Which is the nicest?
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Sascha Franck
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Dunno. I think that aspect is only relevant for gear nerds and the likes. If all you want is to play, there's plenty of decent lefty offers around these days, regardless of the guitar type.
Sascha Franck
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This thread went to a place I totally expected.
Ok then - when you started that thread, did you really want US to decide on which guitar you should get?
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History time:
When I was 16 or 17, my dad had recently died and I was continuing to get into music. I used to tell myself I was going to honour him by going down the path he wanted me to. I was already half-way down it with making electronic music and working with samples and loops and production and all that stuff. But at the time, I could barely play any instruments. I had a midi keyboard I used to use with Reason 1.0, and I was making all this whacky stuff. I was going to college to study music too, and I was the only keyboardist on the course. All the other kids were guitarists, drummers, bassists. None of them were interested in dance music at all, and didn't respect the skills I had been building up. Basically I was a loser because I couldn't play guitar.
So I went to a music instrument convention type thing here in the UK that they run in Birmingham called Music Live. I had a small amount of money, and I bought an acoustic guitar. It was a right handed one.
I got it home that night, and I was trying to play it and I just couldn't. It felt so alien and unnatural to me. It actually made me angry. I was a bit of a ... ahhhh mental kid, shall we say. I was trying to tune the thing, snapped a string, and did the most rock and roll smash it up the wall thing ever. My mum couldn't understand it and just kept asking why I did it. I couldn't communicate why. Probably still can't.
So I went out, spent £100 on an acoustic guitar, smashed it up the wall the same night, and told myself to forget about guitar.
About a year later when I was either just about to turn 18, or had turned 18 recently, and when working my first shitty warehousing job, a friend said to me "you know they make guitars left handed right?" and I was amazed. Nobody had told me that before. I went out and bought this cheap AXL stratocaster copy.
I could instantly play the thing.
I mean, not very well. But I could fret, I could pick, I could form chordal shapes with my right hand. The guitar itself was pretty crappy, would barely hold pitch and at the time I knew nothing about how trem bridges worked. But the whole experience was a complete revelation.
I was actually chatting to @Cirrus this week about my guitar history. It isn't very extensive, and due to my left handedness, I never really got the chance to "idolize" guitars.
So it must've been 2001/2002 when I got the acoustic that ended up dead the same night.
The first proper left handed guitar was the AXL strat in 2003.
I left home and went to university in 2004.
I got an Ibanez SA260FML which was my main guitar from 2005 to 2007.
I messed around with a few other guitars. A Wesley SG copy, a gold coloured jazz bass copy I got off ebay.
In 2007 a friend had a Les Paul Studio. I wasn't really interested in Les Pauls at the time.
In 2008 I was in Japan and picked up my Orville by Gibson for £380. Probably the best deal I've ever had in my life.
Pretty much I've played that one guitar ever since. I've had a few Ibanez guitars over the years, stupidly convincing myself that the 1st one I had was amazing when it wasn't. Actually I became a way better guitarist when I got the Les Paul.
I've got the LTD EC1000ET, and a few basses. But all told.... my guitar experience is way less than my delay pedal experience!!!
So... back to being a lefty.... I personally would never discourage a left handed person from remaining left handed, no matter what the market for guitars is. I'm very strongly left handed, and for me a left handed guitar essentially paved the path for my entire life as a guitarist. I would not be the person I am today if left handed guitars didn't exist, and if my friend hadn't convinced me to give it another go. I'd probably be a jaded old bastard, sat there whinging about how I would've loved to have played guitar once upon a time.
When I was 16 or 17, my dad had recently died and I was continuing to get into music. I used to tell myself I was going to honour him by going down the path he wanted me to. I was already half-way down it with making electronic music and working with samples and loops and production and all that stuff. But at the time, I could barely play any instruments. I had a midi keyboard I used to use with Reason 1.0, and I was making all this whacky stuff. I was going to college to study music too, and I was the only keyboardist on the course. All the other kids were guitarists, drummers, bassists. None of them were interested in dance music at all, and didn't respect the skills I had been building up. Basically I was a loser because I couldn't play guitar.
So I went to a music instrument convention type thing here in the UK that they run in Birmingham called Music Live. I had a small amount of money, and I bought an acoustic guitar. It was a right handed one.
I got it home that night, and I was trying to play it and I just couldn't. It felt so alien and unnatural to me. It actually made me angry. I was a bit of a ... ahhhh mental kid, shall we say. I was trying to tune the thing, snapped a string, and did the most rock and roll smash it up the wall thing ever. My mum couldn't understand it and just kept asking why I did it. I couldn't communicate why. Probably still can't.
So I went out, spent £100 on an acoustic guitar, smashed it up the wall the same night, and told myself to forget about guitar.
About a year later when I was either just about to turn 18, or had turned 18 recently, and when working my first shitty warehousing job, a friend said to me "you know they make guitars left handed right?" and I was amazed. Nobody had told me that before. I went out and bought this cheap AXL stratocaster copy.
I could instantly play the thing.
I mean, not very well. But I could fret, I could pick, I could form chordal shapes with my right hand. The guitar itself was pretty crappy, would barely hold pitch and at the time I knew nothing about how trem bridges worked. But the whole experience was a complete revelation.
I was actually chatting to @Cirrus this week about my guitar history. It isn't very extensive, and due to my left handedness, I never really got the chance to "idolize" guitars.
So it must've been 2001/2002 when I got the acoustic that ended up dead the same night.
The first proper left handed guitar was the AXL strat in 2003.
I left home and went to university in 2004.
I got an Ibanez SA260FML which was my main guitar from 2005 to 2007.
I messed around with a few other guitars. A Wesley SG copy, a gold coloured jazz bass copy I got off ebay.
In 2007 a friend had a Les Paul Studio. I wasn't really interested in Les Pauls at the time.
In 2008 I was in Japan and picked up my Orville by Gibson for £380. Probably the best deal I've ever had in my life.
Pretty much I've played that one guitar ever since. I've had a few Ibanez guitars over the years, stupidly convincing myself that the 1st one I had was amazing when it wasn't. Actually I became a way better guitarist when I got the Les Paul.
I've got the LTD EC1000ET, and a few basses. But all told.... my guitar experience is way less than my delay pedal experience!!!
So... back to being a lefty.... I personally would never discourage a left handed person from remaining left handed, no matter what the market for guitars is. I'm very strongly left handed, and for me a left handed guitar essentially paved the path for my entire life as a guitarist. I would not be the person I am today if left handed guitars didn't exist, and if my friend hadn't convinced me to give it another go. I'd probably be a jaded old bastard, sat there whinging about how I would've loved to have played guitar once upon a time.
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we don't talk about TOP2.0.
But yes, I've got suuuupppreeemmmeeee gas right now for something PRS-y, or another Les Paul. Gaahhhhhh.
GuitarBeastKing
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Definitely the 2nd one!
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I think the blue ones would look nicer with nickel covers.
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