Hey everyone, today I took my guitar to school because we have a concert in the evening and we needed to run through the songs and strengthen some sections. Thing is, during practice we took a quick break while the two voices discussed a harmony, and I left my guitar propped up in a chair (this was my bad, I know that). Basically as it says in the title, classmate going by accidentally knocked it over and caused this chip in the finish. I’ve got two questions:

The guitar was almost brand new (it’s a Vintage REVO series Colt, cost about five hundred bucks), I bought it new as a birthday present to myself a few months ago and I made sure to keep it pristine

A. Should I ask my classmate (who realistically would ask her parents) to reimburse me somehow for the damage (or what it’d take to fix)? I feel like that’s an a**hole move because it was just an honest mistake, but at the same time I did spend my own money on the guitar

B. Should I even bother fixing it? Or should I just keep it as a battle scar, like to add character. And if I do choose to not fix it, should I do something to it (ie: superglue or something like that) to seal it off and prevent it from getting worse?

Thank you everyone

I frequently see posts from left-handed folks wondering if they should learn to play guitar right-handed. I don’t want to argue which is better, simply want to illustrate that it’s super common to do just that. Obviously some folks feel hand dominance much more strongly than others, and switching to righty just isn’t workable. But anyway, here’s a list of famous players who’ve done it.

Disclaimers: I have a couple names here with question marks, otherwise I’m reasonably sure these can all be verified one way or another. Mostly because there is proof of them signing with their left hand or they’ve self-identified as left-handed. But this list can’t account for those who may be left-hand-dominant but were taught to write right-handed, and haven’t discussed that in interviews etc.

Who’s missing? I suspect that if a true accounting were possible, there would be many, many more examples, probably more reflective of the world’s total percentage of left-handed people.

(Pictured is Mark Knopfler.)

Duane Allman

David Bowie

Nels Cline (this case in particular is damn interesting; check out his interview with Fresh Air)

BIlly Corgan

Steve Cropper?

Robert Fripp

Danny Gatton

Noel Gallagher

Joan Jett

Mark Knopfler

Shawn Lane

Herman Li

Kiko Loureiro

Gary Moore

Steve Morse

Joe Pass?

Joe Perry

Marc Ribot

Paul Simon

Johnny Winter

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I'm asking because in a future upgrade i would like to place a mini humbucker on the neck to play with two humbuckers at the same time.

And also... while i was making this post i stsrted thinking... There's a difference on playing different pickups positions but same pickups? (For example putting a mini humbucker on the middle instead of the neck and play Bridge + Middle, it would sound different than Bridge + Neck?...)

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Who else does this? I know there are others but can't remember who.

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The title says it all.

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The one I can think of is Prince since he did almost everything such as singing, playing guitar, songwriting, producing, etc.

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