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

2000 Fender American Standard Telecaster 3 Tone Burst left handed guitar 6/28/18

The iconic Tele. Excellent condition. $1399 street price, $1049 my price.
Weight: 8.2 lbs.
Condition: 9.5 A few tiny dings.
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2017 Fender Custom Shop Postmodern Stratocaster Aged Olympic White left handed guitar 6/28/18

Fender says these guitars are the culmination of 60 years of what makes a great Strat. Not your Standard Strat, that's for sure. $3750 street price, $2850 my price.
Weight: 7.9 lbs
Condition: New relic
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Specs from Fender.
YouTube demo.

Airline '59 Town & Country Deluxe Vintage White left handed guitar 6/28/18

There are just some guitars that you you have to play. Street price $1299 + $189 hardcase = $1488,
used price $999.
Weight: 7.3
Condition: 9.9 (plastic still on pickguard)
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specs.
Taking it for a spin on YouTube.

2017 Fender Custom Shop Eric Clapton Signature Journeyman Relic left handed guitar 6/28/18

Custom Shop Clapton Signature with full Clapton electronics. $5100 street price, $3749 my price.
Weight: 7.7 lbs
Condition: 2017 Relic
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Electronics demo.

Eastman MD615 Classic left handed mandolin 6/27/18

Perfect condition MD615. $1359 street, $999 used price.
Condition: 9.9
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specs.

Blackbird Lucky 13 left handed guitar 6/27/18

Blackbird has stopped making the Lucky 13 so they can concentrate on building the El Capitan and Savoy. Unfortunately, the Savoy will never be made lefty, so we are out of Luck getting small guitars from Blackbird any longer. This one has the soundport and built in pickup. $2135 list, used price $1695.
Condition: 9.9 (and impervious to anything!)
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Takamine FP360S left handed guitar 6/27/18

Great condition Takamine acoustic/electric. $849
Condition: 9.8
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1981 Gibson Les Paul Standard Cherry Burst left handed guitar 6/27/18

Bought in Greenwich Village in the mid '80s. It's been played!! Dents and dings and scratches and lettering for open G tuning on the side. Very cool guitar. Wolftone pickups installed. $1799.
Weight: 10.2 lbs
Condition: 7.9
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1975 Martin D35 left handed guitar 6/27/18

Superb 43 year old Martin D35. Not dented, dinged, or scratched, but the top has lots of fine lacquer checking. $2550.
Condition: 8.7
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2007 Gibson Songwriter Deluxe left handed guitar 6/27/18

Excellent condition sitka/rosewood Gibson Dreadnought. Factory pickup with controls you reach inside the edge of the sound hole. Good straight neck and great action. $1975.
Condition: 9.5
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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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