Description

Fret-King FKV25JDD Black Label Jerry Donahue Guitar – Natural
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. Jerrys 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 Jerrys 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 Jerrys favourite 52 touring guitar. The neck position of the JDD is loaded with Jerrys 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 Jerrys 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 players 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!
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
Includes – Luxury genuine Fret-King carry bag