Hendrix Black Beauty Ceramic

Several years after hendrix s death ulrich roth soon to be called uli jon roth became fixated on a guitar style that combined classical music structures with the outer space blues transmissions pioneered by hendrix.

Hendrix black beauty ceramic.

Hendrix exited the third rock from the sun. The strongest candidate would have probably been his 1968 maple neck black beauty fender stratocaster a guitar that rarely left his side later in his career. Hendrix gave a couple of items away a pendant he wore on the cover of jimi hendrix smash hits to richard ames who promoted the shows with his brother steve and a guitar strap to annette cope the production company s secretary. Jimi hendrix s girlfriend gave the black strat to uli jon roth.

In comparison the original 50s stratocasters had a one piece maple neck with a walnut skunk stripe on the back. Black beauty is a 1968 fender stratocaster with black finish white pickguard and a maple neck. What makes it unique is that black beauty was actually jimi hendrix s favorite guitar even more so than his other equally legendary guitar the 1968 olympic white fender stratocaster known as the woodstock strat which he. Seems he only burned 2 guitars the saville theatre one which was rediscovered last year and sold featured in the guitar magazine sunburst and with burned electrics and the monterey painted strat which.

Black beauty is a 1968 fender stratocaster with black finish white pickguard and a maple neck. Sep 24 2016 september 17th 1970 jimi hendrix with the black beauty. Jimi s black strat had a two piece maple neck. Hendrix wanted to swap a 12 string for a pereles stratocaster.

Jimi with black beauty photographed by monika dannemenn on her patio. Hendrix seemed first and foremost to use his instruments as tools to allow. Jimi hendrix s black beauty a fender strat that jimi hendrix famously burned went up for auction in 2008 and again in 2012 selling for nearly 500 000 and later for 290 000 respectively. Its serial number is 222625 the neck is slim and the fretboard is of standard fender radius of 7.

This picture was taken by his girlfriend. Just been reading up on hendrix s guitars it s fascinating stuff. It was one of several fender stratocasters that jimi owned. However even this instrument the current location of which is unknown was very much just a stock strat.

This means that it was made from two pieces of maple fretboard and the body of the neck glued together after the truss rod was installed in between them. The deal didn t come off.