Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: December 2021

Collings 470 Julian Lage Antiqued Blonde #092 left hand guitar 12/9/21

Les Paul size, but a hollow mahogany body with an arched, laminate maple cap. Nothing else like it in the guitar world. Collings perfect build and Ellisonic single coil pickups make for an electrifying guitar playing experience. $6600.

Weight: 6.2 lbs

Condition: New

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470 specs webpage.

Julian talks about how this guitar was created.

Julian demos the 470.

Anderson T Icon Sonic Blue #321 left hand guitar 12/9/21

Very light weight Swamp Ash body in reliced Sonic Blue and roasted Caramel Maple neck. Hum canceling electronics!

List $4495, my price $3950.

Weight: 6.7 lbs

Condition: New, Level 2 relic.

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Carvin 185 Koa 12 string #115 left hand guitar 12/9/21

This model is no longer available since Keisel bought Carvin. Was over $3000 new. $1595.

Weight: 6.1 lbs

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches.

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Ron Kirn RK Barnbuster #605 left hand guitar 12/9/21

Ron Kirn is well known for fine, hand built tele and strat style guitars. He builds many of them from reclaimed wood from old structures like barns and warehouses.

$1495

Weight: 8.7 lbs

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches

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Barnbuster specs webpage.

Carvin Bass Surf Green #771 left hand bass guitar 12/9/21

A USA made custom lefty bass for $695? Yes!

This model also no longer available since Keisel bought Carvin. $695.

Weight: 7.8 lbs

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches.

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Maestro X Series X1-VI #194 left hand guitar 12/9/21

Maestro's stripped down 000. Still has forearm bevel, all solid woods, PLEK, nitro finish, and perfectly built. Don't you wish they had starter guitars like this back in the 60s and 70s? $845.

Condition: New

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Eastman MD315 Classic #019 left hand mandolin 12/2/21

Very flamed maple back for a 300 series mandolin. All the usual Eastman goodness. $960 list, $769 MAP. Prices going up more than $100 the first of the new year.

Condition: New

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MD315 specs webpage.

2019 Rickenbacker 360/12 Jetglow #059 left hand guitar 12/2/21

From Rickenbackers's last run of lefty 12s. Brand new condition. $3499.

Weight: 8.1 lbs

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches.

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Ric 360/12 specs webpage.

2002 Rickenbacker 370/12 Mapleglow #609 left hand guitar 12/2/21

The model favored by Roger McGuin of the Byrds. None have been made since 2002. Sold.

Weight: 7.8 lbs

Condition: 9.8 one tiny dent on the top.

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Larrivee C-03R Tommy Emmanuel #282 left hand guitar 12/2/21

The great sound of a 12 fret sitka/rosewood guitar with access all the way up the neck. Tommy Emmanuel knows how to collaborate on a great sounding guitar. $2174.

Condition: New

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Larrivee C-03R Tommy Emmanuel specs webpage.

Tommy demos the guitar!

Another Tommy 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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