Well, in the spirit of ersatz dreamy psychedelia dripping faux memories of Carnaby Street, I am pleased to introduce you to the latest of the Jooky brood in the offset and quite backwards of shape, The La Cucaracha One.
And what a star the wee thing is.
Starting with a reverse Jazzmaster-esque body, it has received a stupid cool finish with contrasting scratchplate. Just to be awkward, I went for a right-handed CBS-Style Strat neck with a lovely dark rosewood board.
Adding some perzazz are three rather dishy and shiny chrome lipstick pickups, strung together with a top notch Mojo Pickups handwired loom (all good CTS pots, Oak Grigsby Switch, PIO caps and Switchcraft socket etc.)
Other bits are a zingy steel blocked Wilkinson tremolo and aged tuners, and just to annoy all the Jazzmaster owners who look everywhere for white Witches Hat knobs, a set of those too.
How does it play? Well, the action is low, I have a set of tens on there and it is dreamy. Soundwise, we are in everything from Blues to Hendrix to Stevie Ray Vaughan and of course a bit of jangle on tap if you want it. For special occasions like.
So there we are, The La Cucaracha One, groovy as funk.
La la laaaaa
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