The Jooky Guitar Emporium

Well, no sooner had I jumped at the 2010 £100 guitar challenge thing, and started a-scheming-and-a-planning, some bright spark decided to is...

Well, in yet another last minute change-of-mind, for which I'm becoming somewhat known and in-fame, when I came to wire up The Paisley O...

Well, the Paisley One is so close now, but still I can't seem to kill it off. It's starting to annoy me now, to be honest, but so ...

I was wondering, the other day, why I never get comments on this blog, but do get emails from people. Then I realised I hadn't switched...

If you are one of the - amazing number of - folks who have been reading this blog regularly, it won't come as a surprise to hear that I...

Well, the little Paisley One is pretty much there body-wise now, and it has come down to a couple of decisions before I put it all together...

Well, managed to do a bit more cutting and pasting, and The Paisley One - to give it it's formal title - is looking a bit more likely t...

Not too much time today for Jooky-stuff, but I did manage a couple of jobs before real life took over.. Firstly, I finally put those ther...

Well, I wanted to get on with the Purple Paze this weekend, but realised that the 'chiseling' part of removing wood from the guitar...

I have to say, I don't really understand the whole relic thing, when it comes to guitars, especially when it comes to paying somebody t...

Well, now that we're well and truly into the New Year I figured that maybe I should start to do something about the Purple Paze, my clo...

I know I'm in danger of turning this into some sort of XXX Cigar Box Guitar Porn site, but I err, just 'came across' this pictu...

It might seem odd, the fact that we have this Jooky place, making and (finally) selling some quite luverly amps and soon-to-be-seen effect...

It's funny, trying to come up with some designs for new guitar effects as basically (and I am thinking fuzz in the main here) there ar...

I think I said earlier that I've been getting more and more into playing Cigar Box Guitars, and especially playing slide. I've al...

Obviously, we’re always looking for interesting tins and boxes to be used as amps or effects or whatever, and so when a ‘job lot’ comes up...

Looking at our web stats, I notice that we seem to get quite a few people looking for DIY pedal kits, which we don't actually make or s...

All that glisters isn't gold, now ain't that the truth, but The Shakey Spear One might just be the exception to Old Bill's favou...

I know I promised to let you know about the other couple of amps I’ve been playing with over the weekend, but it snowed and there are sick ...

Well, The Gonzo Gonzalez One didn't hang around. As I said, I have been a bizzy little chap this weekend, and Gonzo was one of the prod...