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

Collings MF left handed 7/30/11

Is there a better contemporary mandolin than the Collings MF? No.

Gibson Les Paul Standard Limited Edition Santa Fe Sunrise 2004 left handed 7/30/11

I remember the Limited Editions back in 2004. This and the Pacific Reef Blue and the Midnight Blue. I liked this color the best. Great top!

Santa Cruz D-12 Fret left handed 7/30/11

After loving all the pre war dreads and OMs that Santa Cruz has made for me the last 4 years, I decided to try this D-12 fret. What a sweet sounding guitar. Another way for mahogany to enthrall me.

Martin D-28 left handed 1974 7/30/11

Great sounding 37 year old D-28. Excellent action and easy playing. This one is ready to go!

Reverend Club King RT left handed 7/30/11

They arrived. Even better than I expected (and I had high expectations).

Fender Vintage '52 Tele left handed (used) 7/30/11

Brand new condition. No play wear.

Collings O2H left handed 7/30/11

Another Mighty Mite!

Jerry Jones Baritone w/Bigsby left handed 7/24/11

Jerry Jones retired last April and sold all his equipment. No more Longhorns, Guitarlins, Shorthorns, Sitars, or Baritones. Only 2 Baritones ever made lefty w/Bigsbys (of which this is obviously one). Only 8 Baritone leftys total. He made thousands of righty instruments and far less than a hundred leftys, almost all for me. Most of you never got to even try one. It's a loss for us all.

Bourgeois Small Jumbo Country Boy left handed 7/24/11

Bourgeois' splendid mahogany Small Jumbo. I think this is going to be yours Greg.

Carvin AE-185 Hollow all Koa 12 string left handed (used) 7/24/11

Very unusual to find an all Koa lefty 12 string. Carvin does not even offer this as a Koa body any more, only Koa top. Only a 12 can sound like this.

Collings 360 Solid Mahogany (used) left handed 7/24/11

This 2 year old 360 is the very first lefty 360 ever made.

Larrivee OMV-05E left handed (used) 7/24/11

Nice. Mahogany OMV with factory electronics.

Larrivee D-03 left handed (used) 7/24/11

Excellent older (you can tell by the clear pickguard and Mahogany instead of Sapele) D-03.

Reverend Club King RT left handed 7/24/11

I've been trying to get Reverend to make these for 20 months. At last! They will be here the end of next week.

Blackbird Luck 13 left handed 7/24/11

The first lefty Blackbird Lucky 13s will be shipping to me the end of next week. The sail around the world, climb Mt Everest, cross the Sahara Desert, canoe the Amazon River, fight off zombies, serenade Aphrodite, dip water from the fountain of youth guitar we've all been waiting for.

Anderson Hollow Drop T Classic left handed 7/19/11

Two Anderson Ts on the same day makes for a great day at Jerry's Lefty Guitars. This a hollow body (6.4 lbs) with body contours and humbuckers, so not your traditional tele, but a great new tradition all it's own.

Anderson Hollow T Rosewood left handed 7/19/11

The George Harrison Tribute Tele. With a hollow body (5.9 lbs!) and Chocolate Maple neck, it looks like the tele George played on the roof, but it does not weigh a ton and plays like all Andersons, fantastic!

PRS Custom 22 Black Gold left handed 7/9/11

The second of ten PRS has arrived. Black Gold is the color. Really gorgeous. Hey Dave, great color choice! On it's way to you monday.

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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