Introducing: The Bacchylides One

Well, I promised, so here it be - The Bacchylides One - an alder bodied piece of Jaguarness,  a quite gorgeous time stained nitrocellulose Lake Placid Blue finish, a quite splendid neck - god how I love this neck - Gotoh Kluson style tuners for added authenticity, a pair of Mojo Pickups finest Jaguar pickups and Christ-how-does-that-fit-together wiring loom (with all the best parts known to mankind) and there we are.

Sex on a sticky stick.

I have to say I went hotter than vintage for the pickups and they have a nice touch of Aberdeen Angus about them as well as the usual Jaguar loveliness. All you need do is twist the funny plastic round thing with 'Volume' writ large on it... Who'd have known?

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Bacchylides To Reality

Well, I'll be introducing The Bacchylides One tomorrow sometime, but I realised that I never shared this little foto of what I've been upto with the finish, so as this is probably the last chance, here it is.

Basically, as you know I don't do the relic thing, but I do like making things look olden dazed or time stained or whatever, so with this one, as well as a few signs of wear, I did think the nitro was a bit shiny perfect, so I went about fading it a bit.

To be vaguely realistic, I left the metalwork and scratchplate on, and hopefully you can see the difference.

I know it isn't much, but these things amuse me, so there we are.

I have to say, it plays ridiculously well, a beuatiful neck indeed, and as this is my first Jooky Jag, I went a bit hotter than vintage on the pickups, and as per Marc at Mojo Pickups came up trumps as they are quite simple divine.

Anyway, that was it, as you were.

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So, Well, I Hesitate To Say it, But, Like...

Well, the sloth, the innate inactivity that has extended a summer off since last err, summer, has finally come to an end and this week I'm going to get my finger out and do a wee bit.

So despite only having four days, this week I will finally finish..

The 668 One, in all it's pearl and glittery baritonally gorgeousness.

The Velvet Pearl One, the uber purple haze of a walnut La Vabronita

The Bacchylides One, Lake Placid Blue Jaguarness, and

The Liberian One, my beautiful laundrette of a Jazzmaster.

And then my friends I shall smile, feel good and wonder WTF I am going to do with alll these guitars.

Obviously, excuses will come later

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Bacchylides: Directly From The Kitchen Table

Well, I thought and I realised I'd been-a-lacking in the WIP dept. as far as The Bacchylides One  goes, so I figured I'd better do something and generally put the W in that there acronym (abbreviation? too tired to remember or care).

So anyway, I nailed everything together apart from the tuners and pickups and realised that whilst I'd remembered to buy the mute I hadn't in fact got all the parts. The spring for instance, always handy is yer spring, or so I've found.

But anyway, I remembered I was putting the mute on a Jazzmaster anyway and that it therefore didn't matter and so help me god I was there.

Well, apart from fiting the pickups and wire and aforementioned tuners. Oh and the nut, really must remember the nut.

But tomorrow is another day.

I'm quite pleased with the finish. you can't tell but it was super shiny and new this morning and now it isn't either of those things, apart from perhaps the 'super', but I'm too modest to comment on such speculative nonsensical bobbins.

So tomorrow, I will fit the tuners and move on to The Chunky One, my walnut bodied La Cab. That I am Time Staining as it were. I did toy with purple or blue, but in the end I  just want it to look old and knackered, which is quite fitting in lots of ways tomorrow.

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Plonking Together The Bacchylides One

Well, The Travellin' Man One made it back to dear old Blighty in one piece, though I think it needs a few days to settle down, so I thought I'd plonk together the first ever Jooky Jaguar, The Bacchylides One, and see what I'm standing.

So nice alder body, nitro Lake Placid Blue finish (needs some more ageification methinks), rather pretty neck, Mojo pickups and wiring on the way (pickups hotter than vintage, but otherwise pretty trad),  tremolo, Staytrem bridge (if I can find where I put-them-safe) and there we are. Think it is going to be a bit of a stunner indeed.

As for other things, The 668 One is all done with the slight exception of a missing jack plate and a set-up, so maybe that will surface tomorrow.

OK, it's the school holibobs again, I have to hot-wire my brain to do anything that doesn't involve Lego.

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Thursday Plonk-Together

Well, as we are all very vapour-ware at the moment, I thought I'd at least plonk The Bacchylides One together and see how things look.

And very pretty it is too - nice nitro Lake Placid Blue finish - not aged for once - and lots of shiny chrome is always cool, but what I really can't decide is whether to go for a minty white pickguard or instead nail on the red tortie...

I was thinking the white, but that there tortie, well it does look good.

*sigh *

All verily annoying.

In other news, The Travellin' Man One has apparently finally been released by U.S Customs and will be deported today, so hopefully it will be in one piece and we can try again next week.

Life is never simple.

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Something A Little Different, Like

Well, I've done a lot of Jazzmasters, hate to think how many Teles and Strats, loved the one Mustang I did (and really must make another) but I've never made a Jaguar. So perhaps it is time to put that right.

As it happens I have a few Jooky Customs on the list that I haven't divulged, but all need custom bodies or other bobbins, so I've been waiting to unveil them once there is something to take a piccy of. They do include what will be one hot mamma of a Jag, a couple of Jazzmasters, a Tele and  another Jazzmaster, but I'll get to them soon enough.

Which brings me back to my initial point - I haven't made a Jaguar.

So that is the plan.

I am going to make one.

It will be a nice alder body, have a Lake Placid Blue Finish, feature a neck - oiled and waxed, have pickups, Staytrem bridge, Fender AVRI tremolo and Sperzel Trim-lok tuners, and no doubt something groovy in the pickup and wiring dept. from Mojo Pickups.

All in all it will be cool and impressive, you'll say 'Wow' and I'll promise to keep it forever and then somebody will buy it, before a courier does an impression of Micheal Flatley and we are back to making jigsaws.

Or I could send it to the U.S for Customs to hide it for three months and then send it back here so I can send it back and give the courier another shot at it. Either works well.

So that will be The Bacchylides One, and Jesus will want me to tap dance on the beard of  Barbara Cartland
 with my size 9 ToeTectors.


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