02-14-2019, 01:52 PM
(02-14-2019, 10:32 AM)McC Wrote: Thanks. Much appreciated.
It's not my fingers. It's my right elbow and shoulder. If I play for ten minutes, the way the right hand is twisted on the strings, first, my whole arm goes numb and then it starts to throb.
Too much jackhammer, pounding steel stakes with a hammer for so many years, bull floats, mag floats, steel trowels, etc.
Turns out, the women in my life were right all along about using my degree to make a living instead of my hands.
You made the right choice playing righty. At least you never had to pay 20-30% more for a guitar like I did.
The first electric I had was a right handed Danelectro 59M that I switched the strings on and played upside down. It was a cool little guitar, with a twangy Telecaster kind of sound. Problem was, when I strummed the strings, my left forearm would run across the knobs and turn them up and down.
So, after a lot of bargaining, which included putting a room addition on the house in my "spare time," I was allowed to go buy a lefty American Strat.
Yeah, as a young'un, my guitar teacher said "learn to play right handed, that way your strong hand is fretting the chords and all they weak hand is doing is strumming the rhythm... (yeah, that's all...lol). Just like my baseball coach had me swinging right, even though I fielded left. So now I golf right handed. Weird.
