Honey Lingers

Had a nice box arrive today with a nicer guitar in it.

I was quite excited, not sure if it showed.


Thanks to John at JXG for making such a beautiful guitar.

I may have to remove the 'plate and put different knobs on as I have a weird speed dial hatred, but that is just me.

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JXG Guitar Porn

Well, today I am expecting to see the arrival of Old Honey, from John Gill at JXG Guitars up in Newcastle, and I have to say I am pacing the room like a right saddo.

To put that into context, I had a nap while I was waiting for the bratskis to be born (I've always been innately popular like that) so for one so laid-back, this is oddly weird.

As I mentioned John makes some stunning guitars, so I thought I'd pass the time by showing you a couple of them, so you can salivate as much as me. Thanks to John and Hugh for showing me the pretty pictures.

The first time I heard of John and his work was when Hugh (Shugz, of the wiring loom fame) had a Les Paul Jr that I craved in a big way. This was made how they should be made, and I remember being awestruck by the fact that John had used a 100-year-old piece of  mahogany for the body, with every other part and component equally well thought out and handled beautifully. I mean, I think if I had such a piece of wood I wouldn't have the bottle to start to use it, but then John is a master craftsman and I'm not. From then I've been hooked and any mention of his work has got my attention.

And I have to say I love the idea of having a guitar custom made, but if I'm honest with myself I'm not sure I'd ever be able to justify it. I have that thing Hendrix and Clapton and the rest have, where it doesn't matter what guitar I play, it always sounds like me. It is a curse, I realise that.

Unfortunately, it sounds like the me that is a bit shonky and leaden and a bit of a trier rather than a good player. And I always felt that a guitar like John makes, or Feline and Wez Venebles too come to that, would probably be wasted on me.

All of which I hope explains my excitement, as a Gibson Les Paul Studio doesn't scare me, and to be able to get one that John has worked on to this extent - basically remade from the ground up - is as close as I'm likely to get.

So yes, I am over excited and I might just kiss the UPS guy assuming he gets it here in one piece.

But the Old Honey - I promised to describe what John had actually done to it, so I'd better.

Where to start?

Well, John basically took one of the Gibson 50s Tribute Les Paul Studios and turned it into something special. I think that sums it up.

And what he did was...I hear you ask?

Well, it's a bit of a list with astonishing attention given to the details the rest of us wouldn't even think about, but here you go:

1. Replaced the stock Gibson P90s with a pair of Bare Knuckle Blue Notes.

2. Fitted a Bigsby B7. To do this he filled the original stop tail holes with mahogany and maple plugs. Read that again. Mahogany and maple, in the same hole. So that they match the wood. Even though nobody would ever know. Crazily stunning.

3. Removed the Nashville bridge, plugged the holes with maple and then fitted an ABR-1, with a KTS bridge, titanium saddles and long stainless steel studs. So sustain city, methinks.

4. A Complete rewire to 50s spec (braided wire, CTS pots, Russian PIO caps etc.)

5. Changed all of the plastic apart from the jack plate and TRC. Bareknuckle P90 covers, Fatboy switch tip etc. The rear control plates have been replaced with brown ones, tuner buttons with aged Kluson replacements and then for goodly measurement, a new unbleached bone nut and a fret dress. Attention to detail, or what?

6. Oh, and the original flat finish has been buffed and then relicked, the guitar being set-up for 11s.

7. It is even coming in a custom made Hiscox case to cope with the Bigsby ( the normal LP ones don't fit, of course.)

Now forgive me, I can get a bit excited about stuff and despite my obvious ineptitude at times i do get a bit anal about the Jooky finishes. You wouldn't believe quite how many you don't see because I haven't got them right. Well, maybe you would.. But getting back to John, using both mahogany and maple plugs in the same hole, to match the body/top is an incredible attention to detail. I can see just from that, John is a top notch builder, though you only have to look at the guitars he has built to see it yourself.

But I need to get back to my looking-thru-the-curtains and pacing.

I wouldn't want to miss the courier.

That would be hell with a fan heater.

Laters dearies.

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More Mojo Bobbins - WIP The Raymond One

Well, as I've been screwing together the various new bits for The Raymond One - and I am loving the Wilkinson trem, it is solid-in-a-good-way and well zingy - then I get a quick email from Marc at Mojo to tell me he has done the pickup and wiring loom.

And here it is.

As the discerning among you will easily note, it is a single humbucker of a Wide Range demeanour, and it has a three way Tele switch, where the chap has come up with an Esquire-esque cogitation of capacitors and other fiddly leccy bits to dredge a selection of tones from the single pup.

All of which is rather cool and I can't wait to try it out.

Good stuff

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WIP: The Betty Blue One

Can you see the join?

Well, time is running out, so I figure I should maybe do something productive today.

Some of the parts have arrived for The Raymond One, so I'll get them added to the mix later, but The Betty Blue One is my Dame du jour.

The story so far..

I started with a lovely alder Tele body, and smothered it lovingly with Bronze enriched plutonium. Or maybe paint. Yes, paint it was.

Not so lovingly, I then went for an open yet blinded Parisian window looking out into the blue night, and basically hit it with a load of noxiously fuming acid and other gubbins.

On the back, it looks great and on the front it is a little more subtle as there is a plan.

Oh yes, is there a plan.

Well, yes.

And the plan that I planned is to cover the front with a lushly lush walnut burr laminate, which will be slightly tattered and torn so that the corroded bronze beneath peeps through.

And I have to admit that this morning as I looked at it, I really wasn't sure whether it would work or not. But as I can't imagine there are too many people to ask, I figured I might as well give it a go and see for meself.

So as you can hopefully tell, I've spread my glue, and pressed on the veneer and then clamped the beejesus out of it  (I am loving the ad-hoc tableness of the clamps I got from Simon at Fusion, most useful and cool.)

And there it sits.

I will give it an unclamp and rearrange if needed later, but it will be tomorrow before I can do much more of use. (And yes, there is a lack of clamping going on in the middle, but that's ok, I have a plan...)

In other news, obviously I am awaiting couriers and will be tomorrow too (Old Honey is a coming) so don't expect too much sense out of me.

La la laaa

Before the err, storm of walnut.

Stripily Backed

Jooky Instant Tables Inc.

Oops, I Did It Again

Old Honey - Masterwork from JXG Guitars

Well, my big plans for the week have kinda fallen into ashes, as I forgot that today was destined to be AWOL day, and I've just realised that the school holibobs start on Thursday evening rather than Friday. So I've lost two days of my final five already without really trying.

But there we are. I'm still hopeful that I'll get The Raymond One fettled and hopefully The Betty Blue One veneered before the week is out. Well, you never know.

In other news, I've got a nice lefty Jazzmaster neck on it's way, which should be fun for The Fallen One, and I seem to have acquired another, err, Les Paul Studio.

* cough *

I know, I know.

This one is a bit different though, as it is fairly new - 2010 - and is one of the 50s Studio Tributes they did for a while. So it has a lovely big neck, rosewood board, isn't too heavy as they have removed all the pulp and pips (I'm convincing myself that is a good thing) and boasts twin P90s. If this wasn't enough, I'm getting it from the luthier John Gill of JXG Guitars fame, and it is one he has done an amazing job on, basically, upgrading everything in and out of sight, adding a Bigsby and giving it a relic job based on Neil Young's Old Blacky. As this is a Honeyburst finish though, it has been rechristened, Old Honey, which I like so that can stay.

It should be here on Wednesday anyway, and I'll do a proper introduction/specification list then, along with a lot of genuflection and general gibbering.

John's spec is crazy tyop notch:

Gibson Les Paul Studio 50's Tribute in honeyburst. Original 2010 Limited Edition
Bare Knuckle Blue Note P90's (alnico IV magnets in bridge)
Bibsby B7 fitted (stop tail holes filled with mahogany/maple plugs)
Converted to ABR-1 (nashville holes plugged with maple), KTS bridge with titanium saddles and long stainless steed studs, double wheeled.
Full rewire to 50's spec with braided wire, CTS pots, Russian PIO caps, 0.022 bridge and 0.015 neck.
All plastics replaced apart from jack plate and truss rod cover. Bareknuckle P90 covers and Fatboy switch tip.
Brown rear control plates. Tuner buttons are aged Kluson replacements.
Allparts Speed knobs, one has broken so was replaced, it's a slightly different colour just to be upfront- all part of the relic fun!
Fret dress and unbleached bone nut fitted.
Finish has been buffed and medium relic'd except for heavy pickwear. The neck is unrelic'd.
Hiscox Liteflite Pro case, custom made to fit the bigsby.
Set up for 11's
 

If you haven't come across JXG before, there are some examples of his work on his web site Here, and I'll see if I can find some fotos of a Les Paul Jr he did a while back which would make Gibson's Custom Shop hang their heads in shamefilled shamedness.

So that is rather exciting.

As I am now offish poorhouse brassic, any offers for The JoBo, Old E and B Movie Ones would be very timely, and my old battered Gordo might have to go too. Such is the life of a poor little chap of slender means but big ideas..

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Like a Fallen Angel

Well, not a lot happening over the weekend, and with the coming week heralding the summer holibobs it is time to focus again. In fact tomorrow is out too, so I'm into the last four days.

Top of the list is The Raymond One then. All the parts are on their merry way, so it will hopefully be together before the dreaded day. If I get that done this week I'll be pretty chuffed if not chuffing pretty.

Other than that, I want to put the walnut burr veneer on The Betty Blue One, which should be do-able, but there probably won't be too much else.

In other news, I've been all-of-a-twitter about the new Squier Offsets that are being released this month. Proper Jazzmasters, Jaguars and Mustangs, for Squier money, sounds pretty good to me.

But then I got thinking about all the guitars that come and go around here and I came to realise that I'm never really happy with them unless I put them together myself. And I have to say buying a new guitar, well, it isn't something I ever do.

So basically, I figured I'd be happier making myself another offset guitar, and so with a bit of scurrying I found a nice Jazzmaster body made of solid ash with a walnut veneer and dredging my memory's memory, remembered that I knew somebody who was flogging a luthier made left-handed Jazzmaster neck. So I snapped that up too. I like a downside-up headstock, it makes me feel like Jimi, man.

From there I'll need to sort out a proper trem and bridge - I just got a mustang one, so that should be handy and after my experience with my MIJ Jazzmaster, it will definitely be a set of Marcy Mojo's pickups, though whether I go for a pair of his Jazzmaster ones or have one of those and one of his Jazzmaster-sized Wide Rangers for a bit of variety, I'm not sure.

We'll have to see.

As for the finish, I'll see what the body looks like when it gets here, but I've always liked the Elvis Costello JM so I might end-up staining it. I also like the Thurston Moore one, thinking about it. Hmmm.

So staining, well, either that or covering it with something toxic. Who can truly ever guess?

But that is all a bit of a long-termer really. The body needs some woodwork before I can start on anything else, so that alone will probably put it into next year. But I have to say, I'm already looking forward to getting to grips with The Fallen One.

And maybe I should get a Squier, just to keep me going, like, in-between....

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Only Making Plans For Raymondo

Well, as next week is the last of holibobless Jookiness, I figure I should concentrate and make my last arrow count (I do look back on those self-improvement courses fondly. Apart from that one in an Irish Hotel where I woke Russell Grant up at 4am, me drunk, him in a towel.)

So, I figure I should concentrate on getting one guitar finished, and maybe have something new to distract me from Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom, Top Gear and Minecraft. Oh and Peppa Pig (though I secretly like that one. It's Rebeca Rabbit, she's a bit of a cutey.)

The one 'Mostly Likely' then, is the rather cheery The Raymond One, so I have got my finger out and ordered the missing bits, which are (you always knew there would be a list at this point, didn't you?):

1. A Stratty Trem:

Not my usual Tele approach, but I've gone for one of those Wilkinson/Gotoh ones, all steel blocks and baseplates and everything else. I would add that it isn't because they have a push in trem arm and that I always cross thread the screwy-in ones, but I'd be lying so I won't do that.

2. A Pickup:

Young Marc of Mojo Fame is going to wind me one of his wunderfilled Wide Range Humbuckers. I want this guitar to have some gritty balls as well as do the twang thing, and they are perfect for that.

3. A Wiring Loom/Control plate

Again, Mr Mojo to the rescue, as he is going to wire me a control plate that will give me a stunning array of sonic options, utilising his lovely paper in oil caps and CTS pots and trendy switches and old fashioned wire and whatever other voodoo he throws in there for goodly measurement.

4. Strap Pins:

I always forget these, but I like the jumbo ones. (That isn't another Russell Grant divergence.)

And that is about it, which can't be bad.

Which means of course that I can do nothing more on that for the rest of the day, so I might as well do something else instead.

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Some Races Are Never Ronin

Well, Allparts managed to finally get me my tinny bridge for The Ronin One, and it has made quite a difference, I have to say.

It is odd, but some guitars seem to go together really quickly, but others, well, they are hard work. The Ronin One is definitely in the hard work category and there have been times when I wondered whether it was worth it, but I'm nowt if not bloody-minded..

Anyway, despite having thought I'd finished this months ago, it continued to niggle. The old harmonica bridge looked nice but didn't really 'do it' for me - I've developed a love for intonation for some reason - and all-in-all, well, I never really felt I'd done it justice.

Giving it a bit of time I think I've got my head around the problems and so I'm starting from scratch with it again, to put it to bed, see it out and generally make sure I am over the moon about it.

But the bridge - it works great and that makes me feel good.

Other niggles to be addressed are:

1. The Nut. It is Ok, but I want to put a better one on - it is that or raise it slightly which I could do, but I think a new one would make more sense as it is a tad buzzy on the open E string at times.

2. The Blend Pot. This works, but is a bit crappy and I think I would rather have a nice old three-way switch, so that I have three sounds, rather than spend all day looking for one that I like.

3. Tuners: I left the originals on, and they are fine, but not great so I'll replace them too.

As for the ye Olde 1978 Gibson pickups, they sound good but one of the screw holes is broken on the single coil, so I need to do something about that.

None of which is anything major, but they niggle. and nobody likes a niggle, let's face it.

So despite the new bridge and the fact that it has one of the nicest necks I've ever played, it is back in the case until I order some replacement parts.

Other than that, I should be doing something useful, but it is School Olympics week and my attendance is mandatory.

Tomorrow though will be amazing, telling yer.

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Jookylicious Baby

Well, I did finish The B Movie One in the end, and crafted a neat little cavity cover out of the B Side of the same record, and jolly nice it looks too. As I was in-the-zone, as it were, I also did the pickguard for The Raymond One, though I am still waiting for the record for The Travellin' Man One, so that will have to be another day.

Other than chopping records up, I thought today could be a good day to finally make a Haut D'Jook T Shirt, or at least see if I can. So I've done one based on The JoBo One to see how it looks. Or more to the point, see what is left once it has been washed, I guess. I'll do a before and after later if you are really interested. Actually, I'll do it whether you are or not.

This is what it looks like at the moment prior to something biological.

While I was cooking old records, I took some advice (not for the first time) from luthier-extraordinary Wez Venebles and made myself a new fruit bowl out of an old Simple Minds record. We always struggle with the bananas you see, you can't put them in with the other fruit without sending it bad, so this could prove to be a godsend. I don't think it can be an official Jooky though, so don't expect it in the Hall of Fame just yet.

And the award for the best use of a
Simple Minds Record Goes...Bananas

It does strike me that I should get on with old Raymondo though. I basically need a Strat trem thing, a pickup, wiring stuff and that is about it. So not too much in truth at all. Hmmm...

As for the rest of the day, who knows... I am only one man after all, and a T Shirt a fruit bowl, scratchplates...well, it takes it's toll. I am toll-less.

I've got to work out how to use the washing machine now of course, that could take a while, has to be said...

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B Movie - NOw with Covered Cavities, Bless

Raymondo gets a Jimmy Reed 'plate

Sold: The B Movie One

The B Movie One is a Jookified version of Fender’s La Carbronita Especial, with a number of quirks we like to call our own. We love Teles in Jookyland and the La Cabronita is something that has long caught our eye, so when the chance to do one came along we didn’t need much persuading.

The body of The B Movie One is made from swamp ash, and we quite simply couldn’t bring ourselves to cover up such a beautiful piece of wood. Instead we did our best to bring the grain out and finished it with beeswax.

From there we added a pickguard, which we’d chopped from an old Jimmy Reed record, and matched the body with a lovely maple/maple neck with old school Klusonesque tuners.

As for the sounds, well, TV Jones in La Cabs have of course been done before and we wanted something a little raunchier, dirtier and generally likely to be found on the seedier side of the street. But they are an odd size, and so we talked to Marc Ransley at Mojo Pickups, and he agreed to custom wind us a set of his stunning P90 pickups, cut to shape and then went above and beyond the call and turned-up with a set than are quite simply breath-taxingly cool.

Additionally, Marc put together a top notch wiring loom to get the best out of them.

This is probably – definitely – the most understated Jooky yet, and like the previous 49, it will never be repeated.


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To be clear, The B Movie 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.


*** SOLD ***

Technical Stuff:

Type: Norma’s Natural Guitar

Electrics: Mojo TV Jookies P90

Guitar Type: Fender La Cabronita Especial

Construction: Swamp Ash Body, Maple/Maple neck

Strings: Nickel 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#57

RSP: £799

Jooky Is FIFTY - Introducing The B Movie One

Well, I'm pleased to be able to introduce you to the Fiftieth Jooky Guitar ever, which probably amazes you as much as me.

As you can no doubt see, I've avoided just about everything I've done on the other 49 and it is in fact worryingly grown-up. Don't worry though, it will no doubt be an exception.

But I am pleased to introduce you to The B Movie One, a Jooky version of Fender's La Cabronita Especial, which I have to say is rather beautiful. Biased I may be, but for once I don't think you'll argue.

From the top, it is a swamp ash bodied beauty, that has been stained and sanded back to show off the grain before getting waxed to a dull sheen. It feels absolutely lovely and the maple/maple neck is a total joy. Not too big, but you know it is there.

As for the rest, it has a nod to Jookidom in the shape. of a scratchplate cut out of an old record, and will have a matching control cavity when I get around to it. And probably a better knob.

Obviously, the first Custom shop La Cabs featured TV Jones pickups, and lovely though they are, I wanted something a bit different (as per), and once again Young Master Marc at Mojo Pickups has stretched the boundaries of reality and managed to wind me some of the hot-sexiest P90 pickups I've ever played, and squeezed them into a teeny footprint.

I truly don't know how he does it, but these pickups sound amazingly cool and richly sordid all at the same time. The fact that they look so good helps too, uncovered and Tele-like string wound.

On top of this is a Mojo wiring harness which is as good as ever, Kluson style tuners and a six-saddle hard tail bridge.

So in summary, this is number 50, and wicked with it.

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Makin' Movies

Well, top excitement with the arrival of the Mojos once more yesterday, so today I'm planning on putting the wee things to work up the chimney of The B Movie One. I'm really rather excited, though you have probably guessed that already.

On The B Movie One, I have to admit it is taking all of my weeny pot of self-restraint, to stop me smothering it in rusty iron or purple paisley, and I do worry that this is a bit of a chink in my subtlety armour. But the swamp ash looked sooo cool especially once I'd brought the grain out a tad with some stain, and I do like the vinyl pickguard being the only really Jooky touch, however much I'm tempted to bind it with copper.

Ooah, copper binding, it could just work.

Plus it is my fiftieth Jooky guitar, so I really should mark the occasion somehow, even if it is by doing the opposite of the other 49. At least it isn't a red poly finished Strat, for then I would surely have to top meself quicksmart.

But The B Movie One, hopefully I'll be introducing you later on...

Other than that, I have scratchplates to make and a slight matter of a veneer for The Betty Blue One, oh and a T Shirt.

Now if I can get all of those done it will be a pretty chic magnifique old day indeedy

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Whooah - TV Jooks In The House...

Well, I have grown to love Mojo days, and the chap himself has delivered once more...

In a childish display of paper tearing, I am rather pleased to unveil a set of TV Jones sized Mojo pickups - P90s for the discerning noisenik -  for my delish The B Movie One.

Mark has done a stunning job - they are uncovered so he has done the old Tele cotton wrapping thing, and they are going to look pukka nice tomorrow when I nail them in the guitar.

The wiring loom helps too, as the guitar is more likely to work, of course.

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Lirding my Goins

Well, we're into the home-straight before the school summer holibobs again blight my life - sorry, enrich - so I have been thinking about clearing up some of my partially finished bobbins and generally getting on with it.

More to the point I wrote a to-do list last week and sort of did some of it, so it seems to be a good idea, so here we go again.

Blah, blah and blah.

So this week the plan is to:

1. Make pickguards from vinyl records for The Travellin' Man and Raymond Ones. Also need to do a rear cavity cover for The B Movie One, keep forgetting about that.

2. Order lots and lots of parts if I can flog something.

3. Complete The B Movie One for La Cabronita noisemakingness duties as young Master Mojo has sent me the pickups and wiring bobbins.

4. Make a Haut D'Jook T Shirt or two.

5. Veneer The Betty Blue One

If I get that far, have to say I'll be pretty chuffed, which is a nice thing.

As for the other WIPs, well The Pearly Dewdrop and Away Got That Ones need a router and courage, neither of which I have right now, and The Travellin' Man, Raymond and Betty Blue Ones are all in need of parts one way or another, which I need to sort out.

Hmmm, better get doing something I guess.

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That Was The Week...

Well, as it happens, I never got any further with anything much at all, but finishing The Old E One feels good as it seems sooo-very-long since I actually completed something. Or so it feels, anywasup.

I am in a bit of a state with balls in the air all over the place and I'm not really sure what will happen next. Mr Mojo is sending the TV Jookies for The B Movie One, so that will no doubt be do-able-ish next week.

In fact whichever one I do manage to finish next will be my fiftieth Jooky Guitar, which I find a little hard to credit.

I still haven't really found a good answer to the question of why I make them, other than because it is fun and all and because I want to make a guitar for me. Which might sound silly as I never keep them, it has to be said.

But despite my golden rules about having to sell them once they are made, I have a sneaky hope that when the music stops and I give in and do something more interesting instead, I'll be left holding my ideal guitar and that I can keep it.

What that ideal guitar is, I really don't know so I guess I'll have to keep stumbling along until I find it.

So for next week, The B Movie One, vinyl scratchplates, T Shirts and nothing at all new until I catch-up a bit.

Oh, there is The Ronin One - it seems Allparts have finally found me a bridge and that should be here soon. So that might be something else to play with too. And I need to put the veneer on The Betty Blue One too. So again, I'm losing myself in the fog. Ho hum.

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Introducing: The Old E One

Well, in one of those desperate end-of-week flurries of conscience, with the weekend's fetid breath up my sporran, I got my finger out this morning and did something other than drink coffee.

Firstly, I finished lacquering the top of The Betty Blue One. This will get a veneer next week (assuming I can fight off my 'but it looks nice as it is' self-demotivation) and I'm thinking all may well be cool with baby blue.

That only took a few minutes, so whereas I'd normally claim that as a days (weeks) work, I kept my finger on the pedal and pulled the trigger with by foot flat to the floor, and generally got on with The Old E One.

So may I introduce to you, my latest trick... She is an alder bodied Strat with a quite scarily beautifilled rusted finish.

Maple/rosewood neck and all the rest of the bobbins.

The pickup is a lush Gretsch 'bucker and to keep things simple, a volume knob.

And as to how it sounds, well when I used the matching neck pickup in The BDSM One, I was well impressed and this one is equally so. Loads of twangy cleans - almost Tele-like in truth - but yet with a bit more of the dirty stuff it just purrs. And as I just treated myself to an old Tonebender, it sounds stunning thru that. If I can find meself a cowboy hat, I'll be Texan Flooding in all bar name, birthplace, accent and oil.

Oh, and talent.

So in summary, I'm well pleased.

As for the rest of the day, well, Betty will be damp until the new week, so looking at my to-do list for this week, I'm light on a scratchplate for The Raymond One and a Haut D'Jook T Shirt. I'm still thinking about that, but I think a bit of a trial is in order.

Laters dearies

La la laaa

Sold: The Old E One

The Old E One is dedicated to a ramshackle pub that is probably no longer there. It is smothered in rust and looks aged beyond it’s years, and is of course a complete one-off.

Here in Jookyland we’ve always loved out single pickup Strats, and the Gretsch humbucker in this gives a great collection of tones, from beautiful crisp cleans all the way to full on fuzz. Simple to use it still has a lot going on and a beautifully quick neck means that you can make the most of it.

The finish is of course one of our classic rusted iron jobbies, where an active iron paint has been tortured with a home brew concoction of noxious gubbins, before being stabilised and then lacquered. The effect this gives is almost 3D and varies between fire and a beautifully figured wood, depending on your perspective and the light hitting it.

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To be clear, The Old E 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.

*** SOLD ***

Technical Stuff:

Type: Cilla's Rusty Iron

Electrics: Gretsch Humbucker

Guitar Type: Fender Stratocaster

Construction: Alder body, maple/rosewood neck, rusted iron finish

Strings: Nickel 10s

Output: ¼” Guitar Lead

Controls: Volume

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

Serial Number: JGE#50

RSP: £799