Leaderboard

I think this is the one: Fairly pricey too IIRC. A lot more than a U.S. Standard of the time (late '90s). Might even have been a Custom Shop version (but I'm guessing a bit here...).

Nope. I checked at the time. Apparently it was for righties to stand in front of a mirror and pretend. https://www.fender.com/en-GB/electric-guitars/stratocaster/jimi-hendrix-stratocaster/0145802300.html The one in the ad is a modern version with the body set up for a right-handed player. The original was an exact mirror image of Hendrix's guitar. I'll see if I can dig up an image...

Didn’t they once do a Hendrix Strat which was basically an upside down lefty? You'd have to hope they did a lefty version of that as well

Definitely not a one off. I had a Mania VTB-4BS neck thru bass which was really very good. It won bass of the year under £500 in one of the big guitar mags when in production. Here's an ad for a bass with a bit of info about quality and origin, I'd be willing to bet the guitars are built in the same factory to the same standard.

Interesting observation on another forum; If you play an old-school piezo-bridge acoustic-electric, IME the low-gain input of an '80s Peavey Bandit 65/Special 130 1x12" combo is as good as it gets for live performance: the limited frequency response over ~5kHz filters out the nails-on-a-blackboard highs and "quack," and since the Saturation control in the Lead channel is defeatable you can set up a separate level for single-string leads or fingerstyle - used one for years with my first-gen Ovation Custom Balladeer, and it actually sounded like a loud acoustic guitar rather than what presently passes for "acoustic-electric" ... Unless you want to add a modelling pedal (TC ToneRes? Zoom A1 Four?), it sounds like your current approach is the best one.