Jerry Jones was born in Jackson, Mississippi and was building quality guitars in Music City, Nashville, Tennessee since the 1980s. After a customer brought in a Danelectro guitar for repair, he had a change of direction. Jerry started thinking that the Danelectro guitar was what he would build for himself relishing the unpretentious simplicity of the Nathan Daniel’s Danelectro instruments. From that point Jerry began building high quality reproductions of the original Danelectro designs. In 1991, Jerry Jones even visited Nathan Daniel who was living in Hawaii at the time.
The Jerry Jones instruments are a step above the Danelectro instruments in quality and are now quite collectable as well. As of April 2011, Jerry Jones retired and the Nashville factory was closed. The earlier Jerry Jones Electric Sitar were closer in appearance to the original Vincent Bell Coral Sitars. Almost a “dead” ringer. The later Jerry Jones Master Sitars had a few slight changes. The headstock had a different shape, the lipstick pickups were mounted without chrome ring, the knobs and the access panel on the back were different. Also the pickguard had no writing on the earlier ones. The later ones had “electric SITAR” written on it. Both generally shipped with a G&G hard case and harp tuning wrench.
Has been used in studio by Ville Valo. Comes with OHSC and a Sertificate on authenticity.
