod.com/uforeview/hendrix.html

[GlennW]

I read somewhere that when Hendrix was in elementary school when the teacher asked how he was doing he said, "I don't know, it depends on how the people on Mars are doing", or something like that. I think the space stuff was sort of a thing he did.

Rainbow Bridge is a terrible movie, but has a very good "Foxy Lady" on it.

There're pictures of Jimi playing a right handed Hagstrom bass during the Curtis Knight recording sessions, he was playing left handed. He was a good bass player, played bass like a bass player instead of like a guitar player.

I don't know about Curtis and the UFO...sounds like a publicity stunt to me.

"His album, Axis-Bold as Love, opens with an announcer talking about flying saucers, with a cut following being a catchy tune called, 'Up From the Stars'."
That's a rare album...all the ones I've seen call it "Up From the Skies".

I have an old Crawdaddy magazine that has an article about Hendrix being abducted for 3 days...I doubt that too.

"Red House" does sound like a Strat, I read that story on the Hofner about 40 years ago, who knows (pun intended).

[jonson]

Hofner strat.

Being a Brit and being bought up in the 50s and 60s on Hofners and Framus and Futuramas (Fender was only something in a catalogue that you could masterbate over) I had lots of Galaxies, Coloramas, 176's Club 40s and 50s and they never got sounds anywhere near what young James got no matter what we put it through. "Gotta be a Strat."

[Possum]

Curtis...

Curtis wrote a small book called Jimi Hendrix, Starchild. Its pretty plain he was into mystical stuff more than you would think. Its in his music. Publicity stunt? Well he only let on it happened in the book, no one would talk about it and Hendrix refused to discuss it. Is it true, who knows? He wasn't your average guy....