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Why put a left-handed neck on a right-handed body?
 
Two reasons.
 
1. Cosmetically, the upside-down-looking headstock is similar in appearance to Hendrix playing a right-handed guitar flipped upside down and played from the opposite side of the body.
 
2. Reversing how the left-handed neck is strung (the low E, for example, being where the high E would be on a left-handed neck strung normally), reverses the usual length of the strings and results in a somewhat different "feel" and, arguably, creates a difference in tone. The differences are the result of a change in tension of the strings (apart from the G and D string which, being in the middle, aren't really affected). For example, the low E, when strung in reverse, is now the longest string and subject to greater tension due to the increase in length. Conversely, the high E is now the shortest and its tension is less.
 
...reversing the angle and pole staggering of the bridge pickup (these two models are otherwise right-handed bodies).
 
The importance?
 
This changes (reverses) the traditional relationship between vibrating string and pickup pole. For example, the low E string now vibrates over the pickup pole that otherwise would be below the high E string, and vice versa. It is believed that this reverse relationship produces different tone characteristics - a somewhat brighter bass and warmer treble, a difference that some believe contributed to the "Hendrix tone".
 
Otteet sivulta
 
http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/000039.html#1980