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

Santa Cruz 000 Sunburst left handed guitar 11/17/11

I'm sorry to say that I'm only getting one more Santa Cruz this year (the wonderful, tiny Firefly), then only two Santa Cruz in all of next year. They sold out the entire year of 2012 in about six weeks time and were scheduling 2013 before I knew it. I have twelve coming in in 2013.
000 Sunburst 2 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Duesenberg Starplayer TV left handed 11/17/11

I was fortunate to get two more Starplayers' yesterday. I was not expecting to get any more this year. One sold immediately (thank you Juan!).
Starplayer TV 10 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman AR803CED left handed guitar 11/17/11

Special order (they come standard in righty with one humbucker) with a near 2 year wait. This is the wild figured of the two. Super bearclaw spruce top and GORGEOUS flamed back.
AR803CED Classic pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman AR803CED left handed guitar 11/17/11

I ordered these guitars 23 months ago. This is the second of two I ordered. They are all solid, carved wood bodies. Same size as the AR805CE but with twin humbuckers and the controls on the guitar instead of under the pickguard. I like 'em! This is the milder figured of the two.
AR803CED Classic 2 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Collings DC Rootbeer left handed guitar 11/17/11

The first lefty Collings DC. I was photographing this last bunch of guitars in very poor light conditions and they all look a bit drab. Better in person!
DC Rootbeer pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

PRS Custom 22 Faded Blue Burst guitar left handed 11/17/11

Now PRS is telling me THIS is the last lefty. They have snuck me an extra 5 guitars since July now.
Faded Blue Burst Tremolo pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gretsch 6120 Eddie Cochran left handed guitar 11/2/11

The first Eddie Cochran lefty. Gotta love this one! From the western motif to the Lindy Fralin dog-ear P90, it is just cool.
6120 Eddie Cochran pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Bourgeois Vintage 0 left handed guitar 11/2/11

The first lefty 0 size guitar from Dan Bourgeois. German top, Rosewood back and sides. I'll be trying this little beauty out tonight.
Vintage 0 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gibson 333 Faded Cherry 2003 left handed guitar (used) 11/2/11

I had one of these in Faded Brown that I played for a few years. Really good guitars. Mint.
333 Faded Cherry pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Fender American Standard Tele Blizzard Pearl left handed guitar (used) 11/2/11

Mint, like new Blizzard Pearl. More silver than the photos show. Very yellow light this morning.
American Standard tele Blizzard Pearl pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

PRS McCarty 1999 left handed guitar (used) 11/2/11

From the first lefty run of PRS in 1999.
McCarty 1999 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Taylor T5Taylor T5-S1 Honey Sunburst left handed guitar (used) 11/2//11

Excellent Flamed Maple T5.
T5-S1 Honey Sunburst pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Peerless Monarch left handed guitar (used) 11/2/11

Mint condition Monarch. All solid, hand carved woods.
Monarch pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Music Man Silhouette left handed guitar (used) 11/2/11

Excellent condition, Seymour Duncan pickup upgrades.
Silhouette pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

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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