John Watt
Member
This might be the most incredible co-incidence in my entire life, unless you count mutual orgasms.
You have seen how my guitar playing evolved as having the bass strings on the bottom with the highs on top,
what basically is having a right-handed neck on a left-handed body.
That was Mr. George Benson convincing me that playing my right-handed Stratocaster upside-down worked.
He said the pads of my fingers were there to push down the bass E string, when I get into jazz playing,
and were also there to dampen the lower strings when the guitar was active with feedback.
He said I didn't have to scrunch up my fingers to play lead on the higher strings,
and was pulling the strings down to bend them or stretch them in a way you can't when strung as usual.
So I wanted to put a right-handed neck on my mail order left-handed guitar.
I had a neck left over from an older conversion, using offshore guitars.
I measured it, I held it to the mail order neck, and it looked the same.
I put it in the body and used a screw for the hole in the corner of the bottom left,
and it went in. I got a piece of wire and pushed it into the other holes,
and it went it all the way, and so did the screws. I started giggling out loud.
I screwed the neck on tight enough to hold it, wanting to keep the holes as fresh as possible,
for the final tightening, and used a piece of ordinary string to see if it was aligned,
and it couldn't be any better. This wasn't the only wonderful thing about it.
This right-handed neck has one more fret on it... yes... more notes... amazing.
These two photos show how the neck looks from the front and back.
If I can remember, this neck came from a guitar made in Malaysia.
You have seen how my guitar playing evolved as having the bass strings on the bottom with the highs on top,
what basically is having a right-handed neck on a left-handed body.
That was Mr. George Benson convincing me that playing my right-handed Stratocaster upside-down worked.
He said the pads of my fingers were there to push down the bass E string, when I get into jazz playing,
and were also there to dampen the lower strings when the guitar was active with feedback.
He said I didn't have to scrunch up my fingers to play lead on the higher strings,
and was pulling the strings down to bend them or stretch them in a way you can't when strung as usual.
So I wanted to put a right-handed neck on my mail order left-handed guitar.
I had a neck left over from an older conversion, using offshore guitars.
I measured it, I held it to the mail order neck, and it looked the same.
I put it in the body and used a screw for the hole in the corner of the bottom left,
and it went in. I got a piece of wire and pushed it into the other holes,
and it went it all the way, and so did the screws. I started giggling out loud.
I screwed the neck on tight enough to hold it, wanting to keep the holes as fresh as possible,
for the final tightening, and used a piece of ordinary string to see if it was aligned,
and it couldn't be any better. This wasn't the only wonderful thing about it.
This right-handed neck has one more fret on it... yes... more notes... amazing.
These two photos show how the neck looks from the front and back.
If I can remember, this neck came from a guitar made in Malaysia.