One thing many people don't know is that Jimi was not as equally skilled but none the less skilled in playing a righty guitar with an unchanged string set up a la Albert King. I read stories where he would pick up a guitar thar was strung for a righty and flip it and play it. One is when he used to redo Noel Reddings bass parts he would just flip Noel's bass and play that way. About the strings it wasn't only the down tuning that helped with bending notes really high, but also the gauge of the strings. He usually used a string off of a banjo for the high E which would equate to using a 9 gauge and on the B string he had a 10 gauge string.

About the pick-ups the fact on strats today you have 5 positions instead of 3 is in part due to jimi. mixing the neck and middle, and middle and bridge gives an out of phase sound which is famous by hendrix. He would get this with a 3 position switch by resting the switch between positions .

James