Is it possible to apply a left handed
nut to a
right handed guitar? I am a left handed player and my local
music store doesn't carry many lefty guitars.
Nell
If this is a nylon string guitar with a saddle mounted straight across
(no compensation angle)...
it would be an
easier
conversion. Chances are a simple re-stringing would do the
trick. The grooves in the nut may be okay because the strings
are all closer to the same diameter.
If you have a steel sting guitar though, things are much more difficult
and should be done by an expert repair person. If you are
buying a new guitar, I would advise having the music store special
order a lefty guitar of your liking and price range.
A steel string flat top acoustic guitar has a compensated
saddle. That means it is installed at a slant to make up for
differences in string diameter.
If you are converting this to a lefty, this saddle will have to be re-installed slanting the other way. Major rework to fill in slot re-groove, and make a new saddle. Also some of the string holes will have to be made larger.
The nut at the top
of the neck
can be removed and a new one made fairly easily.
Then there's the marker dots on the side of the neck. If you
want them on the proper side of the neck for the lefty, new ones will
have to be made and installed.
If the guitar has a pick guard, it will also be on the wrong side after
the conversion. Removing the pick guard is not an option
unless you want to have the face of the guitar refinished.
Most just add a replica pick guard on the other side of the sound
hole. You will have a lefty guitar with 2 pick guards.
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