Can the pickups on my Strat be reversed so I can get the Jimi Hendrix sound?
Depending on the type of cavity and how it is routed in your Stratocaster body will determine the type of pickup you need and how the pickups will fit. The traditional cavity route will not allow the pickups to be reversed in your Strat. The shape of the fibre or molded bottom on the pickup fits the shape of the cavity. The pickups will not physically fit into the instrument. You would need to use a staggered Strat style pickup that has a parallel sided bottom plate similar to a Jaguar pickup. This will allow you to reverse the stagger in the pickup and changing the pole piece height under each string. Jimi had this same effect by playing a right handed guitar and reversing the strings and playing left handed. The normal right hand pickups are up-side down with different with reversed strings over each pole. One important thing that helped Jimi’s sound was that the bridge pickup was now at an opposite angle. The pickup is now slanted farther away from the bridge on the treble string si
