LEFT HANDED guitarists come on in here and post

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I've got my own lefty YouTube channel here:

Lefty Lounge Lizard's Guitars & Amps Extravaganza

I've been really busy for last several months... so there's only a handful of vids (how to slave amps, 1st album EVH tone, some tunes). But I've got lots more I plan on putting up.

Here's one of my guitars, a 2008 Gibson Custom Shop '61 LP/SG Custom in sparkle green:

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My avatar shows my LP custom. We were playing at a church camp.

Both of my electrics have been through the ringer. The SG has had a very hard life.

I tried playing righty when I first started. It felt so unnatural that I simply flipped the guitar over (w/o restringing it) and played lefty for a while. The "cowboy" chords were not too hard to learn. But once I got to barre chords, it became very difficult. I then bought an old Guild "almost looks like an SG" model (early 70s) and strung it backwards. I played through a friend's Super Reverb for several years.

Once I had saved up, I bought my first lefty electric - a 77 SG. The LP came 2 years later.

A guy I knew at LaSalle Music in West Hartford was going to NAMM and picked up a Fender F65 lefty acoustic for me while he was there. The fretboard (like my SG) is showing a lot of wear. But it still sounds decent.
 
Just curious, any of you lefty guitar players actually right-handed otherwise? I'm left-handed...usually (write, throw, fap). But guitar I play righty.
 
SpiderWars":lshf3uxw said:
Just curious, any of you lefty guitar players actually right-handed otherwise? I'm left-handed...usually (write, throw, fap). But guitar I play righty.
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I bowl righty, play baseball (poorly) righty.

Eat, drink, write, ..., and most importantly, guitar, ... all lefty.

Where I grew up, being a lefty was considered weird. Each teacher in elementary school took it as a personal challenge to "straighten me out".

Leftys were the odd person out. For example, all of the desks were for right-handed people. A lefty had to sit sideways at the desk. I had to learn to write with my arm hanging off of the desk. To this day, my handwriting is horrible because of that.
 
I'm left who plays righty. I was told very early on to play righty as it will be easier to do so. I'm glad I did.
 
There is nothing easier about playing righty for a true lefty. You actually retrain the corpus collossum for the switch.

The only thing easier for a righty is finding cool guitars.

Learning from another person is easier as a lefty because they are usuallly righty and then we have mirror image fretboards.
 
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