daveq Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 I'm planning on building a guitar for my son someday. I'm not in a big rush but I have started looking into it. I'd probably just buy one if I could find a mini-strat (or similar) that was built for lefties - but my searches have only turned up options of colors on those things, no options for lefty. I'm not too worried about the actual construction of it but I am worried about parts. For instance, what would I use for pickups? Make my own? Use normal sized pickups and let them extend beyond the strings? What about bridges, tuners? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAI6 Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 All the "child-size" guitars I've seen have used standard parts. Seems the only thing different is the smaller body, and shorter scale.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnsilver Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 I was looking at some of these guitars at Guitar Center last weekend. The neck looked fairly standard size, that is, the width at the nut was the same as a standard size and so was the bridge. There was a single humbucker placed somewhat in between where a bridge and neck humbucker would be placed. It's just that the body size was a lot smaller and the neck looked slimmer on the contour of the back. It had 21 frets even. I didn't see any for lefties but wasn't looking for that. Maybe you can examine one of those to get the ideas for your leftie model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveq Posted November 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 OK, thanks for the info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar_ed Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Check out Daisy Rock Guitars. They are smaller sized guitars. I have seen one and even played it for 30 seconds, and it was nice. Not expensive. Guitar Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotrock Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Since you're not in any rush - By then I should have my pickup winder up and running. Well actually, it is up and unning, I just have to make the faceplate. If you fancy paying for the parts then I can try to whip you up a baby pup if you want. I haven't actually wound any yet but it sounds like when you get started on this then I'll have wound a couple. I understand if you wouldn't want to but the offers there if you need it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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