I saw one his old friends and a member of “The Jimi Hendrix Experience” on PBS. He said Jimi did not restring the guitars. He just flipped them over and played- that was the way he learned.
Did some surfing on this, and I am starting to think he played “flipped over” and “restrung.” Had so much talent it did not matter, as long as he got the sound he was wanting.
