How exactly do you find the right guitar?

[Swordfishtrombone]

Also, thanks for the insight on playing righty guitars as a lefty!

[goroth]

No worries man! - I was listening to Swordfish Trombone Blues last night actually. So there you go.

Re jazzys - I don't know what the hell I was thinking haha. What I was failing to illustrate is that it depends on the bridge, and anything where the saddles can't be moved equally from the horizontal on the bass/treble side won't intonate.

I've got one guitar with an upside down right handed neck, and one with a left handed neck, both six inline. I wonder whether the amount of string you have past the nut makes a difference to... stuff? I've never noticed a difference in how they sound or feel though.

[spacelordmother]

I'm actually left-handed and cannot even slightly play guitar left-handed. It's beyond difficult. Right-handed just felt natural

Ditto.

[leaves turn]

I'm left handed-ish... I have to use my left for writing, and I prefer it for eating, but pretty much everything else I use my right

I found the right guitar by looking for something relatively cheap that ticked enough boxes, then I fixed the rest. Got a used pawn shop Jag, liked everything except the wimpy strat stock pickups, so I swapped in some Lace and I'm golden.

I have vague notions of fitting a Fairfield Accountant under the pickguard but I have no extra money right now.

[Andrew]

Just because I started it, I may as well mention that I've ordered a PRS s2 cu24 (greyblack) for a pretty good discount. Played a s2 cu22 in a different colour and I dug it. I'll most likely put in a Seymour Duncan SH-4 in the bridge because that's how a I roll and maybe change some random stuff.

We should be good

[ThurberMingus]

I'm left handed-ish... I have to use my left for writing, and I prefer it for eating, but pretty much everything else I use my right

I found the right guitar by looking for something relatively cheap that ticked enough boxes, then I fixed the rest.

This 100%

[chuckjaywalk]

I must be weird. Give me a heavy Strat with low action and I am happy.

[Yawner]

I picked up my guitar off the wall at GuitarCenter, played it once and knew it was "the one", as cliche as it is. It just, I dunno, feels right.

[friendship]

I have no idea how to find the right guitar. I've been playing the same main guitar for 12 years. Not because it's perfect, but because I'm used to it. Other guitars feel foreign in my hands now; maybe finding the right guitar is about playing it until you know its feel and sound intimately. Maybe, like in Yawner's case, you feel intimate towards it quickly. That's never happened to me, but then again I tend to only test out guitars I think I could actually afford, which is pretty limiting.

It would be nice to have a guitar that feels and sounds perfect.

[GAS KING]

^ yeah sometimes just buying stuff you think is badass can turn out really well too. I always wanted an Iceman, it's disappointing how limited the options are for those now because it's such a cool design.

I have an IC300.....the older one with the 3+3 tuners (not the standard Ibanez headstock).

not actually mine

What do you mean limited options?