Best LEFT- HANDED guitars that are reasonably priced...

Left handed Fenders have a pretty good reputation, just ask Exhausted. How much are you willing to spend?

Agreed. Fenders are the way to go for lefties. I'd also suggest Schecter if you want something that can handle heavy stuff.

Epiphone also makes some nice leftys
I have a friend who just bought a lefty casino i believe for fairly cheap

FWIW, I'm a lefty and I play guitar righty.

I tried playing right handed, but it just felt wrong. Playing left handed just feels more natural to me. Plus, I've played drums all my life, and my left hand is my highhat hand. It seemed a perfect fit as a picking hand, because it's already got rhythm and perfect timing.

I've got a left-handed Squire Strat. Set me back about $500, though.

kitfoo wrote:

You got ripped off big time. The most expensive Squire goes for $300. Or was it made of gold or something?

Yeah, I know. Bought it like 8-9 years ago. But if you wanna play lefty, you've gotta pay the price.

You can always buy a righty and reverse the nut.
Jimi Hendrix style

kitfoo wrote:

I've NEVER seen a guitar marked up $200 extra for being left handed. Fender does not charge a dime extra for left hand. You were plain ripped off.

that's a change too. it used to be 15% or so when i was buying. good on them.

Not to get off topic, but as a lefty, I'm getting a kick out of some of these replies.

I can honestly say that being a lefty does, to a certain degree, suck. On one hand, guitars are often more expensive, and fewer and far between than righties. Go to guitar center on 14th street in new york, and you will see all sorts of fun looking guitars... only three fender strats are lefties*!

However, there are some surprising perks. The biggest perk is that 80percent of guitar players can't play my stuff! I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but when I got my Martin acoustic, all my friends wanted to get their filthy paws all over it. I'd be playing someplace, and some jerk I hardly knew would want to bang out some Everlast song on the nicest piece of wood they've seen without a judge sitting behind it. Or back in high school, when we were playing with careless metal bands who would break a string and look at me to borrow my axe before their last song... how do i know they won't get "carried away" with their staind cover and break the thing!? I get paranoid about that kinda thing, scratches, dents, dirty fingers, so when I say "Sorry dude, its lefty" Blam, all interest is lost.

In close second, it is really really cool to be lefty. You'll have to take my word for it, but when you go to a venue, and the other guitar players look at you and think you are standing backwards, they are always inclined to ask. I can't tell you how often i hear "Hey, you're a lefty?" while i have my guitar on. It should be a dead give-away, but always the same dumb question. Good conversation starter. It is almost like although I am just playing guitar, I possess some sort of high understanding, or power, over the dime-a-dozen righties.

So while it may be expensive sometime, being lefty is worth it. it's a cool tax you gotta spend, but I say its worth it. i haven't even mentioned the fact that I am almost completely schooled in playing a standard boring right handed guitar upside down... everywhere I go, and there is a guitar, its usually righty. After hanging out with enough righties, and dicking around on their guitars, i've probably logged about 1000 hours of playing upside down, and I can hold my own in a jam flipped. Blows minds... everytime.

--Jack

*or something like that, don't quote me on it, but it is ridiculously few.