Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: April 2019

Emerald X20 Artisan Woody Bubinga lefty guitar 4/24/19

One of the stranger looking acoustic guitars you can find. But the set up, ergonomics, and sound are exceptional. That it is also impervious to almost anything is like free money. This is the guitar to take to the zombie apocalypse (or camping or boating or by your fireplace if the apocalypse doesn't happen. $2930 shipped direct from Emerald, $2275 my price.
Condition: 9.9
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Emerald Artisan specs webpage.

Taylor 224CE Koa Deluxe Shaded Edgeburst lefty guitar 4/24/19

Great Koa cutaway with electronics. I'm amazed that Taylor can build this guitar for so little money. A Koa upgrade from most builders cost more than this completed guitar! $1599 street, $1199 my price.
Condition: 9.9
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Taylor 224CE Specs webpage.
video demo

Eastman AC630CE Maple Jumbo 12 string lefty guitar 4/24/19

Of course this guitar was discontinued after I ordered it. But they made this only one for me. Big maple jumbo 12 string goodness.$1598 MAP. My price $1249.
Condition: 9.9
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Anderson The Classic Shorty Mellow Yellow lefty guitar 4/24/19

Playing a short scale (24 3/4") neck on a traditionally long scale body is a hoot. Bends are much faster and easier and you'll wonder why you haven't always played this scale. $3884 list, $2495 my price.
Weight: 7.2 lbs
Condition: 9.9
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2009 Taylor 615CE lefty guitar 4/24/19

A Maple Jumbo cutaway with electronics from Taylor. Perfect playability, mint condition. $3948 list, $2049 my price.
Condition: 9.9
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Duesenberg Alliance Dropkick Murphy Catalina Green bass lefty guitar 4/24/19

Duesenberg surprised me at the NAMM show with three new lefty models (the other two should be in the shop in another week or so. Ameritage is still fabricating the custom cases for those). Check out the band Dropkick Murphys and their lefty bass player. This bass was created for him. The entire run (of mostly righty of course) has sold out with only two lefty coming to the US. This one is on layaway. $4000 list.
Weight 7.7 lbs
Condition: New
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Teye Gypsy Queen Goldfoil Lady lefty guitar 4/11/19

Goldfoil seem the perfect fit for this guitar. The Lady can sing! $3549.
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Teye Gypsy Queen specs webpage.
Vintage Guitar Magazine review.

Teye Gypsy Queen 4 SC Rose lefty guitar 4/11/19

Teye Gypsy Queen in the 4 pickup version with vibrato bridge. The most fun you can have with your single coils on. $3549.
Weight: 8.7 lbs
Condition: New
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Teye Gypsy Queen webpage.
Vintage Guitar Magazine review.

Teye Gypsy Queen Woody Amber Burst lefty guitar 4/11/19

Teye has reimagined their Gypsy Queen and finally made me some leftys! All the electronic goodness of the Super Coyotes in a lighter weigh, sort of Strat-ish style guitar that is completely their own. Wonderful! $3549.
Weight: 8.6 lbs
Condition: New
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Teye Gypsy Queen specs webpage.
Vintage Guitar Magazine review

Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Standard 1958 Reissue (R8) Bourbon Burst lefty guitar 4/11/19

Everyone knows the Custom Shop Reissues are Gibson's best. This is one of the lightest weight I've seen. Mint condition. Street price $4999. My price $3595.
Weight: 8.0 lbs
Condition: 9.9
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Gibson Custom Shop R8 specs webpage.

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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