New Guitar

My office: effect pedals, amplifier, guitar, yes, and some books.

All my guitars are a miracle. God found them for me. 

Look at that left-handed guitar there in the picture. It was given to me by Luis Toro, guitarist for Universal Royalty. Somebody gave it to him. He said wow, thanks, and then noticed that it was left-handed. He couldn’t play it. He said, this guitar should go to Rob Dingman. That’s because I’m the only left-handed guitarist Luis knows. When they played for the church in March he gave me the guitar. 

When I saw the guitar I was a little disappointed. It’s an Epiphone, an Indonesian copy of a Gibson SG, a more expensive and better guitar. If I were buying for myself, I wouldn’t even consider this guitar. 

But I said thanks for thinking of me, and went about changing it to right-handed stringing so I could play it. I play left-handed on guitars strung right-handed. It’s the only way I know. That’s how I started playing, and by the time someone told me I was holding the guitar wrong it was too late. I wasn’t about to start over again learning from scratch.

The value of that is I can play any right-handed guitar laying around. If I was true left-handed I couldn’t do that because there are no left-handed instruments lying around. They are too rare.

I switched the strings and tried re-tuning the bridge so it would play in tune. When I got done, I was amazed. I really like how it sounds. Plays great. Sounds just like some of my favorite guitar players, like Duane Allman and Jerry Garcia. I mean, I would never buy one of these, but now I have one. I plan to use this on street outreach. It will look pretty uncool (think Black Sabbath or AC/DC), but when I play it, it will sound cool.

So once again, a little miracle. God found this guitar for me. Thank You so much, Lord. And thank you, too, Luis, for being my friend.