The Rusting Nail One is a first for the Jooky Guitar Emporium, as it features a rusted iron paint finish both to the body and the headstock. This is a tricky old effect to pull off – the iron really has to rust – but we are all plumped up feather-wise and proud of the result.
The body is of course based on a Gibson SG, with the neck more of a Fender Strat influence. It is quite a visually stunning guitar. Actually, it looks incredible. I am not too proud of my modesty to avoid the facts…
Pickup-wise, the Rusting Nail One gets even more unusual. At the neck is a stunning sounding IronGear Alchemist 90 – a P90 in a humbucker-sized tin. These are a Jooky favourite and deliver a nigh-on-perfect P90 bite. At the bridge things take a turn for the more unusual, with a handwound Wizard ‘Novatron’ pickup.
Now this is like nothing else in many ways and some of the tones you can pull from it are really hard to categorise. When Wizard talk about them they mention a resonator sound – it certainly has an acoustic tone to it and an amazing clarity for a humbucker, and they also mention a ‘Leslie tone’ too, which to my mind is quite a way away from a resonator.
However, again, I have to agree with them, especially when there is some gain and especially fuzz involved, it really is something completely different. All in all, this is a hard guitar to describe tone-wise as I think whoever gets it will need to spend some time exploring the possibilities. Doing so will be well worth the effort though. Rhythm on the Novatron moving into a solo on the P90 is simply something divine.
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To be clear, The Rusting Nail One is an utterly unique guitar, and there will never, ever, be another made. It is signed and numbered, entirely hand built and finished cooler than a pleasant night checking the in-growing nail on your sixth toe on the backporch of your shack. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long. Although, given how much fun I'm having with it, I'm hoping I'm wrong about that.
Technical Stuff:
Type: Cilla’s Rusty Iron Guitar
Pickups: IronGear Alchemist 90 (neck), Wizard ‘Novatron’ (bridge)
Guitar Type: Gibson SG body, Fender Strat Neck
Construction: Corroded Iron Paint over wood body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard
Strings: Nickel 10s
Output: ¼” Guitar Lead
Controls: Dual Volume, Dual Tone, Three-way Switch
Special Stuff: Certificate of Authenticity, Builder Signed and Numbered, All Wrapped with our Trademark Jooky Wrapping.
Serial Number: JGE#26
RSP: £499 SORRY THIS HAS GONE, GONE & GONE
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