Introducing The Gimme Shelter One

Well, as you may have noticed we haven't made a lot of guitars here in Jookyland for the last year or so, so it is with great pleasure that we unveil The Gimme Shelter One, which is for the grooviest of good causes.

You can read more about the Whys HERE though, over on the Gimme Shelter Tour web site, but here we'll just talk geetars.

So from the top, it is a lovely resonant pine La Cabronita body, along with a maple/rosewood neck, all smothered in Mother of Jooky like nobody even dun done before.

The pickup is a Mojo Mojotron, hotter than vintage and matched with one of the Genius Ransley's wiring looms, is perfection. This is raw when you want it to be and soulfilled and all those other things I wish I could play like.

A Hipshot stainless steel bridge holds one end of the strings down, while Gotoh tuners hold the other and in between there is a brilliant pickguard made especially by Scratch-It. The first of many to appear on a Jooky, I fear.

So there we are - it is going off on tour and will be raffled, not sold. Lovely.


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To be clear, The Gimme Shelter 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 Mojotron, Mojo Wiring Loom

Guitar Type: La Cabronita

Construction: PineBody, Rosewood/Maple Neck

Strings:     9s

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#4

RSP: £1249

So Close, Nah Nah Nah Nah Naaah

Well, it's taken a lot of drying (odd for only a couple of dozen coats of lizard-skinned paint), but the finish for The Gimme Shelter One is finally done.

I know, we still haven't got all the parts, but the uber coolio Mojo Pickups Hot Mojotron is in place along with the traditionally groovy wiring loom, and we even have a scratchplate and knobs.

What else really matters?

OK, tuners and a bridge wouldn't hurt, but give it time.

The idea of course is to have it earning some corn for Shelter by the time of the Guitar Show at Brum's Bungley Hall on 28/29th February, so err, there we are then.

You can still join in with all of the fun and be a tour date all by yourself.

More details over at The Fretboard HERE


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Been Down So Long, This Feels Like Up To Me

Well, it has been so long since we did a bit of Mother of Jooky, I'd forgotten how much fun it can be.

There is still some work to go on The Gimme Shelter One, but despite the poorly lit fotos, it is looking pretty swish methinks.

Like snakeskin boots

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So I Sat In My Room And Drew Up A Plan

Well, things-are-a-happening as far as The Gimme Shelter One and it's associated tour goes, so we figured that here in Jookyland we should get up from our des-res and, err, start. It's about time.

OK, so it isn't a major leap and I seem to have used a ropey camera, but what you may be able to make out here is the back of the guitar body, which has been stained a heritage cherry red (it was meant to be copper, so shhh) and then waxed to taste.

And wax tastes awful kids, we all know that now don't we?

As for what is next, well the top got the same stain, but as it is about to be smothered in oodles of creamilicious Mother of Jooky pearly paint, it wasn't of course waxed. Not even a little bit by accident as that would have been silly.

Every day is a winding road...

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