Sold: The Sally James One

Well, up for grabs if not up ferrit is Jookyland's first ever Mustang, The Sally James One and what a delight the wee thing is.

A swamp ash body has been smothered lovingly in an active copper paint, which has then been abased with noxious acids to start the process of it's corrosion. I know, what will we think of next?

This gives us a beautiful blue, that over the years will continue to grow, but a topping of beeswax means it won't cover your favourite band T Shirt.

Uber tres cool, were the words you were looking for, I believe.

From there we have a pair of Mojo Pickups' Hot Mustangs and Ye Olde Worlde wiring loom - top quality CTS pots, Switchcraft this,  PIO that - a beautiful 24" C shaped scale neck and it all comes in a lovely tweedy hardcase.

This is a genuine looker and sounds immense...

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To be clear, The Sally James 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 Classic

Electrics: Mojo Hot Mustang Pickups, Mojo Wiring Loom

Guitar Type: Mustang

Construction: Maple/Rosewood Neck, Swamp Ash Body

Strings:     10s

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: JL#3
RSP: £999

Introducing: The Sally James One

Well, Jooky guitars are like buses, although smaller and a lot safer if you are traveling beneath a low bridge and trying to be cool on the top deck, mooning out the back window.

And so I am pleased, chuffed and everything else to introduce you to The Sally James One, my rather lovely Mustang...

And a wee star is our Sally, two piece swamp ash body, a corroded copper finish all over, or rather corroding as over the aeons it will continue to get bluier and greenier too.

The neck is a lovely 24" scale handful, it really is lovely, and nailed into that red tortie 'plate are a couple of hotter than vintage, Mojo Pickups Mustang, err, pickups which are awesome. As usual.

This is the first ever Jooky Mustang and I must admit I only made it as I'd bought a Squier one and being a leetle disappointed, then tried a CIJ and that wasn't really any better (which surprised me). but this definitely nails that sonic Nirvana (tee & hee) in my head and you just have to love slidy buttons, so many tones.

So there we are, The Sally James One, not just for Saturdays.

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p.s. Excuse the Rainbow strings, I'm getting curious in my old age.

Happy Christmas Daze

Well, as I type this Santa is probably over Zaire according to NORAD, which is worrying as I just saw him down Portishead High Street, but it is a time for miracles... I think it was the mini-skirt rather than the bottle of cider (s)he was necking that  surprised me most.

Obviously, it is school holibobs so my usual slovenly pace will slacken further, but I do intend to finally finish The Sally James One over the next few days and will pop up to display my wares once again.

Sally, is of course my lovely corroded copper Mustang, and the first Mustang I've ever made, so I'm looking forward to it, and as the missing bits finally arrived there are no more excuses to  be uttering.

I went for a lovely red tortie 'plate in the end, and I would love to show you it, but can't be arsed to find the camera, but then why spoil the surprise?

But anyway, for those of you that keep reading this drivel, I commend your bravery and stamina yet question your sanity, but I love you all, each and every one of the both of you, and hope I can do something worth reading about in 2014.

So terrah for now...and have a Happy Fun Filled Crimbulmus

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Gee Up Sally - WIP: The Sally James One

Well, I love it when I get parcels from Marc in Mojoland, as they always have cool glittery delights nobody else seems to do..

Today saw a bumper pack with a lovely Mustang/Jaguar neck and pair of pickups sharing the stage with a cool wiring loom - all vintage groovy and top notch of parts.

He has even thought about this poor sinner's issues with personal safety and come up with an ingenious and solder-less solution to joining it all up together again.

And rather lovely I think The Sally James One is looking. The fotos don't really catch how lush and vibrant the copper and corrosion are, but heh, what can you do.

Now if the trem, 'plate and other metal bits arrive in the next day or two I could be movin' and a groovin' down Nirvana way before the weekend..

Jesus Wants me for a Moonbeam

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Well, I've been a slack get in recent times, but things are finally coming together and for a change I thought I'd actually try and finish some guitars in the coming week.

Top of the shop will be my little Xmas pressie to myself, the Mustang, The Sally James One. The corroded copper finish is gorgeous, and Mr Mojo is posting me pickups and wiring and even a neck and as I remembered to order the tremolo, bridge and funny metal control bits we should be in metaphorical clover, as it were.

As the King of Halifax has also done me a couple of his stunning Mosrite pickups for the rustastic The Trojan One, I have high hopes of finishing that too, which will be a lark if not quite a jape.

But what about The 668 One with it's uber cool Speedbump pickup - well, I ordered a nice tremolo for that too, so that is on the rails but an outside bet at the moment as I have forgotten to remember something, I'm sure. Tuners spring to mind.

I don't know where I'm going to put all of these pretty things, but maybe I'll  manage.

As for the much heralded The Travellin' Man One, that is done and dusted - and it had got a little dusty - and will be off to the Americas this week with a fair wind and after all this time I hope Mr Murphy likes it.

I don't really get on with Strats, I may have mentioned it once or even thrice, but this one is a handsome devil and like Leonard Cohen's bird, I could make an exception.

The mixture of pickups is very cool - PAF at the bridge, a lipstick in the middle (and if you fancy a Strat with Lipsticks all I can say is Marc at Mojo Pickups has something special going on there again, trust me, I'm a vegetarian. no bull.) - with one of his humbucker sized Wide Range 'Buckers at the neck. It genuinely has it all going on, and as Patrick plays many a style I think he will wring every last tonal drop out of it.

No pictures of it yet of course, as I want the boy to have a surprise/not run a mile at the prospect, but hopefully he will send me an action shot or three once he gets his golden mitts on it.

So yes, I'm gabbling, but it is Saturday night, what else is there to do?

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So Mouldy

Well, I decided a similar back to the front for The Sally James One would be a good idea, and the mouldy look seems to have taken hold. It is a beautiful blue, and I'm going to try a different way of sealing this one, I'll get my chemistry set out again.

I also started to be-iron The Trojan One, but forgot to take any pretty pictures, so you'll just have to trust me on that one.

As you can imagine, loads of stuff is going on behind the scenes here in Jookyland, and I didn't really spend the day eating Cadbury's chocolate and watching daytime telly. Life is so complicated, I really don't know how I manage to be so efficient and productive.

OK, I'm bored,   admit it

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Slow Starter

Well, I know it takes me a while to get from thought to deed, so I thought this morning that I'd get my finger out and make a start on The Sally James One, and so that is what I did do.

As you may remember (barely in my case) this is going to be a nice Mustang, which I was planning on making uber colourful, but instead seem to have painted with copper as it feels quite a bright and crisp morning and, well, it might be nice.

For a change I'm not going to go Beyonce mad on the corrosion, maybe just a tad around the edges for forms sake, as believe it or not sometimes I can actually show restraint.

As for the rest, well there is a nice neck coming and I'm hoping Mr Mojo will come up with something trashy for me in the pickup dept. as well, and this afters I will sort all of the other parts out.

I am efficient, after all.

OK, well I will try and remember to do it.

I've never actually made a Mustang before, so am looking forward to this...a leetle pressie to meself, perhaps.

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Ride Sally Ride

Well, I must admit I find all this Jooky bobbins hard sometimes. I mean, I get to make all my dream guitars, which is fun and cool and not a little groovy, but then I sell them so other people get the fun.Which isn't so good. Not good at all.

I can't help feel that I'm doing it wrong.

So for a change I thought I'd make a guitar I really don't want to keep.

But then, what's the point in that?

None at all, so that went out the window quicksmart.

So  I thought I'd make a signature guitar for somebody who probably doesn't want it, and so I could keep it.

And as I quite fancy a Mustang at the moment I thought I would make one of those.

That would be fun.

And as for the endorsee type, well who better than Sally James from Tiswas.

So there we are, The Sally James One - a Mustang, lovely alder body, flashy seventies style finish, lovely neck and I get to try Marcy Mojo's Mustang pickups for the first time too.

This is so full of Wyn it could be my great aunt.

The Sally James One, coming one day probably.

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