And So..

Well, my earlier pondering went around in a few circles and the end result was that I spent some time putting the lovely Mojo PAFs and loom into The Old Gordo. Typically though, all that is left to do is connect the wires and do you think I can find a working soldering iron? Nope.

Four soldering irons and none of them work. It is a disgrace. So that too, is a job for another day. *

As for The Sappho One, my dithering has ended and I am going with the excessively gorgeous Warmoth neck for that, I've given it a good polish, sorted the fret ends and generally fettled it and basically I can't resist temptation. Fingers crossed it will be finalised this week then.

As for The Diamond Shiny One, I may in fact be using a different body for that, for highly technical details that I don't think I'll go into here as you will laugh at me, but basically because the knotted body has a new porpoise in life, methinks, that will be quite fun and involve copper nails.

More on that another day methinks

La la laaaa

* Edit: Just realised I had the power switched off at the wall... *sigh*

Diamonds Take Forever

Well, I had another box of glittering delight arrive this morning, from the land of Mojo Pickups, and couldn't wait to put the Gold Foil at the neck of The Diamond One, matching it up with Marc's prototypical blade Tele pickup with-no-name.

To be fair though, it has a way to go (holes to drill, sanding to endure, finish to apply) and I am missing one or two bits...

1. Neck, quite fundamental
2. Tuners - equally so
3. Bigsby B5 and Tele conversion thingy
4. Saddles
5. The usual knobs, strap pins, switch tips, control plate, neck plate and selection of screws (though I have some copper nails which may make an appearance sometime soon.)

So with that in mind, no I don't know why I got excited at all, apart from that all of those things are on-their-way.

Also in the box was a loom for this of course, and a pair of Marc's lovely PAF flavoured humbuckers, and another loom to go into the Old Gordo. This will probably happen tomorrow alongside the fettling of The Diamond Shiny One, body-wise.

I asked Marc to do the flippy-floppy-Peter-Green Magnet thing (as I'm lazy), so I'm looking forward to that.

I'm genuinely keeping the Old Gordo this time.

Forever.

Stop smirking,

I mean it.

Really.

La laa laaa

Something For The Weekend...

Well, I don't have many guitars myself, as you know, and recently I have had a bit of a Buy-back phase that has seen things I previously moved on, reappear.

This is the end of that. (Unless somebody has the Les Paul Studio or maybe ...etc.)

So I am all rather chuffed that as previously mentioned my Old Gordo has come back to me in all it's battered desk-ness, and that Mr Mojo himself will be making me a couple of his lush PAF style 'buckers (tweaked for that Peter Green in the middle tone) to set it off a treat.

This one will never leave the shores of the little kingdom of Jook again. Really.

Next to it of course is something newer, a sparkly blue Danelectro Wild Thing which thru the reverb laden top boosted channel of my little Vox AC15 is absolutely stunning.

I am deeply in love with this one already and the fact that it looks as though it came direct from the Jetsons in the back of The Mystery Machine only helps lots.




So no jookiness is likely for a few days I wouldn't have thought..

La la laaaa

Three Steps Back

Well, I seem to be on a memory avenue road trip retread recently, as not only did the Bosted Dot make it's merry way home again, but I seem to be retrieving another old friend back to the Jooky Bosom.

And this time it is a double-bubble of a joy as I really shouldn't have let it go in the first place.

But what is it?

Well, aeons ago I got a rather bedraggle and battered Gordon Smith GS1, which I gave the full gun oil finish, fixed various cracks and fitted a PAF and a P90...and I genuinely loved it.

And then sold it, obviously.

But it is coming back, and I couldn't be more chuffed.

Of course, I'll probably put a Bigsby on it, but whatever.

La la laaaaa