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Author Message hydrargyrum Intermediate Member Username: hydrargyrum Post Number: 158 Registered: 3-2004 Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 9:01 am:    Sweet looking bass, but I wonder why it was built left handed and strung right. Perplexing . . . keith_h Advanced Member Username: keith_h Post Number: 230 Registered: 2-2005 Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 10:06 am:    I think it's the old lefty learning how to play on an upside down right handed instrument. I know a guitarist who learned to play this way. Makes for a devil of time trying to read the chording hand. :-) Keith bigideas Member Username: bigideas Post Number: 62 Registered: 1-2004 Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 10:07 am:    some lefty's learn to play upsidedown instead of restringing their (right handed) guitar or bass. oh look, keith beat me too it. (Message edited by bigideas on November 01, 2005) 811952 Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 547 Registered: 10-2003 Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 10:50 am:    Jimmy Haslip plays basses strung this way. His popping technique is interesting... jacko Advanced Member Username: jacko Post Number: 394 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 4:19 am:    Jason Smith in Hayseed Dixie also plays like this. His slap technique is unbelievable to watch. Graeme stoney Senior Member Username: stoney Post Number: 424 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 11:29 am:    Great looking bass. Congratulations !!! Say, does any one here (besides Mike) get a slight sense of "vertigo" when you look at a left handed instrument....??? stoney davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 2498 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 2:50 pm:    Stoney; I'm always wanting to copy them to my desktop, open a graphics program and "turn them around" to where they "look right". <g> jlpicard Advanced Member Username: jlpicard Post Number: 239 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 9:39 pm:    As far as I'm concerned, All the righties somehow look much better to me when turned around! ;) Bet you never knew he was a closet lefty! LOL P.S. Sorry Yaya for mutilating the Big Bass. I was trying to envison what my custom might look like (only in cocobolo of course) Mike stoney Senior Member Username: stoney Post Number: 425 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Friday, November 04, 2005 - 7:34 am:    That's too funny!!! Those Spyders look like they could really hurt you.... kmh364 Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 1202 Registered: 9-2003 Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 11:13 am:    I can't play the d*mn thing right-side up, nevermind strung upside-down, LOL! ed_r Member Username: ed_r Post Number: 59 Registered: 10-2005 Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 3:58 pm:    SPyders are very comfortable to play upside down. THey balance well no matter what side is up;)