dwditty, I would have to take issue with your assertion that Jimi Hendrix "played this way". He didn't.

Sure, he played a right-handed Strat and he played it left-handed, but he restrung the guitar so that the treble E string was nearest the ground, just like a right handed guitar.

This is different from the left handed playing of Elizabeth Cotten, and indeed of your own left handed friend.

Murray