Mojo from the Voodoo Chile's Childhood Home

[Canard]

See the Hendrix "Black and Gold Model."

Guitars | JOI Guitars

www.joiguitars.com

For some reason I cannot get a link that will directly open that model's blurb and sound clip.

Very unusual construction, a fir top. It is made using materials from Hendrix's bedroom in his childhood family home.

Home-made Hendrix guitar lands in Sandspit

Hand-built acoustic guitar is made from the baseboards of Jimi Hendrix’ childhood home.

www.haidagwaiiobserver.com

 

[dreadnut]

High-end stuff there!

 

[Rebosbro]

Ultra high end. Fun to look at, but need a lotto winner.
Paul.

 

[walrus]

Gotta be a pretty big Hendrix fan to buy that, and to even think there's any mojo in his childhood bedroom walls!

I can guarantee my own childhood bedroom walls do not have any mojo whatsoever...

walrus

 

[Prince of Darkness]

On a similar note, I think Billy Gibbons had a guitar made using wood from Muddy Water's cabin on Stovall's Plantation

 

[Canard]

Ultra high end. Fun to look at, but need a lotto winner.
Paul.

I suspect you are right.

At today's exchange rates, the base price for one of the dude's guitars is $6,340.55. The price starts to climb quickly with different woods and ornamentation.

So ... as for the two "Hendrix" models, it is "inquire about price." I have a feeling it is a "If you have to ask, you can't afford" situation. Interesting use of recycled materials, copper electrical wiring from the walls for fret board side dots, old fir floor boards for the neck, old fir baseboards for the top, paint flakes scraped from the floorboards for the rosette. Old Douglas fir is like iron, really hard to work, especially for fine work. Very sharp tools and a lot of skill are required.

I think the luthier is a Cree guy who lives in a small community on Vancouver Island.

His instruments are beautiful to look at.

Slash from G&R apparently really dug his work.

 

[SFIV1967]

That thead title is confusing me.... "Voodoo Chile's Childhood Home"...

Ralf

 

[Canard]

That thead title is confusing me.... "Voodoo Chile's Childhood Home"...

Ralf

Sorry. Perhaps it is a bit culturally bound and confusing.

Mojo in the sense of sympathetic magic from a physical object, a magic charm or fetish.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mojo

Ref:




And then there is The Voodoo Child himself (Chile a dialect variant of child)



Hendrix is the Voodoo Child. His childhood family home provides the physical objects to function as mojo incorporated into the guitar named after him.

 

[SFIV1967]

Sorry. Perhaps it is a bit culturally bound and confusing.

No, I'm talking about "Chile", the country! Read your thread title again!
Ralf

 

[adorshki]

No, I'm talking about "Chile", the country!
Ralf

Not to be confused with chili, the peppers.

Voodoo Chili, anyone?

 

[Canard]

No, I'm talking about "Chile", the country! Read your thread title again!
Ralf

It all depends upon whether you pronounce Chile as two syllables or one.

As two, it is a country.

As one, it is a dialect variant of child.

Ref:

 

[SFIV1967]

As one, it is a dialect variant of child.

Thanks for the explanation. Never heard that before. But especially in written language like in the thread title it was confusing at least for me...
Ralf

 

[adorshki]

Thanks for the explanation. Never heard that before. But especially in written language like in the thread title it was confusing at least for me...
Ralf

I'm surprised as "Voodoo Chile" is the spelling used on the 14-minute jam with Winwood and Casady (as opposed to "...(Slight Return") ), on Electric Ladyland and numerous exploitation releases.

Figured you'd have known that, and you were just joking about "Chile" the country...

 

[Canard]

Voodoo Chili, anyone?

I'll have a double helping, please, if it will make me play like him.

 

[Canard]

Thanks for the explanation. Never heard that before. But especially in written language like in the thread title it was confusing at least for me...
Ralf

Language is interesting, frustrating, perplexing, etc. It tends to wander off in its own directions without much or any regard for school teachers and academic pedants.

If you did not have the context of growing up with a copy of Electric Ladyland being worn out on your teen-years turntable and American Soul music on your radio, there is no reason that would know the dialect word, chile.

 

[adorshki]

Language is interesting, frustrating, perplexing, etc. It tends to wander off in its own directions without much or any regard for school teachers and academic pedants.

If you did not have the context of growing up with a copy of Electric Ladyland being worn out on your teen-years turntable and American Soul music on your radio, there is no reason that would know the dialect word, chile.

Yeah, I just figured odds were that Ralf would have come across it over the years, even if he wasn't a "big" Hendrix fan. (Which is no "sin")
And after all Jimi was bigger in Europe than the US at times, including posthumously.

 

[fronobulax]

Thanks for the explanation. Never heard that before. But especially in written language like in the thread title it was confusing at least for me...
Ralf

I never realized chile (child) and Chile (the country) were spelled the same and pronounced differently until now. I always ran into the word in contexts that made it clear to me which word was intended.

 

[Rebosbro]

That thead title is confusing me.... "Voodoo Chile's Childhood Home"...

Ralf

Shouldn’t it be Voodoo Chile’s CHILEhood home?
Paul

 

[adorshki]

I never realized chile (child) and Chile (the country) were spelled the same and pronounced differently until now. I always ran into the word in contexts that made it clear to me which word was intended.

Maybe this will help:

Chilean chilis are chilled by Chile's chilly weather.

 

[Canard]

So the base cost of this luthier's guitar models is about $6,340.55.

Let's put things in perspective.

$6,000.00 in today's money was about $677 in 1960. This puts the cost more or less in line with what someone would have had to spend to buy a factory/hand-made Gibson Super 400 in 1960.

Presumably a boutique luthier-made guitar would have been more expensive.

Don't know if there were lotteries in 1960.