At the time, the rather maverick country-orientated guitarist Jerry Donahue was commonly talked about in the guitar magazines for his work with The Hellecasters. And it’s this latter guitar I’m going to be looking at in this piece: a good old 1992 Fender MIJ ‘JD’ Telecaster. Discount wars being what they were with Fender Japan at the time, that would translate to somewhere between around £350 and £375 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 £450. There was an American Fender Custom Shop version with gold hardware, heavily figured maple neck, unbound basswood body with bird’s eye maple veneer front and back, and a “fetch me a chair” price tag of £1,589. I first saw The Fender ‘Jerry Donahue’ 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.
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