Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: 2018

Mercury Labs Electrostorm Resonator left handed guitar 12/31/18

Michael Cain is a luthier in New Orleans who happens to be a lefty guitar player. He has mostly built righty guitars except for the lefty he has built for himself. Well, that is just not right! So now he is going to be building some leftys for the shop. This is the first. Thin aluminum body so it doesn't weigh what most resonators weigh. Has a humbucker and bridge piezo. $2395.
Weight: 8.0
Condition: New
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Electrostorm webpage.

Lowden S35 Sinker Redwood/Cocobolo left handed guitar 12/31/18

Lowden's small bodied, big voiced guitar in pristine AAAA Cocobolo and Sinker Redwood top. Street price $7300. My price $3995.
Condition: 9.9
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Lowden S35 specs webpage.

Eastwood Airline Coronado White left handed guitar 12/31/18

One of the first guitars produced by Eastwood when he started his guitar company. Still making them.
$1388 street price with the hardshell case. $899 my price.
Weight: 8.4 lbs
Condition: 9.9
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Eastwood Coronado specs webpage.
Video demo.

Santa Cruz Bob Brozman Baritone left handed guitar 12/31/18

Got a baritone or bass voice when you sing? Then you need this guitar! Five steps lower on the register than a regular guitar. You can play all your favorite songs just like always and have them five steps lower. Too cool. $7800 list, $4595 my price.
Condition: 9.9
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Santa Cruz Bob Brozman specs webpage.
Video demo.

Gretsch 5230 Black left handed guitar 12/31/18

The Electromatic Jet in Black. $739 list, $549 MAP. Add $90 for a Gator hardcase.
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Gretsch 5230 specs webpage.
Video demo.

Gretsch 5220 Jet Dark Cherry Metallic left handed guitar 12/31/18

The newest Electromatic models (they only say Gretsch on the headstocks now) are amazing guitars for the money. $739 list, $549 MAP. Add $90 for a Gator hardcase.
Weight: 7.5 lbs
Condition: New
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Gretsch 5220 specs webpage.
Video demo.

Gretsch 6128-PE Jet Black w/Bigsby left handed guitar 12/31/18

This guitar, like the Duesenberg Starplayer, looks great in black! $3249 list, $2699 MAP.
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Gretsch 6128T specs webpage.

Gretsch 6228-PE Jet Cadillac Green left handed guitar 12/31/18

Been a long while since Gretsch gave us any choice but black on a Jet. $3024 list, $2499 MAP.
Weight: 7.4 lbs.
Condition: New
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Gretsch 6228 Jet webpage.
Video demo.

Ruokangas Duke Deluxe Amber Burst left handed guitar 12/31/18

I met Juha Ruokangas at the NAMM show in 2017. He brought a Mojo King left that I bought from him. Best guitar at NAMM. This is his equally impressive Duke Deluxe. $9950 list, $5850 used price.
Weight: 7.6 lbs.
Condition: 9.9
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Ruokangas Duke webpage.

Collings 02H 12 string left handed guitar 12/29/18

Collings only make one 12 string model, this 02H. Session and studio guys rejoice. $5300 list,
$4770 MAP, $3795 used price.
Condition: 9.9
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Collings 02H 12 String specs webpage.
Video demo.

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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