Sold: The Vegas One

The Vegas One is a complete one off, based on a Tom Delonge Strat – it has a crazy cool gold leaf finish with cantina tacks.

The pickup is a special handwound by Marc Ransley of Mojo Pickups and is based on the greasy goodness that is the Gold Foil pickups of days gone long. This has a stunning tone – somewhere between a P90 and a TV Jones, with real grit. Have a listen to Ry Cooder, you’ll see what we mean.

The neck is a bit special in it’s own right. A Jazzmaster neck, it is unusually maple boarded with black inlays and binding and plays like a dream of a dream. Final touches are the hardtail, thru-body-strung bridge and a single volume control, topped with a genuine Die from the Sands Casino in Vegas. Nice.

 All in all, this is a stunning looking guitar that plays beautifully and nails all of the classic tones.

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To be clear, The Vegas 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: Marilyn’s Gold Guitar

Electrics: Mojo Gold Foil Pickup, Wiring Loom

Guitar Type: Tom Delonge Strat

Construction: Alder body, Rosewood/Maple 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: JGE#81

RSP: £999

Introducing: The Vegas One

Well, I literally just put the strings on and took a  couple of snaps, but man The Vegas One sounds so cool thru my recently acquired AC15, that I just couldn't help myself and splurge to the group..

A formal intro will no doubt come tomorrow, but for the record:

1. Body and neck plate from a Squier Tom Delonge Strat

2. A beautifully crazy Jazzmaster neck, maple/maple with black block inlays and binding

3. A Humbucker sized Gold Foil pickup from Marc at Mojo Pickups, along with one of his cool looms to save me burning meself with the soldering iron.

4. A gorgeously battered gold leaf finish with Western Stitching around the edges

And there we are.

As for sounds, well it nails the Gold Foil tone I loved on The Hartlepool One, so the size has not made any real difference - somewhere twixt and tween a P90 and a TV Jones - raw sex, end of tale.

Oh and the knob is made from a genuine craps die from the Sands Casino in Vegas itself. hope they didn't want it back.

So there we are...I'm busy playing Southern Boogie for the next hour or three

La la laaaa

Calling Vegas

Well, four days until holibob hell, and my plans for a stunning finale went west when #1 bratski got sick and rested for 3 of them.

Still, the body for The Vegas One is done now - beautifully battered and lumpy, looking like liquid gold has been dripped on it. Still waiting for the red tortie 'plate, but once that arrives I am in clover honey and I shall be in Gold Foil heaven. just probably not this week.

As for The Boogaloo One, I'm going to have to sneak that in during child taming summer camp...

La la laaaaa

Blingy Like A Thingie

Well, I might need to do a bit of patching (the white is the size failing to go sticky due to the summerness) but I think the Vegas One is going to look pretty cool. I even arranged a nice red tortie pickguard, which should be fun...

Well, I like them.

Other than that I'm failing dismally on getting The Boogaloo One together, but you knew I would, let's face it,

In alternative news rounds, Marcy Mojo is tempting me with a new range of shiny things - these are Gold Foil pickups, humbucker sized that I really must have at some point, with added glitter and glitz.

Must have.

Soon.

Very soon.



La la laaa

Trigger's Broom Vegas Stylee

 

Well, so I thought I'd strip down the Tom Delonge Strat, sort out all the parts and then get on with the gold leafification (for the nation).

And so I thought I should think about what I need to change.

Firstly, the neck. I have the Jazzmaster neck, maple, bound black square markers. Now that is pretty funky, that is Vegas. That would be perfect.

Secondly, I need tuners. Don't particularly like the original Squiers so I'll get something else. Easy McPeasie

Thirdly, the bridge is nice enough, but I think I'll replace it with something nickel rather than chrome.

Fourthly, obviously, I will bin the Duncan Designed pickup and wiring as I have the Mojo Pickups 'bucker-sized Gold Foil and matching loom.

Fifthly, The jackplate - again, I'll get a nickel one.

Sixthly, I'm going to go for a red tortoise shell scratchplate - it is the perfect combo with the gold leaf. So I don't need the original custard coloured one.

Seventhly, the strap pins I'll replace with Old nickel Gotoh ones.

Eighthly, I have a dice knob around here somewhere made from a craps dice from the Sands in Vegas. That is a no-brainer, which is me all over.

And that is about it.

So in summary, I am keeping the original body and the neck plate. Hope Tom doesn't mind too much.

~~~~~~~~ Musical Interlude ~~~~~~~~~~~

Bizarrely, I just saw a lovely ash body, routed for a bucker at the bridge.

That might be nice too...


Hmmmm.....I might  not be very good at this pimping old guitars anymore.

La la laaaa

Vegas Calling

Somebody else's guitar

Well, things have changed around here over the last few years. When I first started on my Jooky odyssey, it was all about making guitars out of second hand parts and generally seeing what could work together that maybe wasn't normal. I got to play with fancy finishes too, which was always a bonus.

Gradually, I've moved toward using new and dare I say better parts. The guitars have got dearer, but all the components are good quality now. I still get to play with trendy finishes though.

Is this a good thing - well, yes, I think/hope/know so, and for what the guitars are they are still crazy cheap, but there we are.

I do though miss the chaotic feeling I got when something would pop up on ebay or the classifieds on Music Radar, I'd grab it and not really know what would happen next.

So basically, this happened yesterday and I'd thought I'd take a holiday from being a mature, grown-up and generally thoughtfilled guitar maker and get back to my roots.

So when I saw a Squier Tom Delonge Strat turn up, I grabbed it. It is a single 'bucker Strat - I haven't done one for ages - and I couldn't resist it.

Obviously, I have no clue who Tom is or was, but I'm guessing by the fact it has a high output pickup he is/was loud. So I imagined he had gone Vegas and that will change for a start.

So the plan is to take Tom's Strat, replace the noisy bucker with a Gold Foil one courtesy of Marc at Mojo Pickups, and then I am going to gold leaf the whole thing. OK, maybe not the fretboard, but probably everything else.

And I think it will be fun. I will also try my best to replace any shonky parts with oldies-but-goodies (apart from Bill Oddie, never liked him) and generally come up with something groovy.

So there we be - The Vegas One, coming maybe one day in the dim and distant.

La la laaaa