TV Jones was founded by luthier Tom V Jones in 1993. His quest was to accurately reproduce the first humbucker ever designed: the Filter’Tron humbucker for which designer Ray Butts filed US Pat. 2,892,371 on January 22, 1957. Of course, the Filter’Tron has been made famous by its inclusion on many vintage Gretsch instruments. By carefully picking materials and similar AlNiCo magnets as used in the 1950s, the TV Classic is considered to be the most accurate reproduction of the vintage Filter’Tron up to the point Gretsch is using the TV Classic on their own high-end models. The first G&L to sport these humbucker is a 2012 ASAT Deluxe Semi-Hollow TV Jones prototype. Three years later, around October 2015, this ASAT Special ‘Cabronita’ prototype was built with a set TV Classic pickups. Both these guitars are shown below, highlighting the different mounting mechanisms. In May 2015, Dean Coy of dcskunkworks fame (see this Z-12 ‘Big Red’) listed another ASAT with TV Jones pickups on Reverb: an ASAT Deluxe Semi-Hollow with double-bound mahogany body, Bigsby vibrato, Bird’s Eye maple neck and black headstock. As such, S/N CLF33277 had the hallmark of a NAMM guitar. However, this picture in the Guitars by Leo Gallery shows it started out with Seymour Duncan humbuckers and a different neck when it left the factory in 2010. And now its seems S/N CLF33277 belongs to a completely different unique dcskunkworks creation and its is unknown what happened to that body with the TV Jones pups.