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

2020 Fender Custom Shop '57 Stratocaster Journeyman Black #006 left hand guitar 3/16/21

The 1957 Fenders had 7.25" radius fretboards which makes it really difficult to bend those strings. Fortunately, the '57 reissue guitars have 9.5" radius fretboards like the modern Strats. Get a classic Custom Shop Strat for a great price.

$3799 street price, $2895 my price.

Weight: 7.9 lbs

Condition: Medium relic

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Fender American Vintage Series '56 Stratocaster 2 Tone #230 left hand guitar 3/16/21

I love the look of the 2 Tone Burst on these Strats. Classic. Lighter weight than most American Strats. $1450.

Weight: 7.7 lbs

Condition: 9.9 perfect condition, no dents, dings, or scratches

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Vintage Series '56 Strat specs webpage.

2017 Martin HD-35 #338 left hand guitar 3/16/21

The HD-35 is the Martin King of Bass. For bluegrass or those driving rhythm blues, it rocks. $3299 new, $2750 my price.

Condition: 9.9 perfect condition, no dents, dings, or scratches

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HD-35 specs webpage.

Eastman E10P #061 left hand parlor guitar 3/16/21

The coolest looking Eastman Parlor that has ever been here. Bearclaw adirondack top and flamed mahogany back. perfect condition. $1230 MAP, $949 my price.

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches

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E10P specs webpage.

Eastman SB57/n Black #753 left hand guitar 3/11/21

I ordered this guitar in February of 2018. The only lefty made. Going by the usual manufacturing standards for leftys, you would think black would be the first (and only!) color to be made. And why three years to make it? Only 8 lbs!

$2412 list, $1930 MAP.

Weight: 8.0 lbs

Condition: New

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SB57/n specs webpage.

Eastman SB59/v Goldburst #443 left hand guitar 3/11/21

Eastman is trying to fill most of my backorders before they stop making leftys for a year or two. This may be the only SB59/v Goldburst made. I ordered this one two years ago.

$2500 list, $1999 MAP.

Weight: 8.7 lbs

Condition: New relic

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SB59/v specs webpage.

Eastman SB59/v Classic #442 left hand guitar 3/11/21

The classic is the only SB59 varnish model that they have made a handful of leftys. This may be the last one for a couple of years.

$2500 list, $1999 MAP.

Weight: 9.1 lbs

Condition: New relic

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SB59/v specs webpage.

2013 Gibson Les Paul Traditional Honeyburst #600 left hand guitar 3/11/21

Perfect condition LP. Not your usual top on this one, and that's how I like it. 2013 seemed like a particularly good year for Gibson's. $2395.

Weight: 9.0 lbs

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches.

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Gibson Custom Shop 1957 Reissue (R7) Goldtop Darkback #203 left-hand guitar 3/11/21

This was a Road Show guitar that somehow managed to not get dinged or dented. Maybe because leftys never go to them because they only bring one lefty! One of the lightest weight R7s I've had here. The Road Show tech set this one up perfectly. $3599.

Weight: 8.6 lbs

Condition: 9.9 no dents, dings, or scratches.

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Gretsch DuoJet 6128T black #500 left hand guitar 3/11/21

The LP alternative. With a Bigsby. George Harrison's favored guitar for decades. $2799.

Weight: 8.6 lbs

Condition: New

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6128T DuoJet specs webpage.

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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