The JT-SHARK has a solid sculptured shark body with individually hand painted, mako shark finish. It has scalloped fingerboard inlays. Pickups are two single coil and one humbucker, with the twin coil humbucking pickup in the bridge position and the single coil pickups in the centre and bridge position. Controls are a five-position selector switch and single volume and tone controls. Hardware is chrome plated, including the tremolo bridge.
The earliest models had the pickup selector located in the shark's mouth.