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Jerry Donahue, known as ‘The doyen of the string benders’ and founder Hellecaster is an
outstanding player whose talents have seen him feature with major artists the world over.
For some years, Jerry’s ‘guitar arsenal’ has featured a Trev Wilkinson designed Vintage ICON
Series V52, a guitar he, along with a host of other stellar players, rates very highly indeed.
Recognising the heart and soul of Vintage®, Jerry threw down the challenge to create a
Vintage® guitar with his specification which he could be 100% happy with. The challenge
was accepted by Trev Wilkinson with alacrity!
Using unique Wilkinson single coil pickups custom wound to Jerry's exact recipe and his
custom wired five-way switch and circuitry, Trev has created an instrument which achieves
Jerry’s vision - one single guitar which can emulate a huge number of the most instantly
recognisable solid-body and semi-acoustic tones out there.
In just the flick of a switch, the V58JD moves seamlessly between soaring blues tones, rich
dark midnite Jazz tones, ‘woman-tone’, the elusive `in-between quack-tone' and country twang!
From the playability point of view, the classic vintage style one piece fretted maple neck, with
7/14” radius fingerboard radius round off a real player’s guitar.
Jerry says; “Of all the special guitar projects I’ve ever been involved with in my quest for the
perfect guitar, it’s a simple truth to say that with the V58JD Trev Wilkinson and Vintage have
created (at a price I just could not have imagined possible) a most amazing guitar, and one
which I use on a daily basis!”
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Body: American Alder
Neck/Fingerboard: One Piece
Hard Maple, Bolt-On, 7 1/4” radius
Scale: 25.5”/648mm
Frets: 22 Medium
Neck Inlays: Black Dot
Scratchplate: Single Ply White
Tuners: Wilkinson Deluxe WJ55S
Bridge: Wilkinson WTB
Pickups: 2 x Custom designed Wilkinson
WJTD single coils, (N) full size, Alnico II
(B) JD spec, Alnico II
Controls: 1 x Volume/ 1 x Tone/
Custom wired 5-way lever switch
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Pickup selections
Position 1: (neck-Wilkinson custom design WJDTn)
Offers the rich, sparkling neck pickup tone of the