Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: 2013

Collings SoCo 16 LC Dark Cherry Burst left handed guitar 11/20/13

It just looks like a Jazz guitar should look, all cool and refined and beautiful. $4400 list, $3960 MAP.
Collings SoCo 16 LC Dark Cherry Burst left handed guitar. - a set on Flickr
Collings SoCo 16 LC | Handmade Instruments from Austin, TX
▶ Collings SoCo 16 LC Electric Guitar Review With Michael Casswell Guitar Interactive Magazine - YouTube

Collings 01 left handed guitar 11/20/13

I sell more 01 and 02H Collings than all other Collings models combined. Yes, that good. $3875 list, $3488 MAP.
Collings 01 left handed guitar. - a set on Flickr
Collings _01 | Handmade Instruments from Austin, TX
▶ Collings 01 SB - Pete Huttlinger - "On Eagle's Wings" - YouTube

Bourgeois Aged Tone D Brazilian left handed guitar 11/20/13

Aged Tone top (with a little subtle bearclaw), Brazilian Rosewood back and sides, hide glue, and Dana's tone tapping artistry. This is the best sounding dread I've ever had in the shop. Best. Ever. I have to apologize to Evan (the new owner) for delaying the shipping a couple of days so I could revel in the sound of this guitar. I now have an inkling why the brazilian rosewood guitars of the 1930s are so revered. I've used the words "clarity" and "note separation" when discussing various guitars in the past. My definitions of those words in terms of guitars has changed radically since hearing this guitar. Also, the notes JUMP out of this guitar. No messing about in the box. You miss or don't fully hit a string in a chord, you hear it. You hit it softy, it sounds soft. Hit it hard, it sounds loud. No forgiveness for sloppy playing (the only kind I got!). If this was not a 9K guitar, I would have one in every Bourgeois model as my personal guitars. I want one so bad in a Small Jumbo.
Bourgeois Aged Tone D Brazilian left handed guitar. - a set on Flickr

Kevin Ladue Cedar/Cherry Custom used left handed guitar 11/19/13

This is on layaway.
Kevin LaDue Cedar/Cherry left handed guitar - a set on Flickr

2012 Fender American Strat used left handed guitar 11/19/13

Added Pearl pickguard, added lefty (yes, there are lefty pickups) Seymour Duncan SSL5 in the bridge. Same pickup in the Gilmour Signature. Mint condition and looks much cooler than stock. $999 street without the upgrades. $799 used price.
Fender American Standard Strat used left handed guitar. - a set on Flickr

Reverend Six Gun used left handed guitar 11/19/13

Excellent condition used Reverend Six Gun with OHSC. $858 street, $599 used price.
Reverend Sixgun used left handed guitar - a set on Flickr
▶ Reverend Six Gun Guitar demo Bobby DeVito - YouTube

Carvin DC747 7 string Antique Amber used left handed guitar 11/19/13

Neck through alder body with flame maple cap. Ebony board. $899 used price with OHSC. Mint condition.
Carvin DC 747 7 String Antique Yellow used left handed guitar - a set on Flickr
▶ D's Living Room - Drayen Labie - YouTube

Carvin TL60 Vintage White used left handed guitar 11/19/13

Set neck, all mahogany, ebony board, active electronics with piezo, Holdsworth hum bucker in neck position. $999 used price. Excellent condition.
Carvin TL 60 Antique White used left handed guitar - a set on Flickr
▶ Carvin TL-60 - YouTube

Carvin CS6 Dragonburst used left handed guitar 11/19/13

Carvins LP clone in a really nice Dragonburst. $1199 used price.
Carvin CS 6 Dragonburst used left handed guitar - a set on Flickr
▶ Carvin CS6 Guitar Review - YouTube
▶ Carvin CS6 through a Carvin V3 Full Stack - YouTube

Big Muddy used left handed mandolin 11/17/13

List $755 direct from builder. This one has the added hardshell case @ $150 and "Mandolin for Dummies" and "Mandolin Chords", two books great for the beginner. $429 for everything.
Big Muddy Used left handed mandolin. - a set on Flickr
▶ Big Muddy M-11 wide nut(Sold) - YouTube (It's silent for the first 24 seconds).

Music Man Axis Super Sport Natural Quilt used left handed guitar 11/17/13

$2600 list, used price $1349. Pristine condition with OHSC.
Music Man Axis Super Sport used left handed guitar. - a set on Flickr

Music Man Silhouette Special Ball Family Reserve Custom used left handed guitar 11/17/13

$3500 list, used price $1499.
This thing just looks badass. I know as leftys we tell the manufacturers "NO MORE BLACK GUITARS!!", but if they all looked this good...... Pick marks on the guard are the only marks on it.
Beautiful roasted, birdseye maple neck.
Music Man Silhouette Special left handed guitar - a set on Flickr

Taylor GS5 Paleburst used left handed guitar 11/17/13

Not your usual sunburst Taylor. Very nice pale red fading into amber. $3869 list, $2899 street, $1699 used price.
Taylor GS5 Sunburst used left handed guitar - a set on Flickr
▶ Taylor GS5 demo - YouTube

1994 Taylor 512 used left handed guitar 11/17/13

$3118 list, $2349 street, $1699 used price. I think this is Taylor best size guitar.
1994 Taylor 512 used left handed guitar - a set on Flickr

1982 Guild D46 Sitka/Ash used left handed guitar 11/15/13

Soon to be 32 years old. Guild has always made strong sounding dreads. This one is no exception to their long history as America's "other" guitar company. About an 8.5 condition. A fine, old warhorse. $1099
1982 Guild D46 sitka/ash used left handed guitar - a set on Flickr

2009 Gibson Limited Edition 1960s Country & Western left handed guitar 11/15/13

A few bumps and bruises. 8.5 to 9 of 10 condition. Custom Shop slope shoulder Gibson. $2399
Gibson '60s Country Western Reissue Sunburst used left handed guitar - a set on Flickr

2002 Gibson SG Special Teal used left handed guitar 11/15/13

Limited edition color. Upgraded Gibson bridge pickup (original is in the case) and tweed hard shell case included. Excellent condition. $899

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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