Fender Jim Adkins JA-90 Telecaster Electric Guitar  

Two P90s, set neck, Gibson-style bridge.tailpiece, pup selector/knobs, semi-hollow body, matching headstock, killer finish. In a perfect world this would come with locking tuners and a roller bridge (since it practically begs for a Bigsby install), and strap locks.

My JA90 is well built, with killer looks and a deep finish, except for three things...

1. The fretboard has some rough-cut areas, like they didn't sand all the way to the edge in a few spots. It does not affect playability, though, and is barely visible.

2. As I have heard from others, my output jack came loose almost immediately. If you buy one, check that right away.

3. The volume and tone knobs feel cheap.

I have much more expensive guitars that do not look as good, play as good, or sound as cool right out of the box. It is a steal.

Except for the two small quality issues I noted, this is a phenomenal guitar. I enjoy playing it more than any of my other 16 or so guitars. And it is stunning to look at (I have the black -- I bet the red looks killer in person). I was actually looking at SG's and LPs with P90s when I saw this in the store. I was disappointed with the Gibsons, but blown away by the JA90.

This guitar has everything I was looking for in a Telecaster and sounds amazing and stands out over your standard Tele.  I love the neck through body and the P-90's are great for the kind of rock my band The Last Glimpse plays.  The red transparent finish is beautiful!  I never thought I'd want a red guitar, but I couldn't keep my eyes off this one, it just looks stunning.

Overall quality of my guitar is quite good, the only issue I had was the input jack came loose about a month in but I took it out and tightened it up and it has been fine ever since.  I use this guitar for most of the songs we play, and it really sounds great.  I currently play through a Fender Deville, and it's a great combo.  Our other guitarist plays Les Pauls and the two mesh together wonderfully, we couldn't be happier.

Overall value is quite excellent, it was a great price for a signature guitar.  I did have to buy a case as well, but that's pretty standard anymore on guitars that are less than $1000, so it was no biggie.  

I've loved every moment with this guitar and plan on playing it live and in the studio for a long time.  The semi-hollow body paired with the P-90's makes a very unique sound that I've never gotten out of any other guitar and suits nearly all of my sonic needs.  The neck pickup is a bit muddy so I don't use it much, but the bridge pickup sings and soars, you will not regret buying this guitar!!!

Having played and owned a Gibson 335 rfor decades I like being able to get a Fender with the stop tail bridge.  The Duncan P90's have a very sweet sound.

Over all the quality is excellant.  But I'm marking it down a few points because the finish (while excellent) is flawed along the edge inside the F-hole.  No one can see it but me, however I know it's  there.

Also, I wonder the the fret-board is actually rosewood because it's taken a couple of weeks of daily playing for the black dye to stop transferring to my fingers.  This even after several deep cleanings with Duncans fret board cleaner.

This is one nice sounding, well put together guitar for the price.  The build quality is excellant.  All the details have been attended to.  It feels great in my hands.

I would give it a 10, but the minor flaw in the finish inside the F-hole, and the black dye leaching from the fret board onto my fingers warrants a minor deduction.  I would but this guitar again.

After playing an ES-335 for decades, the JA-90 is now my go-to guitar.

this guitar has what I would have set up if I built a guitar from scratch, tele semi hollow ash body, set neck, 12 inch radius and a set of P90 pick ups

this was a returned guitar, it had some issues, cheap pots one was spinning around,and switch, changed those out with new and added some shielding, the frets were rising up from the neck, I had to have them re glued and set back into the neck along with some fret work. the rest of the guitar was perfect, the neck is very straight, finish is perfect, and I love the P-90's they sound great.

the reason I gave a 7 was becuase of the guitar being used, at a price that made it worth putting in some money on the set up to repair the issues and set up the guitar like I like it. if I had bought it new at full price, I would have returned this one because of the isssues it had

now that I have it set up, repairs completed and only have what the original new price was, I am happy. this will be my main guitar for practice and gigs becuase of the tone it has. Fender does need to do a better job on the quaility control.