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G&L Doheny Whiskey 2022 Electric Guitar w/Gig Bag *Authorized Dealer*
For you hardtail offset fans: The G&L Doheny is Leo Fender's Jazzmaster re-imagined. The name "Doheny" comes from a famous SoCal beach immortalized in the 60's surf scene. And being a G&L, the Doheny takes its cues from the 60's and brings it forward; including all new JM-style pickups made with G&L's signature Magnetic Field Design construction, passive treble-bass tone circuit, and in this case their sturdy saddle lock bridge.
This 2022 Doheny is a mint condition customer return that is in like-new condition with plastic still on the pickguard and original G&G hard case.
This USA G&L Doheny features:
- Whiskey finish on Swamp Ash, 8.2 pounds
- 3-ply Black/White/Black Pickguard
- G&L Modern Classic neck profile, 9.5" radius, 1 11/16" nut width
- Satin Vintage Tint on Hard-rock Maple Neck
- Hard-rock Maple Fingerboard
- Medium Jumbo Frets
- G&L Standard tuners
- Saddle Lock bridge
- Black Block Inlays
- Formvar Wound Wide Bobbin G&L MFD neck pickup
- Formvar Wound Wide Bobbin G&L MFD bridge pickup
- 3-position toggle selector, volume, treble, bass
- G&L padded gig bag
- Made in USA
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, and passive treble and bass controls. The Doheny also sports it's own unique 21-fret neck (all other G&L's are 22).
The optional Swamp Ash body pairs particularly well with the MFD pickups. With good low end, sweet detailed highs and less pronounced mids than Alder, the ash body is a great complement to the dynamic nature of the MFD's, and allows the player to fully exploit their full range of capabilities.
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. The Swamp Ash body helps here too, smoothing the mids and slightly softening the top. And like with most MFD pickups, the best tones are not always with the controls dimed. Various amounts 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 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. 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.