Friday, 27 July 2012

Sold: The Raymond One

The Raymond One is a modern Telecaster with some serious intent.

From the top, it has a beautiful ash body that has been lovingly smothered with a beautiful pink paisley. This is topped off quite sweetly with a hand-chopped pickguard made from an old Jerry Reed record.

Sounds-wise, a single Mojo Pickups Wide Range Humbucker has that unique mixture of clanging cleans and gritty lows you’d hope for, but with a certain mellowness in the middle that genuinely sounds like nothing else. And a Wilkinson, Steel Blocked Strat trem, complete with push-in cranking handle, gives a lovely sustain and all those wobbly shimmers we love so.

To get the best out of it, Marc Ransley at Mojo has crafted a bespoke ‘Esquire’ wiring loom, tailored to this particular pickup, that gives three usable tones from the standard Tele control switch. The wiring is of course a classic in it’s own right, with CTS pots, PIO capacitors and Ye Olde vintage looking cloth covered wiring.

As twang is the thang, we’ve gone for a lovely maple/maple neck with Kluson-esque tuners, which has been waxed and feels great to play.


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To be clear, The Raymond One is an utterly unique guitar, and there will never, ever, be another made. It is signed and numbered, entirely hand built and finished cooler than a slo-mo run across the pebbled beach at Portishead. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.


*** SOLD ***


Technical Stuff:

Type: Leona’s Groovy Guitar

Electrics: Mojo Wide Range Humbucker, Esquire Wiring

Guitar Type: Fender Telecaster

Construction: Ash body, maple/maple neck, Fabric Finish

Strings: Nickel 10s

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Volume, Tone

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

Serial Number: JGE#58

RSP: £799





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