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

New facebook page for Jerry's Lefty Guitars.

I started a Facebook page for Jerry's Lefty Guitar last week. I wanted to invite all my email contacts as "friends" to my site. I think it would be cool to have all the leftys in the world have a site where that could contact any other lefty in your town, city, state, country, etc. With all our Facebook pages connected, we can see where everyone lives. I did not know any leftys until I started this business. Now I know 5 in Sarasota, and dozens within 100 miles of here, and thousands worldwide. You may have a lefty guitarist living in your building or down the street, and never know it. I have 1500 recent email contacts with lefty guitarists. It seems you can ordinarily access your email contacts through facebook and ask them to become "friends". I'm not able to do this. I cannot access anything in my address book through facebook. I have sent them inquiries 3 times now to see what can be done. No reply yet. So I'm appealing to my readers on my blog to send "friends" requests to my facebook page:
Jerry's Lefty Guitars Thanks!

Coming later this week!

I'm trying to get caught up with all the guitars that have not made it to the blog yet. The following are coming later this week (probably others also):
Bourgeois Vintage OM Short Scale
Cole Clark FL1AC- I only got 2 new Cole Clarks last year (despite having a lot on order). This may be the only lefty this year.
Collings O2H (used)
Collings OM2H (used)
Eastman 712C (used)
Gibson Custom Shop LP Special Faded Cherry (2002) (used)
Gretsch Tennessee Rose (used)
Rainsong Dread (used)
Taylor 410C (used)

Martin HD-28V left handed guitar (used) 3/26/12

Many think this is Martins best contemporary guitar. I think the many are likely correct.
HD28-V used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Larrivee OM-05 left handed guitar (used) 3/26/12

Mint condition OM-05 Larrivee. Very nice OM.
Larrivee OM-05 used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

G&L ASAT Special left handed guitar (used) 3/26/12

As new Mary Kay ASAT Special. Plastic is still on the pickguard. One of Leo Fenders finest.
ASAT Special Mary Kay pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Collings UT1 Mahogany ukulele left handed 3/26/12

Collins perfect tenor ukulele. I've not heard any other uke that compares to Collins. The Steinway of ukes.
UT1 Ukulele 2 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman E10D left handed guitar 3/26/12

Eastman wonderful take on the traditional dread. Solid Adirondack top, solid Mahogany back and sides. Nothing but critical praise for this guitar from magazines and customers. An extraordinary value under $1000.
E10D pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman AC530-12 string left handed guitar 3/26/12

The first Eastman Jumbo 12 string. I ordered it 26 months ago. Big 12 string sound, small Eastman price.
AC530-12 String pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman T184MX Custom Classic left handed guitar 3/26/12

Eastman's 2" smaller bodied thinline. Not only does this have Seth Lover pickups, it has chrome hardware and curly maple binding.
T184MX Custom Classic pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman T186MX Classic left handed guitar 3/26/12

Eastman's classic, big, thin line. All the T models come with Seymour Duncan Seth Lover pickups now. Some of the best vintage sounding pickups made.
T186MX Classic pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman El Rey 3 Classic (used) left handed guitar 3/26/12

Eastman's unique, super light weight jazz guitar. This used one is in very nice condition.
El Rey 3 Classic pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Framus Diablo left handed guitar (used) 3/26/12

Framus is German guitar builder founded in the '40s. By the mid '60s, Framus was the largest guitar manufacturer in europe. The Diablo is their strat line. This Diablo comes in a Rockcase flight case. Looks like it would survive the apocalypse.
Framus pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman MD815 left handed mandolin 3/26/12

Eastman's top of the line MD815. Hand carved adirondack top, spectacularly flamed, hand carved. maple back and sides.
MD815 Classic pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman MD505 left handed mandolin 3/26/12

One of my many special orders from Eastman. This one I ordered more than a year ago.
MD505 Classic pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Recording King 000 RO-06 left handed guitar 3/26/12

Recording King is making a few leftys now. This is a Solid Englemann top with mahogany back and sides (gotta say it is the strangest looking mahogany I've seen!). For $299, I don't think anything else out there is this well constructed. The beginner guitar we all wish we could of had. Makes anything by Epiphone/Fender/Whoever in this price range look/sound like toys.
Recording King pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Collings I35LC Faded Cherry Burst left handed guitar 3/6/12

The first lefty I35LC. The LC stands for laminate construction. Check out a couple of interesting reviews:

iGuitar Magazine Issue 5 Featuring John Petrucci: Collings I 35 LC Guitar review

http://www.collingsguitars.com/Images/reviews/I35LC_tonequest.pdf

I35LC Faded Cherry Burst 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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