I know I'm going to catch some flak for this but I learned how to play right handed from the get go. And it made sense to me at least. I feel like my dominant hand is handling all the fretting which I always felt was more complicated than picking. Made me think it was the righties who are playing guitar backwards.
@@metalcandr6681 no flak here. It’s how you play and was comfortable for you. Myself, I can’t even hold a righty correctly, and or a pick with my right hand.
@@RiffsThatCrush Same here, I tried, I really tried to play right handed. Can barely fret the notes with my left hand even though it's my dominant hand, it doesn't feel right at all. Picking with my right hand is a massive struggle. Fretting with my right hand my fingers go where they're supposed to go and with my left hand picking on rhythm felt natural. Frankly if it wasn't for left handed guitars, I never would have learned, and certainly wouldn't have made the progress I have learning. Everyone is different, some are close to ambidextrous, some are as left handed as most are right handed.
I'm a righty and and one day flipped my Strat upside down just to see the other perspective and simply holding it as a lefty would felt like I was tying my shoes with my knees
@ yeah it’s quite wild really. Friends have handed me their righties and I hold it that way, and they all of a sudden go yeah, you Look weirder than normal. Get a lefty. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for bringing this up! Im getting into playing guitar right now and it was a struggle finding something i wanted that was left handed and a color i wanted. My local guitar center literally didnt have a left handed guitar in the entire store. I had to have them order one in. Its so frustrating.
When I started playing guitar in the late 70s, nobody had lefty models. My first guitar was a restrung right handed acoustic. When my folks decided I was actually going to keep up with it, they bought a lefty Takamine that had to be special ordered. Same with my first electric (an Ibanez Artist). I still have those guitars, and it has become so much easier to get lefty versions than it used to be. My favorite guitar I own now is my Gretsch electromatic jet.
@@brenthays6539 I really wish that brands back the. Would have made lefties. We do have more, and funny enough after this was up for a couple days, I saw on Long and McQuade (I’m in Canada haha it’s our Sweetwater) that the lefties expanded. More and more
@@MaxSalada yeah. I’ve gone down that route before. Excellent guitars and the cost is crippling. I’m in Canada and the costs are far too high with conversion, shipping and taxes. If I pick it up in Calais the cost to bring it over to Canada is ridiculous too.
When i learned guitar, i never knew you could get lefty guitars, so i learned on a standard right hander. I gave around up 7 times cause it was so damn hard. Now I've been playing for so long it's brutal trying to relearn everything on a lefty. But even after 20+ years playing a rh guitar, I'll still instinctively pick with my lh whenever i play air guitar. That picking motion is such an alien thing with your non dominant hand I don't know the point to this, i guess just to say dude i feel your pain! Us lefties need some love too!
@@zusanli251 understandable. There’s more lefties out there now than years past. I get where you’re coming from, and to be fair it’s less about more actual guitars than it is color options and pickup configurations. Even Kiko Loureiro formerly of Megadeth is a lefty but plays righty, because of the lack of options. I can’t even hold a righty to me. It’s so weird feeling. Cheers 😊
I play professionally Spanish guitar in the wedding industry. there's not much selection going around I suppose if you want to spend 3K for someone will do a custom guitar for you but I asked Cordoba and several others Luthers to make a custom guitar for me and they said no, It's not cost effective because it's obvious that they manufacture the guitars in bulk.
I'm glad I learned to play normal guitars upside down. There are limitations and things to get around, but as a lefty, I'm used to that. It would be nice to have a good selection, though.
@@CaptainShredwell yeah I get that. Schecter is about the only one who really has the most options for lefties. Btw I just watched your Meet Your Maker cover and well done man!
@@mitchpalmer5116 cause they had no choice. Had there been lefties avail we might have had lefty guitar players. Also some were comfortable playing right handed. I’m not one of them
what company was known for saying theres no such thing as a left handed guitar? lol. i think they also asked if youve ever heard of a left handed piano. i just thought it was funny is all. i think it was prs? i think they should definitely make more, i dont see many at all. im a righty btw.
@@Zombie_13x33 I didn’t see anything on the google machine about a brand saying that…. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t either 🤣. That being said if it was PRS, it wouldn’t surprise me seeing as Paul things tonewood is a major thing. Acoustic sure, electric not so much. They have a couple models, and one being a baritone which is wild and not expensive either 😊
Yeah, I can't find it either (Google is useless these days anyway), but it does sound like something Paul would say. I think he lives in his own little world of make believe
If you're in Europe, check out Thomann's brand Harley Benton. Super affordable. Not every finish but (I believe this is correct) every popular guitar and bass body type available in lefty version - tele, strat, 335 precision bass, jazz bass, even a Rick-style bass.
ive got a couple ive got the fan fret 7 they do in left and right handed versions lol they are not bad for the price but im playing my fryta custom lefties mostly
And what percent of those eight percent actually play guitar? A lot of companies are barely hanging on these days and catering to an almost non existent market would not help.
Yeah cause prices are fucked. I know more guys that would play if more Lefties were a thing. Cause they can’t even hold a righty without feeling weird.
@@cb-ez7pz the two big ones have lefties in bunches. The issues with them (Gibson and how they suck) refuse to give different options, body cuts, and gender never lets lefties have a humbucker ever. You’re not wrong either
the lefty options are way better now than when i was starting out in the 90s i mean we can get 7 strings and they recently discovered how to make left handed paint in a colour other than black we literally only had black 6 strings back in the day it gets worse when you play a 7 string multiscale like me really really small amount of options other than custom
@ never heard of Fryta. I’m still considering a HB. It’s the conversion that’s the scary part. Being Canadian our dollar is shit in my other countries 🤣.
I'm a right handed player with a couple left handed friends, so whenever I'm looking at guitars, I keep an eye out for left handed versions. Generally, if they even make a left handed version of a model, you're restricted to one colour. I would understand if they made them by order, but to just straight up not make it available and even more egregiously, restrict you to one (usually boring) finish is just dumb. As a result, I tend to include right handed models that look like they'd work upside down, which should not be necessary
@@MuscleCarLover 100% agreed! The one or two basic bitch colors is where I get pissed the most. Schecter seems to be the only one who will add the odd color. Only fancier colors are through signature guitars.
Im a righty...but i know Schecter takes care of yall pretty good. Warmoth is always a safe bet. Heard good things about Musikraft as well and that one other that only takes phone orders. Then there's kiesel, but man are they pricey. Picking the holoflake flake finish alone on a kiesel cost the same as my entire Warmoth mahogany body with the same finish. LOL.
@@kiezersosay49 ooouuuffff on the Kiesel. I went on their site last night and it’s brutal! Then I went on Warmoth and for only a slightly fancy (the neck was birdseye maple, along with the fretboard, and added Celtic cross inlays) would run me 1200 Canadian. Then conversion/shipping etc is 2300 or a little less.
I always hear this about Hendrix; that his strings were also upside-down as a result of playing a righty upside-down, yet every video and picture I've ever seen shows his strings as being strung correctly. Where is this whole "Hendrix played with his strings strung upside-down" stuff coming from? And it's said with such absolute conviction too.
I've never heard of him playing with his strings upside down, he just used right handed guitars left hand. Which means he would swap just swap the strings around so he could play a right handed guitar left handed. Kurt Cobain did the same thing
@@Specialcayspray Yeah. Now that I rewatch that part where Hendrix is being mentioned, I think this is actually what Trevor meant. I was mistaken in my interpretation of his words.
Hi Trev, great to see you back, and great video! Thanks for sticking up for us lefties, the struggle is real haha! I have 2 ESP's, a Yamaha, an Ibanez and a Vintage in my collection. There are a decent variety of ESP left handed guitars. But you're right, there isn't as much as right handed models. Same goes for a lot of manufacturers. However, if I was to buy a new guitar I'd get a Schecter. They're great looking guitars, and there's a lot of options. Nice one mate 😊🤘🏻🤘🏻
@@JoshKeech that’s the one brand that where I go on their website I’m excited and saddened at the same time hahaha. Options and yet what does one want ya know. The John Browne (from Monuments) 6,7,8 string models are great prices and spec. All lefty models too. Also I love the fiddles you have. You have Andertons and probably a few other shops round who are great 😁
@ScreaminT81 Ah nice that's cool, yeah they do so many types of guitars too. Least they give you a good amount of options. Oh cool, I'll have to check out the John Browne models! Ah thanks, glad you like my guitars! They're honestly so great, very lucky to have them! Yeah, we have a few distros over here. Andertons I have brought from before, and one called Live Louder. Gear 4 music and Thoman also have great variety of left handed guitars 😁🤘🏻🎸
@ScreaminT81 Haha, thanks man! Yeah we're lucky to have lots of options over here. Luckily Europe get a lot of guitars imported so we can buy them 😁😊🤘🏻🤘🏻
Left handed PRS SilverSky SE is the reason, as Paul R. Smith once said, that left handed players often get shafted. PRS finally broke down, after saying he had NO plans to produce a lefty SS SE, ..the SS SE just came out with all great colors too....I waited with baited breath for it for two years, hoping to get one someday.....great reviews all around on righties...........and within a few weeks lefty SS SE's were on sale cause they weren't selling. Remember the clamour when rightes came out...the price gouging, the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.....sight UNSEEN!!!? I got my lefty a month ago or so....a great deal new at $700 no ship, no tax, PLEK'd.. Moral of Story: Us lefties protesteth too much.
@@lazvt8469 yeah we do. Sometimes warranted, other times not so much. I just want a little guitar with buckers, locking tuners and hipshot bridge. A simple man and a shitty player ha. That’s great deal too.
@@RiffsThatCrush I"m pushing 63 and recently simplified my life by getting addicted to the Telecaster and recently taught myself to mod them. Retired last week...now I have more time to tinker and become the player I've always wanted to be beyond a self-taught classic R&R noodler. Cheers!!
My dream guitar is a Music Man Axis but that doesn't exist and if they do they're way too expensive, I've been trying to get Sterling to make any lefty guitars at all
The video without sound was better, haha.😂😂 I'm extremely left handed myself, but has always played as an right. But totally get the frustration, but right handed people are probably making most of the guitars right? So they don't get the problem.... Have a great new year. Cheers. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
@ScreaminT81 oh man these are absolutely stunnin guitars to a fair price, under a 1000 bucks, great finishes as well. I have had two left handed friends back in the day who bought Hagstrom and never went back to another brand!
@ScreaminT81 Your welcome! i did as well and i have to say they used to have a lot more options back in the day, like 2013. But yeah they are absolutely amazing right out of the box. Theres also a PRS SE version for left handed guitarists under a 1000 bucks wich i can also very recommend.
All these folks saying "just play right handed" are either ignorant or unaccepting of the truth that your dominant hand should do the picking, getting the picking patterns and rhythm down is far more important than fretting. Any exceptions to this are just that: exceptions, and not the rule.
ive been looking for a left handed fender mustang for 2 years, fender dont really make them left handed and it sucks because they are my favourite guitar of all time. i only see them for north of 2 grand online and its often not the color/ model i like. being a lefty sucks!
@RhysIsAhuman it sure does. The only place I know that sells only lefties is in Houston at a store called Southpaw guitars. I dunno if they would be able to help you track one down or not. Hopefully you find one soon
Jimi dealt with it just flip it over and restring it. I almost became left handed unitl age 6 or 7 i broke my left arm in 2 places. With the cast in vertical orientation i had to endure 8 weeks of it. Starting grade 1 i had to learn to print n write with my right. ( I was copying superman jumpin off basement stairs I landed after a few jumps on my left elbow). So I emphasize with you but I made the adjustment so can you, learn right handed. Baseball was a problem but it helped confuse the pitcher. hockey sometimes left other times rigjt. If you can play both ways wow a show stopper.
Not even that "Solo" company that sells kit guitars?? I thought they were Canadian! May be do a kickstarter to get them or Stewmac, Wilkinson or whatever to make a batch of lefty kits? More so, locally to you, because freight cost bleeping bleeping bleep bleep.
@@strumminronin well, I can get a solo kit in Canada for sure. Cheaper to ship for sure. I have put that in my mind, and yet I saw a LTD Viper 1000 in purple bursts for sale in Ontario Canada for 600 bucks. My heart sank
@@RiffsThatCrush Sigh, yeah, I getcha. Their 1000 range is dee-lish. Not cheap, but the hardware is good and it's the whole package. You remind me of a UK guitar guy that had a JEM "cloned" for him so to speak. It was hand made so he could have a lefty "JEM". I'll have a digabout and see if I can post a link.
Dude, relax. There are like 10% of lefties and of those lefties 70% chose to play right handed (source: am a lefty, play as righty because fuck me if I've tried to find a lefty in a bumfucknowheresville in 90s) Now I play 8 string 30" headless which no manufacturer produces, so a custom shop is my choice eihter way. There are heaps of options for every budget nowadays, quit whining.
@@RiffsThatCrush but there are, lol. you can get a warmoth with any contours in any colour you like, you can ask a local luthier how much does he charge for your dream guitar, you can go for some asian or eastern european custom shops where labor is way cheaper, fucktonne of options. expanding lefty models and stockpiling huge amount of unsold/unsellable items just doesn't make economical sense for a big manufacturer, why would they? would you?
@ ok so two things. The no is regarding me quitting whining. I have looked at Warmoth many times. I’m in Canada (which I failed to mention in the video) so for me to get a custom build it’s a 1000 USD, then converted to 1500 CAN, which is before I even remotely figure in the shipping. I’m already at 2K. I can get a perfectly built Schecter for 1500 with tax through my local. My point is atleast offer more lefties and then build em. That way there’s no stupid amount of stockpile.
@@RiffsThatCrush you can't build just one guitar in every colour, that's not how big manfacturers produce stuff. You either do 1000 of guitars for cheap, or none at all. Or you do limited run with all the custom bullshit and they cost a lot. and all that for what? 3% of already a niche market? why would they bother. So your upper limit is what, $700 USD? Check local luthiers if your accessment of a currency has any merit - they'll be cheaper US ones, or build one youself from cheap-ass kit and then get local luthier to do nice fret dressing so it'll play like butter, etc. Also, yo can forego warmoth finish with exotic or roasted neck and diy finish body and it'll cost you like $500. Wax/Oil-finished bodies feel smooth and warm af and rawdog necks are crazy fast.
@ I don’t even know what my upper limit is. And it’s less about ever model left handed and different colors. Just the option is my thing. I’m considering either Schecter or Warmoth. The issues is being the conversion rate is the killer. It changes daily, and if it gets better than I’ll go warmoth.
Why are there no left-handed pianos? Yeah, that's right. You play with BOTH hands. You made a bad choice. Now live with it, crybaby. 😂 I'm lefthanded but play normally. Like you should have...
I feel you because my wife is a lefty and has the same gripe, but left-handed guitars just don't sell (even secondhand, I decided to donate one of my wife's after a year of trying to sell it) and aren't worth it to most manufactures to make in small, unprofitable batches. Probably a tiny fraction of that 10% are guitarists, there's not really much motivation to cater to it. It's just smart business.
@ The only one who does really decently is Schecter. Which is all cause of one guy who told Michael Cirivalo that lefties must be made when Michael became president
The 7% rule is largely exaggerated nowadays that's a very old statistic. I can tell you now, at all the guitar shows and retail outlets I visit, there is another lefty aside from me in that same store also shopping for a lefty guitar,I kid you not, this happens to me a lot. I've gone on a course to learn to build my own and also with big companies I look to schecter, they have no issue saying they can deliver to all audience's and don't shy from it. Fender throw out hendrix all the while yet are still behind in offerings thou getting better
@@Leftandyguitar so the percentage is higher? If so that’s interesting. In fairness I live on the east coast of Canada so we hardly see anything lefty here at all. Yeah Schecter really do make it their mission to have more lefties than anyone. If memory serves me correct, when Michael Ciravalo took over as Pres, he asked the staff what they wanted to see, and one of the builders whose is left handed, said more options. Michael said done! 💜💜
@ScreaminT81 yeah that's what my dad used to call it a guitfiddle. I like Schecter guitars I don't play anything else anymore. Got three: schecter avenger Synister Gates signature series, Schecter demon six Fr and a schecter Damien platinum six Fr. All three are amazing.
I know I'm going to catch some flak for this but I learned how to play right handed from the get go. And it made sense to me at least. I feel like my dominant hand is handling all the fretting which I always felt was more complicated than picking. Made me think it was the righties who are playing guitar backwards.
@@metalcandr6681 no flak here. It’s how you play and was comfortable for you. Myself, I can’t even hold a righty correctly, and or a pick with my right hand.
Same here, I'm a lefty but my first guitar I ever got was a right handed model but I didn't know the difference and I've played that way since
@@RiffsThatCrush Same here, I tried, I really tried to play right handed. Can barely fret the notes with my left hand even though it's my dominant hand, it doesn't feel right at all. Picking with my right hand is a massive struggle.
Fretting with my right hand my fingers go where they're supposed to go and with my left hand picking on rhythm felt natural. Frankly if it wasn't for left handed guitars, I never would have learned, and certainly wouldn't have made the progress I have learning.
Everyone is different, some are close to ambidextrous, some are as left handed as most are right handed.
I'm a righty and and one day flipped my Strat upside down just to see the other perspective and simply holding it as a lefty would felt like I was tying my shoes with my knees
@ yeah it’s quite wild really. Friends have handed me their righties and I hold it that way, and they all of a sudden go yeah, you
Look weirder than normal. Get a lefty. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for bringing this up! Im getting into playing guitar right now and it was a struggle finding something i wanted that was left handed and a color i wanted. My local guitar center literally didnt have a left handed guitar in the entire store. I had to have them order one in. Its so frustrating.
When I started playing guitar in the late 70s, nobody had lefty models. My first guitar was a restrung right handed acoustic. When my folks decided I was actually going to keep up with it, they bought a lefty Takamine that had to be special ordered. Same with my first electric (an Ibanez Artist). I still have those guitars, and it has become so much easier to get lefty versions than it used to be. My favorite guitar I own now is my Gretsch electromatic jet.
@@brenthays6539 I really wish that brands back the. Would have made lefties. We do have more, and funny enough after this was up for a couple days, I saw on Long and McQuade (I’m in Canada haha it’s our Sweetwater) that the lefties expanded. More and more
Kiesel makes awesome Left handed guitars in all of their models and they are fully customized
@@MaxSalada yeah. I’ve gone down that route before. Excellent guitars and the cost is crippling. I’m in Canada and the costs are far too high with conversion, shipping and taxes. If I pick it up in Calais the cost to bring it over to Canada is ridiculous too.
It is true we exist, but 98% of us play right handed. Thank goodness, lefty does the hard stuff.
When i learned guitar, i never knew you could get lefty guitars, so i learned on a standard right hander. I gave around up 7 times cause it was so damn hard. Now I've been playing for so long it's brutal trying to relearn everything on a lefty. But even after 20+ years playing a rh guitar, I'll still instinctively pick with my lh whenever i play air guitar. That picking motion is such an alien thing with your non dominant hand
I don't know the point to this, i guess just to say dude i feel your pain! Us lefties need some love too!
@@zusanli251 understandable. There’s more lefties out there now than years past. I get where you’re coming from, and to be fair it’s less about more actual guitars than it is color options and pickup configurations. Even Kiko Loureiro formerly of Megadeth is a lefty but plays righty, because of the lack of options. I can’t even hold a righty to me. It’s so weird feeling. Cheers 😊
Schecter is about the only brand that consistently puts out great lefty versions of their guitars!
@@DeweyJHall1 hence why I am heavily leaning that route. Wide array of options.
@@RiffsThatCrush They're excellent guitars!
Almost all of my guitars have been Schecter because of it. Nice quality guitars and great choice. Great company
@@WereRabbbit hard to beat schecter
I play professionally Spanish guitar in the wedding industry. there's not much selection going around I suppose if you want to spend 3K for someone will do a custom guitar for you but I asked Cordoba and several others Luthers to make a custom guitar for me and they said no, It's not cost effective because it's obvious that they manufacture the guitars in bulk.
@@StarOasis26 yeah that must be an absolute nightmare to get a left handed Spanish guitar. I’m hoping someway somehow you get one!
I'm glad I learned to play normal guitars upside down. There are limitations and things to get around, but as a lefty, I'm used to that. It would be nice to have a good selection, though.
@@CaptainShredwell yeah I get that. Schecter is about the only one who really has the most options for lefties.
Btw I just watched your Meet Your Maker cover and well done man!
@ScreaminT81 heeey thanks a lot, man! That's very nice of you to say.
Good message and good luck to us lefty's . Here in my Capital City in Bosnia (South-East Europe) in the main shop there's only one left handed guitar.
With CNC machines its easy to flip the program and make a few more lefthanded ones.
@@bassicly4250 most of them probably don’t wanna flip. I’m thinking Schecter probably has two machines. 1 for righties and one for lefties 🤔
Either that or have one day a week where they bang out the left handed guitars
@ yeah! Makes sense really
I know a bunch of left handed guys who play guitar right handed.
@@mitchpalmer5116 cause they had no choice. Had there been lefties avail we might have had lefty guitar players. Also some were comfortable playing right handed. I’m not one of them
@ScreaminT81 I understand...I'm right handed but I can only smoke left handed cigarettes. 😉
what company was known for saying theres no such thing as a left handed guitar? lol. i think they also asked if youve ever heard of a left handed piano. i just thought it was funny is all. i think it was prs? i think they should definitely make more, i dont see many at all. im a righty btw.
@@Zombie_13x33 I didn’t see anything on the google machine about a brand saying that…. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t either 🤣.
That being said if it was PRS, it wouldn’t surprise me seeing as Paul things tonewood is a major thing. Acoustic sure, electric not so much. They have a couple models, and one being a baritone which is wild and not expensive either 😊
PRS ? Hmm. That’s why I bought a Musicman.
Yeah, I can't find it either (Google is useless these days anyway), but it does sound like something Paul would say. I think he lives in his own little world of make believe
@ I couldn’t agree more on Paul and his weirdo thoughts.
If you're in Europe, check out Thomann's brand Harley Benton. Super affordable. Not every finish but (I believe this is correct) every popular guitar and bass body type available in lefty version - tele, strat, 335 precision bass, jazz bass, even a Rick-style bass.
@@joaoluis654 oh yeah! I wanna try one. Especially as the Agufish signature comes lefty now. I’m in Canada and the costs are brutal
ive got a couple ive got the fan fret 7 they do in left and right handed versions lol they are not bad for the price but im playing my fryta custom lefties mostly
I'm not left handed, but I sympathize with the frustration. Not a lot of options for you guys in guitar stores
@@joseislanio8910 thank you
Me too. Everyone deserves a nice guitar that they can play and that they enjoy the look of
And what percent of those eight percent actually play guitar? A lot of companies are barely hanging on these days and catering to an almost non existent market would not help.
Yeah cause prices are fucked. I know more guys that would play if more
Lefties were a thing. Cause they can’t even hold a righty without feeling weird.
At least left handed get some guitars made for hem
As far as I know, I have NEVER seen any left handed amps or cabs :/
@@BlazonStone 🙄
@@RiffsThatCrush Its a joke :)
I get why the smaller companies don't make more leftys but Fender and Gibson have the resources and sales numbers to make more lefty options.
@@cb-ez7pz the two big ones have lefties in bunches. The issues with them (Gibson and how they suck) refuse to give different options, body cuts, and gender never lets lefties have a humbucker ever. You’re not wrong either
the lefty options are way better now than when i was starting out in the 90s i mean we can get 7 strings and they recently discovered how to make left handed paint in a colour other than black we literally only had black 6 strings back in the day it gets worse when you play a 7 string multiscale like me really really small amount of options other than custom
@@markjames1713 thankfully. What are you playing for a 7 multi scale if you don’t mind my asking
@@RiffsThatCrush mostly my fryta which is a small company from poland i have 2 but i also have a schecter reaper and a harley benton
@ never heard of Fryta. I’m still considering a HB. It’s the conversion that’s the scary part. Being Canadian our dollar is shit in my other countries 🤣.
I'm a right handed player with a couple left handed friends, so whenever I'm looking at guitars, I keep an eye out for left handed versions. Generally, if they even make a left handed version of a model, you're restricted to one colour.
I would understand if they made them by order, but to just straight up not make it available and even more egregiously, restrict you to one (usually boring) finish is just dumb.
As a result, I tend to include right handed models that look like they'd work upside down, which should not be necessary
@@MuscleCarLover 100% agreed! The one or two basic bitch colors is where I get pissed the most. Schecter seems to be the only one who will add the odd color. Only fancier colors are through signature guitars.
@ScreaminT81 Schechter makes some mean ass guitars too, so that's a cool bonus
Im a righty...but i know Schecter takes care of yall pretty good. Warmoth is always a safe bet. Heard good things about Musikraft as well and that one other that only takes phone orders. Then there's kiesel, but man are they pricey. Picking the holoflake flake finish alone on a kiesel cost the same as my entire Warmoth mahogany body with the same finish. LOL.
@@kiezersosay49 ooouuuffff on the Kiesel. I went on their site last night and it’s brutal! Then I went on Warmoth and for only a slightly fancy (the neck was birdseye maple, along with the fretboard, and added Celtic cross inlays) would run me 1200 Canadian. Then conversion/shipping etc is 2300 or a little less.
ive always heard schecter is great for lefty guitars. schecter is my go to as a righty
I always hear this about Hendrix; that his strings were also upside-down as a result of playing a righty upside-down, yet every video and picture I've ever seen shows his strings as being strung correctly. Where is this whole "Hendrix played with his strings strung upside-down" stuff coming from? And it's said with such absolute conviction too.
I've never heard of him playing with his strings upside down, he just used right handed guitars left hand. Which means he would swap just swap the strings around so he could play a right handed guitar left handed. Kurt Cobain did the same thing
@@Specialcayspray Yeah. Now that I rewatch that part where Hendrix is being mentioned, I think this is actually what Trevor meant. I was mistaken in my interpretation of his words.
Doyle Bramhal, Dick Dale Albert King all played the strings upside down, Fact.
Jimmy haslip too
Hi Trev, great to see you back, and great video! Thanks for sticking up for us lefties, the struggle is real haha!
I have 2 ESP's, a Yamaha, an Ibanez and a Vintage in my collection. There are a decent variety of ESP left handed guitars. But you're right, there isn't as much as right handed models. Same goes for a lot of manufacturers. However, if I was to buy a new guitar I'd get a Schecter. They're great looking guitars, and there's a lot of options. Nice one mate 😊🤘🏻🤘🏻
@@JoshKeech that’s the one brand that where I go on their website I’m excited and saddened at the same time hahaha. Options and yet what does one want ya know. The John Browne (from Monuments) 6,7,8 string models are great prices and spec. All lefty models too.
Also I love the fiddles you have. You have Andertons and probably a few other shops round who are great 😁
@ScreaminT81 Ah nice that's cool, yeah they do so many types of guitars too. Least they give you a good amount of options. Oh cool, I'll have to check out the John Browne models!
Ah thanks, glad you like my guitars! They're honestly so great, very lucky to have them! Yeah, we have a few distros over here. Andertons I have brought from before, and one called Live Louder. Gear 4 music and Thoman also have great variety of left handed guitars 😁🤘🏻🎸
@ yeeeesssss Thomann and Gear for Music. You guys have so many cool things in the UK.
@ScreaminT81 Haha, thanks man! Yeah we're lucky to have lots of options over here. Luckily Europe get a lot of guitars imported so we can buy them 😁😊🤘🏻🤘🏻
@ yessir!
Left handed PRS SilverSky SE is the reason, as Paul R. Smith once said, that left handed players often get shafted. PRS finally broke down, after saying he had NO plans to produce a lefty SS SE, ..the SS SE just came out with all great colors too....I waited with baited breath for it for two years, hoping to get one someday.....great reviews all around on righties...........and within a few weeks lefty SS SE's were on sale cause they weren't selling. Remember the clamour when rightes came out...the price gouging, the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.....sight UNSEEN!!!? I got my lefty a month ago or so....a great deal new at $700 no ship, no tax, PLEK'd.. Moral of Story: Us lefties protesteth too much.
@@lazvt8469 yeah we do. Sometimes warranted, other times not so much. I just want a little guitar with buckers, locking tuners and hipshot bridge. A simple man and a shitty player ha. That’s great deal too.
@@RiffsThatCrush I"m pushing 63 and recently simplified my life by getting addicted to the Telecaster and recently taught myself to mod them. Retired last week...now I have more time to tinker and become the player I've always wanted to be beyond a self-taught classic R&R noodler. Cheers!!
@ I love that for you! Cheers to you! 🤘🏻
Just ordered a Lefty Ibanez Prestige AZ2204. Not cheap
@@Lefty-Guitar-Enthusiast eeeeep. Do I wanna know?
Indeed we do, Trevsky. Indeed we do.
My dream guitar is a Music Man Axis but that doesn't exist and if they do they're way too expensive, I've been trying to get Sterling to make any lefty guitars at all
@@blythea.wolfgang2702 yeah and they have like two models of their basses in left. And both have a 4/5 string avail
The video without sound was better, haha.😂😂 I'm extremely left handed myself, but has always played as an right. But totally get the frustration, but right handed people are probably making most of the guitars right? So they don't get the problem.... Have a great new year. Cheers. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
@@rogerkjorvik hahaha cheers Roger. Yeah I’ve never understood why brands just won’t make lefties. Yeah it’s probably the righties making them 😝
Hagstrom produces great guitars and they have a good variety of left handed models as well 👍🏻
@@Ccorleone1609 they do? I need to revisit their website again me thinks. Thank you!!
@ScreaminT81 oh man these are absolutely stunnin guitars to a fair price, under a 1000 bucks, great finishes as well. I have had two left handed friends back in the day who bought Hagstrom and never went back to another brand!
@ really? I was just taking a quick peek and they do have some solid options! Thanks man!!
@ScreaminT81 Your welcome! i did as well and i have to say they used to have a lot more options back in the day, like 2013. But yeah they are absolutely amazing right out of the box. Theres also a PRS SE version for left handed guitarists under a 1000 bucks wich i can also very recommend.
All these folks saying "just play right handed" are either ignorant or unaccepting of the truth that your dominant hand should do the picking, getting the picking patterns and rhythm down is far more important than fretting.
Any exceptions to this are just that: exceptions, and not the rule.
@@riogrande163 BINGO!!! My dominant hand is my left hand. That’s the picking hand. Thank you!! Ten times over!!
ive been looking for a left handed fender mustang for 2 years, fender dont really make them left handed and it sucks because they are my favourite guitar of all time. i only see them for north of 2 grand online and its often not the color/ model i like. being a lefty sucks!
@RhysIsAhuman it sure does. The only place I know that sells only lefties is in Houston at a store called Southpaw guitars. I dunno if they would be able to help you track one down or not. Hopefully you find one soon
Jimi dealt with it just flip it over and restring it.
I almost became left handed unitl age 6 or 7 i broke my left arm in 2 places. With the cast in vertical orientation i had to endure 8 weeks of it. Starting grade 1 i had to learn to print n write with my right.
( I was copying superman jumpin off basement stairs I landed after a few jumps on my left elbow).
So I emphasize with you but I made the adjustment so can you, learn right handed.
Baseball was a problem but it helped confuse the pitcher.
hockey sometimes left other times rigjt.
If you can play both ways wow a show stopper.
@@billleith7110 no. Companies have the fuckin ability and money to make more. That statement is a fuckin cop out
I’m gonna say it WE ARE TIRED OF FENDER no slight against fender but we want more options!
@@BLASTER-QC32 yeeesss! Like it’s not hard fer fuck sakes. Make us options!!!
Fender be like "Okay, fine. But you only get ONE colour"
Not even that "Solo" company that sells kit guitars?? I thought they were Canadian!
May be do a kickstarter to get them or Stewmac, Wilkinson or whatever to make a batch of lefty kits? More so, locally to you, because freight cost bleeping bleeping bleep bleep.
@@strumminronin well, I can get a solo kit in Canada for sure. Cheaper to ship for sure. I have put that in my mind, and yet I saw a LTD Viper 1000 in purple bursts for sale in Ontario Canada for 600 bucks. My heart sank
@@RiffsThatCrush Sigh, yeah, I getcha. Their 1000 range is dee-lish. Not cheap, but the hardware is good and it's the whole package. You remind me of a UK guitar guy that had a JEM "cloned" for him so to speak. It was hand made so he could have a lefty "JEM". I'll have a digabout and see if I can post a link.
Hey, I posted a link but the post got removed. The guy's name is Joe Perkins. Look him up if you're interested.
They do?
@@Smokeyodayz much to your dismay yes.
Some tele's do have belly cuts fyi
@@puffersays9155 some do yes. Imma say about 30% of the ones I’ve looked at.
Dude, relax.
There are like 10% of lefties and of those lefties 70% chose to play right handed (source: am a lefty, play as righty because fuck me if I've tried to find a lefty in a bumfucknowheresville in 90s)
Now I play 8 string 30" headless which no manufacturer produces, so a custom shop is my choice eihter way. There are heaps of options for every budget nowadays, quit whining.
@@swancrunch No.
@@RiffsThatCrush but there are, lol. you can get a warmoth with any contours in any colour you like, you can ask a local luthier how much does he charge for your dream guitar, you can go for some asian or eastern european custom shops where labor is way cheaper, fucktonne of options.
expanding lefty models and stockpiling huge amount of unsold/unsellable items just doesn't make economical sense for a big manufacturer, why would they? would you?
@ ok so two things. The no is regarding me quitting whining. I have looked at Warmoth many times. I’m in Canada (which I failed to mention in the video) so for me to get a custom build it’s a 1000 USD, then converted to 1500 CAN, which is before I even remotely figure in the shipping. I’m already at 2K. I can get a perfectly built Schecter for 1500 with tax through my local. My point is atleast offer more lefties and then build em. That way there’s no stupid amount of stockpile.
@@RiffsThatCrush you can't build just one guitar in every colour, that's not how big manfacturers produce stuff. You either do 1000 of guitars for cheap, or none at all. Or you do limited run with all the custom bullshit and they cost a lot.
and all that for what? 3% of already a niche market? why would they bother.
So your upper limit is what, $700 USD? Check local luthiers if your accessment of a currency has any merit - they'll be cheaper US ones, or build one youself from cheap-ass kit and then get local luthier to do nice fret dressing so it'll play like butter, etc.
Also, yo can forego warmoth finish with exotic or roasted neck and diy finish body and it'll cost you like $500. Wax/Oil-finished bodies feel smooth and warm af and rawdog necks are crazy fast.
@ I don’t even know what my upper limit is. And it’s less about ever model left handed and different colors. Just the option is my thing. I’m considering either Schecter or Warmoth. The issues is being the conversion rate is the killer. It changes daily, and if it gets better than I’ll go warmoth.
I'm sure they'll get right on that bud. Screech more.
@@darineller6768 hahahah oh I have and will.
But its backwards! Right is Right! LOL
@@Patrickdoconnell right is wrong homie!
@ScreaminT81 Dingwall makes left handed bass
@ yes they do! Which is great. The biggest thing is those who don’t or flat out refuse to make lefties. A lefty dinger would fuckin rule!
When I started guitar my teacher said learn how to play right handed. They don’t have left handed pianos why should they have left handed guitars.
@@kai223noa6 you were told what to do and did it eh? Interesting. My left hand is my dominant hand and that is my picking hand.
Anything else?
Eastwood makes a bunch of leftys. Traditional to very untraditional shapes and colors.
@@cb-ez7pz I’m gonna have to check them out and see what they have
Why are there no left-handed pianos? Yeah, that's right. You play with BOTH hands. You made a bad choice. Now live with it, crybaby. 😂 I'm lefthanded but play normally. Like you should have...
@@AlexVonCrank you made a choice too. I am playing normally. It’s how I’m most comfortable.
Are you ok? Did I hurt you?
@ScreaminT81 on my pinky toe...😥
@@AlexVonCrank you’ll be ok
@ScreaminT81 I think you will survive lefthanded guitars too. It's tough, but bear in mind... choices.
@ choice or not, I can’t even hold a righty.
We do exist. We are 10 percent. That’s a lot of money to make for the manufacturers.
@@gokhanersan8561 they’re just too stupid really.
I feel you because my wife is a lefty and has the same gripe, but left-handed guitars just don't sell (even secondhand, I decided to donate one of my wife's after a year of trying to sell it) and aren't worth it to most manufactures to make in small, unprofitable batches. Probably a tiny fraction of that 10% are guitarists, there's not really much motivation to cater to it. It's just smart business.
@ The only one who does really decently is Schecter. Which is all cause of one guy who told Michael Cirivalo that lefties must be made when Michael became president
The 7% rule is largely exaggerated nowadays that's a very old statistic. I can tell you now, at all the guitar shows and retail outlets I visit, there is another lefty aside from me in that same store also shopping for a lefty guitar,I kid you not, this happens to me a lot. I've gone on a course to learn to build my own and also with big companies I look to schecter, they have no issue saying they can deliver to all audience's and don't shy from it. Fender throw out hendrix all the while yet are still behind in offerings thou getting better
@@Leftandyguitar so the percentage is higher? If so that’s interesting. In fairness I live on the east coast of Canada so we hardly see anything lefty here at all. Yeah Schecter really do make it their mission to have more lefties than anyone. If memory serves me correct, when Michael Ciravalo took over as Pres, he asked the staff what they wanted to see, and one of the builders whose is left handed, said more options. Michael said done! 💜💜
Just do like Jimi Hendrix did and string it upside down is what I would doi again with you though they should make more left hand versions
@@patrickshannon4516 no. Companies have loads of cash, make more actual lefties. If Schecter can do it, the rest can
@@RiffsThatCrushSchecter guitars are awesome! They have great pick ups even on their low end models they are getting better with their colors also
@ yes, yes, and more yes! I’ve owned two and the were ready to play outta the box! I’m probably gonna get one for my next guitfiddle 😁
@ScreaminT81 yeah that's what my dad used to call it a guitfiddle. I like Schecter guitars I don't play anything else anymore. Got three: schecter avenger Synister Gates signature series, Schecter demon six Fr and a schecter Damien platinum six Fr. All three are amazing.
Most guitar shapes don't work well upside down, reason enough to just make them in the proper orientation for a left handed player
Just learn to play right handed
@@danzusername no. I can’t even hold a righty properly. It’s awkward.