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

Larrivee SD-40R #361 left hand guitar 9/12/21

Larrivee calls me and says they have my SD-40 ready to ship. I say what SD-40? The one you ordered, they said. When did I order that, I ask. Oh, a few months back. No, I said, I haven't ordered any Larrivee's in a long time, you better check that. They call me back. Well, actually it was 2 1/2 years ago. So, okay, here it is. Anyone that makes a 12 fret dread is good in my book. $2498 list, $1695 MAP.

Condition: New

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SD-40 specs webpage.

Eastman E20D Sunburst #494 left hand guitar 9/12/21

The last one of the lefty E20D Sunburst. Discontinued by Eastman. Sorry to see them go. $1860 list, $1490 MAP.

Condition: New

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E20D specs webpage.

Eastman AC422CE #753 left hand guitar 9/12/21

This is one guitar that Eastman says they will continue to make in lefty. $1590 list, $1270 MAP.

Condition: New

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AC422CE specs webpage.

Maestro Original Series Raffles Small Jumbo Adirondack/Rosewood 12 string #951 left hand guitar 9/10/21

So you get an adirondack top, hide glue, forearm bevel, tone tap wood match, cutaway, perfect build quality, carbon fiber rod inserts to stabilize the neck, PLEK, and 12 strings. No one else but Maestro makes anything like this. Only $2595.

Condition: New

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Maestro Original Series Singa Medium Jumbo Adirondack/Rosewood 12 string #952 left hand guitar 9/10/21

Condition: New

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Maestro Crossover Series Vera Adirondack/Rosewood #948 left hand nylon string guitar 9/10/21

I've never got on with Classical guitars. The flat fretboard. The W I D E fretboard. If you learned on a classical, that is easy for you. If you learned on a steel string, it just seems wrong. But if you love the Beatles, they used a classical on many of their recordings. Beautifully. Some of favorites are "You've got to hide your love away", "Yellow Submarine, "Bungalow Bill", and "Lucy in the sky with diamonds". I love that sound. So I ordered these nylon string crossovers. So now I can get the sound without the weirdness of a true classical (my apologies to classical players who think steel string guitars are the true weirdness in the world). $2245.

Condition: New

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Maestro Traditional Series 00 Adirondack/Flamed Maple #950 left hand guitar 9/10/21

Now that Eastman has stopped making 00 leftys, I thought I would search for a guitar that could take their place. Maestro was able to do that and then some. So Adi tops, hide glue (the only shop I know that uses hide glue on guitars that cost less than $5000), all solid woods that are tone tapped, PLEK machine fret perfection. The "Goldilocks" guitar to many player. You gotta try these. $1995.

Condition: New

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Maestro Traditional Series Single 0 Adirondack/Mahogany #949 left hand guitar 9/10/21

Now that Eastman has stopped making Single 0 leftys, I thought I would search for a guitar that could take their place. Maestro was able to do that and then some. So Adi tops, hide glue (the only shop I know that uses hide glue on guitars that cost less than $5000), all solid woods that are tone tapped, PLEK machine fret perfection. You gotta try these. $1749.

Condition: New

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Maestro Crossover Series Cedar/Rosewood #947 left hand nylon string guitar 9/10/21

Condition: New

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1997 Rickenbacker 360V64 Fireglow #137 left hand guitar 9/6/21

Pretty wild to have the 6 and 12 string version of the 360v64 in the shop together. $3995. On layaway.

Weight: 7.6 lbs

Condition: 9.9 beautiful condition!

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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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