Left Handed Guitar News
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!
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.
Take a look at the new 70s Tribute range from Gibson, which includes the Firebird Studio, Les Paul Studio and SG Special. Available left handed!
Take a look at the exciting new SG Standard P90 guitar from Gibson USA, available left-handed in two different finishes!