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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 7:09 am
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You can laugh - left handed picks exist.

http://www.jimdunlop.com/product/Speedpicks

can't see the point in angle picks myself.


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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:59 am
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Some thumb-picks are interchangeable. Others are not. Do Dunlop make metal lefties?


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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 5:30 pm
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Yes, left handers need LH thumb picks, otherwise, you'll be picking grooves into the top of your guitar. They make those too.


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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:25 pm
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Cool to go lefty... even if your more used to righty gear...
BUT... and this is sooooooooooooooooo important.
Ya gotta go lefty all the way...
strings, guitar strap, cables, stomp boxes (Can't forget about the stomps!!!!!), amplifier tone controls...
ALL NEED TO BE LEFTY!!!!

C'mon man, everybody knows this... it's gonna mess with your tone... and remember...
TONE = MOJO
and crap cables... ohhhhhhhh gawwwwwwwd NO... please don't go with a righty curly cord if you going lefty everywhere else...
Drive the sound man friggin' NUTS... and yourself too.... cause when your lefty... goes righty... ESPCIALLY thru a God Blessed curly cord.... well... your "Tone" done implodes on itself.... and man Ohhhhh man.... that really sucks! :cry:

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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:16 am
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Now do you realize that if you go lefty on your right handed guitar you'll have to install left handed gears in your tuners to keep the strings rotating the correct way? It all gets very complicated and shouldn't be handled by the novice!


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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 3:16 pm
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Something sinister is going on here. :shock:


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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:35 pm
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Hmm cannot believe this has been overlooked. If you put left handed strings on yer right handed Strat and play it with a left handed pick, the sound will come off the back of your speaker.

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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:35 am
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Well, I need some help guys

I have a curly lead ....now which way should the curl go (looking down it from directly above a 1/4 inch jack plug)

I am very confused , is clockwise "Righty" or "Lefty"?

Bear in mind the lead came originally from Australia (where they all wear sticky shoes to stop them falling off the earth, them being upside down and all and the water here in the UK goes down the plughole anticlockwise in the kitchen, but yet clockwise in the bathroom as we are bang on the Greenwich time line)

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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:58 am
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ted j wrote:
I am very confused , is clockwise "Righty" or "Lefty"?


Physicist to the rescue! hold out your right hand, with the thumb pointing up and your fingers curled. The thumb indicates the direction, and the fingers indicate the circular motion.
That means that whenever a winding goes around once clockwise, it should end up slightly more in the direction of travel of the signal, and when it goes around once widdershins, it should end up slightly more towards he source.

Also, a bakelite pickguard needs to be made with the correct handed molecules, because invert ones won't do any more than invert sugar will do for making beer (yeast is preferential about handedness of sugar molecules - no, I'm not kidding).


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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:55 am
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but won't the input and output jacks on the pedals have to be reversed?


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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:32 am
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Instead of flipping a left handed guitar and playing it right handed for the Hendrix vibe I just use a left handed pick flipped over and get my hendrix tone that way. Works great.


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Post subject: Re: Left Handed Guitar Picks
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 2:44 pm
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Minnesotastrats wrote:
What is your favorite brand of left handed guitar picks and why? :)


Depends: Would this be for a Maple or Rosewood fretboard?
Yes, Different left handed guitar picks make a difference depending on this and other factors.

Also:
I may be in a minority here, but I honestly cannot tell the difference in sound quality between the MIM and MIA left handed guitar picks.
I just don't see why the big disparity in price :o


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