The Jooky Guitar Emporium

*Sigh*   Mapleglo Rickenbacker 660 Now that is mighty pretty

Following on from my Gordon Smith sycophantism, I wanted to mention somebody else in the UK that is making some groovy looking guitars. They...

I was talking about my plans for the yet-to-be-named guitars I want to make, and how they will be different from the total-one-offs I've...

One of the things that has set me on my merry way with all this Jooky stuff, is the idea that in these days of mass production in guitarland...

Have you seen, the most beautiful guitar in the world...? OK, it's a bass, but... As I mentioned the other day, I've been thinkin...

Well, it's been a while and if I'm totally honest hardly anything has occurred in the land of Jook. Not that I see that as a permane...

Mickey-de-Bass Following on from my musings on the not-so-glorious days of Suicidal Sperm I, err, came across Kevin our former drummer an...

Gord, where does time go. As it happens, I know, as bratskis are pretty full on, and outside of that I've been having a sneaky plan in a...

I know the last few days have been about pedals, which is all cool, but I have also been thinking a bit about what I want to do on the guita...

A Fuzzy Face, obv. Well, the forum pedal idea is starting to take shape, and it seems as though some kind of combined Fuzz/Booster is the...

Well, there I am pondering about what to do next and a rather nice chap called Rob from a forum I have recently started to frequent suggests...

This is the end, bong, bong, and a bong So, is everybody Jookifying their own guitar at the moment? OK, maybe not, but at least you kno...

I keep getting asked how to make a Jooky guitar, or more to the point, how do you turn a bog standard Tele into a paisley one - so I figured...

I had a couple of people ask if I would build them a Jooky guitar again this week, which is always nice, but I'm afraid it is still a bi...

I have to say that not having finished the Funky One is doing my head in at the moment. It's still sat where I left it - annoying ever...

Gavin Monaghan - Top Banana I mentioned before that I'd gotten back in touch with Tony, the-singer-from-a-band I once 'graced...

Well, soldering the Funky One (and the Glistery One, and probably another one somewhere too) was out of the window due to aforementioned bra...

The Spangled One moves our Jooky journey forward, with Marc Bolan and David Bowie as our inspiration. Both started in the Sixties with a flo...

I'm troubled. You may have worked that out , I admit. More specifically, I am troubled by a daft kind of lust. A silly, yet deep, ...

I know a few people have been a wee bit confused about our 'serial number strategy', and especially by the fact that, for instance, ...