WIP: The Old No.7 One

Well, we're still awaiting the neck for The Old No.7 One, but as the rest of the caboodle is pretty much kitted, I thought it was about time I did a bit of an update.

As you may remember, this if my first Custom for a long time and the little darlin' was somewhat based upon an old and battered Jack Daniels barrel, has a rather nice Mojo Broadcaster pickup with Esquire wiring, Fender bridge and ash tray cover for all those groovy sounds and a rather lovely scratchplate made out of a tin JD sign.

I may have mentioned that I was hoping to turn cooper and put a metal band around it, but after a consultancy period with my local blacksmith, it seems that it was probably a bit dangerous, so instead I've gone for copper topped studs, matching those holding the 'plate in place.

And all in all it is rather cool, in a totally f%^&*^in' screwed-up crazy boggling kinda way. The knobs are still MIA and TBC and generally not there, but will be soon, and generally this is it.

Just hope Paul approves.

I am resisting the urge to put a different neck on and give it a blast, but instead did a wee recording of it stringless using my patented lo-tec and generally cheap-as-chippy-chips Ebow replacement, a, err, tuning fork waved meaningfully above the pickup with variations of tone drizzled to taste. And a bit of bashing around.

Maybe some delays, echoes and other things would have helped, but it proves the wiring works if nowt else and if you want to hear what the Edge would sound like if he was brassic and didn't have a neck or strings on his guitar, this might well be it. But then again it might not.

Actually, the PC crashed and the recording got trashed, so I can't point you at it anyway. but maybe you can imagine (ahem)

So nearly somewhere closer than it was before, The Old No.7 One, a custom guitar made the Jooky way.

Reassuringly slowly.

La la laaaa