Fender Competition Mustangs - Left Handed Examples

KPI · Post by **KPI** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:45 am

Post pics of lefty Competition Mustangs!

I have seen examples in red with and without matching headstocks. Kurt Cobain owned a blue one with a matching headstock. Has anyone seen an orange one???

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:05 pm

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Ty · Post by Ty » Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:40 pm

Here is a few all I can find is Blue and Red ones.
And here is Kurt's.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:23 pm

^ looks like the tailpiece isn't flipped, like how all those websites say it was...

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:30 pm

stewart wrote:^ looks like the tailpiece isn't flipped, like how all those websites say it was...

Only them MIJ or custom ones had the tailpiece modded.

Post by **dots** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:22 pm

i swear it confuses the hell out of my brain whenever i see lefty fenders. but i do wish they didn't discriminate so hard against our friends in the right minds. y'alls get left out (no pun intended) of too many good guitars.

Ty · Post by Ty » Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:15 am

dots wrote:i swear it confuses the hell out of my brain whenever i see lefty fenders.

It's the opposite for me, it's weird, every time I see a right fender it confuses me. It must have something to deal with the controlling part of your brain.

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:57 am

the first time we played a show with a band called Zoinks! way back in the 90's, I couldn't figure out what was odd about them. Turned out, the entire band was left handed. Lefty bass, guitar and drumset.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:10 am

I don't understand why left handed people play guitar "left handed". I mean, most of what you do when playing the "right handed" way is with your left hand. and either way you learn how to play you have to learn how to use your non-dominant hand. so why does it matter which way you learn?

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:21 am

mage wrote:I don't understand why left handed people play guitar "left handed". I mean, most of what you do when playing the "right handed" way is with your left hand. and either way you learn how to play you have to learn how to use your non-dominant hand. so why does it matter which way you learn?

i used to think this, that the way people decided left and right handed guitars should be was very arbitrary. it made more sense to me to put the (probable) more dexterous hand over the fretboard rather than the non-dominant hand.

mainly because both felt about the same to me. i learned lefty for about two days before deciding to switch to righty because it meant i wouldn't have to a) buy a new guitar before i even started learning and b) would be easier if and when i wanted to buy new guitars down the road.

my bandmate, who is left handed and doesn't play guitar, will pickup up a guitar and "play" (read: flail on the strings) left handed. if he holds it the other way it just feels wrong apparently, even though he can't play guitar at all.

is the orientation of guitars in regards to handedness inherited from classical instruments?

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:23 am

i love picking up left handed guitars and teaching my self chords on them. you can do power chords with all 4 fingers lined up in a row really easy

KPI · Post by **KPI** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:11 am

This is another shot of Kurt Cobains lefty Competition Mustang

KPI · Post by **KPI** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:13 am

This is a later 71/72 competition red lefty - no matching headstock :O

KPI · Post by **KPI** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:14 am

KPI · Post by **KPI** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:17 am

I remember this competition red lefty came up on ebay a few years ago and took a couple of listings before it finally sold. I think people were sketchy of the non-white decal on the headstock - i certainly was

KPI · Post by **KPI** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:29 am

tEh KuRtDz

KPI · Post by **KPI** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:34 am

HOLY SNAPPING DUCK SHIT BATMAN!!! WHERE DID THE RIDDLER GET THIS???

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:11 pm

mage wrote:I don't understand why left handed people play guitar "left handed". I mean, most of what you do when playing the "right handed" way is with your left hand. and either way you learn how to play you have to learn how to use your non-dominant hand. so why does it matter which way you learn?

my bassist is a lefty but plays right handed.

apparently noel gallagher is a lefty as well.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:17 pm

mage wrote:I don't understand why left handed people play guitar "left handed". I mean, most of what you do when playing the "right handed" way is with your left hand. and either way you learn how to play you have to learn how to use your non-dominant hand. so why does it matter which way you learn?

Same reason rightys play righty I imagine...because it's what feels more natural. If I were to go back, I'd like to have learnt to play righty, for the sole reason of not getting screwed over in the availability and price of guitars.
Having said that, I've always loved the fact that at gigs when some chonst from another band says - "I've broken a string, or forgotten my guitar can I borrow yours?" I can just say no, I'm left handed. That and fuck off.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 3:34 pm

dots wrote:i swear it confuses the hell out of my brain whenever i see lefty fenders. but i do wish they didn't discriminate so hard against our friends in the right minds. y'alls get left out (no pun intended) of too many good guitars.

It's more an economic decision. The numbers of lefty players is so much smaller and the investment in reversing everything costs money. As mentioned previously, many lefties just play guitar right handed anyway. My wife does that. Taylor Guitars actually does not charge extra for lefty models which is cool.