8 String guitar option

[Name]

It would be pretty cool if there were any 8 string guitar options.

 

[aarontunes]

Not sure there is enough demand to warrant it....yet.
Personally, I would love to see the 7-string offering become stronger....it certainly seems to have been around long enough now to be a permanent thing.

 

[AirCap]

Buy a paddlehead neck or have one made undrilled and go for it.

 

[stratamania]

Buy a paddlehead neck or have one made undrilled and go for it.

I doubt a paddle head would have a wide enough neck shaft for an 8 string. Depending on user preference and available widths.

 

[swarfrat]

TBH I'm shocked that Rondo has as many 7,8, 9 and even 10 string guitars as they do. Particularly, when they came out with the little 4-string mini-LP electric uke - I asked Kurt if he could get me one in left handed, and he said there wouldn't be enough demand.  I've got an almost 5 yo that wants a Les Paul.  Surely the market for 10 string guitars can't be that big.

In all my searching I've NEVER seen a mini-LP (like 20" scale) in left handed. About the only left small scale you can find are the mini-strats.

 

[AirCap]

Sad to say, but lefties have been getting the short end of the stick since the beginning of recorded time. Don't expect it to change any time soon.

 

[Cagey]

A very good friend of mine is left-handed, but learned to play right-handed from the very start (50+ years ago), since lefty guitars (among other things) back then were even more difficult to find than they are now. If we're talking about a very young child here, that might be an option. The instrument requires learning a lotta detailed hand movements that aren't intuitive to begin with, so it's not like there are any ingrained habits or tendencies to overcome. I'm a righty, but I've always thought it was a little weird that we finger/chord with our left hands when all out innate coordination is in our right.

 

[stratamania]

I am left handed and play right handed.

 

[swarfrat]

If he were 8 and going for lessons, I'd agree with you. But starting at about age 2, I've not been able to get him to hold it right handed, not matter how awkward it is. I suspect Kurt at Rondo may be left handed - they're one of the most lefty friendly vendor's I've ever encountered. Even for stuff that doesn't appear to make sense (the left handed u-bass - I bought it from Rondo. We made a new body and could have done so with a righty, but making the new body wasn't something I planned on from the get-go, he was just too small to hold even the u-bass body.)

 

[Cagey]

I suspect Kurt at Rondo may be left handed - they're one of the most lefty friendly vendor's I've ever encountered.

I agree. Left-handed and >6 string instruments seem to be a couple niche markets he's working pretty seriously at serving.

 

[TBurst Std]

I'm originally a lefty that plays righty.  Honestly picking technique needs to be the most automated technical ability.  Maybe that's why it's regulated to the dominant hand of most.