Used Fret-King Black Label JDD Jerry Donahue “Telecaster” (circa 2011-2022) in Natural; Comes with Original Gig Bag and Pro-Setup

Here we have a Fret-King Black Label JDD Jerry Donahue “Telecaster”, Natural Finish, in Excellent Condition! This model was designed in the U.K. (by Trev Wilkinson and Jerry Donahue), and manufactured in India from 2011-2022. Jerry Donahue was most notably known for his work with The Hellecasters. We were unable to precisely date the guitar; but given the condition and look, we assume it was made during the latter half of its production period. The JDD is in really great shape; we did highlight a few blemishes, scratches, nicks, etc. Please see all the photo documentation provided. Fret-King’s description and specs will be provided below, but the stand out features of this “tele” are the custom Seymour Duncan pickups (Jerry’s signature), 5-way switching, and the soft-V neck profile. Our guitar shop tech of 45 years was impressed this guitar; “It’s a player!”, he says.

The instrument comes with its original soft case, been professionally setup, and ready for its next owner. Please feel free to message us about the Fret-King Black Label JDD Jerry Donahue in Natural Finish!

Specifications:

Colour – Natural

Body – Two-piece centre-jointed American alder with bound ash top

Binding – Yes

Neck – Custom profiled Canadian hard rock maple

Scratch Plate – Black

Finger Board – Maple, 7 1/4” radius

Scale – 25.5″/648mm

Frets – 22 medium

Inlays – Black dots

Nut Width – 1.67″/42.5mm nominal

Nut – Graphite

Tuners – Wilkinson WJ05

Bridge – Wilkinson WTBS

Pickups – Seymour Duncan APS-2JD (Neck), APTL-3JD (Bridge)

Controls – Volume, tone and custom wired 5-way switch

Manufacturer’s Description

Decades of tone in one guitar!

Jerry Donahue, known as ‘The doyen of the string benders’ and co-founder of The Hellecasters, is an outstanding player whose talents have seen him feature with stellar artists the world over. Jerry’s in depth knowledge of guitar tone, and how to get it has been developed over decades of playing. When the opportunity to cooperate with legends Trev Wilkinson and Seymour Duncan to create a Fret-King ‘JD’ guitar which would be the match for his prized ’52, and be the very pinnacle of his tonal ambitions, epitomising ‘ultimate JD tone’, the project was born.  The Fret-King JDD features Jerry’s California built, Seymour Duncan APTL-3JD signature pickup in the bridge position. This unique pickup was designed by Seymour to duplicate the warm, punchy bridge pickup tone of Jerry’s favourite ’52 touring guitar.  The neck position of the JDD is loaded with Jerry’s custom designed, California built covered APS-2JD signature pickup. Seymour designed this masterpiece with a balanced field for even response, to distort “earlier”, yet retain a clean, vintage-like tonality. With a five way switch and circuitry tuned to Jerry’s exacting specification the Fret-King JDD meets his vision of having a single guitar which really can sound like many of the most instantly recognisable solid-body and semi-acoustic tones of the last 50 years. Soaring blues tones, rich dark midnite jazz tones, ‘woman-tone’, the elusive `in-between quack-tone’ and country twang! In just the flick of a switch, it’s all there in spades. From the playability point of view, the soft ‘V’ profile neck, and 7/14” radius fingerboard radius round off a real player’s guitar. Three legends combine to create a new benchmark guitar.

JD Pickup Selections

One: (Neck). The custom designed Seymour Duncan Jerry Donahue APS-2JD signature pickup yields the rich and unmistakable, sparkling neck position tone of the traditional three-pickup guitar. The result: that unmistakable vintage single-coil sound that echoes the soaring, majestic blues tones of the ’60s and ’70s.

Two: The neck pickup (now with a special capacitor engaged) affords this position a special tonal quality ordinarily expected from a full-body jazz guitar! Engage an overdrive and you capture that classic late ’60s ‘Woman Tone’.

Three: The neck and bridge pickups are in a customised parallel wiring, producing an enhanced, more contemporary version of the customary middle position timbre on the classic two-pickup guitar.

Four: By combining both pickups with a capacitor and resistor in a controlled degree of reversed phase, this position offers the popular ‘in-between quack tone’ found in this position on three-pickup guitars.

Five: (Bridge). The Seymour Duncan APTL-3JD Jerry Donahue signature bridge pickup captures that amazing gutsy lead sound found on the very best of those traditional two-pickup guitars, including his own personal ’52!