Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: November 2009

1961 Martin OO-18GL factory left handed 11/14/09

1961 factory lefty Martin Classical. The "G" in OO-18GL stood for "Gut" from the days when animal intestines were used for strings instead of nylon.

Reverend Volcano left handed 11/14/09

Reverend decided they liked the Antique Natural look on the Volcano, so they made them. Now, if they would make it with a Maple board.... Available with 2 Humbuckers or a P90 on the neck pickup. They look identical. The P90 they use fits exactly in the Humbucker space.

Reverend Sensei left handed 11/14/09

Reverends newest leftys. Excellent build quality, lovely necks, great pickups, and I love the locking pin tuners. String changing for the 21st Century.

I planned photos for today. 11/13/09

The weather has not been cooperative for photos until today. Beautiful cool morning with lots of sun. Great fall light for guitar photography. So I get all set up, and a customer arrives. From Argentina. No english. I know no spanish (well, I did know "perro", my dogs, which concerned him somewhat. So I put them away in another room). We started playing electrics. No need to know english or spanish or any other language. Well, he did know "excellent", and he got to play excellent guitars. He played Suhr (why he came), Trussart, Anderson, and Duesenberg. He had been traveling for a couple of days (I think that was what he was telling me with flying and driving motions) and needed sleep, but had never been anywhere he could play lefty guitars like this (he says no leftys in Argentina). He bought a Suhr (S1 Candy Apple Red), but he was smitten by the Trussart Steelcaster I got a couple of weeks ago. He took photos of the guitar, of him with the guitar, and of the two of us with the guitar (his very attractive girlfriend (girls love guys who play guitar!) taking the photos). He wants the Trussart, but it is too dear a price. He left me his card and the name of a friend who lives in Miami who is fluent in english and spanish. Wants me to stay in touch through his friend. Delightful people.

Oh yes, I did not get to photograph guitars today. So tomorrow, unless more delightful people arrive, guitars will be photographed.

Reverend Sixgun (new model) left handed 11/10/09

Reverend continues to impress with this new model. I'll be photographing 2 other models tomorrow.

Heritage H535 Trans Red lefty 11/07/09

Is it Chuck Berry duck walking through my memories, or the great Albert Lee, or maybe Eric Clapton with Big Red? Who ever it is, there is an indelible image of a guitar very much like this one that says "The Perfect Guitar" to me. I just find them irresistible.

Left handed Collings 360. First one made. 11/07/09

Bill Collings just manages to get everything right (after extensive experimenting so that what goes wrong does not end up in your hands).

Jerry Jones left handed Longhorn Bass in Black Copper Burst 11/07/09

A few years ago I got to see Steve Earle play at the Tampa Theatre. One of my favorite all time concerts. Steve and his lead guitarist went through about 15 guitars (Edge did the same thing at the recent U2 concert I attended), changing guitars on nearly every song. The bass player just kept the great thumping bass lines throughout, all on a Jerry Jones Longhorn Bass.

Guitar arrivals 11/05/09

Today a Collings 360 (first lefty 360 made) and a Jerry Jones Longhorn Bass showed up. Photos tomorrow I hope. I've talked to a lot of manufacturers this week. I'll be writing about some new lines I'm taking on as soon as some decisions are made.

ALL THAT'S NEW AT JERRY'S LEFTY GUITARS!

Visit us at: https://www.jerrysleftyguitars.com

This is a way for me to immediately let you know what has arrived on a weekly basis. I will be posting all new guitars first on this blog with links to Flickr and pricing. They go on my website soon after if I did not sell it directly as a result of someone seeing it on this blog first. It usually takes about a week for a guitar to go from blog to website. Please direct inquiries about buying guitars you see on this blog to my email or phone. I've sold hundreds of guitars from the blog that have never made it to my website or the "sold guitars" pages on the website. If you see something you are interested in, email or call. Whomever asks about a particular guitar gets the first refusal on the guitar. You can subscribe to this blog so every time I post you get an email. That way you know the day anything new arrives. I'll likely be posting weekly, letting you know what's up in the lefty guitar world (or my little corner of it anyway).

There will probably be some growing pains (certainly on my part!) with this blog, but I'll figure it out eventually.

Click on any photo in this blog for a LARGE photo.

I've now subscribed to Flickr to host my photos. They present the photos much better than Photobucket. I currently have over 2200 guitars (over 44,000 photos) on Flickr. Click on "Albums" to see all the guitars on the account. I'll be keeping the Photobucket account as I have over 1800 guitars on there already.

On Photobucket, you can click on the "view all albums" under the 10 albums shown on the right (bottom of Sub-albums list) and access all the manufacturers (about 70 right now) files that I have photos for. Beginning 7/30/11 I have started adding sub-albums to all the albums so you won't have to search all the photos in an album to find the specific one you are seeking. You can find the sub-albums on the left hand side of the album page. For example, if you want to see the Collings MF, you click on the Collings album and then click the MF sub-album. I started doing this when I realized some of the albums were getting so massive. Who knew I would have over 60,000 photos of ONLY lefty guitars!

My Guitar Story...

I'm Jerry Welch, owner of Jerry's Lefty Guitars in Sarasota, Florida.

I bought my first guitar (a right handed Martin Vega V845, because I'm right handed) in 1975 just before my 21st birthday. Two weeks later I cut off my left index finger in a construction accident (I was a full time carpenter since age 17). I thought my guitar playing days were done.

A few years later, I decided I really wanted to play and it seemed playing left handed was the answer. Having a full hand to fret with seemed more important than a full hand to strum with. So I became a lefty player. I banged around on that turned around Vega for years before deciding to find a factory lefty. Any lefty knows what happened next, frustration. Not even 1% of guitars built are lefties, even though 8% to 10% of the population are lefties.

I eventually accumulated a large collection of lefties but was unhappy with the limited choices all lefties have. I wanted more choices so I spoke with many manufacturers about making more models available. I was told pretty unanimously that they would be happy to make me lefties if I would order them in quantities that would make production feasible. So I did, and here I am a dealer.

I'm finally getting to play a wider range of instruments. I'm having guitars built lefty that have never before been available. I'm working every day to expand the lefty playing options.

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