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Stagg is a Belgium based musical instrument company, founded in 1995.  They produce a large number of affordable instruments and accessories, including guitars, basses, drums, pianos, banjos, mandolins and a variety of wind instruments.

Stagg churns out a hefty number of left-handed guitars and basses, but also produces a few harder to find left-handed niche instruments such as banjos and mandolins.  There should be something for everyone inside the Stagg catalogue, and their prices are well within almost anyone’s reach – good times!

Stagg Left-Handed Guitars, Basses, Banjos and Mandolins

Too many to list! Stagg produces an impressive range of 39 left-handed instruments, including electric guitars and basses, acoustic and classical guitars, banjos, mandolins.  The image above represents a small sample of the available left-handed instruments from Stagg, so be sure to check out their website for the full list (link below).

Stagg Music Website

The Stagg website displays left-handed options separately to their right-handed counterparts, making them fairly easy to spot.  However there is such a large number of products to sift through that it would be quite time consuming and tedious to flip through every page.

Luckily the site has a search function which you can use to throw up all of the left-handed products.  I’ve found that typing “lefthanded” (one word) in the search bar is the most reliable method.  Try it out and see if anything catches your eye.

Founded in 1982 in Poland, Mayones Guitars are famed for their high-quality handmade custom guitars and basses.  Mayones market their guitars as being something a little different to the norm, for players who want to stand out from the crowd and be noticed.

Mayones offer a good number of their guitars and basses in a left-handed version, with no added up-charge for the privilege. The images below show the range of models available, but keep in mind that a variety of extra options and colors are offered when ordering.

At present, left-handed guitarists can grab any fixed bridge model from the Regius and Setius series, whilst bassists can have any of the Be and Jabba series guitars.

Mayones Setius Series Left-Handed Guitars

Setius GTM 6
Fixed bridge ‘double cutaway’ with Mahogany body and Flamed Maple top in several color options, gloss body / matt neck. Bolt-on construction, 5 pcs Mahogany-Maple neck and standard 25,4″ or baritone 27″ scale. Plain Rosewood fingerboard. Comes with selection of Seymour Duncan & DiMarzio pickups, Schaller tuners. Tune-o-matic, strings-thru-body bridge, enhancing wood vibration. Black or chrome accessories and hardcase included.

Mensinger are a custom guitar and bass company based in Poland who produce some absolutely stunning handcrafted instruments.  Every guitar they produce is available left handed and each one is fully customizable within reason at very agreeable prices…

Because every single instrument is hand-made, Mensinger encourages you to look at the standard instruments as a starting point for your own dreams and ideas.  If you see something you like, get in touch with them and they should be able to modify any model to suit your exacting requirements.  For a custom, hand-built guitar the prices are incredibly affordable.  If you like a model as it is, check out the main distributor (link below) for current left handed stock.

The Mensinger site is currently only available in Polish, so I’ve tried my best to give an adequate brief description of each model.  You’ll need to ensure your browser has some translation software built in before venturing over to the Mensinger website! Let’s take a look…

Mensinger Arcadia Left Handed Guitar

The Arcadia features a design which is completely unique to Mensinger.  It comes with a 24 ¾ inch scale length, 24 fret mahogany neck and flame maple topped mahogany body.  The Haussel pickups and high quality hardware complete the package.

Mensinger Joker Lefty Guitar

National Reso-Phonic Guitars was founded in California, USA in 1989 by Don Young and McGregor Gaines.  They are a builder of resonator guitars, including other resonater instruments such as mandolins and ukuleles.

In 1990 the company opened a factory in San Luis Obispo, California which currently churns out over 1000 guitars per year.  They also offer a repair service which is capable of restoring almost any National guitar to its original condition.

National Reso-Phonic Left Handed Guitars

All National guitars are available to order left handed at no extra charge.  The exceptions are the Resolectric, Resotone and RA3 models.  Take a look at a very small sample of the guitars available from National below, but be sure to take a look at their website to view the full range.

A small sample of left handed National guitars

National Website

The National website is quite basic in design, but I like the fact that it displays every guitar on a single page, making it very easy to quickly see what is available.  Each product page includes a series of beautiful high-resolution images of the guitar.

Information on left handed models is very well hidden on the site.  To find out if a guitar is available lefty you’ll need to click the ‘specs’ icon on the guitar’s individual page.  It would be nice to have this information a little more visible, or perhaps as an entry in a FAQ.