Fleeing The Coup

Ah, it's always a sad day when one of my Jooky babies leaves home...but as you can see The Pink Panther One is wrapped up warm in it's nice new case, clutching a flask of soup for the journey and venturing on toward it's new life...

Always brings a tear to me old eye.

Other than that, obviously I haven't started on the Busted Epi yet as I've been far too busy tweaking the Lulu One.

Lovely, lovely, lovely she is too.

Sad days, indeed.

And Then There Were Two

Well, The Twangy One was sold earlier on, so we're back to the more common situation where this Emporium of ours has a measly two guitars being available to buy...

They are of course...

1. The Golden Shower One:

With it's 23 Karat Gold Leaf top, P90 pickups and everything else...

You can find out more HERE, of course...

And....



2. The Pink Panther One:

With it's equally 23 Karat Gold Leaf Scratchplate and perfect pinky purple paisley

(I'm impressed I can say that on a Saturday night too.)

 All the info about this baby is HERE of course too.


As ever, I'm open to part-exs, trades and brown envelopes full of filthy lucre. PayPal is OK too...

Other than that, not a lot has happened, though a rather bizarre Telecaster Body arrived earlier on that has been covered with what looks like Parquet flooring...

Not quite sure what will happen with it yet, but there we go...I'm sure I'll think of something...

Oh and West Brom beat Aston Villa for the first time since the Royal Wedding (actually the first time since Chas & Di got spliced, but there we are).

Sold: The Pink Panther One

About The Pink Panther One

I was going to write a little story about Citroen DS cars, Inspector Clouseau, Monet, Perrier bubbles going ‘Ooh’, Thierry Henry, The Eiffel Tower, Doctor Who with a twist in there about Grace Kelly getting lost en-route from Monte Carlo.

It was going to be an exceptional little tale, that would have peaked with all the gossamer strands being pulled into a single thread of a blue-ribbon wrapped around this beautiful guitar.

But when I thought more about it, I figured that a picture in this case is really worth all those words, and so I introduce the latest Jooky guitar – The Pink Panther One, with these thoughts:

Fender Jazzmasters are the coolest guitars ever.

Fender Jaguars are pretty close.

Fender’s Pink Paisley Tele is probably third.

Fender Custom pickups are awesome.

23 Karat Gold Leaf scratchplates are beyond the pale.

The Pink Panther One is a Gallic nod towards American cool, with a twist of Parisian Chic just for good measure.

The Pink Panther One is a gem.

End of Story.

*


To be clear, The Pink Panther 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 evening stuck between floors in the Eiffel Tower lift. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.

Technical Stuff:

Type: Leona’s Groovy Guitar

Electrics: Fender Strat Pickups

Guitar Type: Fender Jazzmaster/Jaguar Style

Construction: Cloth over wood. Yamaha Tuners

Strings: Nickel 10s

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Single Volume, Single Tone, Five-way Switch

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

Serial Number: JGE#24

RSP: £399

*** Sold - Sorry about that :( ***

Introducing The Pink Panther One

Well, the plan was to finish The Blue Moon One, but a lack of time due to forgotten appointments, and the fact that this little dah-lin' caught my eye, it just had to be the Pinky that I made today instead.

I have no shame

But here she is, and man she plays beautifully.

Anyway, proper details later, I'm sure, but for the record...

A handmade, ash offset body - Jaguar/Jazzmaster-inspired, take your pick...

A lovely maple and rosewood neck - sooper-low action (by my standards anyway) all buzz-free and super quick.

A truly oh-my-god paisley finish - which is very, very un-runkled around the edges.

Not quite sure how that happened, but I guess I wanted to 'keep the lines true', as it were.

The scratchplate is of course gilded with the finest 23 Karat gold leaf, and suitably worn and generally aged.

It looks stunning in 'real life' without being gaudy somehow.

Actually, I'm not really sure what happened with this guitar it is quite neat for some reason.

Pickups are some Fender ones - I'll have to try and
remember what they are, but I think they are Custom '69 Strat ones...

And there we are. Stunningly cool.

I'm off to play a bit...

On the other hand...

Well, I forgot to show this earlier, but I started to put together The Pink Panther One, and as per I'm getting all over-excited and keen about it.

As you know I haven't even got the last two I started finished, but what the hell.




This is an offset Jaguar/Jazzmaster type of thing, and it is pinky purple and it is paisley. What's not to like.

Anyway, as you can see from the fotos, I've plastered the glue, lovingly touched the fabric up, grain filled and sealed and generally moulded it around the beautiful offsetness until it fits likely a cute little southern belle's glove.

And I have to say, in all modesty it is an absolute beaut.

To top it off, I decided a bit of glitz and glamour was needed and so the scratchplate has been 23K Gold Leafed to within a few millimetres of it's life and then roughed up a bit as life is like that, lets be honest about it.

As for the neck, I have a choice of two at the moment and can't make my mind up, so I'll probably come back to that later.


The pickups , for once, are sorted and decided - some rather exceptional Fender Custom '69s.

And there we are...it's a start anyway.

Obviously a fair way to go, yet.

In other news, The Blue Moon one still needs a bit of a solder as does The Lulu One and well, probably will remain that way for a while longer. Such is real life.

New Year Revolution

Well, another day and still the garage is so frozen I can't last more than five minutes in there, so not a lot useful done. The electric isn't working in there either at the moment, all frozen up, and working by blowtorch light, well, it just isn't me, I'm afraid.

So as I can't do, I thought I'd plot and plan and have a think about what comes next. Specifically, I mean, not my usual navel gazing.

1. First-up of course, is the second of the Katy's Killer Customs, Andy's J-Bird One. The Jag-Firebird hybrid, with oh so many extras on the side.

2. After that, is my little Daisy Jook One. This semi based on a Daisy Rock Retro-H already boasts a quite lovely cowgirl finish, and a couple of twangtastic baby humbuckers. They are a bitch to put in, never doing that again.

3. The Twangy One I've started to paisleyify, a nice black swirly one with touches of gilt to catch the light. This will have the Kent Armstrong 'Kentron' pickups, which should be fun and generally twang for England.

4. The other Jag body I had is destined to end-up with a pinky-purple paisley finish - The Pink Panther One, being as our chap Blake just passed on. I was planning to put a couple PRS P90s in this one, but then came across somebody flogging a pair of Jazzmaster pickups, and grabbed them pronto like. I might have to do a wee bit of work on the scratchplete as it was cut for P90s, but I figure it will be worth it. Doo-dut-do-doooo.

5. Getting slightly into vapourware now, I fancy doing a bit of a shape guitar, a Vee or Explorer, and if I do it will have this quite lovely skull and roses finish that I've had around for ages but never found a home for. Into this will either be a pair of PRS Tremonti pickups, or some Gibson 49x wotsits out of a Les Paul Studio. Bit of a rock machine me thinks, 'cos it's time I started err, hanging with the kids, and all that. Maybe. This will be The Evil Bed One.

6. And then there is the Weathered One. This is my long standing pine bodied Telecaster, with a single Bare Knuckle pickup at the bridge, quite beautiful neck and is destined to be the first full Lulu's Copper Top. I've got to buy the copper for this, which I've not gotten around to ordering, and then I need to decide what to do as a finish. In truth, I'm dithering. On one hand I fancy going for a simple rosewood colored stain to set off the copper, but on the other I picked up the most beautiful golden paisley with gilty bits all over it, that I think would look amazing. The copper of course I am either weathering or enamelling like I did with the Jangly One's scratchplate, though I'm not sure which at the moment. Either way, on this I'm going to leave more of the copper colour exposed,  which will be a bit amazing to look at methinks. This one is a bit of a special, but more about that when it is done.

7. I'm back on the single pickup trail with a Wizard handwound Novatron Pickup thing. I talked about this before and I have a Strat body I'm going to try and do something weird and wunderfilled with, with this as the driver. This will be The Backporch Voodoo One, as I see it as laid back and bluesy with just a tinge of Southern Comfort.

So in summary:

1. The J-Bird One
2. The Daisy Jooky One
3. The Twangy One
4. The Pink Panther One
5. The Evil Bed One
6. The Weathered One
7. The Backporch Voodoo One...

And other than that, I'm thinking of getting serious about making a couple of my own body shapes. I have two in mind which I guess aren't the most original - I'm not going BC Rich or anything, but should be fun to do.

So really this has turned into my New Year Resolution list, hasn't it...be interesting to see how many are completed by 2012, I guess.