• Body: The guitar has a semi-hollow ash body, which is a classic Fender form known for its lightweight comfort and timeless semi-hollow tone. The body design is a more traditional version of the TC-90 with a single-cut Tele body.

• Neck: The guitar features a maple set neck with a modern “C”-shaped profile. This slender, smooth, and thin neck plays like an angel.

• Fretboard: It has a 9.5"-radius laurel fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets.

• Pickups: The JA-90 is equipped with dual Seymour Duncan SP90 single-coil pickups. These “soapbar” pickups deliver a punchy yet rounded tone with rich harmonics, making it ideal for alt-rock sounds1. The pickups add a heavy yet clean tone, and it sounds like a beast with distortion2.

• Controls: It has a three-way toggle pickup switch on the upper bout and four control knobs (volume and tone for each pickup)1. The tone knobs on the guitar do not seem to make any difference until turned down below 73.

• Bridge: The guitar features an Adjusto-Matic™ bridge and anchored tailpiece1.

• Headstock: The JA-90 Telecaster Thinline features the added elegance of a matching painted headstock1.

This guitar may look like a Telecaster, but plugged in, the sound and feel are of something completely unique3. The sound on this is full and fat, and sounds exactly how you would expect Jim Adkins’ guitar to sound3. With the pickup switch in the down position, you get a tone that is quite trebly yet still manages to be warm and is perfect for pop rock3. In the up position, you get a more bassy, fatter tone, which sounds absolutely stunning through clean tones3. The guitar is not noisy on either setting even though it uses single coil (P90) pickups3.

The JA-90 scratches that punk rock itch for many Fender players.