Re: ambidextrous guitar!

> oh and if you want to see pics of the guitar as it is built (no
captions,
> m'afraid) go to
www.angelfire.com/punk4/voodooguitargenius/dikkogit.html but
> be warned, you need a very liberal and tolerant sense of humour.
thanks
> anyway, simon (aka dikko)

after sticking a capital 'D' on that URL I found it:
www.angelfire.com/punk4/voodooguitargenius/Dikkogit.html

Carved top! very nice.

The first things that come to mind about the ambidextrous idea are:

1) Control pots for volume, tone and the toggle switch will have to be
somewhere clever. If a lefty pickups a right handed guitar strung the
other way around then the pots & switch etc can get knocked by the
strumming arm.  Never bothered hendrix mind. If they were put behind the
bridge they'd stay mostly out of the way. Maybe too far out of the way?

2) Pickups. If you have slanted pickups then they'll be slanted the
wrong way when it's flipped.

3) Pickup pole piece stagger. If you have staggered pole pieces like a
lot of strat pickups, then they'll be staggered the wrong way around
when the guitar is flipped for a lefty. If you have adjustable pole
pieces they'll have to be adjusted everything the guitar is flipped.

4) Bridges. If you have a trem, once the guitar is flipped the trem arm
will be on the wrong side. If you have a Tune-o-matic things would be
easier as you'd just have to take off the part with the saddles on it,
turn it around and sit it back down and it'd be intonated for a lefty.
Any other type of bridge and you'd have to re-set the intonation without
any short cuts.

5) If you have a 6 inline tuners layout on the headstock (a-la Fender),
the guitar will have a 'reversed' headstock once it's been flipped.

Can't think of it ever being done before!

Daniel.