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

Collings MT left handed A style mandolin

The always perfect Collings MT mandolin. $2500 list, $2250 MAP
MT Left Handed Mandolin Photos by jerrysleftyguitars | Photobucket
Collings MT - Kym Warner "Whiskey Before Breakfast" - YouTube
Collings MT Honey Amber - YouTube

Collings 02H left handed guitar 4/23/13

The great and powerful 02H (your supposed to say it like "The Great and Powerful OZ!"). Collings' just excels at small guitars. They never sound small. They are Great and Powerful!
jerrysleftyguitars's Collings/02H/O2H 5 left handed guitar album
Collings 02H serial number 20210 - YouTube

Collings UT1 left handed Ukulele 4/23/13

So how does Bill Collings do it? He decided to make acoustic guitars and redefined how a great acoustic sounded. He decided to build mandolins and is perhaps the builder that everyone else is now compared. He decided to make electric guitars and redefined our ideas of how a new electric could sound like (or better than) a vintage electric. He decided to build ukuleles and, like everything else he builds, has become the master of building the best sounding ukes. $1200 list, $1080 MAP.
jerrysleftyguitars's Collings/UT1 Mahogany/UT1 Ukulele 3 left handed Ukulele album
Collings guitar UT-1 tenor solid mahogany ukulele sound sample mgm musicguymic - YouTube

Collings C10 Doghair Custom left handed guitar 4/23/13

This is just one of those guitars you see and you want it. $6600 list with all the custom options. Already sold.
jerrysleftyguitars's Collings/C10 Custom Doghair left handed guitar album

Cole Clark FL1A 12 String left handed guitar 4/23/13

After two years of not building leftys, Cole Clark is now set to build leftys whenever I order them. I ordered 12 at NAMM in January and this was the first arrive (two Angels are about to ship to me now). Cole Clark has reengineered their fabulous pickup system and redesigned their top bracing and the guitar now sounds as wonderful acoustically as it always has plugged in. If you need the best lefty 12 string for performing, I have your guitar! $2610 list, $1999 MAP.
jerrysleftyguitars's Cole Clark/FL1A 12 String left handed guitar album
Ocean - Tommy Lie (HD) (John Butler) - YouTube
Funky Tonight - Tommy Lie (HD) (The John Butler Trio) - YouTube

Bourgeois Vintage 0 left handed guitar 4/23/13

Dana Bourgeois' take on an "0" size guitar is a little different than most. He "sized down" his beautiful OM model to make this instant classic. $4295 list, $3865 MAP.
jerrysleftyguitars's Bourgeois/Vintage 0/Vintage 0 left handed guitar 2 album

Carvin SH550 Deep Green Quilt used left handed guitar 4/23/13

A very nice mid size semi hollow from Carvin. Like new condition. Sold for $2100, my price $999.
jerrysleftyguitars's Carvin/SH550 Deep Green Quilt used left handed guitar album
Electric guitar demo Carvin SH550 semi hollowbody electric for jazz blues and more - YouTube
Feel Like Makin' Love with Carvin SH550 - YouTube

Bourgeois Vintage Small Jumbo left handed guitar 4/23/13

This is the Goldilocks guitar for many, "not too large, not to small, just right". Dana Bourgeois has only been making this model for two years and I've already sold more of the Small Jumbo's than any other Bourgoeis' model, and also more of these than any other model from any other manufacturer I carry. It's that good. $4295 list, $3865 MAP
jerrysleftyguitars's Bourgeois/Vintage Small Jumbo/Vintage Small Jumbo 4 left handed guitar album

Anderson Mongrel left handed guitar 4/23/13

The best DNA of a Tele and Strat combined (plus some great humbuckerness added). Already sold.
jerrysleftyguitars's Anderson/Mongrel Butterscotch left handed guitar album
Tom Anderson Mongrel Demo: Pickup Switching, Splitting & VA Mid Boost - By Zayn - YouTube

Anderson Bulldog Trans Orange left handed guitar 4/23/13

The better playing, better sounding, better built, lighter weight alternative to an LP.
$4689 list, $4199 MAP
jerrysleftyguitars's Anderson/Bulldog Trans Orange left handed guitar album
Tom Anderson Bulldog Movie - YouTube

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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