Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: February 2012

Suhr Pro S6 Bengal Burst left handed guitar 2/20/12

Beautifully matched top on this Bengal Burst S6. Nothing but the best from Suhr.
Pro S6 Bengal Burst pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Santa Cruz 000 Sunburst left handed guitar (used) 2/20/12

A remarkable sounding 000 from Santa Cruz. No more lefty 1929 models until this time next year.
1929 000 Sunburst used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Bourgeois Vintage D left handed guitar 2/20/12

Dana's wonderful Vintage D. With the multitude of available Bourgeois models, 1/3 of all Bourgeois production are Dreads.
Vintage D pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Huss & Dalton OM Road Series All Mahogany left handed guitar 2/20/12

Huss & Daltons great Road Series All Mahogany OM. A hand made in the US boutique guitar for under $2000. I have six more Road Series coming, four have Adirondack tops.
OM Road Series All Mahogany pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gretsch Duo Jet 6128TDS left handed guitar 2/20/12

Gretsch had stopped making these for a while while they sold the very similar Custom Shop George Harrison Tribute model ($12,000). I thought these would not be available for a few years. A nice surprise that they added them back in to production.
Duo Jet 6128TDS pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Collings MF left handed "F" mandolin 2/10/12

Bill Collings is making the best mandolins in the world.
MF number 3 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Duesenberg CC Black left handed guitar 2/10/12

The only Black CC ever made lefty. It was made just for the NAMM show. All the others have been Vintage Orange.
CC Black pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Hallmark 60 Custom Sunset Sparkle left handed guitar 2/10/12

I have this Sunset Sparkle 60 Custom available. Last one.
60 Custom Sunset Sparkle pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Hallmark 60 Custom Pearl White left handed guitar 2/10/12

I have this Pearl White available from the run of 12 60 Custom. Only 4 ever made lefty.
60 Custom Pearl White pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Bourgeois Vintage OM left handed 2/10/12

Dana's always impressive Adi/Rosewood Vintage OM.
Vintage OM pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Blackbird Lucky 13 left handed 2/10/12

Four more Blackbird Lucky 13's will be here next Friday! I sold the first 4 six months ago in 3 days. Fantastic sounding, nearly indestructible, small bodied guitar.
Blackbird pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Fender American Deluxe Strat USA left handed used 2/10/12

Excellent condition Deluxe with upgraded Amalfitano pickups. Original pickups included.
American Deluxe Strat Mary Kay pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Bourgeois OM Country Boy Custom left handed (used) 2/10/12

Mint condition OM Adi/Mahogany Bourgeois.
Country Boy Custom OM used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Shop photos 2/1/12

I took some updated shop photos today (click on the links below for 33 photos) and shot a quick (rather poor quality) video. I'm waiting on a new Sony camera for video and we will be shooting video of all the guitars being reviewed when the new camera arrives.

Shop photos 2-1-2012 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Shop video 2-1-2012 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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