And Breathe....

Well, I've only just noticed Chris' cool comments about The Porn Shop One, so I think I can crawl out of the fallout shelter and breathe clean air again.

These were The Porn  Shop and Bye Bye Buy Ones before they went North a while ago. Quite a striking couple.

As for moving forward, it is the last day of the holibobs today, so tomorrow I taste freedom, and assuming the soldering iron arrives, it will be The Elmer and Old Burny Ones that will feel my super heated caress.

Other than molten lead running down my fingers, I'm also planning on starting on The Wasteland One.

As it happens, I've had a change of heart with this one, after looking at The fotos of The Porn Shop One, and I think I'm going rusty again, to some extent, though with a slightly different approach. Be interesting to see how it turns out anyway.

For the pickups, I've gone for a set of Gibson P90s - a nicely matched pair, which is kinda fun. I might even go for a Fake58 wiring loom, as I've not tried their full monty ones, but we'll have to see. I'm not in any panic anyway, and I have the benefit of being broke, which always gives you time to ponder your next move. Anyway, I'm more interested in getting the finish right to start with. (ahem)

But that's more the morrow, today we drink blood.

(Well, assuming there is a Quorn equivalent.)

Introducing: The Porn Shop One

I have an apology to make.

I've done a bad thing, and although it turned out OK, I'm not entirely pleased with meself.

But I need to share my shame.

Emote a little, perhaps.

Throw myself on your mercy.

But where to start...?

Well, I hate to admit that over the last few weeks, I have somewhat mis-led the house,
with my only slight defence being that it was in a good cause.

You see, my catalogue of disasters, as far as the quite lush The Porn Shop One and it's graceless decline go, weren't in fact true.

There I said it, and I can only apologise to my mythically regular reader.

What, really happened was that I had agreed to sell it to a top geezer called Chris, of Gorman fame, once it was finished.
Don't be surprised, it happens.

However, a spanner was thrown sometime between these two events, when his rather nefarious yet utterly fantastical other half - we'll call her "Tasha" for the purposes of this wee note, mainly as it is her name - got in touch on the QT and asked if she could instead buy it for him as a birthday present, and before that feted day unveil a sadistic series of catastrophic bobbins, that would convince Chris that the guitar had in fact been knackered up in a big way.

This, at least, I hope I managed to do...

Anyway, Chris was celebrating being 21-again yesterday, and is now The Porn Shop One's proud owner (I hope proud, anyway, maybe relieved at least.)

So, rather belatedly, may I introduce you to The Porn Shop One, which has spent the last month or so living in a loft in Scotland, like Robert The Bruce, or was it King Alfred in between burning cakes, I forget.

But The Porn Shop One, for the record, is a Red Cedar bodied Telemaster, with a lovely maple neck, traditionally cool Wilkinson ashtray bridge and cover.

Pickups are Bare Knuckle - "The Boss" at the bridge and a "Piledriver" stealthily hidden beneath the Esquire pickguard/scratchplate thing.

Gretsch knobs, set it off a tee and not forgetting the rather amazing Rusted Iron finish.

Bit of a Rustburst as it happens...

I must have been feeling a bit artistic that week.

So there we are. Chris should also have another wee box with the 80s-tastic The Bye Bye Buy One in it, but he probably hasn't noticed that yet, too busy constructing Voodoo dolls and sharpening pins, i would imagine.

So in summary - sorry for the deception - and Chris,
please, please, please don't kill me.

And remember,
it could have been socks,
know what I mean?

About The Porn Shop One

The Porn Shop One is one of the first Jooky Guitars to feature a rusted iron paint finish both to the body and the headstock. This is a tricky old effect to pull off – the iron really has to rust – but we are all plumped up feather-wise and proud of the result.

The guitar is of course based on a guitar that never really happened, a Telemaster, which is a mangled mongrel of a bitsa based on a Fender Jazzmaster and Telecaster colliding in a morphing thing. The body is made from Red Cedar and rings quite sweetly, having a Jazzmaster shape, with Telecaster Esquire ‘appointments’ and a lovely Telecaster Maple neck. Actually, it looks incredible. I am not too proud to avoid the facts…

Pickup-wise, the Porn Shop One is rather interesting. At the bridge is a handwound Bare Knuckle ‘The Boss’, while nestled beneath the scratchplate is a rather cool yet somewhat hot Bare Knuckle Piledriver. This combination gives some quite stunningly cool, yet groovily wicked tones and we think you’ll enjoy exploring them. With a bit of fuzz and overdrive it can be a bit of a monster. With reverb it is like an angel sipping water from the font, gargling and then getting all operatic on us.


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To be clear, The Porn Shop 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 checking the ingrowing nail on your sixth toe on the backporch of your shack. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.

Technical Stuff:

Type: Cilla’s Rusty Iron Guitar

Pickups: Bare Knuckle ‘The Boss’ (bridge), Bare Knuckle ‘Piledriver’ (neck)

Guitar Type: Red Cedar Telemaster body, Maple/Maple Telecaster Neck

Construction: Corroded Iron Paint over wood body, maple neck, maple fretboard

Strings: Nickel 10s

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Volume, Tone, Three-way Switch

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

Serial Number: JGE#27

RSP: £799

Getting Wasted and the love of a Jazzy Master

Well, I have to say I'm all chuffed with myself.

Nope, I haven't actually finished anything (god forbid) though I've ordered yet another soldering iron so there be light on that there horizon somewhere.

No, I received my lovely little Les Paul Special yesterday, complete with a couple of soapbar P90s, and a quite wonderfilled mahogany body and fixed neck. And I have to say that the neck is a complete dream, frets are perfect, width and depth feel great to me and I just seem to be flying about the place.

Can't find the camera at the  moment, but I will do the honours come daylight.

Anyway, I've since stripped it down, and for once in my life I have all of the parts I need (I'm replacing, well, everything on it, surprise, surprise) and I can't see it taking me long at all.

Insert your own laughter at this point.

So, given some freedom, later today, I'm going to start the finish on The Wasteland One, and I don't know, I've just got a good feeling about it.

That doesn't happen overly often, I have to admit.

Looking forward to hearing the Catswhisker P90 pups anyway, if their Fat Moggy humbucker sized one is anything to be going by, they should be something spesh.

In other news, I've decided that I really must have a Jazzmaster before Xmas (arbitary date, but sometimes you need to set a deadline, don't you?)

So if anybody has a nice MIJ/CIJ one lay around, and would like to trade it for something Jooky - I'm the chap jumping up and down in the corner shouting "Mememememememememe" and "over here."

In fact if you have a white MIJ from the nineties, I'll make you a Jooky to your specification and name my third child in your honour. Simple as that.

La la la

WIP: The Elmer One

Well, all done bar the soldering, and I've given up on the post office and ebay and will go get an iron later today from a proper shop, if such things still exist.

I am rather pleased to have pretty much 'got there' with the rather groovy The Elmer One and it would be a shame not to finish it today.

From the top - it is a Tele, but with a twist or two..

1. Mahogany Body with a discreet comfort curve around the back.
2. Maple/Maple neck
3. Wilkinson 'Kluson' Tuners
4. Bare Knuckle 'The Boss Pickups' - both neck and bridge, unusually for me.
5. Modern six-saddle bridge.

And there we are. I wanted to do a Modern Tele, then dithered, but in the end went back to the start, and I think it was the right way to go.

As for the finish - oh me, oh my.

Well, I built this up and the recipe was basically, some variegated Gold Leaf, on top of which I've feathered some active copper paint to give a 3D effect, and just to put the sugar on top of the cherry, this has been hit with a House Brew of acids and other bobbins, to corrode the copper and give an amazing cloudy blue/green haze. This is repeated in a more refined manner on the headstock, to match, with everything getting a lacquer for long-termability.

As for the scratchplate, this I wanted to contrast, and so have smothered it with an active iron paint, which  has been made to rust quite nicely, bless.

And there we are. Hopefully, a soldering iron and an hours peace later today will get this baby finished.

Now that feels better

What Did Your Guitar "Collection" Cost?

Well, OK, I'll say it. I'm getting next-to-nowt done this week, and might as well write it off.

----Whinge - Please Ignore ----

The pickups for The Elmer One arrived, but the ashtry bridge didn't and I can't quite bring myself to use the modern one, so that is stuck in a rut. The soldering iron didn't arrive so that rules out The Old Burny One, specifically but most everything else too in truth..The body/neck for The Wasteland One hasn't shown up yet. Though I have everything else. The drill bits have vanished, so The Floored Genius One is still un-holy. The Joe Le Taxi One is still body-less. My determination not to start new projects until I'd finished the ones I had started is in tatters.

 

---- End of Whinge ----

So instead, I returned to an old chesnut..and asked myself a question or two.





 

What guitars do I want for me, myself and my psychosis to play?

What I mean by that is - what guitars do I want to provide a stable and sustainable home for, without fear of being flogged to pay for parts for another.

Which takes me back to, what guitars do I own - assuming that I am only care-taking anything that has been Jookified.

And at the moment the answer would be:

1. Aria Acoustic: I don't really play this much, but it is one of those sentimental things. Electrics are busted.

2. The Golden Shower One - My permanently loaned Jooky. In for a fret job.

3. My Bashed-up Gordon Smith Desk. Where to start?

4. The Broken Dot - The Epi dot who's neck I repaired and is no doubt worth so little it isn't worth selling. Mr Bump sticker or not. Over-keen use of glue in pickup-glued-in-horror.

5. The Orpheum SG. Needs a setup and a bit of fret work (though not a lot)

So five guitars, all of them in various states of disrepair and distress.

On top of these I've always fancied a Les Paul - though the Gordo and Orpheum cover that really, but it would be nice one day.

And the glaringly obvious one is a complete lack of a Jazzmaster, which is probably the only guitar I really need in my life, the rest cover the itches and wants.

Not really an expensive bunch, skipping the Golden Shower which has been rebuilt so many times I couldn't begin to put numbers to, the rest cost a combined (Aria £50 + Epi Dot £60 + Gordo £150 + Orpheum £50 =) £310    .

Hmmm, a grand total of £310 - expensive hobby this.

So, if I may be so bold, and assuming most people who read this have guitars already,

How Much Did Your Guitars Cost? 

And What Else Do you Need?

(You can reply anonymously if that is easier ;)

Not that I'm bored or anything.

I Live for the Burn and the Sting of Pleasure

The Porn Shop One
Seen Later Yesterday

Well, I was going to talk about The Porn Shop One, but it has turned into a painfilled subject now, and I can't quite bring myself to broach it. Suffice to say that a drawing board may be returned to and I might need to see about a new body.

But there we are, what can you do about kids with hacksaw blades and too many home improvement programmes on Sky?

I blame the parents and of course it is the school holidays and I was too busy playing Paranoid.

On the sunny side of the street, I'm all rather chuffed with myself. The Les Paul Special I was talking about has yet to enter the palace of Jooky delightedness, but I've already managed to acquire a couple of rather dishy Catswhisker P90 Soapbars for it. I've also got some snotty Kluson tuners, a nice ABR/ToM bridge combo, which is all rather handy too.  Fotos to follow when I have something to fotograph.

As to my plans, well it will arrive in the usual cherry colour, but I have a yen to give it a fully agricultural finish. Things have been getting a bit bright and breezy recently and it is time to revert to my usual scenes of degradation and destruction. The Wasteland One then, should be just that. Actually, maybe I shouldn't mention destruction, it is a saw point at the mo.

As for The Floored Genius One yesterday, well, it never got too far as it happens as my little Orpheum SG took advantage of my every spare moment in rude and often downright dirty ways. The minxetta.

Today though, assuming the postie turns up before bedtime, I'm hoping to have the remaining parts for The Elmer One, so that could jump back to the top of the shop.

All of which leaves me - well, where?

I'm not really sure.

Busy in a non-specific way, I guess.

Love, A Many Splendiferous Thingie

Well, I know I fall in love like a teenage boy, when it comes to aged old guitars, and my allegiances don't generally resist the lure of the time/glittery thing continuum, but my decrepit and battered Orpheum SG arrived today, and I'm all of a gush.

From the top it is an SG copy, made in Japan in the early Seventies, mahogany body and bolt-on neck, rosewood 'board. The Ibanez Super '70 pickup at the bridge is frankly a thing of wonder, and whatever the neck pickup is, sounding brilliant as it happens, too. Looking at the fotos on FetishGuitars, it is probably original.

As I said, I'm determined not to Jookify this as it has turned out as I hoped and is just a lovely SG with plenty of personality, GSOH, own digs and similarly dark interests. And I might even keep it that way.

In fact I feel like a Man City fan experiencing the best day of their lives (since they were Chelsea fans, and perhaps Liverpool fans before that if they are old enough) which isn't an awful way to feel.



That is it really, can't even find the camera to show you the lassie, so excuse the original foto repeated.

La la la

Rock 'n' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution...

No More Wussiness - Part 73.xii.W

Well, here we go again. I'm still awaiting a soldering iron - why do I keep relying on ebay??? - so The Old Burny One can't be meaningfully touched, and everything else is limbo-ified unless the postie delivers. Sounds like another blow-out of a Jooky day.

On the plus side, it means I'm going to stop being a wuss and get my head around The Floored Genius One.

For those of you have given up hope of keeping track of my guitar projects, this is a parquet flooring covered Telecaster body that I picked-up a while ago.

I already have a nice neck for it, and a lovely Catswhisker handwound bridge pickup which is a tad warmer than traditional - overwound, that's the word I was trying to remember - so it should be a bit of a noisy one.

It is destined to have a blank scratchplate, being a single pickup type of thing, but the wiring will be simplistic, volume and tone knobs and that be it. I'm going for locking tuners on this along with a more modern six saddle bridge and that is about the tale to be tolden.

So what is the problem?

Well, firstly the neck pocket has been cut too small, and as there isn't a lot of wood to play with I think I'm going to be reducing the neck width by a couple or three mm rather than widening the socket. Not the end of the world but a pain, in truth.

Other than that, it hasn't been drilled for the neck bolts, the pots, the bridge or for the general wiring. This I have to do, but it leaves me a bit cold and to be honest I've bottled it so far as, well, I'm a wuss.

Plus my handraulic drill is cool, but I can't find any of the drill bits.

Which is my self-face-saving excuse, of course.

All of which doesn't seem a lot on paper or screen, but has built itself mountainous in my little mind, and I bottle it. Simple as that

But not today. For today I drill and be damned and there we are.

I still haven't got a clue what parquet covering will do to the guitars tone, and to be honest I'm clueless as to what the wood under the floorboards is anyway, but you have to take chances sometimes, don't you?

Talking about Elmer

Elmer
an Inspirational Effalump

Well, a weekend at But-er-lins is surprisingly brain-numbing, and school holibobs or not, I need (and I mean need) to sort some guitar bobbins out.

Firstly, I really must finish The Old Burny One, even my kids are laughing at me about it. "The Never Ever Going To Be Finished One" as they re-named it.

Nowt worse than a five-year-old telling you that you are a failure.

So that, I need to sort sharpish-like.

Other than that, it is The Elmer One I want to concentrate on, once the new pickups - Bare Knuckle 'The Boss' warm, yet lovingly traditional too -  arrive and Ye olde Worlde Tele ashtray bridge show up.

This guitar looks rather stunning, it has to be said, and I think the pups will be rather amazing in it.

As they would be in The Porn Shop One, if I ever finish that particular babe.

Another I should mention is The Floored Genius One. Unfortunately, this 'un will be a while as I need to sort a few things out on that. It is more flawed than genius at the moment and there we are. I can't quite get my head around it right now, so best to leave it for a brighter season.

If I'm being a completist, I'm waiting for the body for The Joe Le Taxi One, my little La Cabronita project. I've got most everything else, but what can you do without a body? Not a great deal.

Elmer
a Swap Shop of a Guitar

As I said the other day, I should get the '70s SG copy this week, but that isn't likely to be Jookified as I need a guitar I can just play, once in a while, and this will hopefully be it.Especially as the Jackson didn't stick around for long.

One that is likely to get the treatment sooner or later, is a Les Paul Special type of thing, I couldn't resist. Twin soapbar P90s mahogany body and neck, rosey-wood 'board. Lovely.

I've already got something in mind for that one, but I need to see how good it is when it shows-up - took a bit of a punt on it, if you see what I mean and you never can tell until you can see them up close and personal-like.

So there we are, much the same plans as before, with a couple more added for good taste..

Call Me Sherlock

Jackson SS1 -
But you probably knew that

Ah, I'm (sadly I know) all rather pleased with myself...

For days I've been trying to work out what the mysterious Jackson guitar I'd snaffled was, and finally somebody told me today.

Apparently, it is a Made in Japan, model called the Jackson SS1, which is part of their 'professional' series, and was only made between 1996 and 1997.

Not that it makes much odds, as I was planning on moving it on anyway, but it is good to know.

It is even in their '96 catalog and originally sold for $795 which was quite a bit back then *sniff*

Anyway, not a lot else happening, waiting for parts and a new soldering iron, so I distract meself with such trifles...

Discovering The House of Orpheus

Well, it has suddenly struck me that it is nearly school holibob time again, which normally I think will herald a slow-down in the Jooky Kingdom, but usually means things happen sooner as i try to escape my parental responsibilities. I'm not proud of that.

Anyway, I've arranged the pickups for The Elmer One, am planning on getting to grips with The Old Burny One this week, and am still contemplating my pain threshold as far as The Porn Shop One goes. I have a new Tele neck, so I should do something with that at least. I scraped the charred wiring out of the body and managed to use a pair of Mole grips and a clamp to get the broken bits out, so things are looking up, sort of.

After that, it is my favourite past-time 'part waiting' really, and there we are.

In between all of this excitement, I have snaffled an old '70s Japanese SG made by Orpheum, which I'm looking forward to playing with, but more on that when it arrives, methinks. Though it is a nice solid mahogany body and neck, so I'm really quite chuffed.

It's odd, but I have always loved SGs, but they never stick around for long, so I thought it would be nice to get an old one that could just sit in the corner for basic grab-when-I'm-passing duties, and just as I was thinking such a thought, I noticed this pop-up in the Music Radar Classifieds, and there we are.

Will I jookify it?

Maybe not, as then I can't keep it, unless I get rid of The Golden Shower One, which I'm loathe to do, so I might just tinker instead.



Saying that it has an interesting old pickup in it, an Ibanez Super 70 of apparent early Eddie Van Halen fame, which might get swapped into a Jooky guitar, but we'll see.

(Fotos from the chap who put it my way...ta :)

12 Angry Men and a Guitar Called Elmer

Well, other than attention-grabbing marketing initiative bobbins, the weekend was a bit on the slow side of life.

Firstly, I was planning to tell you all about the debut of James Sant's band 12 Angry Men, featuring the one and only The Psychedelic Surf One, still a bit of a personal favourite Jook for me, it has to be said. Unfortunately, it was on Thursday night, so I messed that up good and proper.

On the plus side it means that I have a rather lovely action-shot of James and the 'Surf', well, in action - even a promise of possible video type contentment to follow. I can't wait.

I do love seeing my kids doing their bit in public, if that doesn't sound oddly wrong.

In other news, I did finish the lacquering of the colour-filled Tele, The Elmer One. I even went for a rusted iron pickguard, just to offset the effect. Obviously there are still a few parts to add to the party, with pickups being rather top of the list - or at least a neck one if I decide to keep the Catswhisker one in place at the bridge, but there we are - it looks a bit tasty to me, to me, it looks a bit tasty to me.

The finish, as you may have guessed is a bit of an experiment. Firstly, there is the variegated gold leaf which itself is stunning. On top of that I layered and then feathered some active copper paint. The idea of this was to give a kind of rippled effect - like sand when the tide goes out, so that you can see parts of the leaf shining thru.

This worked rather better than I thought/hoped/dreamed and gives a kind of flamed/quilted maple look to it bizarrely. Naturally the copper was finished off with some selective corrosion which has given a gorgeous bluey-green colour. The headstock got a similar treatment using corroded copper paint allowing a bit of the grain to show thru the corrosion.

As for the back and sides, I've kept this au natrel so the wood shows thru, which has been Danish Oiled and then Beeswaxed, with a naturally Jooky bit of overspill from the top creeping here and there...

I mentioned parts and apart from the usual saga of pickups, I've gone for some locking Kluson type Wilkinsons, and your normal Tele control plate bobbins. At the moment I have a modern Stratish bridge on there, but I'm thinking it is more likely to end-up with a traditional one instead, as to me Teles don't quite sound like Teles without them. Sad, I know, to find yourself in the 'Leo got it right first time' camp, but I guess it is true in a lot of ways.

So there we are, The Elmer One has so far tootled along under the radar quite nicely. But, like I've been saying, I'm not really starting anything new until I catch up and complete the others. It's all about one-at-a-time around here these days.

Anybody Know What This Be?

Well, it be mine - I just received it today, after a bit of whim-go-shopping, but daft as it sounds, I haven't got a clue what the model is.

I know, I know...stoopid.

Anyway, it is very nice, a Jackson I've managed to deduce from the headstock, has a couple of humbuckers and despite needing a de-louse and new strings, plays and sound very nicely indeed.

I just no naffink...

Any clues, gratefully received...

p.s. I emailed Jackson to ask, so hopefully they will know something...

WIP:The Elmer One

Well, it feels kinda good to have actually finished something, and The Drip Dry One is quite beautiful, and a touch raunchy around the edges. That old DiMarzio is something else though, and I'm preening slightly as I wired it out-of-phase with the P90 at the neck so that the middle-position has a lovely BB King/Peter Green hollowness about it. If you twiddle with the tone knob, there is all manner of goodness to be had.

Step 1: Cover the body with variegated gold leaf

There's a lesson for us all, right there.

As for your next question, which I'm guessing is 'So are you going to finish any of the other things you've half-started and left cluttering-up the place', assuming you live with me, that is, well, I think The Old Burny One is closest and should prove to be the (gulp) easiest.

It is actually a lot easier to start things, I've found, than finish them.
You may have noticed.

Speaking of starting things, which I'm not doing until I've finished everything else, of course, I did happen to accidentally spill some gilder's size onto a Tele body earlier today, as you do, and as it would have been a bit of a waste, managed to also accidentally drop some variegated gold leaf onto it.

A couple of kinds, sadly.

Step 2: Splash the copper paint around, and 'Feather' to taste

After that had dried, been tidied and 'burnished' as we pocket gilders call rubbing vigorously with a damp sponge and a rusty hammer, I also managed to spill some copper paint which oddly corroded almost immediately and well, looked quite interesting. Three or four times I accidentally did that before it looked right.

Happenstance, you can't legislate for it...

Not sure what to do with it, mind you, though I guess it would be a shame to waste it really, and I have got a nice Rosewood boarded Tele neck that would look lovely with it. Or even the nice maple/maple one, that could work.









I have also been thinking that it might be nice to try Jess's authentically Fifties like tele pickups, and this may well be a fortuitous place to do just that.

Co-incidentally, like.

But as I was saying, today is about finishing my lovely Old Burny One, and won't involve any lacquering or ordering of pickups or tuners or well, anything else to do with The Elmer One.

Step 3: Corrode the copper

Sold: The Drip Dry One

Sometimes, you just want a guitar that Rocks, with a big ‘R’. Good if it looks amazing too, but ultimately it has to sound the biz. That was the starting point for The Drip Dry One, and I think we got there, in spades.

From the top, it is unusual – a mahogany Strat body with the most amazing looking grain. Added to that it has a quite crazy wicked rusted iron scratchplate, the rust dribbling down the face of the guitar.

But it is the sound.

For pickups we’ve gone for an old Jooky favourite, a P90 at the neck. This is one of IronGear’s best kept secrets, the Alchemist 90 and it really packs a punch.

At the bridge we find the real deal. A genuine 1970s DiMarzio Super Distortion, ripped out of an old Les Paul and here it sounds quite brilliant.

Other than that there is a set of Wilkinson ‘Klusons’ to hold the strings at the top end, and a Wilkinson Bridge complete with a Steel block for maximum sustain, and boy does it work?

Yes, it does.

As a finishing flourish we went for an enormously silver Mojotone Vitamin K cap in among the wires, individual volumes, a single tone control and a three-way switch. Nice and simple.

So basically it is Sex on a sticky stick.

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To be clear, The Drip Dry 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 coolish thing on ice. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.

SOLD

Technical Stuff:

Type: Cilla’s Rusty Iron Guitar

Pickups: IronGear Alchemist 90 (neck), DiMarzio Super Distortion (bridge)

Guitar Type: Mahogany Strat Body, Strat Neck

Construction: Corroded Iron Paint over wood body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard

Strings: Nickel 10s

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Dual Volume, Tone, Three-way Switch

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

Serial Number: JGE#35

RSP: £699

Introducing: The Drip Dry One

Well, it's funny that some guitars seem to take forever and feel unlikely to ever be finished, but then you reach a moment - god, I nearly said 'tipping point' sober - when, it just all comes together and you wonder what all the fuss was about.

This is a case in such a pointedness.

So, I'd like to introduce you to the latest produce of the Jooky meadows, The Drip Dry One.

She's a girl, bless her.

For the record, it is a mahogany bodied, maple/rosewood necked Strat, complete with:

1. Wilkinson 'Split Kluson' tuners

I've always loved these on Jazzmasters, and have kinda gone back to them after dalliances elsewhere. I just like them and they work nice like. So there we are.

2. Wilkinson Trem/Bridge with a super-sustaining steel block

I've used these before and they really do make a noticeable difference to the sustain and zinginess of the tone.







3. An Irongear Alchemist 90 humbucker sized P90 at the neck.

A Jooky fave, and I've lost track how often I've used them, but that is because they are always bang on the money.

4. A genuine 1970s DiMarzio Super Distortion at the bridge

This came out of an old Les Paul, and is of course what started all of this replacement pickup bobbins that distracts me no-end. Lovely in a Strat, better in a mahogany bodied one. It's Rock 'n' Roll baby.

5. I know it is silly, but I'm a sucker for a ghost story, so I've use a Mojotone Vitamin T or K, I forget which, capacitor. Big silver thing it is too, looks great. Anyway, it has Mojotone apparently, and lets face it, that will make all the difference to the sound of the guitar if nothing else doesn't.

6. A rather spectacularly rusted iron dripping scratchplate, which Banksy-like has dribbled gloopily onto the rather pretty body.

I've wanted to do this for a while, and had thought of doing it over a fabricified body, but the loveliness of the wood here made it an obvious choice.

This really is a rather beautifully 'marked' guitar, and in terms of sound it is red-hot. The P90 is just sexual, whilst the DiMarzio is hot and heavy. With the mahogany body and steel block, this sustains like a Les Paul.

In fact I've unwittingly gone back to do another Les Paul BFG wannabee. Maybe I should put a kill switch on too, though I've done independent volume pots and a master tone, so you can do the killswitch thing anyway.

So there we are. Hot 'n' Heavy, a bit like me

La la laaaa