Hey Big Red;

When I bought my first guitar - still my favourite - I bought it from the guy that built it. We lived in northest France at the time and I went to the local luthier and bought a hand made classical guitar with a birds-eye maple back for the equivalent of forty dollars.

I was thirteen or fourteen at the time. I had been playing ukelele and baritone uke so I knew most of the fingering, but I couldn't press the strings down hard enough.

A week after I bought it I took the guitar back to the man who made it and complained of this. "I can't play it" I said, "the strings are too high."

He looked at me with disdain, and said "If you were a MAN you could play this guitar." He took the guitar, loosen the strings and made a show of lowering the notches in the ivory nut. I say made a show because I don't think he did enough to compromise the quality of the instrument. Forty years later it is still the guitar I grab first.

I have played other guitars from time to time. Some of the electrics appear to honour a light left hand. But just about every acoustic takes work (ie practise).

Good luck.

j