#Fender Japan Serial Numbers Jd full#

The US Custom Shop version had the full вЂњJerry DonahueвЂќ signature on the headstock, but the MIJ model just said вЂњJDвЂќ. A вЂJerry DonahueвЂ™ Telecaster made sense commercially, because among guitarists, and in particular those who might be interested in a Telecaster, this was a big name artist, in the limelight.

WhatвЂ™s more, that tape, and DonahueвЂ™s work in general, had respect across the genres. I myself had been out and bought Country Tech (itвЂ™s still lying around the house somewhere in VHS format), and it really was a fascinating insight into a remarkable playing style.

But it was the release of his Country Tech instruction video in January 1992 which had really got tongues wagging among the guitar playing community. And itвЂ™s this latter guitar IвЂ™m going to be looking at in this piece: a good old 1992 Fender MIJ вЂJDвЂ™ Telecaster.ДЄt the time, the rather maverick country-orientated guitarist Jerry Donahue was commonly talked about in the guitar magazines for his work with The Hellecasters. Discount wars being what they were with Fender Japan at the time, that would translate to somewhere between around ВЈ350 and ВЈ375 in the real world. And there was a Japanese (MIJ) version, with an edgebound body made from the typical FujiGen Gakki three-piece alder, and a plain-looking maple neck, bearing a suggested retail price of ВЈ450. There was an American Fender Custom Shop version with gold hardware, heavily figured maple neck, unbound basswood body with birdвЂ™s eye maple veneer front and back, and a вЂњfetch me a chairвЂќ price tag of ВЈ1,589. I first saw The Fender вЂJerry DonahueвЂ™ Telecasters advertised in a UK magazine in mid April 1992, so presumably they arrived in the shops some time around the March of that year.

Fender Japan Serial Numbers Jd