Can you simply string a right hand guitar backwards for left handers..or more to it?

[Young Angus]

Was just wondering if with right handed guitars can you just get them and string them backwards so left hand players can use them, or is there more to it than that?

Assuming that i have also taken the strap button into account

 

[casblah]

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You'll have to deal with the nut being reversed as well.

 

[theodie]

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Re: Can you simply string a right hand guitar backwards for left handers..or more to it?

I am thinking about the way nuts are cut, If one was to flip it around it seems like you would have intonation problems. If what I am thinking is correct, you would have to get a nut made for it.

 

[Fiber-Optics]

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Yes, but it would be best to get a new nut made and then you would have to set intonation.

 

[tone4days]

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Re: Can you simply string a right hand guitar backwards for left handers..or more to it?

yeah, +1 on the nut and intonation comments

you have to make sure you use the proper left handed guitar picks too

cheers
t4d

 

[Young Angus]

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Re: Can you simply string a right hand guitar backwards for left handers..or more to it?

Hahahha left handed picks eh, well i must be charmed sofar with my right handed ones cos ive made no effort to distinguish the two and have never had a problem

Thanks everyone :cool2:

 

[Quencho092]

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Re: Can you simply string a right hand guitar backwards for left handers..or more to it?

how did jimi do it? did he go through all this stuff, or did he just string intonate and play?

 

[mrfjones]

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how did jimi do it? did he go through all this stuff, or did he just string intonate and play?

i was kinda wondering the same thing. i will have to check, i have an article about his guitar and fenders try at cloning it. i will see if they say anything about the nut.

 

[mrfjones]

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Re: Can you simply string a right hand guitar backwards for left handers..or more to it?

okay i looked as closely as i could at the picture in the article and it appears that jimis strat had the nut flipped

 

[bryvincent]

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there's no problem on strats and guitars with similar bridge but you may have a problem on Les Pauls with its slanted bridge.

 

[sooperunkn]

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Fellow "tortured" lefty here. You righties and your special picks and your "he he hes" can kiss my arse! Imagine yoursleves walking into a guitar shop and looking on the walls at all these beauties... and then you find that one.... the one you've been looking for.... and it's CHEAP TOO!!! But wait... what's this... it's LEFT-HANDED!!!!! You look around and ALL THE FRIGGIN GUITARS ARE LEFT-HANDED!!!! How can this be? Someone wake me up from this nightmare!!!!

Well, that's how us lefties feel every time we walk into a guitar shop. We have to mosey over to the back corner where they keep the left-handed axes... the usual suspects: Mexi Strats, knockoff LPs, and Hondos.

BASTARDS!

Anyway... back to the thread... for electrics you just need to flip the nut and re-intonate. But be carefuk if it's an acoustic. The bracings on the soundboard are usually not symetrical. They're specific to the slant on the bridge/saddle and their tension. I'm not sure about nylon string acoustics... but it's true for steel.

Rock On!

 

[gordon_39422]

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Re: Can you simply string a right hand guitar backwards for left handers..or more to it?

I have a friend who is a phenomenal player. She is a lefty, buy refused to have to dig through the leftovers for her treasures. As such, she simply strings a right-handed guitar in the normal manner and flips it over to play it inverted. I tried to play a simple song in that sylye and it was awkward, but I could see where it would be frutiful to learn to play in that manner. Now she can have the best of both worlds!! Did I mention that she is a fast finger picker!!!