Sold: The Jamais Vu One

The Jamais Vu One is the second of our new range of Jooky Custom guitars, and is simply gorgeous.

The alder body has been stained with a dark black, mixed by our own fair hands, and then partially covered with fine copper leaf. This we have distressed, it is literally in pieces about it, so that some of the black shows through. A final coat of hard wax oil means that the finish is super thin, yet still going to be there after years of gigging.

The neck is especially beautiful. A fifties style handfiller, it has a flamed maple ‘shaft’ with a beautifully dark ebony fretboard. Frets are medium jumbo and made from stainless steel with a nice flat 10” radius it is a dream to play.

From there, the pickups and wiring are Marc Ransley of Mojo Pickups’ doing, which still remain the finest Jazzmaster pickups we’ve ever played and top notch wiring, with CTS pots, Switchcraft switches and Jack and PIO caps means it should work for a lifetime too.

As if that isn’t enough, we have forsaken the traditional Jazzmaster tremolo, and gone for a genuine, U.S made Bigsby B5 and matching Bigsby bridge. Tuners are Gotoh and strap pins are Jumbo, and we can’t say fairer than that.

All in all, this is a stunning looking guitar that plays beautifully and nails all of the classic tones.

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To be clear, The Jamais Vu 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 slo-mo run across the pebbled beach at Portishead. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.

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Technical Stuff:

Type: Jooky Custom

Electrics: Mojo Jazzmaster Pickups, Mojo Jazzmaster Wiring Loom

Guitar Type: Jazzmaster

Construction: Alder body, Maple/Ebony neck

Strings:     12 - 52

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Volume, Tone

Special Stuff: Certificate of Authenticity, Builder Signed and Numbered, All Wrapped with our Trademark Jooky Wrapping.

Serial Number: JC#2

RSP: £1249

Jamais Vu, La Laaaa

Well, back from the abyss of the school holibobs and a frankly grimtastic week, it was nice to get my finger out and finish The Jamais Vu One yesterday, and rather pleased I am with it too.

I'll do a proper introduction in daylight/when my eyes start to open, but the finish is gorgeous, the copper leaf over black stain looks excellent - better than I hoped - and the neck is dee & vine. The flamed maple is flamey and the ebony 'board is dark, and the stainless steel frets are zingy. It is a nice handful too, which always goes down well.

As for the Bigsby, I went for Bigsby's own bridge to match the B5 and it works perfectly - no lack of tuning after many a warble and a wobble, which is a definite bonus.

It may have something to do with my putting a set of Ernie Ball's "Not Even Slinky" 12s - 52 - which feel immense, though I've lowered the action a bit further than I normally would, I must admit. No chance of a rattle that's for sure.

And in a lot of ways, this is something I've wanted to do for a while - a Jazzmaster with a Bigsby, I mean - and it works brilliantly and sounds enormous thru the Ye Olde Peavey Bandit 'Sheffield' I seem to have acquired. (I love the fact that amp has a Thrash button, how cool is that?)

But anyway, it's good to be back and today is officially The Lingering Honey One day...

La la laaaa

Feeling Groovy..

Well, the postie arrived - shocker - and I seem to have got a good way towards finitoing The Jamais Vu One, which is rather nice.

Just a few screws to hammer and a couple more bits 'n' bobs to arrive in the strap pin and string tree areas and we'll be in candy covered clover.

I'm rather pleased with the copper leafing if I do say myself, which of cause I usually do.

Tomorrow then will hopefully see this blighter done, and the rather lovely mahogany of The Lingering Honey One smothered one way or t'other..

I am feeling all very positive at the moment for some reason - I guess it is because I have one day before the brats are on holibobs again and once more frustration thy name is Mc Jooky.


La la laaaa

Jamais Vu - Ah-ha

Well, what an exciting day today is being. Apart from the part where I wait around for the window fixer chap to not show up again.

Firstly, I finally finish the first of the Jooky Customs - huzzah.

And now secondly I get to do a Jamais Vu plonk together.

Although - and I'll know if you have not been paying attention - there are one of two parts missing.

However tomorrow should see the arrival of the errant tortie scratchplate, and I know - I mean, really know - that I put the pickups and wiring somewhere very safe indeed. I must have. Probably with the tuners and the strap pins.

The copper leaf looks good anyway, so small blessings am we.

La la laaaa

WIP: The Jamais Vu One

Well, it has been so long since I did a WIP I almost forgot  how, and only took one foto, but I got a riddle on yesterday with the body and the lovely lump of alder became blacker than a darkly black thing, and I even got the back copper-leafed while I was at it.

Today followed on nicely, with the front catching up and rather splendid it is looking too. Reminds me of a slightly battered Wulfes fan, which is never a bad thing.

I wanted a shinyish finish on this one as the copper can dull down a bit otherwise, and it is looking good so far. Few more coats and we'll be crimson with deelite.

Once this is all dry and polished and the rest, I'll nail on the rather lovely neck I had custom made with it's ebony 'board, flamed maple woodiness and stainless steel frets. It is meant to be a U shape, but I think it is more like a Gibson 50-something which  is a nice hand-filler indeed.

I'm waiting for the pickguard - a nice red tortie one, but have the lovely Mojo Pickups and wiring loom and a gorgeous Bigsby B5 to go with them. I've also got a set of Gotoh tuners I was going to use elsewhere, but will divert in this direction as they have a lovely solidness about them so all is groovy.

Other than that I've got a Jazzmaster bridge, but may end-up with the usual cool Mustang replacement, and I'm thinking aged  Telecaster knobs will be a final flourish.

So basically, if the postie gets his finger out and delivers some Jiffys I may finish this quite soon. Which will be handy, has to be said, as I want to play it.

As for The Sappho One, I have finished that now, so I'll do a proper intro soon as I stop playing it, methinks

La la laaaa

Black Copper Baby

Well, hopefully I will be home alone enough this week to get a cracking on The Jamais Vu One, as I'm going to try something a wee bit different with the finish and it knows at me until I get it done and see how it turns out.

The Jamais is of course going to be a Jazzmaster but with a Bigsby tremolo instead of the usual Fender style one. I've already  got Marc at Mojo Pickups to sort me out with Es and Whizz (OK, pickups and loom), and there is a rather lovely Jazzmaster neck on the way too from Statesville, USA which will be rather cool as well. But I was a bit up and down on the finish, but now I'm not.

Clarity thy name is Jooky.

So what it is going to be is a quite striking black stain - I'm going for a really deep one I think, with a nice covering of copper leaf on the top and around the edges. Maybe even on the back too. The world is my cantaloupe after all.

OK, not radical, but I've not gone for this combo and that is enough to get me excited these days, so there we are.

La la laaaa

Jamais Vu Like Never Before

Well my tatty tawdry wee plans for world domination clearly need a little TVP on their bones, which brings me nicely to what I think will be the central plum of my Jooky Custom Range (I did marketing once, does it show?) in the shape of The Jamais Vu One.

This is destined to be a top notch Jazzmaster with a few tweaks - notably a Bigsby rather than the usual Fender lump of metal work in the tremolo department, and I think will be somewhat stunning.

I mentioned before that the Customs will centre on a handful of standard designs and people will then get the choice of pickups, hardware and finishes, though being anything to do with me of course these will have to be something I want to do, which means Custom isn't quite what you would expect, I imagine, but there we be.

In fact I've spent the summer plotting what these will be - the options, I mean - and it will be this Jazzmaster, my cross between a Telemaster and a Les Paul Jr and the other one which escapes me now.

Oh, a Telecaster I expect, I like Telecasters. With an Ash body and a nice Mojo Gold Foil pickup at the neck, and a Bigsby. Did I mention I like Bigsbys?

Probably.

But there we are, the plan is that I will make an example or two of each and then if anybody wants their own - cool - but if not, I end up with lots of nice guitars.

Hope for the best, plan for the probable, that's my motto.

La la laaaa