This month’s “Tool of the trade” is a 1969 white “maple cap” Fender Stratocaster, which I refer to as my “bronchitis Strat.” I purchased this guitar in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2017. While the band was in Chicago, our crew were staying in Des Moines and my tech, Mike Hickey, had been at a music store the day before and took a picture of this guitar and sent it to me.
Since my earliest days of guitar collecting, I had been looking for a Jimi Hendrix “Woodstock” Strat, which in this case is a white one from 1969 with a “maple cap” fretboard. The neck is one piece of maple, and then affixed atop of it is a separate maple fretboard.
