Candid Creep - Live at Last

Well, I never made it there - but I was really chuffed to see the fotos of Candid Creep's first gig, not least because they feature Kyle playing The Fat Pussy One....



Along with Craig on the Bass and Scott on the tubs at the back, I think it could well be one of those events that hundreds of thousands of people will be claiming to have attended in later years...

You can find out a lot more about them on their Facebook page thing HERE and they Tweet too, over HERE.

Whatever that means.

Tis all cool...so tell your friends to tell their friends to tell some people they know but, you know, maybe aren't really that close to.

Debut EP on it's way too in the very near..

Obviously, Craig is slumming it with a Fender Bass, but we can't have everything.

Cool

The Fat Pussy + The Daisy Jook

I know I shouldn't do this, but to be honest I can't stand the thought of having too many Jooky guitars around the place at any one time, I get a little paranoid*, so I've decided to clear the decks a wee bit..

So, with the wonders of Ebay you can now get either The Fat Pussy One complete with it's handwound sex-in-the-mush P90, or the delight-filled Daisy Jooky One with her wee tiny weeny handwound humbuckers, jewels and dicey knobs for £199 each, just by Clicking Here.

I know, it's sad, but there we are.

I am as ever open to trades, if anybody has a nice Telecaster, or even an old Greco or Burny or Tokai Les Paul, or such a thing....just step into my office (or email me) and we can chat...

Mwahh
x




* I do get paranoid, but luckily I also suffer from low self esteem, so I never think that anybody important is out to get me...

Blimey, Double Bubble

Well, it doesn't happen very often - as I'm not that organised, let's face it - but for once we have two of our finest Leona's Groovy Guitars up for grabs at the moment...which would make lovely Christmas presents (ahem).

First up in the hot, sticky and seedy The Fat Pussy One. This little baby is sleaze incarnate, with a single Catswhisker Fat Moggy P90 pickup, coil-tapped and a kill switch to boot. This is a pure rock machine, in the truest sense and you won't be able to keep your hands off her.


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Secondly, is our wee Dano inspired The Jangly One. All the sounds you'd expect with a bit more besides, and the first example of our new and exciting Lulu's Copper Tops, in the shape of a hand enamelled (well blow-torched) scratchplate. There hasn't been a Jooky guitar anywhere near close this one before, and probably won't be again.

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As ever, both are one-offs and never to be repeated designs...

What can I say? They won't be around for long, they never are...

Sold: The Fat Pussy One

Sometimes you just want dirty. Nothing flash, just grimy, seedy, hot and sticky, need fulfilling instant gratification. Sometimes you just want to plug-in, hit it hard and feel your pulse racing as endorphins start to cook, testosterone shoots to your brain and the need, that aching, criminal, sick and twisted urgent need just takes you over. You live in a bubble on the edge of a moment, working for that single jarring explosion, face gurning, lung torturing satisfaction. 

And that is what The Fat Pussy One is all about a single, beautyfilled horrible sick and twisted judder of a pickup that goes straight for the jugular. A simple yet infinitely possible sound that lets you plug in and play.

And that is what it is all about. A single pickup guitar, a hand scattered Catswhisker P90 Fat Moggy pickup, coil-tapped to give you a second sound, a second moment. A kill switch to judder those highs, turn the gut wrenching lows into something primal, something deadly. The Fat Pussy One has a need, and delivers straight from the start. No need to do the chocolate and flowers thing, it’s a raging certainty.

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To be clear, The Fat Pussy 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 hot night in Balsall Heath. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.

This Guitar Has Been Sold - Sorry about that :)

Technical Stuff:

Type: Leona’s Groovy Guitar

Electrics: Catswhisker P90 ‘Fat Moggy’.

Guitar Type: Fender Stratocaster Style

Construction: Cloth over wood. Fender USA Tuners

Strings: Fender Stainless Steel 10s

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Single Volume, Push-pull for Coil-Tapp, Kill Switch

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

Serial Number: JGE#20

RSP: £399

Introducing The Fat Pussy One

Well, I'm pleasured to introduce you to the latest wee Jooky guitar, the rather fetching and very delightfilled beauty that is The Fat Pussy one. And I have to say, I'm really rather pleased with myself over this one.

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I've long fancied trying a Hand Scattered (isn't that a lovely phrase?) humbucker sized P90 pickup from Allan Price at Catswhisker. Allan is one of a few top notch 'winders' of pickups in the UK and an utter gent to deal with. Makes a nice change to be able to talk about somebody doing exactly what they say, earlier than promised and then that the end product happens to be better than you hoped, but this is it. A golden moment.

No, the irony isn't lost on me.

But the proof is in the stuffing it down your throat, after all, and this pickup really delivers in spades. It is quite simply perfect.
To put that into context, The Fat Pussy One is a single pickup guitar, so you always worry that it will be limited, but the fact that the pickup was set-up with the option of switching out-of-phase, means that you get two great tones for the price of one little chrome topped hunk of magnet and wire. And what you get are two amazingly raw and somehow 'real' sounds, that just make you want to play more and more. And even with my dodgy hands at the moment, I can't help but keep going back to this guitar - it just sounds 'proper', without any of the muddiness of humbuckers. I just love it.

When James Sant bought the P90 equipped Jazzmaster-esque The Psychedelic Surf One a while back, I remember him describing it as 'it sounds like sex in your face' and you can say the same of the Fat Pussy One, there is something primal about it.

I am a bit of a P90 nut, as you probably realise reading this blog, but I'm happy to say that this is the best P90 I've ever had the joy to play. And I like to think I've at least played most of the ones around these days, and quite a few of the 'originals' too.

But the guitar - well, in simple terms it has a single P90 with a single volume knob. This is a push-pull pot though, which changes the 'phase' - and the out-of-phase 'mode' is a joy, on a Strat you are getting that BB King/Peter Green hollowness, which is amazing for blues and Jazz, while the straight P90, well, take your pick.

As a bit of fun, I also put a red-topped Kill Switch on, which is great fun and a must if you like your effects laden noise-ville sonic architecturey...

What else? Well, golden USA Fender tuners are a joy to use as ever, and I can't quite believe I've got this far in describing an entrant to the Jooky academe without mentioning the cool black and red Paisley finishing combo...which just works perfectly.  And I need not say more, for once.

But there we are. As you can tell, I'm a tad chuffed with this one, especially since I rewired the Kill Switch so it works the right way around..

The Fat Pussy One, and ode to Jook, methinks.

Things I've Learned Today

Confucius - a fan of the traditional
Kill Switch wiring approach

Firstly, The Catswhisker 'Fat Moggy' P90 I've put into The Fat Pussy One sounds incredible. I would heartily recommend them to anybody.

2. The Out-of-Phase sound on the previously mentioned pickup, is absolutely brilliant. Instant Peter Green
apart from the playing.

c. If you wire a Kill Switch up the wrong way around, it works fine,
but you only get any noise coming out of the amplifier when you are pressing the little red button.

iv. It is very hard to play a guitar for long when you have to constantly press a little red button.

Finally. It is probably best if you wire Kill Switches up in the traditional manner.

That is all

WIP: The Fat Pussy One

Despite the fact that I'm pretty full-on with the customs right now, having one of the brats home sick from school means I'm a bit limited on what I can do, so I thought I'd bolt together the Fat Pussy One today.

This is the one with the Catswhisker Fat Moggy P90 pickup and a lovely neck too. My only problem with this baby was that the tuners I had available weren't the greatest, and more to the point were chrome, when I really saw this one needing a bit of gold to bring out the red/black paisley and the laughter in my eyes.

I didn't want anything else gold mind, just the tuners as they are far enough away, but still...blah blah blah. I can't explain what I mean.

Anyway, luckily for me I spotted some Fender USA tuners going begging, which solved the immediate problem, but better still they were goldenised.

It is all fated this Jooky bobbins.

So there we are, I've plonked it together, neck on, tuners to be replaced when they show up, everything apart from the wiring in place...can't be bad. Oh, the neck needs some serious lemon oil tenderness too, of course, and strings. I always forget about the strings, and a few of the screws. (I'm avoiding any obviously crude puns at this point, hope you appreciate my restraint, it would be far too easy to start talking about screwing fat pussies at this point, but I like to think I can rise above such things..)

As for the wiring, I must admit I am for once making life simple for meself.

A P90,
a volume control
and that is about it.

Oh, a kill switch, just for those RATM Morello moments.

And I'm using a push-pull volume pot as Allan at Catswhisker had kindly wired the P90 so that it can be put out-of-phase, which is nice of him and I can't wait to hear it...

So maybe not sooo very simple, but it will at least look that way.

Here is the WIP of it anyway, hopefully I'll get the wiring done at some point too, being as the pickup wire is peeking out from under the scratchplate on the fotos, I notice now it is too late.

I must admit single pickup Strats are something I've really begun to love doing and playing. My signature dish, somebody said the other day - though I think they were trying to say I was simple - but there we are. Simple is as simple does. That's me.

More Delays and My First Copper Thingie..

Jooky Copper Scratchplate - Imagine

Well, for all my high hopes of getting the OCD One complete yesterday, after far-too-much-pain, it turned out that one of the 'pots' was knacked, and it occurred to me far too late in the day to get a new one, so that is the job for today. Get a pot, fix the guitar. Simple.

And then that will really be it.
End of.
Honest.


(Hopefully.)

In the mean time, I stripped the J-Bird One down so that it is ready for finishing and ordered what remained of the parts - minus the pickups and scratchplate, of course, which I'm still sniffing about for.

Never simple in the Jookydome, telling yer.

A guitar loses an Orca, gains a Seal

Other than that, I started to lacquer The Fat Pussy One and The Jangly One (must remember to use really short names in future to save on the typing)

As far as The Jangly One goes, last night I girded my loins and then dipped them into the hot water that is cutting a scratchplate out of copper and then enameling it. OK, as the body is quite a busy design, I should probably have gone for something simple, and I did thank that for a moment, but then thought - stuff it - and dived headfirst into something impressionistic with two types of glitter...



This took quite a few layers and 'firings' - god I am sooo very arty - and still has to have a clear top put on it, but what do you think?

I have to say, drilling the holes was a complete bitch, but that will no doubt come with practice, or maybe the right tools, but the cutting out the shape only cost me minor blood loss. But I get that every time I change a string, so nothing new there. (All those people who have a Jooky guitar are looking carefully at stains that assumed were intended for Jookiness purposes.)

It is really a bit glittery, but you can't tell. Sneaky huh?

If nowt else it has fired me up (a tee and a hee) to get on with the proper copper topped Tele, but the Customs come first so I'll have to fit that in when and as. At least I know what a usable thickness is of copper now, that was a voyage of discovery.

One drawback mind you, I forgot to drill the screw holes (ahem).

And so back to the OCD one today... Must remember to buy Geoff a pint after all this...

Needing a Fat Pussy

I did suddenly think that there is a bit of a lack in my life right now, a bit of hardcore that I'm missing out on, so I decided that as is traditional in Jooklyand, I needed to do another guitar with a P90.

What prompted this was a bunch of Strat parts in one corner, and a long-held desire to have a pickup handwound for me by Allan Price at Catswhisker pickups.

Catswhisker do a humbucker sized P90 called The Fat Moggy that I’ve heard from quite a few people is bang on the money. I tried one in a Les Paul a while back and it sounded stunning and since then I've had a bit of a yen.

I do realise that it kinda goes against the old Jooky ethos, but I've had my eyes open for ages trying to see one for sale second hand but they never seem to come up, which I took as a good sign. So I've bitten on the bullet and had one handwound for me to fit the specific guitar, and there we are.

Anyway, that's the plan and imagine how impressed I was at Allan's 'service. I ordered the pickup on Saturday morning, and he emailed me that evening to say he had already wound it, would be wax potting it Sunday and posting it to me Monday. And true to his word it was delivered here on Tuesday morning.

Bleeding hell, the guy is a diamond. I just wish I'd got the guitar ready a bit quicker...

I must admit, in my search for a perfect P90 sound out of a humbucker packet, I think I'm going to try a few of the 'other' handwinders in the UK over the next few months, but I bet nobody delivers quicker than that. The Bare Knuckle Mississippi Queen is excellent, but it is nice to see what else is out there. So I've got Shed and Wizard on my radar too for future builds... Shed's even come with a proper plastic, scaled down soapbar cover, and you don't know how tempting that is to me...

As for the guitar, I thought this time, that I would go for a two-tone Paisley kind of thing. Something a bit more understated than the recent Funky One and Jangly Ones have seen. So what I have planned is that classic red and black contrast, for a bit of drama and the rest. Though this in no way means that I am a Holocaust denier or lover of Wagner. I never am fancy dressed up as a Tory politician either.

I think it will look pretty good when it is done, The Fat Pussy One.