Up for sale is a beautiful, one owner, 2-Color Sunburst 1994 Custom Shop Jerry Donahue Telecaster in excellent condition, with Fender OHSC.

Serial # JD0516

Here are the specifics of Donahue’s dream guitar:

Birdseye maple top and back over ash with a rock maple neck designed specifically for this guitar to ensure stability and long-term intonation. Everything on the guitar is original. Five-way selector switch provides a number of unique sounds, including an out-of-phase Strat-style quack and a gorgeous, fat jazz tone. This is a player's guitar and as professional a Tele as you can find. 

Position One:  The neck pick up with the tone circuit OUT, affording a clearer, brighter tone to compensate for the inherent muddy quality normally found in this position.  The result: a lead guitar sound that echoes the blues shadings of Clapton, Hendrix, etc.

Position Two:  The neck pick up with the tone circuit IN, allowing the guitarist to soften the tone for rhythm or mellow leads (as per a stock Tele rhythm pick up).

Position Three:  The neck and bridge pick ups are in the standard stock parallel wiring with the tone circuit IN, enhancing the customary Tele sound.

Position Four:  By combining both pick ups with the capacitor and resistor in a controlled degree of reversed phase, the JD Telecaster offers a bell-like, rich tone that echoes the classic Strat sound:  until now, this sound was obtained solely by the use of the bridge and middle pick ups on the typical Strat.

Position Five:  A stock pick up with the 1950’s style assembly that provides the classic Tele lead sound identified with Albert Lee, James Burton, Roy Buchanan, and of course, Jerry Donahue

Jerry Donahue, called “The String Bending King” by guitarist Danny Gatton, has earned accolades and admirers from his work with the Fairport Convention, Joan Armatrading, Nanci Griffith, Sandy Denny, and  various solo and group performances.

Ships in OHSC via FedEx with full insurance.