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

Collings D2H Western Shade left handed guitar 5/8/12

Collings best selling guitar by a large margin (for good reason) in Western Shade. 1 3/4 nut .
D2H Western Shade pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Coming this week (so far)

Suhr Pro T1 Vintage White
Suhr Modern 2 Tone Tobacco Burst
Bourgeois Ray LaMontagne Signature dread

Goodall Traditional OM Custom left handed guitar 4/21/12

The only lefty Goodall for all of 2012. I only got 1 last year also. I'm supposed to get 4 in 2013, but I was supposed to get 4 this year. In spite of all that, if I could only have 1 acoustic, it would be a Goodall.
Traditional OM Custom pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gibson Les Paul '57 Reissue Gold Top used left handed guitar 4/21/12

1957 Reissue old Top. A small touched up ding between the top 2 knobs, a small ding on the back of the headstock edge. Everything else is excellent.
Les Paul 1957 Reissue Gold Top used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gibson Les Paul Special Custom Shop used left handed guitar 4/21/12

Gibson Custom, Art, and Historic reissue Les Paul Special. Lollar pickups have replaced the originals (a significant improvement). Caps are Hovland upgrades. Upgrades, hardware and body aging by RS Guitarworks. What an LP Special should be.
LP Special Custom Shop used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Bourgeois Vintage OM Short Scale left handed guitar 4/21/12

A short scale version of the wonderful OM by Dana Bourgeois.
Vintage OM Short Scale pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Suhr Pro T2 Black left handed guitar 4/21/12

I know we get offered most lefty guitars in black or 3 tone burst. Sometimes though, black is the color a guitar should be. This is one of those times.
Pro T2 Black pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Collings OM2H 1995 used left handed guitar 4/21/12

A 1995 Collings OM2H in lefty. I bet he had not made a hundred leftys at this point. Probably not 50. He had that onerous $350 upcharge for leftys in those days. This is the oldest lefty I've seen from Collings yet. Let's just say it has opened up.
Collings OM2H 1995 used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Collings 01 Western Shade used left handed guitar 4/21/12

Mint condition 01 Collings. Probably my favorite size Collings.
Collings 01 Western Shade used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Martin HD28LSV used left handed guitar 4/21/12

Don't see these too often, especially lefty. Patterned after Clarence White's Martin (that is now owned and played by Tony Rice). LSV means Large Soundhole Vintage. They were made between 1999 and 2005. Discontinued. Soundhole pickup included.
HD28LSV used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

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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