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Roadhouse USA:
Rare 80’s Fernandes ST-65JL Jake E Lee Signature Model Guitar.
Here’s another one you won’t see every day.
Super rare, and super cool, Fernandes Jake E Lee signature ‘Whitey’ model guitar.
The ‘Whitey’ was actually a 1974 hardtail fender strat that Jake had Charvel-ized by his roommate at the time that worked at Charvel in San Dimas. Note the 3 bolt neck plate and bullet truss rod adjust.
These guitars were made in Japan by Fernandes in the late 80’s in very limited quantities.
It has a few light scratches and small dings, nothing out of the ordinary for a guitar of this vintage. You can see by the pics it is very clean.
The neck is superb and it plays great with very minimal fret wear.
Comes as pictured with the matching Fernandes hard case. Not the greatest case in the world, but it is the correct one.
This is a really cool, and very accurate representation of Jake E Lee’s iconic ‘Whitey’ guitar. If you are into these types of things, I would grab this one quickly because I sincerely doubt I will see another any time soon.
Some history from AlienXnation:
“Some unique features of Jakes real Whitey are a bullet truss rod at the headstock, 3-bolt neck, vintage tremolo string spacing 2-7/32”. Funny note here, the specifications i just mentioned are NOT included in any of the recent Charvel/Fender re-issue JEL Whitey replicas for sale today… just saying LOL
Some history, Jake worked at music store when he was young and tried a bunch of Strats. The owner said he would give Jake a good deal so Jake could pick out something he liked. He played all the fenders there and walked off with the hardtail Strat.
Jake owned the 74 hardtail Strat in LA in the early 80s and used it in all its 3-tone sunburst glory with the band Rough Cutt. All the rockers in Hollywood had flashy guitars so Jake was after a little individuality. Jake was friends and roommates with John his buddy that worked in the Charvel shop in San Dimas Glendora CA. John shaved the big Strat headstock down and put a Charvel logo on the headstock. Needless to say the guitar got paint and a full a remodel. It became The Whitey. If you look close at Ozzy concert footage you can see that there is a 3 bolt fender style neck plate on the real Whitey guitar. Go check out vintage live footage of Ozzy from the 1980s there is some technical things to learn.”
