Of Super Heroes and Pearlie Tears

Well, yesterday was all a bit frustrating - and I am remembering now why it was I didn't do more comic laden guitars after The Beano One, mainly because it is a complete pain in the bumski.

But we shall overcome, and top and bottom is more or less done, with the tricky edges the job for the morning - so The Marvel Us One might live after all.

I did remember to take the time to fill the pickup cavities with pretty pictures so that they will provide a suitable backdrop to Mr Mojo's lovely loom, all to be seen thru a transparent scratchplate. So that should be good. As for the rest, I need to find the lippy pickups, and the only other thing I need is a trem, with one of Mr Wilkinson's excellent chunky steel blocked jobby the most likely offender.

And stupidly, I'm wondering whether a righty trem will fit into the lefty body or not. I should know the answer to that, but it is beyond me right now. I'll have to remember to check before I sort it out.

As for other stuff, I'm hoping I'll get Pearly's body sorted today, which would be rather nice indeed, as the lass is looking rather cool so far, and a teensy bit more attention could see her blossom like a farm.

La la laaaa

Chi Chi, Is The One I Can't Forget...

Well, the last couple of days have been a bit odd. the TV Dinner One set off to sunny Ireland, while The Confused One came home, all tattered and torn, to Jookyland. Never got a chance to even open the box on that one, but hopefully I can see what's what today.

Other than that, as my Bratskis totally refused to allow me to chop their comics to bits, The Marvel Us One never happened over the weekend, and I have had to order some Marvel comics of my very ownsome.

I went for Captain America comics as they were my fave as a kid - theoretically anyway, I only ever got to read them in the Doctor's surgery waiting room. Saying that I did love 2000ad when that came out (and can still cry over my Mom throwing away the first couple of hundred issues that I'd collected, free Frisbee disk on the first one and bionicalised stickers on the second. Remember them well.)

But they weren't Marvel, not that that really matters I guess.

Hmmm..

Anyway, hopefully they will arrive today and I can start with me plastering.

I'm going to try and be a bit swish with this one and be-cover the cavities too, and then make a transparent scratchplate so you can see the comics as well as Marcy Mojo's lovely loom and PIO caps..

I'm quite looking forward to this...

Speaking of Strats (vaguely Stratish anyway) I am deeply and darkly in love with The Chi Chi One, it sustains for half an hour, and the neck is lust-fulfillingly groovy.

So nobody do anything silly like buying it,

Okay?

I'm quite happy for it to hang around for a while right now.

Tidy lush, indeedy.

Who needs a Les Paul, eh?

Not I.

This week anyway.

La la laaaa

Putting the ZNW1P1 into Cornell-Dubiliers Chiclet / Phonebooks

Well, we're into school holibob hell once more, so progress a la Jook is going to be slow-to-non-existent for a week or so, but I'm hoping I'll get at least The Fallen One sorted once the new switch arrives, and maybe push a couple of other things along too.

I do live in Hopeville, Portishead, of course.

One interesting thing is that I snapped-up a lefty Strat body the other day, it arrived this morning, and I'm seeing this as a bit of a holibob project, as #1 son is keen to do only our second ever Kylie's Cool Guitar, and in the vein (vain?) of The Beano One from all that time ago, cover it with a comic book or three.

As to what comic, well that is TBC, but as I have a little bundle of lippy single coil pickups I picked up from somewhere or other once-upon-a-long-ago that appeal to him, they might be appearing. I don't actually like Strats much in terms of three single coils, but the aesthetic of the lippy toobs just about pacifies me.

It also gives me a good excuse to try one of Mojo Pickups' Strat looms complete with his rather be-aged looking caps.

I have to admit, I keep looking at this foto of his proper 50s style one and feeling a tingle.

I know it is getting sad, but I am loving the look of his vintage caps (that feels weird saying that), the Red Tigers in The Chi Chi One are stunningly cool - like little fireworks - but I've always loved the big clunky vintage Strat ones, even if ZNW1P1 isn't exactly a name that tongue-trips itself into your sub-conscious.

Oh, they are known as Cornell-Dubiliers Chiclet / Phonebook styles, that's easier to remember.

I know a couple of people were surprised when I started using Marc's looms on most of the guitars, but I think over time I've realised that I don't in fact have to do everything and that it makes a lot of sense that if someone else can do bits of it better than I can (and given my shaky mitts and general clumsiness, that is definitely the case here) I should use the best person I can find's talents appropriately. I'm secure enough, I can even wear pink shirts without worrying. I don't, but I could if I had one.

The advantage of course is that Mojo Pickups also make these super cool capacitors that give the vintage vibe like nowt else, but there we are.

OK, getting sidetracked, but you can see what I mean. The fact that the parts and wiring is goodly top-notch and means I have minimum soldering to do makes the guitars better than I could, and that is the point of it all., if there really is one

But there we are, in summary, The Marvel Us One, coming one day probably possibly maybe.

La la laaaaa

EDIT: For the chaps who were asking where to get Mojo Pickups' looms, he has some listed on eBay at the moment Here.

Just keep your hands off the pedals, I've got my eye on them...