WIP: The Pearly Dewdrop One

Well, as time-is-a-movin' and I will soon again be infested with festive Bratskis, I thought I'd better get on and finish something. So today is officially The Pearly Dewdrop Day, as that is as close as I can get right now.

From the top then, first thing to do was drill a couple o holes to drop the new bridge in. Nice bobbins this Faber stuff, and handily it is tarnished nickel which matches the cover of the Mojo Dogear P90. I wish I could say that it was planned.

Now I try to do all drilling on guitars handraulically, but for some reason it wasn't happening, so I used a leccy drill instead. That worked a lot quicker, though I was a teensy bit perturbed by the smoke pouring out of one of the holes. Think my finger jammed on the trigger. Luckily it was before I'd got as far in as I needed to, so it was self-healing, as it were.

Anyway, the bridge is on, and I just need to rejig the neck slightly and it will get some strings. Can't wait. It seems ages since we've had an 'Introducing...' moment around here.

One thing that will need a tweak is that I need to replace one of the pots as the shaft isn't quite long enough. Duff measuring on my part, but it works - held on by the fancy old Hofner knob - but not ideal as t works, but wobbles.

As for other things, I'm pretty much as far as I can get with most bobbins now, though when the (forgotten) control plate arrives I'm going to install the pickup/controls on The Old No.7 One, as well as things like strap pins and something-else-that-escapes-me-now. Oh, ferrules. the new strap pin is your ferrule. Easily disregarded.

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What's In The Post, Today?

Esquires are Coool

Well, back to the waiting-for-parts mantra, but I always love it when a big box comes from Marc at Mojo Pickups, and this morning such a thing arrived, and yes, I loved it.

I spend a lot of time alone.

First up was the pickups and wiring loom for The Floored Genius One, which I managed to put in without breaking, which is always a bonus. The nice thing about getting the loom and the pickups together for a Jazzmaster is of course that they don't require any soldering as the chap has already done it all - so a few screws and we're there.

What I'm less happy about is that I'm still awaiting the trem and bridge, but once they come it will be clover I tell you, clover.

Jazzmasters are Cooool

Also in the box, was the Hot Broadcaster pickup and super cool Esquire wiring loom for The Old No. 7 One, which when the control plate arrives (hopefully tomorrow) I'll be able to install and hit with a tuning fork to hear it twanging, which is pretty darn cool.

This is officially the first time we've got some of Crazyparts' 'TVT - True Vintage Taper CTS'  pots in one of our guitars, which are meant to be the best-pots-in-the-world-ever, so there. I have high hopes, nerd fans, it has to be said.

Jazzmaster Looms Are Coooool

Other than that, The Old No.7 One's body is all dry and waxed now and looking suitably like it is ancient and just hanging in there. The neck is ordered, though that will take a few weeks, so in between I get to play with some metalwork which I'm looking forward to. They do the ER up so nicely at Xmas.

Other than that, the body insert things arrived from Faber in Germany, which means that I can finally install the uber cool bridge on The Pearly Dewdrop One and get that fettled.

That may be my Xmas pressie to meself if I can get away with it, unless The Floored Genius One proves to be.

Unless I sell them of course,
I guess.

Right, now to find an old Jack Daniels sign or three to chop up...lovely.

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Metalwork - That's Going To Smart

Well, not exactly what you would call a 'full on' day again today, but I did manage to get The Old No. 7 One further along the track and even managed to do a couple of mock-ups.

One thing about this battered and worn little thing, that I am yet to mention, is that it is going to have a scratchplate made out of an old Jack Daniels tin sign.

Now the sign in question is yet to be obtained, and knowing my metalwork skills, it may actually be the best of a few, but as I didn't want a normal sized Esquire plate, and instead wanted something a little larger, I got all crafty and with a sprinkle of Google Images and twirl of Photoshop and some sharp scissors (without, a responsible adult coming anywhere close to being near) this is how it ended-up.





Obviously it is Paul's call, as this is just my ham-fisted attempt at explaining, but I think it works. Maybe slightly bigger/closer to the edges would be good, I'm not sure. But it is the over-sized-ness of the plate that is the point really, rather than the design.

Anyway, these are the things I do, sad innit. I don't normally admit it publicly.

Other than that, there is one more wrinkle I need to iron out before the idea is there, and obviously this is a plonked together one, the actual control plate will be aged and nailed down  with extreme prejudice and so will the knobs I expect, and as for the battering the sign will get, well...

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The Mysterio Portishead Shroud Morning

Well, I don't really want to go on about it - I would hate to bore you any more than normal - but things moved on further still with The Old No.7 One yesterday, and I really feel I should share with the group.

As I got the back to a stable position somehow, and verily nice I think it is too, I moved on with alacrity to the front and repeated the trick. As it happens, sleep deprivation obviously helps, as that looks pretty good to me too, though if you look carefully I'm sure you can see the imprint of the body of Christ. The Portishead Shroud, pity we already had a name for this one.

Still a fair bit to do over the next few days, but it feels like a guitar all of a sudden, which is probably a good thing, as I'm sure Paul mentioned he wanted one.

As for the other bits, well Marc at Mojo pickups is sorting the pickup and wiring loom - I lurve Esquires, I probably haven't mentioned that before - and there is a nice Fender traditional bridge and ashtray cover too. In fact the only thing I forgot was the string thingies that plop in the back, the Louis's.
Ferrules, I mean.

All of which means Allparts taking decades to have a traditionally cool neck was getting annoying, so we're going for one from Warmoth instead, which is pretty good letsbefacinit.

The nice thing is that this means that we'll have a few weeks to play about with the extras that are going to increase the cool quotient lotsly much.Tidy nice.

Elsewhere, I mentioned The Mysterio One but forgot to put a foto up. Now tell me that isn't a little belter. Must sort a neck out for that too. Hmmm. A theme, I can feel another theme coming on. Get me the theme cream, somebody.

There was something else too,
I just can't remember what it was.

I need sleep.


Oh yes, I had a lovely ebony 'boarded neck arrive for The Black Russian One, so that is a tidy step forward all by it's ownsome self.

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Electric Kool Aid Scripturenating

Well, I got the bridge and Esquire plate onto The Mysterio One, and jolly cool it looks too. I know it won't be for everybody, but I love the texture of the paint as well as the colours, not sure why that is.

Though I remember spending a lot of time looking for Electric Kool Aid around the newsagents of Stirchley a lifetime ago, and failing miserably. Even worse when I went looking for Benny Tubes, but there we are.

Newsagents of Stirchley, that sounds quite impressive. Like Beasts of England, or maybe not.

Anyway, speaking of trippy kinds of things, I found my latest favourite band today on Facebook (of all places) when I heard the debut single (are they still called singles these days, poppin' pickers?) in the shape of 'WAR on Love' by The Scriptures, which is rather stunningly cool. And Kool, come to that.

It is a trippy, faintly Shoegazery type of thing which appeals to the Cocteau Twins, MBV, Ride, Chapterhouse, Slowdive lover in me. Ah, the Slough Festival of '89 (maybe), glorious stuff.

Not that it is aping such things, but there are definitely echoes of the best of it, and it is going around my head big time.

You can hear it Here on the band's page, and it is well worth a listen among the tumult of daily life, methinks. Oh, and buy it if you like it - £1 for chrissake, got to be worth it so chaps like these can carry on making such glory. Benny Tubes, or no Benny Tubes.

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Waxing Like A Charmer

Well, I am pretty darn chuffed with how The Old No.7 One is looking from behind this morning, I'm rather stunned to be saying it, but it is kinda what I was hoping for. Right first time. Most odd.

Today then will see the back getting a good hard waxing as I don't want to start on the front and mess this up along the way. Not that it matters, the order I do these things, but deep down I have this little OCD thing going on that insists on stuff being in-the-right-sequence. Once a nerd always a social cripple. And it is very deep down.

In fact I've given it the first coat of the wax oil, and it looks really good. The foto has made the lighter parts quite washed-out, in reality it looks a whole lot moodier and (dare I suggest) subtle. (I did dare, clearly.)

The wax is taking a while to dry, so that will probably be it for the day.

Last time I used this gubbins, I thought I'd be smart and put it in front of the gas fire in all it's living flame glory, but I think the fumes got too me as I woke up a few hours later with a crazy heavy headache. Though maybe I just needed a little nap, I'm of an age after all.

So I'm letting nature take her course with this, and as she is a chilly bitch at the moment, que cera.

In the meantime then, I really should finish The Pearly Dewdrop One, but it involves drilling holes in the right place and that isn't for me today. The old mince pies are a tad cloudy, so instead I'm going to put the bridge and esquire plate on The Magnifico One and sand a door or two..

Anyway...

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Getting Gooin': The Old No.7 One

Step 1: Lovely Bit of Ash That

Well, I only had moments today, in between sanding toilet walls, waiting for elusive delivery chaps to arrive from Kent, attending swimming galas and removing stair gates (the bratskis are 9 & 6 - probably about time) but I set my stall out and got started on The Old No.7 One.

As it happened I had a nice swamp ash Tele body, and so I set to making it blackish.

Step 2. Ooh, Shiny Black

What I want to do with this is a little different in that I want to make it old and distressed looking rather than relicked - quite a difference honey - which will take longer than the normal staining but I think will pay off.

The only trouble is it looks a complete mess as I go along, as you can probably tell from the WIP fotos.

Anyway, the recipe so far is:

Take one lovely swamp ash body.

Sand it lots.

Step 3. What D'ya Call That Then, Son?

Stain it the blackest black of all.

Wait for that to half dry and then sand it some more. This is the odd part, and is because I want the black to be patchy in a chaotic and random manner. So I sanded it with my eyes closed..

After I got the glass out of my finger tips, I next let the bedraggled stain dry and then sanded it back a little more, but all over this time.

Apply a lighter shade (I love Dark Oak as it hasn't got the warmth of a browner stain, and I want this to look like old wood.) using 0000 wire wool, which works it into all the teensy corners and dank spots.




Let that dry, and have another go with the wire wool.

Step 4. Are You Really Sure About This?

And that is about how far I've gottonised with the body.

From there it will be a a case of repeating the 'journey' - I saw X Factor at the weekend - on the front and then hard waxing it like a good 'un, bit more sanding and waiting and then bit of strategic beeswax for goodly treasure.

What I'm hoping (and if it doesn't work it will be back to the sander in a big way) is that we'll end-up with a body that looks like the wood from an tarred and aged Jack Daniels cask.

I won't be painting planks on, but it's that kind of stored in a cellar for a century or washed up on a beach look I'm aiming for, and with a bit of luck and a bit more strategic distressification, life could be good.

After that, things will really start to get interesting..

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Service With A Simile

Well, it has been a funny week or three in the little kingdom of Jook, and with Crimbulmus arriving fleet of toe, I've come to the confusion that maybe I should try and finish a little something here and there before the year ends and I start to mither about being a slack get.

This week then (note the immediate lack of promises relating to daily progress) I am going to finish The Pearly Dewdrop One, with it's trendily cool Faber bridge and all, and I am going to get a shuffle on with The Old No. 7 One too.

I had a couple of people (who I'd previosuly said that I wouldn't make a custom guitar for) asking about the fact that I am, err, making a custom guitar for somebody other than them.

And I do feel a little bad about it, but there we are, but it really was something personal, it isn't that I'm indecisive or bounce along on the whim and breeze, what else can I say about it?

It wasn't me it was you.

In the new year though, I think I might do it more often but only if people want Teardrops, Jazzmasters or Teles and are willing to have little say in what it looks like. Which I would imagine narrows the number of applicants (supplicants?) from the off.

It may seem a little harsh and a lottle deluded, but I really can't be arsed doing things I don't enjoy anymore, I could go and flip burgers or something. Though admittedly, I may get paid for doing that until they realise that I'm a radical veggie and was stealing the burgers to release them back into the wild, replacing them with Tofu and generally holding my nose the whole time.

I don't know why I slipped into a past tense there, it wasn't a confession.

So there we are, a real politik broadcast on behalf of the arsey.

In other news, well, I still need to sort out loads of parts as I didn't get around to it, so I should probably do that this week sometime too.

But there is a swimming gala to attend, people to ignore, places to leave.
It's never ending, this.

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Cool People Doing Cool Things

Well, I mentioned the mandolin-inspired loveliness that will one day be The Shonky One, and that it would have a couple of buckers - probably P90 & PAF Mojos in truth, and all was well with the world.

Until that is Marc at Mojo Pickups chucked me another curve ball and sent me a foto of a rather cool mini-'bucker he has started making - his 3x3 - which are based on an old Harmony model and are just begging to be used in a dose of pure Shonkiness.

I love the fact that Marc comes up with off the wall stuff - I know it is probably for very good commercial reasons, but so many pickup winders seem to concentrate on 47 variations of the PAF - mellow, hot, hotter, silly, nutterdom etc. - so when I get an email saying 'You might like these' from Sunny Halifax, it always brings a smile.

And so it will again I'm sure, There aren't many things I'll buy blind and not be disappointed, but I don't think twice in his case.

So The Shonky One will be a mandolin influenced guitar with pickups based on an old Harmony Semi-acoustic. It don't get no more Jooky than that... As for the finish, well, we'll just have to see.

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Katy's Killer Kustoms Komeback Special - As Sweet As Canal No. 7

Well, I've been thinking a lot about the New Year, and one of the things I fancy doing again is dipping my toe into the murky merkin depths of Katy's Killer Customs guitars.

My regular reader will no doubt remember (if the meths haven't killed all the required synapses) that it is something that has never really worked for me before, but I think I've got to the root of the problem, in that basically it has to be interesting or other things take over.

Anyway, to cut a long story titchy, a nice chap called Paul got in touch fancying an Esquire (big plus tick from me for that, of course) but one that was personal to him.

Well, a few conversations later and we've arrived at a quite traditional spec with a few stylistic twists (big Afros and bell bottomed matching suits) and so it is game on.

So it will be...a swamp ash bodied Telecaster Esquire, black stained and waxed, a nice Allparts neck, pukka hardware, Mojo Hot Broadcaster and Mojo Esquire wiring.

It will also see my dipping back into a bit of metal work for a rather interesting cool scratchplate type of thing, and there we are. More to be revealed as we poddle along, no doubt.

All of which sounds pretty darn cool... The Old No.7 One, coming soon to, well, Paul I guess.

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New Year's Resolution 2012: A Strategic Review

Well, as you can hopefully see from the foto, my New Year's Resolution for 2012 that revolved around not starting a project until I have finished the previous one, hasn't exactly gone too well.

There is a teensy bit I could perhaps improve next time around.

And that doesn't include a few more that are in the frozen wastelands that is my garage.

Hmmm.

Looking at them though, I am totally stymied as I either am waiting for parts or haven't got my head together well enough to find them, so I think that may well be the job for the day.

Order a hundred-weight of Strap Pins and anything else on the list.

Necks might feature quite prominently by the looks of things.

Still as a wise man recently told me, it keeps me out of trouble.

One thing though, and it is a plonk together with random old parts in the pickup dept. but I am verily pleased with the way The Mysterio One has turned out, though I've put a Big Boy Tele bridge on and I'm not sure whether to go for a shorty chopped down one instead.

Decisions, decisions.

What is a poor boy to do?

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WIP: The Mysterio One

Well, back to the pain-filled-pleasure that is Jookification today, and I could do nowt but go hell-for-rayon with The Mysterio One.

I think I said I'd already stained and waxed the body to give it a rough, old wood look, with the idea being that when I painted the acrylic on top it would give the impression of an old panel painting and more to the point make thecolourfilledness of the top all the brighter..

It's actually ten years since I did much painting and I've really avoided doing it on the guitars for lots of reasons, but mainly because I wanted to start anew as it were, but this was fun, so who knows, maybe more will happen sometime.

Anyway, as time has passed I've done my paint thing, and will be going in heavy with an ageing varnish later to complete the effect, and Fanny's your uncle and all that.

You can probably tell that the paint is quite thick and textured and I'm rather pleased with how it turned out, which is pretty cool as I rarely am. I don't want to get all puffypratic, in the words of the Housemartin, but it is based on Swift's A Tale of a Tub, but then that is probably obvious.

As for other stuff, well the year is running out so I probably need to plot and plan a wee bit and see what I'm capable of finishing this this side of shonky-jumper-and-pants-time and what is more likely to get shunted into next year.

But not today, for today I sleep.

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Pearls a Swinger and Nína Tryggvadóttir

Well, with a bit of luck I'll soon be back to my Jooky ol' ways, and top of the agenda is to put a bit of colour in the cheeks of The Mysterio One.

I've already gone for a rough stain and wax, back and sides, but for the top I've got this image of a 'riot of colour' or perhaps 'a right mess', depending if I can remember how to do such things.

I want it to be textured and 3D both in looks and nature and generally vibrant and something else I read on the back of a postcard once that described the abstract expressionist movement, Pollocks and all. I know this has been done to death, and I don't want to dribble paint, so we'll see.

I always prefered Nína Tryggvadóttir anyway, but maybe that is because she died just after I was born and I can, even though at the time only a few months old, remember exactly where I was.

In a cot as it happens.

And I seem to remember that the Times gave a typically poor obituary - Icelandic Communists rarely get a good one, of course -  and that I was so enraged I thought then that one day I would make a guitar - maybe even 44 years later - and take her work as my inspiration. Not that my painting of the guitar will look anything like her work, I'm far more, err, free-willed, you'll understand, but I hope to capture the feeling of focussed desolation she brought to it.

As for the rest, it is an Esquire again and Marc at Mojo Pickups is pondering something different on the pickup front, so that is cool. I am going for a chopped Tele bridge as I seem to have one available unexpected-like, and I think it really must have a neck. You can take things too far, after all.

Other than that, waiting for parts is the usual tale, but it would be nice to finally play my Teardrop sometimes soon - Pearl is a swinger, after all.

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Teardrops Looming

Well, not a lot to do but ponder and obsess at the moment - the 'Might Do' list is looking pretty and long, pretty ugly that is, so I guess when I return to reality I had better get a kick on.

I think I said that I had had an about turn on the bridge for The Pearly Dewdrop One as I had (emb.) not quite thought thru the cut down Tele one.

Anyway, that meant that I was back to whatever the one before Plan A was, and a wraparound bridge - which let's face it, goes well with the Junior aspect of it all.

It will be the same on The Frou Frou Fox One too now, but for Pearl I seem to have acquired a really nice aged Faber one with appropriate stud and bushes and all the other bits who's name confuse me. These are coming from Hugh of ShugzLoomz fame, who is a top fella and all around nice guy.

More on ShugzLoomz soon, as they are in the process of getting a web site together, but you can see some examples of what the man does Here. And if you are after top notch wiring looms for the Les Paul or Semi or, well, whatever guitar you happen to have in your life, it is amazing how much difference good parts and groovy caps make.

But, back to scribbling on the drawing board

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It's a Mysterio

Well, with a bit of time on me hands, I can't help but feel that it would be nice to do something a little more colourful, to shake of the Wintery Blues and other SAD thingimumbobbins. And as I seem to have acquired some lovely acrylic paints, I thought I'd paint a vulgar picture on a delish and light of weight Tele body that has also recently come into my possession.

I'm going the Esquire route again, as basically I love them and I suffer from a lack of imagination at the best of times, and in truth I am addicted to the cocked wah position Mr Mojo puts into his Esquire wiring looms. Sometimes that is enough.

Rather than a Tele pickup though, I'm going to see what he can come up with and maybe something a little different, we'll have to see. Saying that, The Bergasol One sounds enormous which is a grand thing, so maybe a hotter Mojo broadcaster could end-up on my wish list once more.

I guess I'm thinking this will be a little bit psychedelic in truth, and that isn't a bad thing to be for The Mysterio One..

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Wishing I was Loaded: JXG Junior On The Block

Well, I've had a bit of a break from Jookiness for a couple of days, but one thing I can't quite get out of my head at the moment is a quite beautiful and amazing guitar that has been made from a lump or two of hundred year old mahogany by John at JXG guitars.

I've mentioned John's work before - not least because I bought Old Honey off him, which started life as one of Gibson's low rent 50s Studio Tributes, and by the time John had finished with it became a guitar that I really can't ever imagine being without - and for me that is saying a lot - and somewhat unlikely at best.

What John does on his own guitars is of course far in excess of the pimping Honey got, and the Junior he has built is the kind of thing the Gibson Custom Shop should be making, as old wood apart - they have no chance of getting that sort of thing - the attention to detail is crazy good.

And John is selling this for under 2 grand at the moment, and I can't afford it which is why I can't sleep at night. That is real craftsmanship and attention to detail for the price of a mass produced modern equivalent. Crazy cheap by any measure.

I hope John doesn't mind my talking about this, and nicking his fotos, but when I grow up, I want to make guitars like JXG do. Just hope I live long enough to grow that much.

Get this for a spec -

1 piece one hundred year old Honduras Mahogany body
1 piece one hundred year old Honduras Mahogany neck, quartersawn and cut from the same piece of timber as the body. Profile is a 'realistic' late 50's profile - about 23mm at the first fret with a rounded profile and sloped shoulders - feels more comfortable than Custom Shop 59 profiles with their square shoulders
Old growth Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard
Faber wraptail and locking studs, Tonepros Kluson tuners, vintage taper Bare Knuckle/CTS pots, paper in oil cap
Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickup
All nitro finish, aged and weather checked
Has the big G on the headstock
includes Hiscox case

Anyway, if you fancy putting me out of my misery, you can contact John Here and he is a top chap who makes amazing guitars and if you buy it and don't like it, I'll swap you for one of my Jookies.

Can't say fairer than that.

End of

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Getting Shonky On It

Well, this is perhaps the most left of field yet, in fact it is so far to the left it is practically fascistic, but never let it be boring, and never indeed will it be.

What am I wittering about?

Well, I've for many long years fancied playing the mandolin. In fact I have a mandolin, I even had some lessons and I can play it to some extent, but even by my lowly standards, it is a very poor second to my very poor guitar playing. So that is low-in-excelsis indeedy-do.

And if I'm honest, half of the charm is the way mandolins look - they are just too cool to be ignored.

And in fact, my teardrop fetish can probably be traced back to Ye Olde round back mandolins and there we be.

However, the one that I've always coveted but never been able to vaguely justify, is the old Gibson F-12, which is absolutely gorgeous, from the scroll at the top to the crazy barking shape at the bottom and the trapeze tailpiece..

And so I had my little storm d'brain and asked Jezz of Woodroffe Guitars whether he could make me a guitar body based on the F-12, Les Paul kinda sized with routs for a couple of 'buckers, and lowly beholden, he came back with this lovely 3D model thingy.

And now it is happening.

How cool is that?

It will have a nice pair of pups on it - a dreamteam of a Mojo P90 and PAF combo (as the Mojo Pickups in The Chi Chi One were a total winner), and it will get a rustic finish in a big way, a nice Strat neck and I haven't quite decided on the rest, but it will be cool, of that I'm sure.

In fact it will be better than that - it will be tasteful and charming and generally uber mucho grande chilly like never before.

It will also be a few weeks down the line, but I really can't wait.

Unsurprisingly.

So there we are, The Shonky One, coming one day, but who knows which day that may happen to be, some happy day...

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Floored For The Thirty-Third Time

Well, I'm per-leased to say that The Floored Genius One is now suitably stained and hard waxed and looking rather groovy . I had a couple of goes at mixing my own stain (why does that sound so odd?) and got where I wanted to be in the end, and best of all no freckles, which is a result.

So that is cool McFrosty methinks.

As for my little Teardrop, Pearl, I never actually did any more on that, but some super cool knobs showed up - NOS Hofner ones - which I think will set it of a treat. Lovely. Can't wait to finish this.

As for my comic frenzy, well it never happened today, but hopefully I will develop a stronger will tomorrow. Well, you never know.

As for those two Tele bodies, I've still not decided what to be doing with them yet and I have had another brainstorm that looks like it might be a runner, so more on that anon too.

I am sooo verily mysterious-like, and I have a pair of shiny knobs, and what boy wouldn't be smug about that?

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So long, My Chi Chi One

Well, I managed to get the back of The Floored Genius One done yesterday, as well as leaping like a salmon with The Pearly Dewdrop One, so that was all pretty good.

I am rather excited by both of these, it has to be said.

So I have.

Said it, I mean.

Then.

Anyway.

As for today, well, The Chi Chi One is off to pastures new if the courier arrives. I set the guitar up for it's new keeper, Max, with 11s this morning and I have to say I think I'm a bit of a convert. I normally put 10s on Teles and Strats, but this felt brilliant, really meaty. It could of course be that it helps with my ham-fisted 'technique', but there we are. I have 11s on my Jazzmaster and on Old Honey, so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised.

Other than hanging around for TNT, to err, explode on to the scene, the front of my Genius will get stained and waxed, and I'm going to bite the bullet and try and finish the comicisation of The Marvel Us One, before I give up on it due to it not being as much fun to do as the others.

Which would be wrong and generally a little naughty and credit-worthy-less.

Don't get me wrong, I really want it to be finished, it is just a PITA and I'm a little fragile at the moment. (Ahem)

As for other things, well it seems that despite my best intentions not to do any more Teles for a while, I have a couple more Tele bodies en-route from the frozen wilderness that is the north, so I need to think about what I will do with them.

But that is for another day,
maybe.

Though I have been thinking about...etc.

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WIP: The Pearly Dewdrop One

Well, there is still a bit to do - mainly bolting the neck on and wiring it up - but I'm really rather pleased with The Pearly Dewdrop One as it stands.

The corroded bronze with copper sprinkled top is beautiful, fotos don't catch the depth too well, so trust me on that, and I went for a nice braided binding complete with bronze topped upholstery pins around the outside.

OK, I can see that not exactly being many people's idea of a good time, but I love it.

Other than that there is not a lot to be said about it, I guess.

Elsewhere in Jookyland I heralded the arrival of the lovely swamp ash body for The Floored Genius One, and immediately set at it with some stain I'd mixed up, which is a warmer dark oak or maybe a darker light walnut, or well, something.

Sort of greeny brown in truth.

As for The Marvel Us One, I really can't face it today.

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