If you’re looking for left-handed electric guitar, you already know that the selection is available isn’t as wide as that available to right-handed players. However, there’s still a big range to choose from, especially if you don’t mind doing a bit of detective work to hunt down the perfect left-handed guitar for you. Let’s take a look at where you can find electric guitars for left-handed players, both online and off.
1. Local Music Stores
For many people, the first port of call when shopping for a guitar is their local music store. If you’re lucky, you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for, but don’t be too disappointed if you don’t. While general music shops do their best, they are necessarily limited in the amount of guitars they can stock, and of those, most will be regular right-hand guitars. Still, it’s always worth trying your local shops, because you just might find what you’re looking for and it doesn’t take much time to have a look.
2. Specialist Guitar Shops
You might have better luck finding the perfect left-handed guitar by shopping in a dedicated guitar store, particularly one which specialises in left-handed instruments. The problem here is that if you don’t live in an urban area, chances are there won’t be such a store in your area and you’ll have to travel (unless they do a mail order service). But if you can find one, stores of this type can be the best offline place to find many guitar models, particularly those which are relatively rare.
3. Classified Ads
Electric guitars can also be found through classified ads, such as those in your local newspaper. These can be a particularly good place to look if you’re looking for a used left handed electric guitar.
Don’t forget that other publications and venues can carry classified ads too, such as specialist guitar magazines and online sites such as Craigslist, as well as many guitar sites and forums.
4. Online Guitar Sites
Thanks to the internet, you’re no longer limited to shopping for guitars in your local area, but now have access to an enormous range of guitars from all over the world, including variety of left-handed models. Sites that specialise in guitars will naturally have the largest range, and even if they don’t have what you’re looking for in stock, they’ll often they’d be able to order it in specially.
The downside of shopping online is that you can’t try the guitar right before buying, but all reputable stores operate a returns service, so you won’t have to keep the guitar if you’re not happy with it. You’ll also have to pay postage costs, but the fact that many guitar retailers can offer much cheaper prices than brick and mortar stores means that even with postage included, you can often get the guitar much more cheaply online then you could in a local store.
5. General Retail Sites
As well as those sites that specialise in guitars, you might also want to check out more general sites such as Amazon, which also have a wide range of guitars and other musical instruments. These sites often offer even bigger discounts than specialist sites, and you’ll often get to get free shipping if you spend over a certain amount – and guitar purchases nearly always qualify!