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ABOUT US America's Lefty Guitar Oasis Established 1980 713-667-5791 SouthPaw Guitars of Houston, Texas is proud to be celebrating it's milestone 30th. year in business. We sure have come a long way... In 1980, Jim Duncan and a friend, Bill Townsend opened a music store called "Gold n Guitar Exchange". With $2000, their own individual guitars as stock and no experience, a new business was born. After selling his own personal guitars, Jim went about replacing them. This simple need became the stepping stone for a new vocation. He reasoned that if he was having a tough time finding quality lefty instruments, others were experiencing the same woes. In a quest to fill these needs, SouthPaw Guitars came into being. 
With the advent of the guitar show phenomenon, came the availability of quality preowned left-hand products. Right-handed dealers had no use for these instruments and started seeking Jim out to buy them. Jim began attending guitar shows and advertising in various trade and music magazines to expand his customer base.
SouthPaw now maintains a mailing list of lefty players numbering in the thousands. As the business grows, Jim continues to lobby the manufacturers to build quality instruments for the lefty market. Our latest effort is to convince Fender to import or build in Mexico Jagars, Jazzmasters and Mustangs. Some companies have already seen the light, an have incorporated lefty models in their regular line of instruments - many with a 10-15% lefty up charge.ie PRS and Gibson. Others, like Martin and Taylor, have made SouthPaw a left-hand only dealer, selling them lefty instruments only with no lefty upcharge. Jim will continue searching for new sources. We offer acoutic guitars by Alvarez and Alvarez-Yairi, Dean, Epiphone, Fender,Gibson, Gretsch, Guild, Martin, Ovation, Takakine,Taylor American , Schecter and Washburn. Bass Guitars by Dean, Fender, Martin, Musicman, Regal, Roscoe, Schecter, Warwick and Washburn. Bluegrass instruments by Epiphone, Dobro, Gibson, Mid Missouri and Regal. Classical guitars hand made in Spain by Cordoba, Ramirez And Manuel Rodriguez, and Taylor. Martin also. Electric guitars by Dean, Dearmond,Eastman, Epiphone, Fender, Fender Custom Shop, G&L, Gibson, Gibson Historic, Gibson Custom Shop, Gretsch, Guild, Hamer, Heritage,Hofner, Jackson Custom Shop, , Schecter, Taylor. #1 FAQ. Why do you not advertise certain USA brand guitars even though you are authorized dealer? In the new age of political correctness, certain of our national suppliers are repressing our ability to sell their guitars. One certain national brand will not allow us to put their product on the internet even though we sold over one half million dollars of their guitars last year. This amounts to restriction of trade. Say you live in Virginia and your dealer carries no lefties. They want you to order from these guys or the large internet companies they are in bed with.  |
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