re: Guitar porn. Lets see your number 1 axe.

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a fellow lefty?

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Yep. Went to a Guitar Expo here in Olrando last week, there were maybe 7 or 8 lefty guitars out of 3,000 … and I must've been the only lefty in the place. Pretty much as I expected.

I'm a lefty and forced myself to learn right handed because that was all that was around me. Slower to start for sure but perfectly natural feeling now.

I don't know how you guys did it, but I can tell who the guitar players are in the crowd by the way they turn their heads upside down to try to figure out what I'm doing.

Lefty right here too. I see an all lefty band brewing.

Speaking of, I think Body Count had two lefty players at one point.

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Got a link to hear it?


I'd post some of my stuff, but I don't want to give my name out on here

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There will be something up soon, but I won't link it here for the same reason you gave.

Does it need a neck reset? Is the bridge lifting? Any cracks in the top? All things to be concerned with.

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do you guys usually play by yourselves? in a band? get together and play with friends? rarely pick it up?

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I'm in a band with two friends, we play out around once a month, although we're making a push for more gigs this year. I also play daily by myself and on weekends, weather permitting, I occasionally play at local parks.

My whole interest is in song writing; I have about 60 originals and a handful of covers. There's hardly a more satisfying feeling than writing a song you believe in and love to play. I think of it as God's gift to this poor son of a bitch.

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Everything I try and write is garbage.

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Well, if you don't like what you write, you're obviously in a tough spot. But lots of people play only covers, or let their band mates do the writing, no shame in that. For example, I write most of the songs in my band because the other guys just aren't good at it. Same with singing--I'm the only one with a voice, so I do the singing.

If you want to stick with it though, the thing to do is--well, duh--write, write, write. I recall Neil Young saying that most of what he writes is garbage, so he keeps plowing through until he hits on something he believes in. And Neil has written, I believe, more than 500 songs.

At the least, keep playing: it's good for the heart, mind and soul. And good luck.

I have a decent arsenal of custom-mades by my buddy in Boise. I can't post them since my name is all over them. I have several others made by the usual suspects. These are not my actual gittars, but I have ones exactly like them except they're lefty models:

Taylor 414


Gibson Les Paul Standard



Gibson Les Paul Custom


Strat


Eastwood Classic 6