Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: January 2011

Gibson SG 1980 left handed 1/29/11

A recent trade from Antigua in very good condition.

Fender Precision Bass 1991 left handed 1/29/11

Excellent condition 20 year old P Bass with Hipshot. Original tuner and Tortoise pickguard also included. It comes in a metal case that looks like a military ammo box.

Kramer 450B Bass from the '70s left handed 1/29/11

First of these lefty, '70s Aluminum neck Kramer Basses I've seen. Very Cool.

Republic Tricone Etched/Polished Nickel left handed 1/29/11

Mint condition used guitar with an added pickup.

Fender Standard Strat 1990 USA left handed 1/29/11

Eastman MD615 Sunburst Left Handed 1/29/11

Kala Tenor Cutaway w/electronics left handed 1/29/11

Mahogany/Spruce w/electronics

Republic Resonator Uke left handed 1/29/11

Polished Nickel Resonator Uke. Real tuners, real loud.

Jerry Jones Baritone w/Bigsby left handed 1/26/11

Jerry Jones is retiring and closing his shop in about 3 months. He is only building 100 more guitars before closing. Some of these will be the last lefty Sitars, Baritones, Guitarlins, Shorthorns, etc to be built. I hate to see this happen. A lefty friendly USA manufacturer of really cool instruments does not come along every day. I wish Jerry well, he is a great guy, but I'm sure wanting someone to buy his shop and continue his business. If I lived in Tennessee, I'd be trying to make it happen.

Eastman John Pisano left handed (used) 1/26/11

Eastman's wonderful, small bodied John Pisano jazz guitar. Here's John giving it a go:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhcMlE-5f3E

Blackbird Luck 13

Sorry I don't have a full size photo of this guitar, but I won't have them until about 3 months from now. This is an all carbon fiber small body lefty. 13 frets to the body (hence the "Lucky 13" name), 1 3/4" nut, 24 3/4" scale, stainless steel frets, and a body size between a 0 and a 00. Blackbird calls it 0+.
These will be the first leftys Blackbird has ever made, and the first lefty small body carbon fiber guitar ever made. I tried for a couple of years to get Composite Acoustics to make one, to no avail. Here is a article from Premier Guitar:http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/Daily/News/Blackbird_Guitars_Debuts_Blackbird_Lucky_13_Small_Body_Guitar.aspx

Gibson SG 1969 left handed 1/9/11

All original (except the case) 1969 SG.

Gibson Les Paul Deluxe 1972 left handed 1/9/11

This great old LP came in to fund the purchase of the PRS McCarty that was on the blog last month.

Suhr Pro S3 Caramel left handed 1/9/10

I love the interesting, tight flame on this top.

Eastwood Baritone left handed 1/9/11

I found one more of these Eastwood Baritones that I had made while doing inventory. So that's why you do inventory!

Cole Clark FL2AC left handed 1/9/11

My favorite working musicians performance guitar.

Cole Clark FL1A 12 string left handed 1/9/11

Cole Clark managed to get me 2 more leftys a couple of days before the 2010 ended. That made for a total of 4 guitars they got me last year. When rightys get behind in production, leftys always suffer.

Weber Absaroka Mandolin (used) left handed 1/9/11

Weber Absaroka in excellent condition.

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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