Left Handed Guitar News
Ibanez have unveiled their very first Premium Series left handed bass guitars at this year’s NAMM show! The SR1200EL is a beautiful 4-string model with premium appointments and the SR1205EL is its 5-string counterpart.
This news is probably going to get quite a lot of you hot under the collar – here at LeftyFretz we’re constantly being asked why in the hell Epiphone stopped making left handed Casinos. The good news is that our good friend Jim over at Southpaw Guitars has announced that they’re making a limited edition comeback!
More new guitars from Ibanez! One of our eagle-eyed readers has spotted the very first left handed Iron Label series guitar on the Ibanez Germany website. Say hello to the new RGIR27FEL 7-string!
Last month we showed you some early development photos and specs of the new Gibson Elliot Easton ‘Tikibird’ Firebird model. Easton and Gibson have now settled on the final specifications and the new model is now available to check out on the Gibson website – let’s take a look…
Typical – a severe drought of left handed Firebirds and then two come along at once! Gibson recently offered the Firebird V 2010 in a left handed model, and now it looks like Elliot Easton is working hard to bring us another!
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…
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!