Interesting Strat!

Bellycaster

I somehow found my way onto this guys website, he did quite a bit a session work in the 80's.

On the page with his Guitars I noticed his Red 1963 Strat. He's a Lefty as you can see.

http://www.irasiegel.com/gear.html

Yes, It's a right handed Guitar, but my main observation is the "Horns" and "Cutaway". Unusual, surely it must be Modded, I've not seen any Strat like that before. I've seen some 1963 Strats on Ebay and they look like the usual Strat shape.

Just thought I'd share this curiosity.

B-)

axisus

I love strats, but that looks unbelievably horrible. A murdered 63 strat!

Bucket

Pretty grim.

usedtobe

That's not good..

lustycourtier

An SGocaster

maltingsaudio

I suspect its been dropped at some point in its life and "repaired"

ESBlonde

At a time when LH guitars cost a premium someone reduced the long horn to book match the short one. A very practical solution at the time to the problem of upper fret access. It's just a guitar!

Now 50 years on and some people have a different view of the values, but I'm sure this has been well played and appreciated over the decades.

Niallmo

It's obviously a workhorse guitar. It's also got a wilkinson Trem and possibly EMG's. I don't have a problem with the horn mod either. It's clearly well loved and appreciated by its owner and that's all that matters really.

Bellycaster

ESBlonde said:

At a time when LH guitars cost a premium someone reduced the long horn to book match the short one. A very practical solution at the time to the problem of upper fret access. It's just a guitar!

Now 50 years on and some people have a different view of the values, but I'm sure this has been well played and appreciated over the decades.

Now that is very well observed @ESBlonde

I think you nailed it on the head there, wiz for you.

Cosmetically it's not beautiful, but it makes no odds to me in the end, I'm not playing it and like @Naillmo says, if the player likes it, then good for him.

I did wonder about the "socket", I'm not a Luthier but I thought a nice tight socket with plenty of purchase on the neck was what a Luthier aimed for and that a Guitar with a massively eroded socket would be tonally inferior,but I'm no expert on these things, it obviously does a job.

richardhomer

If that was a dog - and come to think of it, it is - we'd be reporting its owner to the RSPCA!

axisus

If it was a dog we'd have taken it out the back and blown it's brains out with a shotgun long before now.