Build Your Own Left-Handed Electric Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Floyd and I am talking to you today from The Acoustics Musicians dot com in Sandy, Utah. We are here today to talk about building a left handed guitar. Well, building a left handed guitar is pretty much about the same as building a right handed guitar. If you have never done it before, there are kits available, that are pretty much that you have to do the finish work, bolt things on which would be the easiest to do if you have never built something, or if you want to start from scratch, that can be done too, but bear in mind that several important things, you need to be very conscience of the scale length, the placement over the pick ups and probably the most important thing is you can't take a right handed guitar and make it a left handed guitar. The main reason is this bridge piece is built at an angle to compensate for the width of the strings. So again, it ties in with the intonation, I talked to you about on an earlier clip. Very important that the nut is different, the bridge placement of course, is different and the controls are different. This is a right handed guitar, this is a left handed guitar. The controls would be over here. And the same thing applies to an acoustic instrument,you still have that same angle on the bridge. If you can learn to play right handed, you have a lot more options, there are manufacturers that make left handed guitars, but a lot of times you don't have the same color options and it is a lot more limited, but if your left handed and your left handed, you can still learn to play."