strings... I personnally haven't used very many different kinds of strings, but I've used ernie ball slinkies, light gauge, and hated them, I broke the high e string so often, then I moved to a heavy gauge GHS boomer... I did break the high e string on those too, but I replaced it with a leftover b string that I had from my ernie ball's... it's been working quite well... (the b string was an 11 on the ernie balls, the GHS boomers heavy high e was a 12!)

oh and by the way, I have this one guitar magazine that lists the 10 best ways to play like hendrix.... let me see if I can find it, then I'll list them for you.

1) Tune down one half step
2) Effects (vox wah-wah, Fuzz face distortion, Octavia, and Uni-vibe)
3) Heavy Rock Rhythm Guitar
4) R&B style Rhythm Guitar
5) Blues Influence
6) Heavy Rock Soloing
7) Unison Bends and Octave Figures
8) Guitars (Fender stratocaster, pickup selector set between 2 pickups)
9) Amplifiers (100 watt Marshall super lead head (Model 1959) and 4x12 speaker cabinets(model 1960))
10) Whammy Bar/Feedback

yeah, it has descriptions of each one, but it's really long and I don't want to type it all out... if you are desperate to know then pick up the Holiday 2004 issue of "Guitar World"