Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: December 2020

2020 Gibson Crimson Custom Shop '58 Les Paul Special One Piece Koa left-hand guitar 12/19/2020

Really one of a kind from the Crimson Custom Shop (they only do one of a kind and artist guitars). A one piece Koa body and striped ebony neck. Big ol' '50s neck. You'll never see another. Sounds a little spankier than the mahogany version. $4400.

Weight: 8.4 lbs

Condition: 9.9 mint

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Teye Apache left-hand guitar 12/19/2020

My all time favorite Teye is the Apache. Nothing else looks like it, nothing else can sound like it. $4895 list, $4395 my price.

Weight: 8.8 lbs

Condition: New

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Teye Apache specs webpage.

2006 Fender American Stratocaster 3 Tone Burst left-hand guitar 12/19/2020

Very nice condition American Strat. $949.

Weight: 7.8 lbs

Condition: 9.7 one small dent, one lacquer check.

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Pre-War Dreadnought left-hand guitar 12/19/2020

I am constantly amazed at how these guitars sound. I rarely play dreads, but I sure loved playing this one. $4995. Sold.

Condition: New, aged finish

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Pre-War Dreadnought specs webpage.

Molly Tuttle plays the D.

Callaham S Model Ruby Red left-hand guitar 12/19/2020

Bill Callaham shipped out his last guitars in 2014. Very few were ever made lefty. Other than what appears to be slight burn marks on the headstock, the guitar is pristine. Great deep ruby red. Fast oval-ish neck shape. $3850.

Weight: 8.2 lbs

Condition: 9.7 no dents, dings, or scratches, just marks on the headstock.

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Eastman SB59 Sunburst left-hand guitar 12/19/2020

Nice top on this Sunburst SB59! $1916 list, $1532 MAP.

Weight: 8.8 lbs

Condition: New

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SB59 specs webpage.

Eastman MD815/v #743 left-hand mandolin 12/19/2020

Eastman's wonderful Adirondack/Maple mandolin with relic varnish finish. Bark louder, sound better. $2342 list, $1873 MAP.

Condition: New relic

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MD815/v specs webpage.

Maestro Raffles Small Jumbo Cutaway Adirondack/Koa left-hand guitar 12/13/2020

I decided to carry Maestro Guitars for a lot of reasons. They are superbly made, they have appointments most guitar builders (other than very high end builders) will just not do, they sound wonderful, and they are a huge value. Who else makes a lefty acoustic with a beveled armrest, cutaway, and side soundport in Adirondack and Koa for $2425? They are also building me 12 strings with cutaways, and armrest bevels.

Condition: New

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Maestro Raffles specs webpage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUnToaQiDcs

Video demo.

Maestro Victoria 000 Cutaway Sitka/Rosewood left-hand guitar 12/13/2020

I decided to carry Maestro Guitars for a lot of reasons. They are superbly made, they have appointments most guitar builders (other than very high end builders) will just not do, they sound wonderful, and they are a huge value. Who else makes a lefty acoustic with a beveled armrest, cutaway, and side soundport for $2275? They are also building me 12 strings with cutaways, and armrest bevels.

Condition: New

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Maestro Victoria 000 specs webpage

Video demo.

Maestro Singa Medium Jumbo All Koa left-hand guitar 12/13/2020

I decided to carry Maestro Guitars for a lot of reasons. They are superbly made, they have appointments most guitar builders (other than very high end builders) will just not do, they sound wonderful, and they are a huge value. Who else makes a lefty acoustic with a beveled armrest, cutaway, and side soundport in all solid Koa for $2425? They are also building me 12 strings with cutaways, and armrest bevels.

Condition: New

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Maestro Singa 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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