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Shots of Jerry Jones early builds, including the original Tuff Dog Tele for Merle Haggard.

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In 2010, Jerry Jones auctioned the entire contents of his Nashville factory. Drill presses, unused custom fabricated parts, prototype instruments, and everything that was not part of the building itself were sold to the highest bidder. For a handful of years, his website was kept up, but finally, it too came down. Now the only information that can be found is from the descriptions on completed sales of used instruments. A recent email asked me for info on Jones, as the viewer had just bought one of his guitars and there was next to nothing about the guitars on the web. My own search ended up with the same results. So I reached out to Jerry Jones through a friend of his, and I was politely told "Jerry does not want to be interviewed, as he is retired, and to talk about this would be to come out of retirement, and he has no interest in doing so."  With that dead-end, I pieced together my own past interactions with Jerry and tracked down some of his friends and two of his former employees to put together this story. I also had the help of friends that let me borrow a bevy of wonderful Jones guitars, including the original factory prototype that was used to test pickups. So to the best of my ability, here is the history of Jerry Jones Guitars.

Jerry Jones:
12-String (Black)
Longhorn Bass 6 (SilverJones)
Baritone
12-String (Bronze)
Baby Sitar
Prototype Guitar

Silvertone Danelectro 1958 U2

Amp:
Fender Blonde Tone Master Deluxe Reverb https://amzn.to/3eDEEX0.

Pick:
D'Andrea MH 351

Effects used:
Mirage compressor
Line 6 Echo Park Delay
9v power via Truetone CS6  https://amzn.to/3gnJQPW #askzac #guitartech #telecaster

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