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Post by edwardmarlowe on Dec 13, 2023 21:17:14 GMT
Probably a stupid question, but if I don't ask I'll never know....
Planning to pick up a TE52 in the new year, to sit alongside my existing Tele (a CIJ Fender 71RI). Just for a point of difference, really, I'd quite like to try the old 'reverse the control plate' mod. I've been looking at what it takes to rewire the pots and/or the switch and all the rest of it, and I got to wondering....
As I'm left handed, is there a shortcut? I.e. if I were to buy a regular, right-handed plate and put it on a left handed guitar but the other way around (pickup switch to the butt, rather than to the neck end), would that be the same as a right handed player using one rewired that way round on their right handed guitar?
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Post by edwardmarlowe on Dec 14, 2023 19:27:38 GMT
My brain just screwed itself into a knot at this! Not being a left hander I will be interested to hear an opinion. I know there have been complaints here that the left hand models come with standard right hander knobs and wiring that they wish was different but they just get used to (I'm the same with a right handed strat I bought with lefty tuners: I just got used to that too). But whether then flipping the plate solves anything for leftys I find impossible to predict! I suspect not. Perhaps drawing out the plate and turn directions on a piece of paper and flipping that will give you an answer??? However, as a righty, I will say I do the reverse control plate on one of my teles and I like it. But THAT reversing is done by moving the items around. I just cannot figure out what would occur if I just flipped it other than getting my tone pot in the wrong place! It's a funny one, isn't it? I've never been a player who did the volume swell thing, so it's more just a 'point of difference' idea than anything... I don't honestly know which way my pots go on most of my guitars, though that said (apparently unlike a lot of other lefthanders), clockwise to go up and anti to turn down feels natural to me - maybe because that's how radios, stereos and all the rest work, and I've been fiddling with those much longer than guitars? My Fender American Standard Strat, I remember noticing when I bought it new that the volume pot - presumably same as they put in the right handers - goes from 10 (off) to 1 (loudest) rather than the normal way round. It amused me as a quirk, so never changed it. I don't think the pots being whatever ways round would bother me - though I'd not really thought about the order of volume and tone being reversed, that is true - I think I'd find it very hard to get my head round the selector switch being 'wrong', though. Maybe the secret is just to flip that switch itself and let the rest fall as it may?
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