Once upon a time, I saw a picture of Steve Miller playing a left-handed Strat right-handed - I guess to get that "Hendrix vibe." Do you remember a Strat model Fender has (had?) - they called it the "VooDoo Strat" - that featured a left-handed neck on a right-handed body, and a pickguard that "slanted" the bridge pickup "backwards," as if it were a L-H setup?
Interesting ideas...

Some of my best ideas come to me in dreams - songs, guitar modifications, etc... One night a couple of months ago I dreamed I was playing a left-handed Strat, but all the controls were in the right place... Of course, in dreams logic and laws of physics are suspended, so it was up to me to figure out how to impliment what I envisioned...

I got out the ol' PhotoShop editor and started screwing around with a Strat picture. I created a half a dozen or so "examples" and ran them by my pal Sherman Tate, of CST Custom Guitars. Although I had come up with all kinds of goofy pickguard shapes and control layouts, he and I agreed that the picture that LOOKED the best (and would probably be the easiest to build) left the pickguard in "stock" shape and placement, and just put a single volume control down to the spot where it would be (relative to the bridge) on a R-H Strat. Yeah, Baby! But the 5-way pickup selector switch was awkward, no matter where I put it or how I oriented it. In this drawing, the switch is over the neck pup, oriented vertically. You changed pups kinda like you would on a Les Paul...

Then I received more divine inspiration - I remembered a Strat ("Elite?") we had when I was working at a local music store back in the eighties. Or was it one of the big-name knock-offs? Anyway, it had three mini-toggle switches for pup selection instead of the Fender-style "lever." Hey, I'm the king of the mini-toggles - just look at my Les Paul Custom! Then, I recalled seeing an article in Guitar Player magazine about Strat wiring mods - including scheme by Dan Armstrong for a "Super Strat" that used the three mini-toggles, and gave you 12 sounds! I figured I could put the toggles up where the pup selectors are on a Les Paul or Gretsch... And, I found that Stewart-MacDonald Guitar Supply (stewmac.com) stocks dual concentric pots (like my Dano bass has) that can be wired to give you independent tone and volume on the same pot... Hey, this could be a neat project!

Cruising eBay in July 2001, I found a left-handed Strat-copy on which someone had already installed a right-handed vibrato and set up "righty"... It had to be a sign! I 'won' it, ordered switches and a pot from StewMac, a custom "cutout the pups only" L-H pickguard from Warmoth (warmoth.com), and built this:

This ain't no trick drawing! I call it the "Purple Haze..."

It's great! The ONLY thing I'd do different is that the output jack might be a bit in the way, I think if I have Sherman or Warmoth build me a better body we'll move the jack back down to the right-handed spot...

But a funny thing - after I first put it together, it was hard for me to play, and I had a terrible time stringing it, too!!! I've set up left-handed guitars for friends, and learned a few riffs lefty-style... and the eyes kept telling me to play it left-handed! I would get, like, a little sea-sick from it... and the nausea was NOT from just my playing! Luckily, once I added some marker dots on the "right" side of the neck and beat on it for a while, I finally got comfortable with its "offhanded-ness." It actually hangs pretty nice, and it kind of has that old FireBird goofy balance...

Still crazy after all these years!

SPECS:
Body: Mahogany (?) plywood, left-handed (typical cheapie import/copy)
Neck: MightyMite(?) 22 fret, left-handed
Bridge: Gotoh G-101 vintage vibrato, right-handed
Pickups: Fender MIM Standard Strat stock set