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Xplorer wrote:i don't know, the movie may be HD, but a number of things may prevent us from seing this tiny notch. that's totaly possible and trust me i'm a 3d perspectivist, light has plenty tricks ...
i don't say it's here, i don't say it's not here, i scientificaly don't know if it was there at Woodstock.

the hard proof would have been to be there on Woodstock day, with the strat in our hands. not possible.

Xplorer wrote:it looks like i talk for nothing since i'm not heard. nevermind, back to square one.
can we at least let these subjects aside ? anyway we will.

you i have proved my point many times and you just keep on believing no proof, Not square one here i know the truth

Xplorer wrote:

you i have proved my point many times and you just keep on believing no proof, Not square one here i know the truth

oh i know you've said your point many times ............. please live your religion and truth in peace we don't need to be converted.
i may say that you keep on believing no proof too, and you forget that talking Hendrix isn't just about talking proofs and truth.
always beware of peoples saying "i know the truth" ...........

please cut the subject now and send us some clips and mods and builds instead, show that you sound like it man ... no more "proof talking" please, thanks

Xplorer wrote:you're free to believe anything you want toneseaker

Xplorer wrote:

yngwie308 wrote:I have met Mike Eldred and he is quite smart and would have thought to save Jimi's strings when they were taken off,also the strings can be removed without cutting.
As far as I can remember the Strat that Mike is holding is the Woodstock Strat the NAMM show display featured the replicas and the original.
Cheers
yngwie308

Yngwie, you're right, i mean, mike eldredd didn't cut the strings, but someone else did ! Neville Marten ...

"The strings were indeed rusty and the frets had gone a bit green. Interestingly, the spotted cat-fur strap (ocelot, I think – very non-PC today) was still in place. We later checked clutches of spots on the unfortunate feline's hide against photos of Jimi, and it was clearly one and the same.
Why didn't I keep the strings?
Taking the guitar to my workbench I checked the neck for straightness and it needed a slight tweak of the truss rod. That done, I cut off the strings and threw them in the bin. Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? Today they alone would probably be worth £50,000 (with Jimi's DNA all over them)!

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."

from here : http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/ ... rat-178118