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Today we’ve got news of a couple of new left handed guitars on the way from Ibanez, namely two signature models from Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. The new JS2400 and JEM7VWHL Limited Edition models are due for release around October/November this year.
Ibanez have long been calling themselves the first name in seven, and the leader in eight string guitars – despite having nothing but a couple of discontinued, incredibly hard to find models for us southpaws. But it looks like they’ll soon be making a little effort to correct this…
Kauer Guitars is a family run business started by Doug Kauer. The company is based in California, USA and builds a variety of beautiful custom guitars and bass guitars. All Kauer guitars are available to order left handed at no extra charge!
Peerless Guitars was established in 1970. Since then they have built quality archtop and acoustic guitars for world-renowned top brands such as Gretsch, Epiphone, Alvarez and many others with high standards of quality. All guitars are available to order left handed!
It has been a while since Fender offered anything new to the left handed community, so how does four new higher end southpaw Fenders sound to you? Fender have recently revamped their American Vintage series and happily four of the models are available in a left handed version!
Almost exactly a month ago Ibanez announced the new AFJ85L semi-acoustic, and now they’re back with two more lefty models! We spotted the new Talman TCM50LE acoustic and AS53L semi-acoustic on the Ibanez UK website – expect them soon!
More new guitars for you today, this time from ESP who have just announced their very first left handed 8-string! The new H-208 is from ESP’s LTD brand and will be available in the coming autumn according to ESP UK. Read more about it here!
Fender have just announced a few new acoustic guitar models for summer 2012, and one of them is a lefty! The Tim Armstrong Hellcat 12 is a 12-string version of the already very popular Hellcat 6-string model. Check out the specifications here.
Axl Guitars have become well known for their unusual ‘Badwater’ series which all feature a dirty, worn-in look. They are also one of the very few companies out there who produce 1/2 and 3/4 sized left handed electric guitars.