Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: May 2022

2013 Gibson ES-335 Natural #703 left hand guitar 5/29/22

Perfect condition 2013 flame maple 335. Definitely one of the nicer looking 335s I've seen. Great neck and setup, ready to go. $3195

Weight: 8.3 lbs

Condition: 9.9

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2004 Gibson Les Paul Custom Alpine White #632 left hand guitar 5/29/22

Weight: 9.5 lbs

Condition: 9.5 a couple of dents and some discoloration on back, a couple of lacquer checks in the cutaway. Perfectly set up. The iconic Les Paul in the beautiful yellowed finish. $3095.

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Nik Huber Krautster II Ice Blue #356 left hand guitar 5/29/22

Very light weight, even for a Krautster. Highly flamed neck. Mint condition. $3295

Weight: 6.3 lbs

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches.

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2010 Suhr Classic Custom 3 Tone Burst #793 left hand guitar 5/29/22

Chambered alder body, custom carved neck (they don't do that any more) that is just right, Fletcher/Landau singlecoils, like new condition. This would be $4000 to order today. The last Flickr photo has the specs.$2950.

Weight: 7.2 lbs

Condition: 9.9

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2017 Ron Thorn SoCal GT Dakota Red #138 left hand guitar 5/29/22

The only way to get a Ron Thorn built guitar these days is to order a Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt. Ron is the Principle Master Builder at Fender Custom Shop now. Be ready to wait five years and pay 7k or 8k. Or you can buy this 2017 NAMM SoCal GT for $2795. It also includes an extra tortoise pickguard that Ron made from Italian celluloid.

Weight: 7.4 lbs.

Condition: 9.9

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2013 Gibson SG Standard Cherry #360 left hand guitar 5/29/22

A good weight, a perfectly straight neck, good setup, mint condition. 2013 was a good year for lefty Gibsons. $1395

Weight: 6.9 lbs

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches.

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Eastman MD615 Classic #705 left hand mandolin 5/29/22

K&K pickup already installed! $1659. Sold. Another one will be available this week.

Condition: New

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1983 Fender Elite Stratocaster Black #356 left hand guitar 5/28/22

I have never seen one of these before today. Template for the Eric Clapton model in 1988. $2895.

Weight: 8.5 lbs

Condition: 9.9

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A little Wikipedia education.

1996 Fender MIJ Reissue '50s Stratocaster Two Tone Burst #467 left hand guitar 5/28/22

A lefty mint condition MIJ '50s Reissue Strat. Like brand new. $995.

Weight: 7.1 lbs

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches.

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Gregs Guitars demo.

2019 Fender American Professional Telecaster Black #938 left hand guitar 5/28/22

Mint Professional Telecaster. Non original case. Was $1699 new, $950 my price.

Weight: 7.6 lbs

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches.

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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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