Sort of Introducing The Grecian 201 One to the Family

Well it was a spurt, a late spurt, but a spurt that nonetheless saw me drag my act together and finish The Grecian 201 One last night. I blame Sky+ and a greater than average rainfall in the local area.

The Tripadelic, Grecian 201 and Moulin Rouge Ones

Anywaysup, in between swearing at couriers yesterday, I'm pleased to say that my lovely antiquated bronze baby is all together and sounding rather neat. Proper fotos will follow when the light shines again, but here are the unholy trinity...

But The Grecian 201 One, from the top then, let me introduce you to my latest trick, featuring or maybe even revelling in the mud of the glory that is having:

1. An Alder Strat body, but not just any Alder Strat body, this is

2. An Alder Strat body ladled with reactive bronze enriched paint. In fact it is

3. An Alder Strat body ladled with reactive bronze enriched paint that has been tortured with acid, varnished, corroded and generally mistreated in ways too evil and vile to comprehend.

4. A maple neck with a rosewood scratchplate. Left handed for your pleasure, flipped upside down for your delectation.

5. Gotoh tuners, Wilkinson bridge/tremthing

6. A raw copper leafed scratchplate

7. A GFS Retrotron Hot Liverpool humbucker at the bridge, coil taps being provided via a mini-switch thingie

8. Two Hot Lipstick Kent Armstrong Lippy pickups

All of which means that The Grecian 201 One jangles as well as grooves and generally has lots of cool, hot and interesting tones for you to extract, if ever you get to play with her.

So there we are. And man is she fotogenic-like.
What a girl
What a battered babe.

Three little Jookies, standing in a row

The Moulin Rouge One, and other bobbins

Well, it took a while in the end, but I'm pleased to introduce to you, my sweet baby The Moulin Rouge One. And what a hot and heavy wee girl she is too.

From the top, my latest trick is a Classic Custom Telecaster design and features:

- An alder body, smothered in variegated and then patinaified gold leaf

- She has a rusted iron covered scratchplate

- A maple neck with a roseywood fretboard

- Wilkinson EZ lock tuners, graphite saddled err, fixed bridge thing

- A PRS P90 soapbar at the neck, which as a wise man once said - is sex-in-your-face

- A Bare Knuckle Holy Diver humbucker at the bridge

- Les Paul-esque switches and knobs for twiddling purposes

Playing, well as expected as a whole symphony of different sounds and can be tweaked in many directions. I really love the PRS P90s (I may have mentioned that), but this is a first for me as far as the BK Holy Diver goes and it is seriously hot and loud. Thru a nice wee valve amp this really does the business.

In summary, this is my attempt to do the BFG thing, but err, with a Telecaster instead of a Les Paul and with a finish in stead of just bare wood. But there we are, I never said I was accurate.
So there we are, rock 'n' roll..

In other news, the neck showed-up for The Grecian 201 One, and amazingly it fitted without me getting blisters with the sandpaper. I also got some nice Gotoh tuners and a bridge which means that tomorrow I can move onto warmer climes... Looking forward to a bit of jingle to go with me jangle..

La la laaaa

Sold: The Moulin Rouge One

About The Moulin Rouge One

The Moulin Rouge One is a new departure for the Emporium, featuring both one of our beautiful, variegated and then patinated  ‘Marilyn Golden Tops’ for the body and headstock and our not-yet-quite-patented ‘Cilla’s Rusty Iron’ finishes for the scratchplate. All of which are protected by first coats of acrylic and then nitro lacquers.

The guitar is of course based on the Fender Telecaster Custom, but with a few twists. Tuners and bridge are both takes on traditional parts and work perfectly and come from Wilkinson.

As far as the pickups go, these are a P90 Soapbar taken from a PRS SE One, which is one of our favourites as far as P90s go, and at the bridge is a handwound Bare Knuckle ‘Holy Sinner’ which is breathtakingly cool in a hot kind of way. We’re really pleased with the combination of these pickups and they overlap beautifully, giving every rock tone you can think of and a few more for goodly measure.

All in all, it is a unique looking and sounding guitar. You could say it has it all.

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To be clear, The Moulin Rouge 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 pleasant night in a Somerset field. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.


Technical Stuff:

Type: Marilyn’s Gold Top, Cilla’s Rusty Iron Scratchplate

Electrics: PRS SE One P90 Soapbar, Bare Knuckle Holy Sinner humbucker

Guitar Type: Fender Telecaster Custom

Construction: Variegated Gold Leaf Finish to the body and headstock. Rusted Iron Finish to the scratchplate. Alder body, Maple neck, Rosewood scratchplate.

Strings: Nickel 10s

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Dual Volume, Dual Tone, Three-way Switch

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

Serial Number: JGE#34

RSP: £499 SOLD

Nearly, Nearly...The Moulin Rouge One

The Moulin Rouge One
Before The Storm

Well, jumping around like a skittish flea, I know, but I thought I'd do my bit as far as The Moulin Rouge One goes yesterday, as it was looking a bit forlorn and left out, over there in the corner, bless it.

I'd almost forgotten how far I'd got with this one, so it was quite a short list in the end...

Firstly up, I reamed the holes a bit and fitted the Wilkinson EZ Lock tuners. That was a good start.

Secondly, I wired the pickups up, which are making a nicely satisfying thumping noise when I attack them with a wrench. I even got the jack wires the right way around, which is handy.

Thirdly, I noticed that the neck screws were protruding somewhat, and then remembered that I had forgotten to remind myself that I needed to drill the holes a bit deeper like.

So that I did with a hand tool thingie. I keep meaning to buy a handraulic drill as leccy ones scare me, but until I do I use a really really pre-industrial revolutionary solution.

A drill bit with a plastic handle on it.
I've got the blisters to prove it.

Anyway, holes drilled,
screws screwed.
Screws unscrewed.
Holes drilled a bit more deeper-like.
Screws screwed all the way in.
Job jobbed.

After that, I gave it another belt with the wrench and that the pickups were still picking up.

Checked that the wiring was still wired.

Did the wrench thing again after screwing it all back together...all seemed well, so I put some strings on it.

Tuned it up.

Played with the action a wee bit.

Plugged it in.

Hit my famously favourite Em chord, and...

...total silence.

Jiggled the wire, tapped the pickups with the wrench again.

Still silence.

Went and had a cuppa.

Tried it again.

Full laughing-in-your-stupid-fat-face Silence.

Missed smoking.

Got a new guitar lead

Tried it again

Nada

Simmered and stewed,
which isn't the easiest trick to pull-off.

Thought about it all logically.

Switched the amp on.

Hit my famously favourite Em...

and it sounds gorgeous.

ThankChristForThat

Sooooo...I've still got a few bits 'n' bobs to sort out, which I'll do later on - not least that the switch is scratchy which is a tad annoying, so I'll replace that. I can't be bothered to try and work out why or how another new switch has ended-up knackered.

I'm also going to have a go at the nut as with 10s it is sticking on the low E - story of my week that one.

But generally, the PRS P90 sound raw and beautiful - I do like those pickups - and the Bare Knuckle Holy Diver is rather cool indeedy.

Photos once I get everything sorted methinks...plus when I find the camera.
Have a fine weekend...

Coming Home

Maybe this time...
Maybe...

Well, I tried. I can say that at least. Many people wouldn't have, but I did. I gave it a go, but as I think I always knew in moments of self-awareness, it was hopeless really. So now it is official - there is no way in the world I can solder guitars with kids around. Don't get me wrong, it isn't that they'd grab the iron or breathe in toxic fumes or cause mayhem. It is the noise, I can't hear myself begin to plan to think.

So soldering will have to be late at night, as I should have realised already, but there we are. Tonight could be solder night then. I might finally get The Tripadelic One sorted. And maybe even The Moulin Rouge One too, if I'm awake long enough.

Today then, I'm planning on something a bit different. Two things in fact...

First up is the Tolstoy-esque-very-long-story-where-not-a-lot-happens that is The Old Burny One.
I think I said before that I had previously gilded the top, but then didn't like my handiwork and so I stripped it back again. Well, today I'm going to have another go at gilding it. I've got some very very verily gossamer thin 24 karat gold, which floats on any passing breeze to use, which should be 'fun', but hopefully worth it in the end. So girdle loined and all that.

Secondly, I've decided that the telemaster is going to be rusted after all, but will be a different shade to those that have gone before. So today I'm going to have a go at using some bronze saturated paint on a Strat body I've got going-and-a-begging, and then attempting two kinds of patina on it, which is a challenge but looked good on the training pitch.

This is quite exciting.

Honest.

Well, it is if you are me.

Jangly Cool Tones
Coming back to Papa Jook

This - The Grecian 201 One - is going to have the ultimate in Jooky pickups, as I've just bought back the Retrotron Hot Liverpool, and Kent Armstrong Hot Lipstick pickups that originally appeared nailed to The OCD One, from Geoff, who had tried and preferred a more standard three single coil arrangement. Which is cool, I've always liked the idea of people modding the Jooky guitars, so this seems right somehow. What I haven't got is a neck, so I'm on the scramble for that at the moment. I fancy a left-handed one for this, but we'll see.




So that's the plan... Fotos to follow later if I actually really do anything other than talk a good game.

Saturday is Tiswas Day

Well, family bobbins hopefully out of the way, a new soldering iron to be heated and things might even get back on track in the Jooky Republic.

Plans for the weekend are to first of all sort The Tripadelic One out. I still can't decide whether to put it back to a normal tone pot or whether the fuzz will sound better once the ground buzz has disappeared....

Decisions, decisions, but only one way to find out...

Once that baby is ready, I'm hoping to move on to The Moulin Rouge One as of course that is just missing a bit of wire to get it going. I'm looking forward to playing that one. I love Tele Customs, and the PRS P90 plus Bare Knuckle Stormy Monday promises to be a seriously cool combination. My attempt at a Les Paul BFG-with-a-better-finish.

After that, I've been thinking about what to do with the Telemaster body I'm getting, and the plan at the moment is to have a Tele pickup at the bridge, maybe a Bare Knuckle Brown Sugar or a Boss, while at the neck I'm going to have something more Jazzmasterish hidden beneath the scratchplate. There is a little Curtis Novak overwound Jazzmaster pickup nestled on a shelf somewhere, so that could definitely be a runner. If the stealthiness proves too much for the tone, I may do something different though, in which case I have a couple of hot humbuckers which might get the nod instead. Other than that, it is pretty Tele-like. Ashtray bridge and cover, Tele neck - probably Rosewood, but I'm not totally sure on that, we'll have to see. As for the finish, I was thinking a verdigris copper and bronze combo could be quite striking.

My first thought was rust, which would be kinda nice, but I've done a few now and feel the need to stretch my plumes as it were. We'll see though, bit of R&D needed before I decide.
So in truth not a lot to report until I get my finger out.

In other news I'm waiting for a Boss Compressor/Sustainer to arrive, as that plus the Boss Stereo Chorus I got recently should let me fulfill my long held ambition of making noises like the Cocteau Twins.

I know there is more to it than that, but the chap who first made me want to play guitar and opened my eyes to guitar effects, a chap called Ian who then lived in Bristol - back in the mid-80s, I remember having a Chorus plus a Compressor/Sustainer and it sounding amazing.

So closing on thirty years later I've finally gotten around to trying it out for myself. No doubt he also had a long delay, masses of reverbs and a full rack under his bed which I don't remember, but we'll see. Actually, he must have had a delay thinking about it, as I remember him impressing me by playing the ding-ding bit of U2's Bad around the same time. Hmmm... Maybe I'll get there for the fiftieth anniversary.

Bye Bye Blue Bird

Ah well, The Blue Moon One is off to pastures new, bless it. It'll seem odd not having an offset guitar around the place again, though the Telemaster one is here soon so normality should be resuming pronto like, methinks.

Still, The Blue Moon One...on it's way. I never thought I'd finish it, never mind see it off on life's twosted journey, but there we are. All things change.

But with a tear in the old eye, and back to reality - well, I finally got to the bottom of what to do with the Tripadelic One's scratchplate, and figured that a contrast would be good, and copper leaf  could be just that without looking overly boringesque, like black or white.

And there she was...
Gone

Alternatively I might go back to Plan W and paint it, but something more abstract rather than the initial Rocky idea. Though paulski73 suggested a mirrored one in the comments, which I have to say is a pretty good idea too.

So in summary, my decision is made,
it is just that there are a few options to consider.

That are all totally different and discrete.

So you could say I haven't made any kind of decision whatsoever.

Which would be cruel
however accurate and
basically true.

On a plus side, it is soon to be wired with a Sophie's fuzz and a killswitch if I can find somewhere in Bristol that stocks such exotica, the tuners are on their way, so there is only actually the scratchplate left to do. Which is most odd. This is normally the bit I work out first. In fact this guitar has been a bit backwards from the end and as we approach the start, well, it leaves me perplexed.

Anyway, I also plan to wire-up The Moulin Rouge One, which just needs tuners now and it is ready to go. Well, ready to have strings and be set-up, but that is close enough.

In summary then, those two should be finitoed next week sometime, which is all good, and the Drip Dry One may well follow shortly after. I think I've sorted the missing pickup out for that, but we'll see later-like.

So today/the weekend - hopefully some soldering, a lot of sleep, tuners to fix, strings to put on and well, no doubt different directions to spiral off and into.

S-H-O-P-P-I-N-G, We're Shopping

Well, this not-doing-much-in-the-school-holidays is going well. The only one of the Ones I haven't touched is The Old Burny One, which was of course the only one of the Ones I was meant to be paying attention to.

Four little Jookies
standing in a row

As for The Drip Dry, Tripadelic and Moulin Rouge Ones, I have an ever-growing part list I'm-a-needing before I can make their selves complete:

1. Three sets of tuners. I'm a new convert to locking ones, as I may have mentioned here and over there somewhere so they will probably each have different examples of these as I try to decide which ones I love best.

2. A bridge/trem thing - for The Tripadelic One. I like the Wilkinson ones. Like the tuners, I've finally found ones I like that don't cost an arm and a leg. I've also started to buy these new more often that not, as I've had too many 'name' ones second hand that basically have probably been changed for a reason in the first place and who needs unexpected third-party-grief when I am perfectly capable of creating my own?

3. Two push-pull pots for the coil-tappicidity on The Tripadelic and Drip Dry Ones

4. A momentary Lapse switch (if I go kill-switch-crazy) on The Tripadelic One

5. A pickup - preferably something hot and coil-tappable to go with the P90 on The Drip Dry One.

6. Lots of strings as I seem to have run out rather than lost them, which was my natural assumption, I quite naturally assumed.

7. Three hardcases. Needed but always a pain as they can take ages to arrive.

8. Six bottles of Grolsch, as I'm coming around to the idea of strap locks after the Gordo nearly broke my foot last time I swung it around my shoulders in front of the mirror.

And that is just for these three.

On top of those I need shed loads of parts for the Telemaster, Little Red Charvette and another Strat I'm looking at strangely, once I get around to them. And a bridge and tailpiece for The Old Burny One, now I come to think about it.

Hmmm...

Think I should be able to scrape together the shrapnel  to get a set of tuners and strings for The Moulin Rouge One, which is 'pleasing', but the others will have to wait until cashflow improves somewhat... I blame the American Senate problems. Why can't they just love each other?.

All of which means I am open to offers on The Blue Moon One if anybody is pondering a potential purchase...'

Tripping Alight Fandango

Well, I'm back to waiting for parts as far as The Moulin Rouge and The Drip Dry Ones go. Tuners, a bridge, lots of plastic bits, the odd pickup, nothing drastic but progress-halting it has to be said.

I'm also scrabbling around for screws to hold scratchplates on, springs and yet more screws for pickups which are always annoying to have to buy and lots of finishing stuff. Basically I've 'run my stocks down' which was the aim, but I forgot that some of them come in kinda handy-needed. Still, moving-and-a-grooving for a couple of days again so it isn't like I'll be doing much anyway.

I mentioned I have a mentalistic Bare Knuckle pickup showing up this week, and that is destined for a single pickup Strat I've got in mind. It almost feels a blast from the past at the moment as my single-pickup-guitar addiction has been unsated for months. I've got a nice Strat body and my favourite big headstock ready to go, so all I need to do is decide on the finish.

Again for a change I thought I'd go forward to history and do a Leona's one. I've got something hippified that is actually a companion piece to the one I used on The Peace Train One. So it should be particularly groovy with a nasty in-your-mush underside.

Just to make it crazily ridiculous I'm going to build in a wee Sophie's Filthy Boots fuzz, and maybe even have a killswitch and something else I've forgotten for now. Could have been a lava lamp, but I might be making that up. The Tripadelic One, well that should be dropping-and-a-popping soon.

WIP: The Moulin Rouge One

Well, weekend I know but I had managed to lacquer The Moulin Rouge One and figured I might as well put it together...

I've still got to wire it up, fit some tuners and find where it was I hid all my guitar strings, but I think it is looking pretty cool.

 Variegated Blue/Gold leaf to the body, with slight distressingness splashed across the top.

The scratchplate is rusted iron, which I've aged with tea bags to give a darker contrast.

At the neck is a PRS One P90 Soapbar,
at the bridge a Bare Knuckle Stormy Monday humbucker..

Maple neck,
rosewood fretboard.
Graphite saddles,
CTS pots
Orange Drop caps and well,
lots of screws and I don't know what else.

No nails though, I draw the line at nails....

Of Slugs and Jookuleles

Well, as you may have noticed, I finally managed to finish The Blue Moon One, the problem with the wiring turning out to be a single wire that was somehow broken in the middle, though didn't seem to show up until every time I put the scratchplate and strings on the guitar. Wish I'd realised that before I replaced every other component, but there we are. Intermittent faults, don't you love them?

It has been an odd week in truth, and that was sorted at about 3am. Either way, it is my last paisley guitar, and it proved quite a tear filled moment. Although the bucket brimming with G&T might have helped that of course.

In other pastures, I was having a look at The Moulin Rouge One earlier too. That is just waiting to be lacquered, but I've left it for a few days to settle down. I was a bit confused to notice that the rusty iron scratchplate had a different finish in parts to that I remembered, and as I got closer I noticed there was a black lump in the middle. Most odd. Anyway, the lump turned out to be a dead slug and the change in the finish due to it's sluggy slime. Most yucky, but verily chaotic and random, so I'm leaving it and seeing how the lacquer reacts to the organicness of it's new finish.

(The slime I mean, I chucked the slug out - though it could have given me a Jurassic Park-esque mozzy-in-amber finish that could see future scientists filling the world with giant slugs, but I'm not sure I'd want that on my conscience.)

Before the tender attention of Mr. Slug

Post lacquer, the rest of The Moulin Rouge One is ready to go and shouldn't take long (the fame of such words) and I'm really rather looking forward to it, not least because I have some ridiculously massive capacitors to put in it which should be fun They look like silver fire extinguishers.

After that, I think I really am going to get down to The Old Burny One as I'm pretty much out of excuses not to Although, I did snap up a Vintage (as in the brand) Ukulele the other day, which is crying out for a make-over. It has already been christened a Jookulele which I quite sadly like. I'm thinking it might be nice as a Reso/CBG type of thing, but we'll have to see how it looks when it arrives. I think (if it is the one I'm thinking it is) that they have mahogany top and bottom and good necks etc. so it could be worth the effort to do something cool with, ahem, The Jookulele One. I might shove a humbucker in it, or maybe a piezo as it is probably nylon-strung, thinking about it as I type.

Either way, it sounds fun.

I am a bit bugged on one side of things. The pedal parts I ordered to keep me busy during the holibobs won't be here for another month-to-five weeks, which is annoying. I could use others, but for one-offs I want them to be exactly right, and so we wait. Thumbs-a-twiddle.

Wonder if I could market rusted iron paint as a slug repellent?

WIP: The Moulin Rouge One

Well, I managed to grab a few stolen moments before I hit the road again, and somehow ignored all my plans for these holidays (The Old Burny One, pedals and oh, looking after kids) and made a bit of a start on The Moulin Rouge One.

The Moulin Rouge One
Minus some war paint

I've been talking about it for ages, and have changed my mind a dozen times, so the current plan is:

1. A Variegated ziggy and zaggy Blue/Gold leaf finish to the body, and possibly the headstock if I have enough size left. (Which as it happened, I just about did.)

2. It is a Tele Custom sort of thing, of course, so it is four knobs to twirl and a 3-way switch to dick about with.

3. A rather lovely P90 soapbar will be doing sexy noise duty at the neck. This is my old fave the P90 Soapbar from a PRS SE One. It is of course a bridge pickup, but I like that bit of extra oopmh at the neck. It almost amazes me how often people 'upgrade' these pickups as soon as they get a PRS, but long may they be doing such things, like.

4. On loud rock noise duty, we find a Zebrafied Bare Knuckle Stormy Monday pickup at the bridge. This is a slightly hotter than PAF humbucker and one I've fancied trying for ages, and it was put it in this or put it into a Strat, so what the hell. First come, first to taste the glory of the lord, as it were. (No, I confuse myself at times too.)

5. The over-large sweeping (!) scratchplate is to be iron painted/rusted. I'm going to do this along the lines of The Rusting Nail One, so that it is moody and mean rather than shiny orange and carrot-topped. Actually, this I have already done apart from the lacquering, so all is good. Jesus loves me.

6. A fixed bridge (not sure of the proper name) complete with graphite saddles apparently. Not sure what they are meant to add, but curiosity dictates etc. But it is 'strung thru' which adds majiic  to your guitar playing elixir.

7. The neck is Maple/Rosewood and rather lovely. Can't remember where it came from as it happens, but it feels nice-in-palm, which is the main thing.

And that is about that. In fact it is going to be more of a Gibson type of thing than a Fender, but I guess the customs always were really .There is still a fair old way to go and I'll be living on scraps in terms of grabbing tender moments to work on it, but there we are. I think it will prove to be rather groovy.

Update before I finished writing the first bit thing:

Odd Camera Angle means
this isn't actually an Emu's Head

As I didn't finish this description, events have thingified again, and the body is now completely leafed with a few dribbles of corrosion twisted in for fair measure, and the 'plate is rustified too. Both need to be lacquered, and then we'll be pretty close. All of which means I'm in serious danger of finishing yet another guitar before I do The Blue Moon One. Which is silly, and whilst I know nobody really cares, even I'm ambivalent or it wouldn't be the case, it is kinda annoying.

I am well aware of the irony of my finishing guitars during holidays, and what that says about my work ethic the rest of the time. Thank you much verily.

Loving it when a plan sort of works, eventually, like

Well, my one-off Bogof turned-up trumps at the end, and the Fat Old Man himself snapped up another couple of Jookies, which means that he can retire once everybody realises that I'm the new Paul Reed Smith and the four guitars he'll have are worth a fortune. Couldn't happen to nicer bloke.

Other than that, work-shy relatives mean I'm playing Flo' Nightingale for the rest of the week, so there is unlikely to be a lot of progress on the Jooky side of life. I did however get a wee bit of work done on the neck of The Beaton One but never showed you, my imaginary reader, and gave it a jarring, and most unmatching headstock.

Rubbish foto, innit?

This is some new leaf for me - a rather jazzy blue/gold variegated one, and is destined for a guitar body, but it seemed right for The Beaton One to have a little taster as it has just about every other leaf I've used so far on it. And I have to say, it looks rather lovely. Even though the foto is terrible and doesn't show it at all.

Thinking about The Beaton One, I decided that the tuners I had planned to use weren't good enough when I came to put them on, so I've ordered some nice locking ones, and while I was at it I've ordered one of them there sustain-filled steel blocked tremolos as well.

Oh, and some different knobs (I'd gone for speed knobs, but I can't say I like them - they always look so clunky to me) so I think I'd like to try some Tele knobs on it. I'm going for a Tele switch tip as well, because, well I like them.

Hopefully then this little gem will be up-and-running next week, and then on to pastures new. In terms of giving it away, I've been thinking of lots of weird and oddly strange ways, and finally come down to the simplest. I'll ask who wants it and then randomly choose somebody from the, well let's face it - millions - who respond. Can't beat simplicity. It also means I don't have to do much work.

As for The Moulin Rouge One, I decided to change my mind again, as there is a 'Y' in the day, and it is now going to feature a PRS P90 and a Bare Knuckle 'Stormy Monday'. I know, another change,  I can't keep up myself. The reason being that I just feel like it. Blah blah blah.

Other than that, the summer holibobs are rapidly approaching, and so I'm planning on winding things down a bit. I'm going to aim to do a pedal or three if I can manage the soldering, and apart from that the only guitar I'm going to touch is The Old Burny One over the six-weeks-of-hell, as it is known around here. And if I haven't finished it by then, The Blue Moon One, before it has an anniversary of it's own.

But there we are, enough of that drivel... I need to find some brown paper and get the FoM's guitars off to him...

BOGOF - Last Day is Today and then more interesting stuff

If you want me...

Well, first things first - when I mentioned the BOGOF yesterday, I was half joking, but then it seemed a 'Why-the-hell-not' kind of idea and I went with it.

As a few people asked about it, and I never really thought it through, I realise I neglected to mention how much of an offer it was. In fact it was only going to be for yesterday, but as I didn't say that, I'd better say it was for today as well. Especially as it is half over.

So to clarify

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE ONE AND ONLY EVER JOOKY BOGOF OFFER

So if you want to buy a lovely Jooky guitar for £399 delivered, you can choose a second free.

(As there are only three Jooky guitars for sale, I guess this will end if anybody actually does buy one, if you see what I mean.)

God smallprint...sheesh.

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You can have me....

Moving on, I've had a bit of a brainstorm as far as The Moulin Rouge One goes, and travelled away from the long held belief that it will have a P90 at the neck and an old '70s Gibson mini-humbucker at the bridge, and so now I've decided to go for something a bit different.

At the neck it will now have a beautiful Bare Knuckle Stormy Monday humbucker, whilst at the bridge it is going to be treated to a normal Telecaster bridge pickup, maybe a Bare Knuckle Brown Sugar or a Bare Knuckle Boss.



Unless I change my mind again

The reason for the change is down to The Lulu One, as the Brown Sugar in that was awesome, and basically, I quite wanted this Tele to have a few Tele-type sounds on tap too and this looked a good plan.. I'm also going to use a proper Tele bridge if I can work out how, instead of the fixed one I started with.

Anytime, anyplace...I'm yours...

To complete the rowt, it is going to have a corroded copper finish (blue-ish) with a corroded bronze scratchplate (more greeny coloured), assuming I can manage both. I may have those around the wrong way.

So it is not going to be looking very rouge at all, in truth, but there we are. It should be rather stunning anyway. And maybe I'll put a bit of lace across the headstock or something. Sigue Sigue Sputnik style.

It's odd, but for once I can see (in me noggin) exactly how this one will/should look once it is done. In fact the picture is so clear that I almost don't need to build it as I already know what it is going to be like once I have. Trouble is, when I do 'visualise' it, I see it with a maple 'board and I've got a rosewood one...

*sigh*

It never ends, day it?

Saturday is Tizzwaz Day

Well in the interests of doing something useful, I've ordered some parts - enough for five pedals. These I think will be varieties of Sophie's Filthy Boots fuzzes and there we are.

When they will be finished, I'm really not sure but they will one day, sometime, somewhere. If nowt else it is something to do over the summer holibobs, though I don't see them as being something I do a lot of in the future, just here and there.

Just doing my sums really.

As for guitars, I've been thinking about The Moulin Rouge One, and about what I'll do with it.

I said before I've got the PRS P90 Soapbar and '72 Gibson Mini-humbucker, so that side is easy enough, but it's the finish that has got me going around in circles.

I have got some red paisley, which is the main plan-plank, but I don't know in truth. I've also got some gloriously ziggy-zaggy leaf, which could be interesting.

Saying that, I fancy doing something else with copper and this would be an ideal one, or maybe even corroded bronze, which is another option too.

But then, as per,
    so many options
         so few decisions.

                 All so verily tempting.

Having said that, I like the idea of something else rusty, but maybe with a different approach to the lacquer - maybe try to go for a brighter shade of reddy rust if it is possible.

All of which no doubt means I'll change the name three times before I start to actually do anything about it and then doing something completely different anyway.

As for other guitars, I've been doing well at reducing the body (and neck) count around here, and so have ended-up with a single Strat after those mentioned already are done, that are for Jookification. I have got a couple more things too, but I like them as they are, so they probably will just get moved on or built into 'normal' guitars and moved on like that. Not something I've done too often before (never in fact) but there we are.

The Charvette is case in point, what can I do with that that will make it 'more so'?

I don't know.

Anyway, it's time for a break from guitars and to do a bit more experimenting over the summer.