Remember The Tickled Pink One? Well, Here We Go Again...

Well, a few years ago The Tickled Pink One was sent around the country in a sponsored daisy-chain of a pass-the-parcel.

You can read all about it HERE if you don't remember.

Anyway, it looks like we'll be doing it again in 2016, with the Gimme Shelter Tour seeing the fine folks at The Fretboard Forum raising some money for Shelter.

This time we are limited to 25 people passing that there parcel, so if you are interested CLICK HERE and join the fun.

The guitar will be something swish, build pictures will come over the next few weeks :)

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Coming Soon: The Gimme Shelter One

Well, it's been a while since something new was started, but it seems as though we have just a little something on the way. When it will be done, who knows, but all verily excitementish.

From the top, we've gone for a nice lightweight La Cabronita body. This is going to get the Mother of all Jookies Pearly top, dark stained rear (we've all been there) and a twist or two to keep things interesting.

The neck is the obvious lefty Strat neck, which will be fitted with Ye Olde Split Klusons, waxed and oiled finish-wise.

Bridge, is one of those vibrant lumps from Hipshot, which will make it ring-a-sing-song-sing.

As for the pickup, still a little undecided on that. It may prove to be a Mojo Pickups Overwound Mojotron, but Gold Foils always seem to sneak in when you least expect them, so who knows, things could change yet, and probably will.

Wiring, again it will be one of Marc at Mojo Pickups art installations, but we're thinking-the-thought that a Volume plus a three way switch rather than a tone knob could be cool. Something mayhem-lead anywaysup.

This will be The Gimme Shelter One, coming one day, soonish, maybe probably.

It's so nice to be able to say

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Sold: The Violent Chameleon One

The Violent Chameleon One has taken a long old time, but finally made it and dare we say it was worth the wait? I think we may.

Built on the shoulders of giants, the body and long tenon attached (?) neck were hand made in the UK by the immensely genius-like Grahame Pollard.

From there it went west to the Wizard that is Richard Rendell for a unique (and he has sworn he will never do it again for many reasons) Violet Flake Nitrocellulose finish. This is crazing already on the top and is quite simply immense under the lights. There is no way in the world to capture the awesomeness of this finish in a foto, but it is like an over-active glitter-ball.

The pickup is one of Marc Ransley's famous Mojo P90s and roars, whilst he also supplied the wiring loom with top notch CTS pots, PIO cap and everything else, so that should last for decades too..

Hardware is cool. We decided against Sperzels in the end and went for the Kluson three-on-a-strip-of-metal originals, which work beautifully.

The wraparound bridge is from Faber and is aluminium, the  studs are from Mojotone, and the knobs are Gretsch stylee.

To say we're excited about this one is an understatement. Not least because it will no doubt be a while until the next.

All in all, this is a stunning looking guitar that plays beautifully and nails all of the classic tones.

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To be clear, The Violent Chameleon 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.

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Technical Stuff:

Type: Jooky Custom

Electrics: Mojo P90 Dogear, Mojo Jazzmaster Wiring Loom

Guitar Type: Les Paul Jr Double Cut

Construction: Mahogany Body, Mahogany Long Tenon Neck

Strings:     11s

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: JC#3

RSP: £1249

So, Where Was I..?

Well, as I was saying, The Violent Chameleon One is likely to be the next to final Jooky-baby to be delivered, so seeing it glammed up courtesy to Rich-the-Paint at Randall's Restorations, was a nice trip..

From here it will have parts and then probably strings, but we'll see how it goes.

How long until it is nailed together is hard to say, but such is life..

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SOLD: The Lonesome Pine One

The Lonesome Pine One is a rather stunning pine bodied Strat with one of our special Time Stained finishes.

From the top, we took a beautiful pine Strat body and inflicted our own mayhem upon it, minor wear, dinks and other bits, before we applied a beautiful stained and waxed finish. We wanted a vibrant and zingy rock machine, and that is exactly what we got.

The pickup is a stunning Mojo Pickups' Speedbump. Based on the lovely old Kay pickups this is raw and snarly - brilliant for slide, blues and a completely different tone if you are looking to cut through. The man is a genius.

Wiring is the usual top quality Mojo fare too, for many a mile of confident enhancing motoring.

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To be clear, The Lonesome Pine 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: Jooky Classic

Electrics: Mojo Speedbump Pickup, Mojo Wiring Loom

Guitar Type: Stratocaster

Construction: Maple Neck, Pine Body

Strings:     11s

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Volume

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

Serial Number: JL#15
RSP: £999

Band Wanted and Other Bobbins

Well, it has been a while, but as many of you know, I'm not in a position to be guitarifying anything much for the foreseeable.

However, in order to keep my brain in clover, we've gone for a sideways step and 'launched' the Jooky Book Emporium.

I know, bit weird, but there we are.


Anyway, one of the books 'A Man Called Doris: The Minging Defective' is searching for a house band at the moment - so if you play in an originals band and would like to feature in six books - check it out Here.

Other than that, not a lot to report

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Update: And the Winner is....... Random White