jammy Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 I've been working on this guitar for the past couple of days, and finished it off today. He had a highway one strat neck lying about and wanted a tele body for it with a HH pickup arrangement. For build pics see the links below. I'm real happy with the guitar, colour's great and it sounds brilliant. And before anyone cracks any "it's the wrong way round" jokes, he's a lefty! Build 1 Build 2 Build 3 Build 4 Build 5 Build 6 Build 7 Build 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurits Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 Hope your brother likes it as much as you do, looks like it won't be a problem. That color is very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 Clean and cool as always, jammy. Nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 I converted a guitar to left handed a while back.tuning it was the hardest thing ever.i just could not wrap my mind around it being backwards. good work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 I converted a guitar to left handed a while back.tuning it was the hardest thing ever.i just could not wrap my mind around it being backwards. <hijack> A few weeks ago I saw Eric Clapton and Robert Cray. One of EC's guitarists is a lefty who strings his guitar like a righty, so backwards for him. It was convenient for the tech, though, because all he had to do was flip the Strat over and play it Hendrix-style during the sound check. Pretty cool. </hijack> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samba Pa Ti Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 i like the colour its very classy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpa Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Nice looking strato-tele jammy. Would that be surf green? A few weeks ago I saw Eric Clapton and Robert Cray. One of EC's guitarists is a lefty who strings his guitar like a righty, so backwards for him. That was Doyle Bramhall II. I saw him on Austin City Limits a while ago and had to figure how he manages with that setup, very well it seems! I guess he just learned on other people's right handed guitars and was used to it by the time he got his own guitar. Its still darn strange to see him play a left-handed body with a right-handed neck.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biliousfrog Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 That is a nice colour! Looks a little desaturated & pastel to be surf green or seafoam green, almost like an 80's Fender custom colour. Really nice work. Isn't it upsi....oh yeah, sorry So, does Doyle sound different when he plays? I mean for chordy stuff, does it sound like he's playing all upstrokes or isn't it that noticeable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Whoah, I didn't know Doyle Bramhall II was touring with EC. Cool. He's a heckuva guitarist and a passable vocalist, too. I had a friend that played right-strung guitars left-handed. Some of the voicings were different, and the strum patterns as well. It gave his playing a unique sound. He emulated "righty" rhythm-- stroking up on the 1 and down on the 2, but it still made for a different sound. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logical Frank Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Nice. I dig the Muddy Waters style knobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Wow, now I feel like an idiot because I didn't realize how cool it was to watch Doyle play with EC Heckuva guitarist, his picking technique is also reversed. He probably figured out long ago to simply do upstrokes when most righty's would play a downstroke. Most of the time he braces his hand on the bridge. I figure he sounds a lot like Albert King used to sound like playing reversed too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksound Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Whoah, I didn't know Doyle Bramhall II was touring with EC. Cool. He's a heckuva guitarist and a passable vocalist, too. I had a friend that played right-strung guitars left-handed. Some of the voicings were different, and the strum patterns as well. It gave his playing a unique sound. He emulated "righty" rhythm-- stroking up on the 1 and down on the 2, but it still made for a different sound. Greg DB2 has been touring with Clapton for a few years now. Did you know that Derek Trucks was also on this tour (most of it anyway)? Hoo boy, that was a show. It was almost like a Derek and the Dominos reunion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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