Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: September 2010

Gibson Les Paul Jr (used) reissue left handed 9/26/10

Custom Shop Historic series. Big old '50s neck. Superb player.

Bourgeois OO Custom Sunburst left handed 9/26/10

The first OO lefty by Dana Bourgeois. I'll have the first lefty O in a few months. Love these small body guitars.

Larrivee D-02 left handed 9/26/10

New Larrivee dread and case for less than $900.

Hofner 1968 500/1 Beatle Bass left handed 9/23/10

Good condition 1968 Hofner. The "Hofner" is still on the pickguard. Usually worn off on the older basses like this one. Paul continues to use his live and on his recordings.

Fender 1959 Bassman (not a reissue)

I don't post amps on my blog as a rule, but this is a worthy exception. It is a real 1959 Fender Bassman. It came in with the lefty 1961 Fender Strat I posted a couple of weeks ago.

Collings D1 left handed 9/15/10

Sitka/Mahogany with 1 3/4" nut and Vintage Now neck.

David Webber OM left handed 9/15/10

Cedar top, Pau Ferro back and sides. Beautiful OM.

Taylor Dan Crary Signature Model (2000) left handed 9/15/10

Some at Taylor say this is the only lefty made in the 14 year run of this guitar. I've never seen another.

Eastman MD815 Sunburst Left Handed 9/15/10

Website update coming in a couple of days.

We are in the process of completely redoing every page of my website. It will be substantially complete Monday night (we think). We are updating everything to be able to make changes more easily and getting ready to add audio/video in the coming months. I want to make this the best website in the world for lefty guitarists.

Gretsch Brian Setzer left handed 9/4/10

I'm now the newest Gretsch, Fender Custom Shop, and EVH dealer. I've got these 5 Gretsches and more coming soon (my very first great electric guitar was a Gretsch, so I'm really happy). My EVH leftys are supposed to be being built right now. Fender Custom Shop orders will be placed after some more study.

Gretsch 125th Anniversary left handed 9/4/10

Gretsch has delivered a great new color for the 125th Anniversary this year. Jaguar Tan top and Green Gold back and sides. TV Jones pickups. I love this guitar.

Gretsch White Falcon left handed 9/4/10

The Gretsch flagship.

Gretsch Tennessee Rose Burgundy left handed 9/4/10

George Harrison. Shea Stadium. Thank you Gretsch.

Gretsch 6120 Orange left handed 9/4/10

Jerry Jones Guitarlin left handed 9/4/10

2 1/2 Octaves of guitar. 31 frets. You can play this sucker all the way up that neck. Capo on the 12th fret will get you mandolin sound. One of the more interesting guitars I've played.

Fender 1961 Strat (used) left handed 9/4/10 NOT a reissue

Too Cool.

Fender '57 RI Strat (used) left handed 9/4/10

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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