What steps should be taken to use a right handed Strat as a lefty?

Is it just reversing the nut and re-stringing? How big a deal is to reverse the nut or replace it reversed?

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Thank you in advance

Shouldn't be much of a problem. I took a lefty and converted to a righty. Just flip the nut, re-string, tune, and set intonation.

You need a new nut. Unless the nut was really poorly made in which can you might be able to salvage it. You can buy premade nuts online however a lefty may limit your choice.

Of course you can just flip it like the above poster suggested but a properly made nut tapers down and out towards the tuners.

To install the nut there is a few tips and tricks in getting them out and putting them in. First a Stanley or X-acto knife to cut the lacquer around the old nut for easy removal. A small chisel is handy for scraping the old glue out. You need a nut file set to make fine adjustments and some wood glue to hold it back in place.

That is it. Unless you want lefty pots and a lefty bridge etc.
A luthier or nut making setup tech should charge between $50-100 for it.
The guitar will have to be fully setup after you have replaced the nut and restrung.

I converted my lefty MIM Strat to right by very carefully popping out the nut and reversing it and putting on new strings and adjusting the intonation. A relatively easy job,of course you have to move the strap button also.

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Thank you for the input and tips. It's good to know that if ever I find a Strat that only comes right handed there are options to make it playable for me.

Doesn't sound too hard at all.

-Tagg

There are no right or left handed nuts. They come squared off and you have to shape them yourself.

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