Guitar Pal

[ch willie]

I left Germany 6 years ago after being there for a decade. While there, I played in a great band, and the other guitarist and I have remained friends. He was just here to visit, and we had some great jams. It was the first time in 6 years that I've had a decent jam. There's nothing like playing guitars with a great friend.

We're both Strat players, but we love our Gibbys too. Here are our guitars, enjoying their visit together.

[phantomman]

Guten nacht, what a great lookin' pair of gitts!

[boobtube21]

Hey, one's backwards.

Nice couple of git-fiddles there willie. Nothing like good friends, good times, good tunes...great guitars...

[chuckocaster]

rock on man! +1 of what mr. booby said.

[ch willie]

Thanks, guys. My Les Paul is backwards, but so am I. BTW, that 335 is a beautiful sounding guitar. If they made that block fretboard in lefty, I'd have some serious G.A.S.

[boobtube21]

I'm surprised they don't...there seems to be a good number of lefty guitars nowadays.

Of course if you did the old Dale/Hendrix thing and flipped a right-hander upside down the volume/tone controls would be a helluva lot easier to reach. Food for thought..

You'd just want to have a right-angle plug on your cord.

[boobtube21]

Hey, I found one:



Ok, I made it in Paint... Looks pretty good though. And you may not have to use a right-angle plug after all, depending on your playing style.

[elicross]

You'd need a left-angle plug, wouldn't you?

(The first thing I looked at in that picture was the peghead, to see if the "Gibson" was backwards. When I saw it wasn't, I thought "Wow, it's real." )

[ch willie]

I've tried to play an upside down righty, and I couldn't get used to the controls. I'd never want to move the knobs and patch the holes. I've got a lefty Sheraton, so that'll have to do me until I can slide an ES-335 through the door.

[elicross]

Also:

rock on man! +1 of what mr. booby said.

@ "mr. booby."

[boobtube21]

Yeah, I never knew Chuck looked at me that way. I'm not exactly round, soft, or perky, or anything....

[chuckocaster]

colin's about as voluptuous as hank sr.

[ch willie]

What kind of bees make honey? Boobies
(didn't someone on the forum just tell that'un?)

[Laker]

Is it just the block inlay thats keeping you from a 335? If so a good luthier can do that for you.

[ch willie]

Didn't say I'd buy one--said I'd have G.A.S. for one. It is on my list of must-haves. So is the Rickenbacker 325. I'll only be able to think of these once my kids are through college. In the meantime, I'm happy enough with my Sheraton.

[refin]

Great looking Les Paul!

[ch willie]

Thanks, refin. I'm sort of struck on it too.