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

Grosh ElectraJet Custom Black Orange Metallic left handed guitar12/31/11

Don Grosh is just completing his first run of lefty ElectraJets. These are the first 2 of 5 coming to the shop. I have only superlatives for these fantastic guitars. Thank you, Don, for ending our year here at Jerry's Lefty Guitars on such a high note! And thank all of you for your wonderful support in 2011. More great guitars are coming in 2012 and beyond. Happy playing!
ElectraJet Black Orange Metallic pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Grosh ElectraJet Custom Trans Surf Green left handed guitar12/31/11

ElectraJet Trans Surf Green pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Hallmark 60 Custom Pearl White left handed guitar 12/31/11

We finally finished all the 60 Customs. We made 4 each of the Pearl White, Surf Pearl, And Sunset Sparkle. Elliot Easton of "The Cars" was responsible for getting me started on this project. He wanted a Pearl White and a Sunset Sparkle, so these many months later, here they are. The Hallmarks had previously never been made lefty with the proper vibrato.
60 Custom Pearl White pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Suhr Standard Custom Mary Kay Pink left handed guitar 12/31/11

PINK.

Standard Custom Mary Kay Pink pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gretsch 6120 Eddie Cochran left handed guitar 12/31/11

One of the best Gretsch ever.
Eddie Cochran 2 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gibson Les Paul Tribute Gold Top 2011 left handed guitar (used) 12/31/11

One of the Tribute series that came out earlier this year. As new condition with a form fit Gator ABS hardshell case.
Les Paul Tribute Gold Top pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Ibanez RG1570 Mirage Blue left handed guitar (used) 12/31/11

A color only available in left in 2002/2003. Black is all you can get now.
Ibanez RG1570 Mirage Blue pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gibson Custom Shop J-45 Bubinga 2008 left handed guitar 12/22/11

New condition 2008 Gibson Custom Shop. Only lefty of a special run of 40. Spectacular Bubinga back and sides.
Custom Shop J-45 Bubinga pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Suhr Standard Koa left handed guitar 12/22/11

Suhr Standard in Solid Koa body with Roasted Maple neck.
Standard Koa pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gibson J-150 2005 left handed guitar 12/22/11

Pristine condition Rosewood/Sitka Jumbo Gibson from 2005.
J-150 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Martin J12-15 left handed guitar (used) 12/22/11

A very nice Martin Jumbo 12 string in excellent condition.
J12-15 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman AC420 left handed guitar 12/22/11

AC420 number 4 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Nik Huber Krautster Black left handed guitar 12/7/11

This guitar just oozes cool. The finish (aged, not beat up), the wood choice, the colors, the feel, the sound. I love it. More coming soon.
Krautster Black pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Nik Huber Krautster Electric Guitar Review - Premier Guitar

Nic Huber Krautster - YouTube

Nik Huber Krautster I in Vintage White Part2 - YouTube

Hays DS-12F Brazilian left handed guitar 12/7/11

Now this is something you don't see too often (as in never before). A slope shoulder, 12 fret to the body, short scale, brazilian b/s, bear claw sitka top, adirondack scalloped braces, slot head guitar. In a lefty. Jim Hays is a luthier who also happens to be lefty player. This was his personal guitar for the last 3 years. He is building himself a new one, so this one can go to a new owner.
Hays DS-12F Brazilian 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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