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

Collings 290DC Crimson left handed guitar 12/7/11

The second lefty DC.
290 DC Crimson pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Larrivee L-03R 12 String left handed guitar 12/7/11

The Rosewood L-03R 12 String. Wonderfully jangley ( I know it is not a word, but it is what this guitar is).
Larrivee L-03R 12 String pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gretsch Duo Jet 6128 1957RI (used) left handed guitar 12/7/11

Excellent condition '57 Reissue Duo Jet.
Duo Jet 6128 1957RI pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Cole Clark FL2AC Bunya/Blackwood left handed guitar 12/7/11

Surprised me! The Cole Clark rep just told me a month ago to not expect any leftys for a while, maybe a long while. The old "they are behind on rightys so why should they make..." the now familiar story. So then, this showed up. THE performance acoustic.
FL2AC Bunya and Blackwood pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gibson J-185 2004 left handed guitar 12/2/11

Another excellent condition Gibson acoustic in the shop. All the recent Gibson acoustics I've had here has convinced me to become an Authorized Gibson Acoustic dealer. I'll be working on an order over the holidays. I'll be ordering between 12 and 15 acoustics. They will make (somewhat grudgingly I have to say, they don't even have SKU numbers for leftys, they have to be "finessed through the system" according to my rep) anything lefty that they make righty except a couple of models that need specially made lefty hardware. I plan on getting signature guitars like the Jackson Browne and John Lennon 160, True Vintage J-45s, Blues Kings, etc, along with the usual J-200s, J-45s, Hummingbirds, etc.
J-185 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket
J-185 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Suhr Pro M3 Copper left handed guitar 12/2/11

The last Copper M3 to be made. They have dropped this color and added Rootbeer in it's place. I like the Copper!
Pro M3 Copper pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gibson Les Paul Standard 2004 left handed guitar 12/2/11

Wonderfully figured top on this excellent condition 2004 Standard.
2004 Les Paul Standard Figured Top pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

PRS Custom 22 Smoked Cherry Burst left handed guitar 12/2/11

PRS just keeps sending me these great guitars. They had initially told me I would be allowed only 10. This is my 16th.

Custom 22 Smoked Cherry Burst pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Larrivee L-03 12 String left handed guitar 12/2/11

I think Larrivee makes about the best inexpensive 12 string you can buy. I have a L-03R (rosewood) 12 string also that I will be photographing tomorrow. These new Larrivees will also have my special pricing. This one will be $1149 from a list price of $1729.
Larrivee L-03 12 String pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Fender MIJ '62RI Tele 3 Tone Burst left handed 12/2/11

Very good condition mid '80s MIJ '62 Reissue Tele.
MIJ 1962RI Tele 3 Tone Burst pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

ALL THAT'S NEW AT JERRY'S LEFTY GUITARS!

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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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