Does stringing a righty guitar for lefty damage it?

Question

I want to learn to play left handed and have an old squier strat I can use. Will this damage it ? I know Hendrix did the same but god knows if he was constantly spending on repairs :) Just wanted to get some info from experts. Thanks !

Answer 1

The main thing you have to worry about is the stings slipping out of the nut. You can fix it with a file and make the E A and D string slots a bit bigger. One of the things about doing this on a strat style guitar is that your string lengths are now different:; your low E string is now the longest and the high E string is now the shortest. This is one of the many ingredients to Hendrix's sound. Have Fun.

Answer 2

no

Answer 3

I had a friend that played lefty and he had bought a righty and had strung it up like you had said. Basically the strings work because of tension, as you see the strings vary in weight, or thickness, so the produce a wide range of notes low to high so that the tension and the weight produce the desired tuning. If you look and mess around with a guitar the strings have relatively the same amount of tension. swapping the strings does nothing to the actual guitar for this reason, the tension is like i said relatively the same.

Answer 4

When you string a guitar for left-handed, you will have to change the top nut of the guitar because the string are switched, thus, won't fit in the groove of the original nut. No big deal. The fingerboard nut cost $2 and made out of ivory. File the new nut in relation to the existing one except, the grooves are reversed.

As for the rest, you will have to adjust the pickup heights to accomodate your new setting..  Again, no big deal.

As for the harmonics and the rest of truss rod adjustment or intonation....NOT NEEDED !!

Answer 5

no... it doesnt do anything its the same but upside down

But, it lokks really really stupid...