Sold: The Liberian One

The Liberian One is a rather stunning Swamp Ash bodied Jazzmaster, with plenty of twists and twirls to make it ooh sooo darn puurrttyy.

For a start, it has a wonderfully aged oil and wax finish based on an old table of my Gran’s – time staining in the truest sense. It has a one piece swamp ash body which is truly lovely and grained.

From there a beautiful bound and blocked maple/rosewood neck has been nailed on in a big way.

Fender Jazzmaster tremolo and bridge are cool as ever, and a set of Sperzel Trim-Lok locking tuners mean life will always be predictably un-atonal.

As for the noise, we have gone for a set of the quite beautiful Teisco style Mojo Pickups Gold Foils. If you haven’t played these before you are in for a real treat as they are Lush McLush from under the Lush Tree.
Joining the dots we also have one of Mojo’s top notch wiring looms – CTS pots, Switchcraft this, PIO that, which will last for aeons.

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To be clear, The Liberian 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 Jazzmaster

Electrics: Mojo Teisco Style Gold Foil Pickups, Mojo Wiring Loom

Guitar Type: Jazzmaster

Construction: Maple/Rosewood Neck, Alder Body

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#8
RSP: £1249

My Hun, My Bun

Well, I finally got to play with the body of The Liberian One, and am jolly pleased with how it turned out. As I said (ahem) I wanted the lovely one-piece swamp ash body to look natural and 'time stained', and for once I remembered and did just that.

When I do the time stained thing, the idea is to make the bodies look like old wood, and as I have no imagination I tend to find such a piece of aged timber and basically try to recreate it. I suppose I should go the relic route and try and make them look like road-worn-guitars (TM), but then there are plenty of people who already do that with mystical ability so nobody needs me.

So in the case of The Liberian One, I wanted a natural wood look, that has been dinged and scraped over time and generally mellowed and yellowed. (We know a song about that don't we kiddies?). This is based on a kitchen I saw once in an old house, that oddly was made of ash. The kitchen, not the whole house, that would have been silly, mainly as it was in Coventry and it would never have survived the Blitz.

But anyway, such is life.

La la laaaa

Liberian, Lion, Zion, Free Beerian

Well, not a lot happening all over again at the moment, but I have had a rethink on The Liberian One.

If you remember, this was going to be an ersatz baritone Jazzmaster, but then I decided to change The 668 One into a flashy Tele with Strat and baritonal-esque accoutrements, and so well, there we are then. All change at Jooky central.

But what to do with the lovely single piece swamp ash Jazzmaster body? Well, after many a thought, I've come to the conclusion that it is going to get itself a simple time stained finish. I'm thinking nice and light and generally groovy.

As for the neck, I am please to report that it will indeed have one. AVRI tremolo, Staytrem bridge, Sperzels, etc. All good things, and for the pickups, I'm going to play mix and match again and put a Mojo Mosrite at the bridge and a normal Mojo Jazzmaster pickup at the neck. For me, I think this could be the perfect combination.

At least this week.

As for other things, amazingly the legend that is The Babylon Blue One is actually coming together. I know, I'm stunned too - at this rate Fed-Ex may return The Travellin' Man One and my long-term inactivity list could be totally refreshed.

But anyway, what do I know?

Lala laaa

p.s. Hope you don't mind me nicking your foto Tim ;)

To Liberia, With Love

Well, still not a great deal going on around here due to dodgy mincers, but I have enjoyed playing my wee Musicmasterish Bronco-esque Baritone, which as experiments go has turned out quite well, I must admit.

So I've gotten to be thinking that next I should make a real one, and as I have a rather dishy one-piece swamp ash Jazzmaster body going begging, that looks like a good place to start.

I mean, I know a Jaguar/Bass VI is more traditional, but there is no point being awkward if you aren't going to show it, now is there?

So the plan is that the body will get a nifty finish (I'm hedging as I haven't decided what yet), a big long  neck, some tuners, a tremolo and probably some pickups. It is that level of for-thought and planning without which nothing would get done around here at all, of course.

In fact I want this to be quite a low down dirty thing, so some of Marc Mojo's Mosrite specials will definitely get used I think.

And that will henceforth and forthwith be known as The Liberian One, coming one day, soon and probably whenever.

La la laaa