Can anyone help me, here: I have a left-handed Seagull in standard tuning. I like the action relatively low, but fancied tuning down a whole tone to DGCFAD; this made the strings rattle and would have required a truss rod adjustment.

Then I tried another guitar with a longer 25.5" scale, tuned down, and the intonation was all awry. I couldn't bear to hear it, though it was in tune etc.

Questions : 1) is this going to happen with every acoustic you tune down ? Maybe my ears are sensitive, but I can't bear the slight out-of-tune-ness

             2) is there anyone out there making acoustic baritones who might do one left handed?

Cheers, Jon

PS I'm an education professional (= poor)