Black Russian Mojo Babushka Blues in Em

Mojo Filterons in Hi Lo Up Down And
Very Left Tron Design Shocksome

Well, I had one of 'those' emails again from Marc at Mojo Pickups, where he sends me a foto of some cool little trifle of a trinket he has put together especially for one of my Jooky babies, and this time the boy has excelled hisself and come up with something particularly groovy. for The Black Russian One, my final La Cabronita.

It has been a while and specs change, so as a refresher for those that haven't been paying attention to their note-taking duties, The Black Russian One is a swamp ash bodied La Cabronita, with a evil black stained and waxed body.

The neck is maple/maple (originally this was going to be ebony but I changed my mind) and pickguard and rear control cavities offer a flash of colour if not inspiration and are hand carved from an old Television, red vinyl disc. Lovely.

The knob has a genuine old Russian red star badge cap affixed to the top (though I'll have to supply a normal one too I think as it may not prove to be the most practical of knobs. And  we all need knobbages with a hint of practicality.)

Black Russian, Among Friends
On My To Do List

The rest of the hardware will come as no surprise, but where Marc has excelled is that he has created a couple of TV Jones sized Filtertron voiced pickups especially for it, designed to look like Hi Lo Tron pickups, and verily cool they are indeedy. They should set it off a treat. These are low output, vintage tone chillsters rather than high gain screamers, which is cool. I like a bit of tone of a morning.

He has also done one of his classy wiring looms, completed with all that is good and wholesome in such circles.

Anyway, the pickups should hopefully be here soon and this little baby rocking like a mocking bird next week sometime. Can't wait.

So perhaps this will be the first Jooky to break cover in 2013, who'd have thought it?

You gotta love it.

La la laaaa