It shouldn't come as a surprise, as one thing I know about guitar players is that they rarely hang on to many of their guitars for long. There is a joy-of-the-hunt aspect, where buying new guitars or related equipment which can be addictive as it gives you a buzz, and if you are getting creative can give you a new direction, as it were.
So when a chap dropped me an email to say he'd bought one of our Jooky guitars second-hand it really shouldn't have came as a shock. It's what happens, I buy or sell them all the time, after all.
But despite all that, it did surprise me. I guess because I take them personal-like, I expect anybody that buys one to regard it as a 'keeper', and not treat it as any-old-guitar, to be bought or sold.
Unrealistic, I know, but no point being up-yer-own-bum if you won't admit it.
But there we are, there is now a market for second-hand Jookies, I'll just have to live with it.
I was a little unsure whether the fact that it was flogged on for more than I originally sold it for was a good thing or not, mind you, but there we go.
Clearly every Jooky artifact is an investment piece
I mentioned that I had got another Strat to play with, and that I was thinking of going all tie-dyed with it. Anyway, I decided not to in the end as the Fender Tie-dye Strats looked awful, and it isn't an image I want to emulate however Jookily.
Instead then, I'm accepting the inevitable and going with a rather nice raspberry Paisley.
So it will be another Leona's,
And there we are.
The Strat then, I'm thinking that maybe the time may be right to go with Uncle Leo's triple single coil design. He knew a bit more about such things than me, after all.
That's the plan anyway, although I do quite fancy putting a Jooky sustainer in one of these guitars at some point. I keep talking about it, but maybe the time is right, so, well...we'll see.
Other things of course are the octaver I was playing with before. That could be rather sizzly too, for the old Hendrix sound of yore. Maybe even both - what would that sound like? - the answer of course is that I really don't know, and that is the point after all.
They may come later though, or even as pedals. The thought of doing some proper pedals keeps bubbling up to the surface of course. Maybe I should scratch that particular itch.
Six of Christine's Straps at an Eagles Concert.
Photo: courtesy of Greg Rule
I know it gets a lot of flak, and to be honest I'm probably not its greatest exponent anyway, but sometimes on Facebook (and you can befriend us HERE, of course, la la la) you come across really interesting people doing somewhat amazing things.
One such lady is The Guitar Strap Lady, aka. Christine Rea, who makes what are quite simply the most beautiful guitar straps you'll ever see. OK, not the most rock 'n' roll purchase you'll ever make, but if you are a pro you can't really underestimate a bit of comfort, and lets face it if you are a Les Paul player, anything that saves your back is a godsend.
Anyway, the straps, as you can see, are brilliantly designed. Christine does that and they are a bit of a must have for the rock aristos, with Kenny Loggins among the people that the delightful Ms.Rea has made them for.
The cost? Well, with each one taking a couple of months to make by hand, it won't be a surprise that they cost a bit - $1200 for a custom order, but then what price your back, eh?
Anyway, I was going to get journo-like and rewrite this in my own barely-literate style, But I asked Christine a couple of questions and this was her description of what it is all about, which is far more illuminating…
“I started making my guitar straps about 20 years. I had been a huge Kenny Loggins fan for about 8 years and wanted a way to say thank you to Kenny for all the free concerts I had gone to.
I didn't want to give him something that would go into what I call "the halls of memorabilia never to be seen again". I had no clue how to make them and spun the idea around in my head for about a year until I decided to just try it.
My influence is Native American. I lived in NW Montana for about 14 years and love that country and the Native American Culture. I made 2 straps for Kenny Loggins (gifts) within a year period. Timothy B. Schmit and I went to the same high school but I had never met him until I sneaked backstage at a Dan Fogelberg concert in Los Angeles in 1993/94.
I just happened to have Kenny's straps with me to show Timothy and he loved them.
That first guitar strap was completed just before opening night of the "Hell Freezes Over" Eagles reunion.
I have currently made 8 or 9 straps for Timothy. I was able to get a brochure backstage at a George Strait concert in Pennsylvania and heard from his manager the following week that George wanted a strap.
I have made 3 straps for George. Timothy B. Schmit turned me onto Bernie Leadon (one of the original Eagles) and I made a strap for him.
It takes me about 2 months to make a strap so I am unable to mass produce them to sell in a shop.
The great thing about technology is that I just need access to the internet, a telephone and FedEx and I am set for business. I get great satisfaction from seeing some of my favourite performers wearing my guitar straps, especially on award shows.
I have yet to get to Jon Bon Jovi and Keith Urban but I am trying!”
You can find out more about Christine’s beautiful work at her website HERE and you really should, as the designs are perfection.
As I mentioned the other day, I am having to rewire the Funky One from scratch due to a little mouse with a pair of wire cutters and a pair of Handy Manny pliers.
Squeeze, if you are unfamiliar.
Which brings me to dilemma's gates once more. You see, I had decided to go with the stock Wilkinson pickups for the first time ever, as they sounded really rather good. But now that I have a roll of wire in front of me, I'm thinking about the Di Marzio neck pickup that came out of a Fender HM Tele, and the Hot Slag that got usurped when I was doing the Mellow One the other week.
I mean, it sounds a fine old combo, does it not?
The only concern is aesthetic as the Hot Slag is a Zebra and I'm not sure how that will look with the TV Jones-esque covers I’m intending to put on. The H Block tribute, as I hear they are called somewhere or other.
Still, that would be a wee bit funky, so maybe I should go that way after all.
I know, best planned lays and all that, but I never got around to sorting out The Funky One in the end, and so it will have to be this week.
I was a bit gutted as it happens, as somehow the wiring I'd done has all become disconocorated - a helpful three-year-old is the prime suspect - and trying to work out what went where looked a bit depressing for a weekend's entertainment, not least because my well thought out notes and diagrams seem to have disappeared too..
I will do it soon though, as I need to get on and the parts will probably end-up strewn across the neighborhood’s gardens if I don't.
Getting away from Jookydom for a moment, and unlikely though it sounds, I am thinking about buying a guitar, as my head has been turned by a stripped down, bare of any kind of finish, Gibson Les Paul BFG.
Not sure what the BFG stands for, I have to say, but there we go.
They don't make them anymore, I don't think, but they are basically unfinished and have a P90 at the neck with a Burstbucker at the bridge. Which sounds a tad mayhem-like, but there we are.
I haven't played one yet mind you, but as long as they are what I think they are - tortured chaos incarnate - I'm guessing all will be well if I do get to grips with one. I'll find a foto to post here, but I quite like all the colours which I guess will be handy as there don't seem to be many around, apart from the rather too-mucho-moolah-expensive Gary Moore signature one, but there we are.
While I inhabit Fantasy Island, I also quite fancy a new amp, and the Vox Night Train is appealing. Only 15 watts, which when I used to play in a band would have got me laughed at, but these days seems to be acceptable.
I don't know why that is - do drummers play quieter or are speakers better?
I used to use a 150watt Peavey thing back in the sepia days and still couldn't hear what I was playing.
Actually, I still can't hear that much of what I'm playing, and that is no doubt still down to the same drummer-chap.
In fact, I have an admission to make.
It’s about the Cheryl and Amy tone amps.
Nothing nefarious or dastardly, no lawyers’ letters or anything, but there is a reason why I haven't
really gotten around to making any recently, and basically it is because they were becoming a bit (and whisper this), they have *gulp* all the makings of a product.
I mean, they all look different and there are loads of different types of tins and cigar boxes around, but fundamentally, they were all the same under the hood, as it were.
Don't get me wrong, the insides of a guitar are pretty lo-tech as well, and I'm not breaking any records making the Leona's and Kylie's, but there is a bit more scope and less chance I'll get bored.
And if I'm really honest, they are more fun to make.
More of a challenge.
I feel achievement when I plug one in
and it works.
Sad I know, you'd have thought I'd have got such bobbins out of my system years ago
what with me climbing Everest and all.
Don't get me wrong, there will be more amps at some point, but it was all getting a bit easy and so, well, that doesn't appeal.
I like to struggle
and believe me flower
I do.
I really do.
As seems to be the nature of things, I picked-up another guitar this week to be inducted into the college of Jookyland. It's another Strat, but for once rather than turn it into a home for P90 or Humbucker loveliness, I've decided to be totally radical and stick to Leo's formula and go with, *gulp*, three single coil pickups.
I know, I can't understand it either, but I guess sooner or later monkeys write sonnets and all that.
Anyway, that of course brings me to the thorny question of which pickups to go for. Obviously this is dictated by what is available according to the Jooky rules, but getting single coils seems to be quite easy (famed words to the end) and well, I think I might get a choice.
So, without getting totally sidetracked by the eternal pickup lament, I've decided that this Strat will be my first sorty into tie-dye-land. It's been a long time coming and well, why the devil not.
Saying that I did get some lovely pink paisley thru the post the other day, and, well....we'll see.
I know I've mentioned the Funky one, and as it will be ready to roll in the next few days, you'll see it finished soon enough I guess, but I have to say it is one statement of a guitar, as I hope the WIP fotos show.
The Paisley is stunning and bright and I'm loving the look of it, and the pickups - Wilkinson's that I've never tried before - really do the business. And it is a '72 Tele sort of thing too, and I love the shape of the scratchplate - four knobs and all.
But the reason I mention it, is because I am sad and absolutely love the look of the H Block pickup covers, which really break up and set off the whole look of the guitar.
It isn't quite there yet, but will be soon, and I think it will really, really stand out from any given crowd.
Any gibbon crowd too, as it happens.
Maybe I should have gone for some Rock Monkey pickups, thinking about it.
One of the things I talked about a while back was that I wanted to make a Jooky Sustainer, and install it in one of our guitars. I did the R&D and got one working, but then got side-tracked and left it to one side with all the pedals and little amps that I've not quite got around to making.
Anyway, I won't say that I'll do it this week, or even that it will be done in the next nearest while, as I got enough grief over the non-arrival of the other stuff, but I am sort of thinking that it might be a good time to have another go.
I blame a weekend listening to old U2 and Simple Minds records, personally.
The Mellow One is a throwback to the early Seventies. The Hippy ideals and fashions had become mainstream, but the world had taken on a harder, colder edge. Some were hanging on to the smell of Juniper berries and Joss Sticks, others were waking to realise that the country was bust; the arterial pavements were clogged with uncollected rubbish, coffins piled-high, revolution in the air. Music too was changing and taking on a darker tone, a deeper vibrancy. Guitar sounds were heavier though as yet still raw, generally unprocessed. The acid-fried hangover that was progressive rock’s operas was about to give way to the strident, urgent violence of punk.
It is against this background that we depict the Mellow One. The faded Paisley a nod to the recent past, the scorching simplicity of a single, noisy humbucker shrieking a promised violence, yet still able to chill to a point where it echoes the mourning of Hendrix, Morrison, Jones and so many other icons.
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The Mellow One is historic and history in one. Fitted with a Bare Knuckle ‘Rebel Yell’ pickup it gives a fantastically dark rock sound, but with a pull of the volume knob it splits into one of the most authentic hot Fender sounds you will hear, and is a total joy to play. Equally at home playing loud and proud, it will happily coax all the tones that everybody from Buddy Holly to Clapton would recognise.
To be clear, The Mellow 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 British Dylan. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.
Technical Stuff:
Type: Leona’s Groovy Guitar
Pickups: Bare Knuckle Steve Stevens ‘Rebel Yell’ Pickup
Guitar Type: Fender Stratocaster Inspired
Construction: Cloth over wood.
Dean Markley Jimi Hendrix Pure Nickel Strings 10s
Output: ¼” Guitar Lead
Controls: 1 x Volume, Coil Tapped via Push-Pull Knob
Special Stuff: Certificate of Authenticity, Builder Signed and Numbered, All Wrapped with our Trademark Jooky Wrapping.
Well, I think this week will prove to be genuinely productive by my slackish Jooky standards, after all.
The reason for my optimistic Tuesday morningesque feeling is because I've just wired-up and screwed together the Mellow One, and I have to say it is a wee bit of a dream.
I even tuned it up and everything.
I have to say I've heard lots about Bare Knuckle pickups - they are handwound, made from the finest ingredients and everything else, and I have even played a couple of Les Pauls with their thingies well and truly plumbed-in, and been impressed. But the sheer clarity of the 'Rebel Yell' pickup I've put in the Mellow One is astonishing. As I said before I went with the single knob, but have coil tapped the pickup using a push-pull pot so that you have a lovely glassy single coil sound that quickly switches to a hot git of a humbucker. Absolutely lovely, if I say so meself. And man is it loud, really, really loud and clear as a bell - until you crank up the amp a tad and then - proper mayhem.
The one thing I'm really pleased about though is the neck. I think I said that it was nice, but I've taken some of the gloss off since then and given it a light oil. It looks nice and worn in now and has that slightly rough finish that I love. It really feels like you are playing it, if you see what I mean.
Anyway, fotos to follow a little later after I played it in and tweaked the set-up a wee bit, but #13 is a doozy, nuff said. Here is a rough one though, showing off the 'Double Cream' pickup and quite beautiful knob.
In summary, all good then. Lovely.
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The other reason for optiwotsit though is that the Funky wee Telecaster one is also pretty close to being done - and should certainly be ready to chug later this week. The paisleyification is all in place and the final coat of lacquer is hardening as I type. For a change I've gone as nature intended and kept two humbuckers in place, although there is a nice touch as far as the covers go. I think you'll approve. I think it will prove to be a bit of a rock god, to be honest and can't wait to fire it up come the weekend.
So there we are, and if I can get my act together to start the Cigar Box Guitar before Wednesday, I'll feel like I'm back on track.
Well, The Mellow One isn't quite finished yet as I'm still to break out the soldering iron and get electo-creative - an odd disease.
It is always the electric bit that takes a touch of organising as basically soldering and bratskis don't mix particularly nicely,
What I can do though is unscrew things down, and take things to bits and then do some sticking, as that is far more normalish around here.
So, while the Mellow One will be hopefully done on Monday, if not the weekend, I've kind of leap-frogged forward and started on the rather cool Tele that I mentioned earlier.
For this one, I wanted something a bit more in-your-mush than the mellowness of late - OK The Groovy One was bright, but I'm ignoring that for a moment. In fact I wanted something particularly funky to go with the '70s vibe of the guitar.
The foto then is the first fitting of the finish...still smothered with glue and grain filler, but a couple of coats under it's belt and there we are.
No surprise the that it is likely to be called The Funky One or some such thing.
You may have noticed that the double-necked 'Siamese One' hasn't been copping a lot of limelight recently. If you had done such noticing, you may even be curious why that is.
Well the truth of the matter is that regarding The Siamese One - and I really don't think that that will prove to be it's name - I am finally realising that now is the time that I should think about getting my act together. If that isn't too definite a decision to take.
I have a bit of a dilemma, mind you. On one hand I think 'get on with it', and it will be relatively straight and forward.
On the other I'm thinking that I should be more radical, and maybe separate the twins.
Take a breath at that point, and think about the idea for a moment.
I could separate the twins.
Turn them into two guitars.
To my knowledge this kind of separation would be a first.
And one would probably prove to be stronger than the other. Have more chance of a full and varied career outside of the case.
Their different personalities could flourish.
I could 'livery' them amazing differently.
They would have their own voices.
I could then present the two separate, unique and distinct guitars to two genuinely separated Siamese Twins.
OK, finding the twins for the last point might prove a bit tricky, but I'm sure there are some around here somewhere. Bristol always seems to have its nose into such medical advancements. I guess it is the legacy of so many years of Casualty being filmed here.
But I digress.
So, it could be a case of 'The Siamese One' and 'The Siamese Other One'.
Promised myself I'd do some WIP fotos this time, and as I'm just waiting for a couple of things to show-up in the post, I figured it wouldn't hurt to "place" it together...
So as of a minute or three ago, this is how The Mellow One is looking..
p.s. The pickup is the Hot Slag, though if I go for one of the other options, it won't be a Zeb-er-ra.
1. Hot Slag - Wanted to try one of these for ages - f'nar & a f'nar - and I'm told coil-tapping it will work quite beautifully.
2. Bare Knuckle 'Rebel Yell' - Another warmer than the average pickup that will coil tap into a pretty sharp sounding impression of a single coil.
3. Di Marzio something or other - Bought a pair of these, made for Fender back in the Day, though one of them is knacked apparently. Which for a one-horse-guitar, isn't too much of an issue. Have no idea what these sound like, mind you.
4. I'm fighting my IronGear Alchemist 90 addiction, as I can't put P90s into everything I do, can I?
No, was the word you were searching for there.
Anyway, despite that The Mellow One has come together lovely-like. Tuners on, body a fetching shade of paisley, neck connected and I even remembered the strap button things, which I always forget...so really, it is just the old, old question, innit?
Ah, stuff it sideways, everybody keeps telling me these Bare Knuckles are the coolest of the best, lets see shall we?
But somebody asked me the other day, whether I was interested in getting some endorsees.
Now I can't say I'm really sure how that works to be honest, I always imagined that Gibson and Fender would pay people like Slash and Clapton big loads of moolah to play their guitars, and that companies like Vintage would pay people who aren't so well known a lot less money, or maybe just give them a free guitar and promise them their foto would appear in Guitarist magazine.
I might be wrong though.
Both of which are kind of beyond us here in Jookyville, of course. And as there is only ever one of any guitar, there doesn't seem that much point in endorsing something unique anyway.
Unless of course they endorsed the "Leona's' or 'Kylie's', I don't know.
I did get told that some smaller companies offer discounts or a 'Band Rate' to some guitarists, but again I'm not sure if that is true or not.
It did set me thinking about who I would like to see playing a Jooky guitar, and this is my little list (I ignored anybody who is dead, as it makes the foto opportunities a wee bit tricky).
So the five guitarists I would like to make a Jookified guitar for and see them play it are in no particular order:
1. Bernard Butler: I saw him play with Suede as they released their first single - 'the Drowners' ? - and it was one of the most electric, seedy concerts I've ever been to. His playing is something else, no clichés and entirely musical. The boy is a genius, end of.
2. Johnny Marr: Similar to Butler in his musicality, but obviously slightly more revered. The man is a pukka musician, guitar is just a tool if you see what I mean and even the recent product demos he has done for Fender - he has a signature Jaguar on the cards - were electrifying.
3. Kevin Shields: My Bloody Valentine were just incredible and I blame the cover of Loveless for my offset tendencies. Unlike anybody else, however many copyists the boy spawned. Bit scary though.
4. Dean Wareham: I saw Galaxie 500 supporting, of all people, The Sundays and was totally hooked by the simplicity and atmos of the music. He moved on to Luna and then, I think as a duo with his wife, but the Galaxie 500 Albums even now are total regulars in jookyland. Another original who doesn't sit in music shops playing minor blues very, very quickly.
5. Julian Cope: I kind of missed Teardrop Explodes apart from Reward and caught on to the Headman in his solo days. I know he plays bass a lot of the time, but I love the old Voxes and Jazzmasters when he played them. A pure original this chap, and his books are genuine literary treasures too.
Of course, there are shedloads more I could have listed, people like Polly Harvey, Terry Bickers, Robert Smith, John Squire, BB King - ha - and Keef himself, but there we are.
I guess I'm showing my vintage too, thinking about it.
So if Johnny, Bernard, Kevin, Dean or Julian are reading, or even BB, Polly, Terry, John or Robert come to that and fancy a Jooky guitar, give me a shout...
Just don't all turn up at once, eh?
And call first, I'd like to tidy up a wee bit, know what I mean?
Well, back down to zero guitars after The Beano One was snapped-up on Friday, but another day, another thingy and there we are.
I'd better get on with the Mellow One, but it seems my best laid plans have gone up-the-wall again.
The story so far:
I got me a Hot Slag - which may seem slightly incongruous for The Mellow One, but such is life.
Then I spent ages working the wiring out - my fault, brain distemper - before I managed to grab a Bare Knuckle Humbucker - a Rebel Yell - and the plan changed again.
So a question, which is more mellow, a Hot Slag or a Rebel Yell.
I thought the eternal pickup question was going to be simple this time for once,
but
no,
no
&
no.
And so I ask myself, what would PJ Harvey do in this situation?
I guess the Rebel Yell is the most obvious, but then I think of her cover outfit on 'To Bring You My Love' and I wonder.
The girl is an actress in a pocket rocket.
Here's 50ft Queenie while I ponder the indiscernible...
Well, the Mellow One, gord bless it, has started the rocky road to Jookydom, and as I seem to keep forgetting to put any WIP images up, I thought I would do it while I remember..
Two fotos here..
1. Is the scratchplate, which will eventually be cut for a single humbucker. My hopes for the handwound one went belly up when I tried it as it basically didn't work, so I've instead decided to try a pickup I've meant to use for a while, an IronGear Hot Slag.
This is a warmer than normal PAF type of thing, but I'm going to coil tap it so that we'll have the option for a single coil twang. Always good to have a bit of a twang to hand, that's what me granny always used to say, but then it was a WW2 Burlesque thing, and she played the mandolin, so what can you say.
This bit of tapping I'm going to 'facilitate' with a push-pull knob, which means a lovely simplicity - one pickup, one volume knob with hidden extras.
Anyway, the paisley cloth has been applied to the scratchplate and will be getting a few more coats of the grain fuiller bobbins over the next 24 hours or so.
2. The second foto shows the back of the guitar body. This too has had the cloth applied and will carry on being coated for the next day or so. After that it will be a case of folding and sealing around the edges, before repeating the whole exercise on the front of the guitar. I'll put another foto up later this week of the body, when the cloth has been trimmed away - it'll look less like a Magic Eye picture then...
Other than that, the neck has been sanded and the 'logo' and name burned into the headstock. #13, maybe like hotel floor I should have skipped this one.
Anyway, once that was done, the coats of Danish Oil have started to be added to the back of the neck and headstock. The fretboard is nice and will be untouched apart from that the frets are a bit on the tarnished side so they will get a polish.
Wow, I don't know if I should be flattered or if it is an amazing coincidence, but Friend-of-Jooky, Sean pointed out this Beanoified Strat on eBay earlier on....
Which I have to say looks nice to me.
If only I had the dosh to spare..
Here it is, and below is The Beano One Les Paul thing I made earlier...
We're taking over the world, us comic lovers, telling ya..
Next week, how to put the Dandy back into you Semi
Well, I've come to realise that I tend to do things in bursts.
No goals for a few games and then a hat trick, as it were.
So this week the plan is to get the Cigar Box stuff together...for my Wednesday fun.
Then it will be a case of covering the Siamese and Mellow Ones with something groovy, and hopefully have the two of them making groovy noises next week...
The Mellow One I’m looking forward to as I really want to hear what this pickup is going to sound like and I think the neck will make it a real joy to play…
I've also got a yearning to do a couple of amps as they are nice with the Cigar Box Guitars and a DIY Smokey amp might be fun for the Wednesday thing too at some point too.
Oh, planning and me...be nice if it ever actually came to pass
I know I keep coming back to them and promising sooo very much, but I really am going to finally get around to doing a couple of Cigar Box guitars.
I know, you've heard it all before.
Anyway, I figured if I documented it as I went along, maybe the odd personage would find it useful and want to join in too. It would also force me to get off me chuff and do it, of course.
I'm not thinking of anything flash, just a lovely three stringer slide box, which is about as authentically Jooky as you can get I reckon.
So if you fancy having a go - here are a few things you will need:
1. A Cigar Box:
This should be a wooden one, not cardboard... If there is such a thing as a tobacconist near you, ask and they might give or sell you one. If not eBay is your friend. Either way, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid, tops.
2. A piece of wood for the neck.
Get something like Mahogany or Sapiele or Oak, A piece 36" x 2" x 1" will do you fine. Our local timber merchant - now there is a phrase I never thought I'd write - charged a quid or so for such a thing, and planed it as well, gord bless 'em. Again, any piece of wood that size will do - slicing an old shelf is a fave too, of course - though I'd go for a hardwood as it will need to be strong enough to hold the tension of the strings.
3. Two nuts and bolts:
These will be the nut and the bridge. They should be 3" long. You can use other things, but these are easy to get.
4. A Hinge:
This will need three screw holes in it. Here is one I got from Homebase, but anything similar will do. If you can't find a hinge, don't worry you can just drill a few holes and use them instead.
5. Three tuning pegs:
You can use other things, but I have some acoustic tuners to hand, and will use them. Anything goes though, so see what you can lay your hands on.
6. A Pickup:
I'm going to put a pickup and volume control in mine, but you don't have to. It's pretty easy though, if you don't mind soldering a couple of wires together. To do this I've got a Strat pickup, a 'pot' volume knob thing and a jack socket, and a couple of bits of wire. If you haven't got a pickup to hand, a piezo disk can be had for pennies, I'll give some links when we get there. I might use one of those thinking about it, they sound beautifully raw. Yep, piezo disk it is. Cool. If you really get stuck, give me a shout as I've got a fair few lay around that I'll never use.
And other than a few finishing supplies such as screws, Danish oil or paint, strings and a couple of tools, that is that.
Easie and a peasie.
I think this could be a little Wednesday night DIY club.
Probably with no members.
I'm popular like that,
seriously.
Not a Tele as was the plan, but there we are. Needs must and all that.
The plan for this wee baby is to be another fine example of Leona's work. It has a beautiful neck and is really vibrant acoustical-like, which I always think is a good sign.
Not too heavy - Alder bodied I think, but it was the neck that got me.
Anyway, my usual worries about pickups are in fact resolved up front this time. It will have just the one, but it is a bit of a doozy, and even on its ownsome I think will be pretty groovy.
The finish - well, Paisley won't come as a surprise, I guess.
But the pickup is nice. Hand-rolled (wound? I get muddled sometimes with the rollies) and of the Zebra persuasion. The Paisley is going to look awesome too, but I won't describe that, how could I do it justice?
La la la
Here we go again.
Oh, it's name? The Mellow One, I think will fit the bill nicely like.
Oh, and here is the British Dylan, or so they said..
