Is this OUR George Wilson??? Great luthier video!

[george wilson]

I had plenty of speed and was not awkward,but never was interested in sports much. I guess I liked baseball a little as everyone at least has a chance to get the ball,as opposed to football.

[Adam Petersen]

Well I'll be. All this time I thought I was just a dullard when it came to artistic design, now I have an excuse! I'm a righty! I'll have to start practicing sawing left handed, see if it wakes up the other half of my brain.

[Zach Dillinger]

Adam, you aren't far off with crosstraining. There's an interesting book called "How to Think Like Leondardo Da Vinci". Amongst other things (no, not THOSE things), it mentions using your off-hand for daily tasks, such as brushing your teeth or eating. Apparently its supposed to spur creativity for both lefties and righties.

[Pat Barry]

Jimi Hendrix did all right with this didn't he?

[george wilson]

He used a right handed Fender with the strings reversed,I think,though I'm not a rock fan at all. Setting fire to the guitar with lighter fluid is not recommended!! Neither is kicking in your speakers,slamming guitars on the floor,etc!!!

[daniel lane]

As a devout lefty (not much choice in that matter), I've spent a lot of time working on ways to adapt typical (righty) neander tools to my own use. I'm pleased to know that this effort is in support of my tremendous creativity! Truth be told, I spent some time today rough planing a panel and switched grips to plane lefty or righty, depending on access limitations. (I don't have a real workbench <yet>, and work as I can with clamps and planing stops.) Perhaps I should further investigate!

Back to the OP, George, I'm impressed (as always) and inspired. I hope to do something as well as you did back when you were...what was it, 33?


daniel

[John A. Callaway]

I have been up almost twenty four hours, dead tired in a hotel room.... browsing the internet to wind down... and I saw this thread. I had to watch every part of this. Truly great stuff....