Reverse body Strat - how about that - Fender or other - is this why Hendrix did it?

[eclecticsynergy]

Re: Reverse body Strat - how about that - Fender or other - is this why Hendrix did i

For me, a left-handed Strat would place the knobs under my forearm. Not just inconvenient, but also uncomfortable.
To make it work I think I'd have to wear the guitar way up high.

[Clint 55]

Re: Reverse body Strat - how about that - Fender or other - is this why Hendrix did i

I fix this on my Strats by moving the volume to neck tone spot and using what was formerly the middle pickup tone control for various other things.

Same. I do this on all my strats. I don't use tones except for my jazz strat. My favorite set up is just a volume and blender. Or a volume and master spin a split.

[GreatOz]

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Hendrix did it because he was lefty and right handed guitars were (and still are) much easier to find.

A friend of mine is left-handed and asked me if she should learn left-handed or right-handed. I told her that, despite left-handed guitars being around, she'd be MUCH better off in the long-run learning right-handed anyway. In the long run, she'll be much better off in finding guitars. Another friend of mine is left-handed, but still plays his guitar right-handed for the same reason.

[Mincer]

Re: Reverse body Strat - how about that - Fender or other - is this why Hendrix did i

I am left handed and learned right handed. No regrets there, at all.

[beaubrummels]

Re: Reverse body Strat - how about that - Fender or other - is this why Hendrix did i

I’m right handed and bought a ‘66 left handed Strat but play it right. Within the first 30 minutes of playing a strat upside down I realized part of why Hendrix sounded like he did. I was ever slamming the switch to the neck pickup when I strummed and to avoid accidentally knocking the volume and tones under my arm, I found myself playing up towards the neck. Not being able to rest my arm on the guitar totally changed my style. I was muting strings with my left hand instead of my right and slamming the strings imprecisely during leads with my right hand. It got funky real quick.

[Larioso]

Re: Reverse body Strat - how about that - Fender or other - is this why Hendrix did i

I hate where the volume is on a Strat. I’m also hitting it.

What I do is remove the first tone control and put the volume in that hole. Then rewire the remaining tone control as a master tone. Added benefit is now you have a tone control for the bridge pickup.

I wonder if there are double pots on the same axis, or as some I know I had on some car radio, that you push to reach the other pot?
Double type I have both on pedals, one knob below and a top one.

It would totally work I think fixing a strat like that.

Other looks does not matter - but having tone 1 and tone 2 in one spot - and volume moved and just plug old volume hole.

I have to look into that....

[Chistopher]

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A friend of mine is left-handed and asked me if she should learn left-handed or right-handed. I told her that, despite left-handed guitars being around, she'd be MUCH better off in the long-run learning right-handed anyway. In the long run, she'll be much better off in finding guitars. Another friend of mine is left-handed, but still plays his guitar right-handed for the same reason.

I am left handed and learned right handed. No regrets there, at all.

Yup, this is what I do as well. I've always thought that guitar was actually "backwards" with handedness. It made sense to have your more dexterous hand pick the strings back when classical guitars were all we had, but the way i see it playing styles have evolved to favor the opposite since then.

[The JEM Ghost]

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I wonder if there are double pots on the same axis, or as some I know I had on some car radio, that you push to reach the other pot?
Double type I have both on pedals, one knob below and a top one.

It would totally work I think fixing a strat like that.

Other looks does not matter - but having tone 1 and tone 2 in one spot - and volume moved and just plug old volume hole.

I have to look into that....

Hejsan Larioso

Those do exist without doubt.
Just an example (they come in different variants):

https://guitarelectronics.com/cts-stacked-dual-concentric-audio-pot-500k-500k/

Once installed one of these as a knob:

https://guitarelectronics.com/stacked-metal-dome-knob-set-chrome/

Problem solved!

[The JEM Ghost]

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Unbelievable!!
Now this is a perfect example of why NOT to trust the media!!
Hilarious

[Larioso]

Re: Reverse body Strat - how about that - Fender or other - is this why Hendrix did i

Hejsan Larioso

Those do exist without doubt.
Just an example (they come in different variants):

https://guitarelectronics.com/cts-stacked-dual-concentric-audio-pot-500k-500k/

Once installed one of these as a knob:

https://guitarelectronics.com/stacked-metal-dome-knob-set-chrome/

Problem solved!

That's perfect, I even find exactly those, knobs and everything, locally here in sweden.

[Bludave]

Re: Reverse body Strat - how about that - Fender or other - is this why Hendrix did i

Hendrix did it because he was lefty and right handed guitars were (and still are) much easier to find.

I fix this on my Strats by moving the volume to neck tone spot and using what was formerly the middle pickup tone control for various other things.

Jimi played a right handed strat because he preferred the knob on the top

[Chistopher]

Re: Reverse body Strat - how about that - Fender or other - is this why Hendrix did i

A friend of mine is left-handed and asked me if she should learn left-handed or right-handed. I told her that, despite left-handed guitars being around, she'd be MUCH better off in the long-run learning right-handed anyway. In the long run, she'll be much better off in finding guitars. Another friend of mine is left-handed, but still plays his guitar right-handed for the same reason.

Jimi played a right handed strat because he preferred the knob on the top

Well given that he did it to many acoustic guitars, his first guitar among them, I doubt that to be the case.