Guitar manufacturers have long offered “signature” models: instruments based on those used by famous players or built to their specs and then marketed to the public. Indeed, one the most iconic and ...

So you want to play like rock god Jimi Hendrix? Fender combines guitar history and present-day playability in a Hendrix Stratocaster that's both a contemporary instrument and a child of the '60s.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Back in 1968, Jimi Hendrix played a Strat loaded with pickups hand wound by a young Seymour ...

Anyone with a vague interest in the electric guitar will know that Jimi Hendrix played a right-handed guitar restrung to be played left-handed - something Fender has sought to recreate with the Jimi ...

On its 50th birthday, which arrives this year, the Fender Stratocaster is looking even more youthful, cool, and ultramodernist suave than David Bowie did on his 50th. The Strat remains the ultimate ...

Doesn't actually make you Jimi Hendrix. Vintage guitars are expensive because most people who play guitar grew up hearing them, seeing them on TV, and dreaming of owning a real one someday. This fact ...

Its seductive looks and futuristic design have endeared the Fender Stratocaster to generations of guitarists. As an icon of rock turns 60, Jonathan Glancey looks back. Old rockers wrinkle as they ...

Jimi Hendrix's longest-owned guitar is heading to auction. Estimated to sell for between £80,000 and £120,000 (US$100,000 to $150,000), the 1951 Epiphone was owned by Hendrix longer than any other ...