Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: Shop in Sarasota is permanently closed. I'm in Tennessee and building a shop.

Shop in Sarasota is permanently closed. I'm in Tennessee and building a shop.

A quick update.

I'm in Tennessee building a new shop and house on 50 acres. It was a tough winter here with temps 5 below zero over Christmas. It rained steadily for 6 days in one stretch with rain at least a couple of times a week every week since the middle of November. Makes it impossible for construction equipment to operate on the property as the ground is too soft and everyone gets stuck (three different rock haulers in one morning got stuck and it took two chained together to pull one out).

I brought 240 guitars with me and they are in climate controlled storage. I've had about 50 shipped to me here and I'll post a list of what has come in on the "New Arrivals" in the next few days. I am accepting orders and shipping guitars. I'm not set up for photography yet.

My webmaster was in an accident in November and informed me a couple of weeks ago that she will be unable to work and I should find someone else to take over the website. I'm actively doing that now.

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TdubbsMarch 8, 2023 at 3:58 PM
Welcome to TN Jerry! I hope that the weather will agree with you going forward! I'll be watching this upcoming list!
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WigJuly 5, 2023 at 11:56 PM
Hope to see you back up and running soon Jerry!
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MfschulzFebruary 7, 2024 at 2:28 PM
What's the best way to contact you to buy a guitar. Looks like we have a lot in common
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MfschulzFebruary 17, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Hi Jerry
I have been looking a long time for a deusenburg left handed tv star player. I was happy I found your website but also the other way when I saw you were moving.
Just my luck. I just decited to learn to play about a month ago. My friends are giving me a hard time because I'm 61years old and try to learn to play. There is also a personal reason that I want to learn so bad.i decided I want the duesenberg very badly. I understand your in the middle of a big project and I understand. In 2015 I built a timberframe home. I dismantled a 112 year old amish barn for the 10in x10in beams.
I was hoping that I may be able to drive down from PA. If you. If this is not convenient for you do tou have don't have a credit card machine I c an bring cash and the exact change.
I was in the military for 18 years and I want to learn for a special Avent we are trying ro put together if this is not convenient for you can you give me an approximate time of the year you think you will be up and running.then specific guitar is the duesenberg tv star player black with metal flake number 814.
Thanks in advance for any thing you can do or yell me I would be so glad. Thanks again Jerry.
Mario schulz. Email. Dragonzlair13 @GMAIL
OR MFSCHULZ AT EARTHLINK.NET
PHONE 724 734 9366
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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.

Shop in Sarasota is permanently closed. I'm in Tennessee and building a shop.

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