Just Call Me Double Jazz

Well, I have to admit I have a smile on me mush today - The Trojan One had a final tweak or three and plays deevine and oh, oh and oh, those Mojo Mosrite pickups are something else. I won't try and describe them - as clearly I will just confuse myself and not be alone - but wow. Simply that. Double wow.

And the middle position is just Creamy McDreamy.

So what next, I hear nobody cry?

Well, I'm glad you never asked as with the last  couple of days before the Xmas holibobs are upon me, I am going to try and finish something else.

I know what you are thinking, what's with all the  last minute bobbins when all you've done is sit on your chuff since "taking the summer off to find yourself", and it would be a fair point. A fair point indeed.

And I have no excuse apart from sloth.

So, self-loathing apart, I will be turning my meager talents toward The Diamond Shiny One, and a Tele I will make. And I have to say that I think it is the best idea ever and mark my words, Fender will be nicking it and flogging Teles with Gold Foil pickups at the neck before too long and claiming it as a masterstroke.

I guarantee it.

They'll give it a funny name, maybe the Vintage-Made-Up-If-Only-We'd-Thought-Of-This-Fifty-Years-Ago model, though probably in pigeon Spanish, and it'll be a Custom shop jobby, move to a Mexican one that nobody likes before getting it right with a Squier.

Writings on the wall, telling you. Probably get Ry Cooder to squiggle his name on the headstock.

So there we are.

Whatever it was.

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Sold: The Trojan One

The Trojan One is the first of our new range of Jooky Classic guitars, and is basically Jookified in-excelsis. The swamp ash body has been given an active iron coating that has been attacked with nefarious chemicals that have started it to rust. This has been topped with beeswax, which will protect it, but age naturally while the iron below will continue to slowly rust as time goes on. It won’t all disappear in a cloud of red dust though, as there are multiple layers that are sealed beneath and will stay forever more-so.

The neck is a real beauty, with a generous C profile, made of quarter sawn maple with a beautiful dark rosewood fretboard. Here we have gone a step further with binding and cellulose block fret markers which look divine. On top of this we have gone for Sperzel tuners which are super cool and yet groovy too.

Other hardware is traditional Jazzmaster – a Jazzmaster tremolo matched with a Fender Jazzmaster bridge and a no-nonsense black scratchplate is partnered nicely with old school Tele knobs.

The final flourish is a pair of deeply unusual pickups, courtesy of uber pickup guru Marc Ransley of Mojo Pickups. These may look like Jazzmaster pickups, but within are a matched pair of Mosrite influenced noisemakers, which are quite simply awesome. Like a P90 on steroids and genuinely full of sustain, spit and vomit. These really are stunning, which we’ve combined with one of Mojo’s beautifully traditional wiring looms (all CTS pots, Switchcraft Switches and socket, Paper in Oil caps and cloth covered wire), which are destined to last generations. In fact as guitars go this is an out and out alt.rock.god (in the old sense), that genuinely wants you to bash seven shades out of it.

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To be clear, The Trojan 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 slo-mo run across the pebbled beach at Portishead. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.

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Technical Stuff:
Type: Jooky Classic

Electrics: Mojo Mosrite Jazzmaster Pickups, Mojo Jazzmaster Wiring Loom

Guitar Type: Jazzmaster

Construction: Swamp Ash body, Maple/Rosewood neck

Strings:     10s

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Volume, Tone

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

Serial Number: JL#1

RSP: £1249

First World Probz - What To Do...?

Well, for the first time in ages I find myself with time to actually do something useful, but I have a dilemma.

I have two guitar bodies, all the bits 'n' bobs needed for both (though not pictured) and yet, I seem to only have one neck between them.

So do I look behind Door Uno, and finito The Trojan One in all it's rusty Jazzmasterishness and luxuriate in the filthy Mosrite style pickups? or perhaps,

I choose Door Trois (religious grounds stop me peeping behind door Deux, of course) and step into an unknown beyond and sample Mr Mojo's prototypical Blade Tele bridge pickup alongside his gorgeous Metal Mickey of a Gold Foil at the neck of The Diamond Shiny One?

I will have another neck next week, but this is about today, now, right now and I can't decide.

(I've just realised I only have one neck plate too, which would have stymied me further even if two necks were here and available and would have been more of a bug in my snug rug, it has to be said.)

I know in the grander scheme of love, life and poetry this is meaninngless, but this is guitars we're talking about. Guitars I could plug in and make loud screechy noises with, so that has to count for something, surely?

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Rustification of the Trojan

Well, despite expectations, I actually got on and finished the body of The Trojan One and rather nice it turned out too.

With this one I wanted quite a realistic looking rust and I have been playing around for a few months with how to keep things going without it going mad and stomping all over Tokyo, and it is nice it worked.

What does that mean in English? Well, the iron that you see on the body will slowly continue to rust as it is sheltering beneath wax but not totally (PH) stable. However with cleverness of which I am not often blessed, there are multiple layers so it will never just disappear into dust and leave you crying

This is good, I'm happy.

It is as close as I'm likely to get to a lava lamp anyway.

From here, the neck is rather groovy I'm sure you agree (I was going to put it on the 668, but changed my mind), and I'll remember to ask Mr Mojo for some of his delish Mosrite stylee Jazzmaster pickups and appropriate wiring, I'm sure.

Happiness

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Charlie's 'Orse

Well, The Trojan One was getting rusty wid it today, and jolly nice it is too. I'm aiming for super trashy with this one, so I'm mixed just a touch of copper in with the iron so that we've ended-up with a hint of waste d'nucleur - or at least a few hints of green and blue among the general orangey goodness.

I think I said before I'm going for double Mosrite for the pickups, which should rather neato.

As for the rest, I think I want a rosewood 'board for the neck as that always feels cooler to me, and obviously it is the normal tremolo instead of a Bigsby this time.

On a bit of a run, I also decided to get my act together with The 668 One, which is of course the single pickup Strat that is going to boast the Mojo take on the old Kay Speedbump. Can't wait to try this, and obviously it is a Classic and I am keeping it for my very ownsomeness. No, really.

As for the finish, I loved the way the copper corrosion turned out with my latest change of finish, on The Sally James One - so I'm  going to repeat the trick with some bronze on this and see if I can pull it off.

But I blather

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Horsey Horsey and the Gee Gee Song

Well, The Sally James One is looking good already - quite pleased with that, though can't quite make me mind up whether to go for a matte beeswax finish (which keeps the blues blueyer) or a more shiny hard wax oil one.

The decisions I have to make.

And it suddenly struck me earlier, that I haven't ever done a proper, full on rustified Jazzmaster, which is daft

Yes, proper daft and yet also  silly and almost edges toward wilful neglect. So something I need to put right.

And as luck would have it, I do in fact have a Jazzmaster body or two going begging, so all I need to decide is whether it has a Bigsby or ye olde traditional Jazzmaster tremolo.

I do feel the need for some trash at the moment though, so a pair of Marcy Mojos Mosrite stylee pickups would seem to be the order of the day.

So that will be The Trojan One, for the chap who generally has to work hard at just about everything.

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