Tuesday 23 August 2011

Sold: The Moulin Rouge One

About The Moulin Rouge One

The Moulin Rouge One is a new departure for the Emporium, featuring both one of our beautiful, variegated and then patinated  ‘Marilyn Golden Tops’ for the body and headstock and our not-yet-quite-patented ‘Cilla’s Rusty Iron’ finishes for the scratchplate. All of which are protected by first coats of acrylic and then nitro lacquers.

The guitar is of course based on the Fender Telecaster Custom, but with a few twists. Tuners and bridge are both takes on traditional parts and work perfectly and come from Wilkinson.

As far as the pickups go, these are a P90 Soapbar taken from a PRS SE One, which is one of our favourites as far as P90s go, and at the bridge is a handwound Bare Knuckle ‘Holy Sinner’ which is breathtakingly cool in a hot kind of way. We’re really pleased with the combination of these pickups and they overlap beautifully, giving every rock tone you can think of and a few more for goodly measure.

All in all, it is a unique looking and sounding guitar. You could say it has it all.

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To be clear, The Moulin Rouge 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 pleasant night in a Somerset field. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.


Technical Stuff:

Type: Marilyn’s Gold Top, Cilla’s Rusty Iron Scratchplate

Electrics: PRS SE One P90 Soapbar, Bare Knuckle Holy Sinner humbucker

Guitar Type: Fender Telecaster Custom

Construction: Variegated Gold Leaf Finish to the body and headstock. Rusted Iron Finish to the scratchplate. Alder body, Maple neck, Rosewood scratchplate.

Strings: Nickel 10s

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Dual Volume, Dual Tone, Three-way Switch

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

Serial Number: JGE#34

RSP: £499 SOLD









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