So I am pleased to introduce to you, the muchly heralded, longer-than-long awaited, The Pearly Dewdrop One, my first dip into the gentle lapping tide of Teardropness.
As you may recall, this was prompted by the fact that I've long wanted a Vox Teardrop guitar, but never found one that didn't sound complete pants, so instead what we have here is a mixture of two of my favourites - a Vox teardrop crossed with a Les Paul junior.
With a, err, Strat neck.
I know, dogs and cats.
So from the top it is an exclusively made body in a Teardrop shape, created by Jezz at Woodroffe guitars. Semi acoustic, naturally.
From there I got a Ye olde CBS Strat type of neck, maple and rosewood.
The wraparound bridge is Faber, the glorious P90 dogear was wound specially by Marc Ransley at Mojo Pickups, and the boy also did the wiring along with the handcrafted PIO Red Tiger cap.
As for the finish, well the back has been stained and waxed, while the top has got a Jooky corroded bronze and copper finish which is simply divine, sweetie.
But how does it play. Well, after god knows how much messing about the action is quite low. I've put 11s on it to get some tension, but you would never know it as you fly around the neck.
Soundswise, well I've talked ad-vom about how good Marc's pickups are, but the P90 combined with a semi acousticalified body makes for a stunning range of tonal tones. No problem at all with all those Epiphone Casino sounds, but with a little bit of grit in the mix it is just smile inducing. so you skip from Britpop and Johnny Marr to dirty filthy garage rock with a twiddle of a knob. Blues it absolutely nails and to be honest it is everything I hoped it would be. Sex on a sticky stick.
Obviously, it may take me a while to get around to fixing the pot and putting a strap pin on, so don't expect to see it for sale for a while yet....
La la laaaa
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