The Story of Jimi Hendrix’s Gibson Flying V Hand Painted Customised Guitar

Jimi was a very creative person – not just with music – check out some of his childhood artwork! Hendrix took this 1967 Gibson Flying-V and hand painted it himself with simple before giving it to Mick Cox. For some unknown reason Cox sanded off the painted finish Hendrix added! So eventually it was restore (repainted just as Jimi painted it and it now hangs in the exhibit you see below.

Below is the story of this guitar from The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, is home to a singular collection of Jimi Hendrix artefacts that help tell his story, from his boyhood days in Seattle, Washington, through his meteoric rise to superstardom.

In this clip below Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum curatorial director Howard Kramer tells the story behind two of the guitars featured in the Rock Hall’s Jimi Hendrix exhibit: the 1967 Gibson Flying V dubbed “Love Drops” and the 1960s 12-string Zemaitis acoustic made famous when Hendrix played it in the 1973 movie “A Film About Jimi Hendrix.”