G&L Doheny Vintage Natural 2024 Electric Guitar w/Gig Bag

This USA-made G&L Doheny features

• Vintage Natural finish on Okoume, 8.2 pounds
• 3-Ply Tortoise Shell pickguard
• G&L 'Modern Classic' neck profile, 9.5" radius, 1-11/16" nut width
• Clear satin finish 21 fret hard rock maple neck
• Indian Rosewood fretboard
• Synthetic Pearl Block Inlays
• G&L drilled and split tuners
• (2) Wide-bobbin MFD pickups
• G&L Dual Fulcrum Vibrato
• Passive treble-bass tone system, 3-way switch
• G&L non-compression truss rod for consistent, even relief
• G&L padded ProTec gig bag
• Made in USA with G&L custom build sheet

With the G&L Doheny, G&L has applied their poetic license to Leo's Jazzmaster offset shape, combining vintage styling with Leo's late-career innovations such as MFD pickup construction, dual fulcrum vibrato, and passive treble and bass controls. The Doheny also sports it's own unique 21-fret neck (Only the Espada and Offset bodies are 21 frets).

What about the Okoume body? Okoume is an African hardwood of the Mahogany family and shares the straight grain and slightly red-ish hue. Okoume is relatively light, and with offset guitars being a big chunk of wood Okoume does help keep the weight in check. Tonally Okoume is also similar to Mahogany in that it tends to emphasize mid-frequencies and has a warmer top end response as compared to Alder or Ash. 

And about those pickups: The MFD design uses a fairly low resistance coil (neck is ~5.8K ohms and bridge is ~6.2) with a strong ceramic magnet in the base of the pickup. While that sounds like a P-90, they sound nothing like that. They feature strong, full range frequency response, a high signal-to-noise ratio, and and great clarity and touch sensitivity. The neck pickup has a strong piano-ish low end, touch sensitive mids, and a top end that is Strat-like but smoother. It has the "MFD" tone, but it's a little fuller than the ASAT Special, but not as midrange-forward and aggressive as the Comanche. The neck pickup has a lot of low end content, and rolling off the guitar's bass knob can have quite an effect on the overall character.

When thinking about "Jazz," the Jazzmaster bridge pickup does not spring to mind. Real Jazzmasters can be crackly-bright, and while the Doheny has plenty of MFD clarity and brilliance, it's more balanced and in terms of low and midrange content. And here Okoume is your friend, softening the high end response slightly and rounding out the mids. And like with most MFD pickups, the best tones are not always with the controls dimed. Various amounts of volume, tone and bass roll off reveal a range of possibilities from country to funk, to punk. If there was a guitar made for the passive bass-treble circuit, this is probably it.

MFD's are a great pedal pickup, for both modulation and gain. Their clarity and note separation sounds dreamy through chorus and delays; and their strong output and wide frequency response produces harmonically detailed and articulate crunch tones.

The Doheny is not a rehash of some other G&L, and it's also not meant to be a vintage reissue of the offset. First and foremost it's a G&L, and the large Jazz MFD's have their own character that lend themselves easily to Country, Rock and Funk. Their affinity for pedals lets hard rockers get in the game, and G&L's PTB controls are an excellent tone shaping tool. While purists may love the original Jazzmaster for its quirks, the G&L Doheny takes the essence of the Leo's offset shape and distills it into a package that is arguably more usable in a wider range of situations.

We are an authorized G&L Premier dealer located in Bellingham, Massachusetts, and this is a new guitar with all tags, tools, paperwork and certificates. We have a wide selection of G&L' s in stock at all times, and please feel free to browse our other listings, or contact us for information on a custom order.