A little more UFO

Ok.... I'll admit that I wish I was seeing this old classic line up of UFO this week. But I'll take what I can get at this point... right?

UFO!

Any one who knows me knows that my favorite band in the world is UFO. They are coming to town this week and I plan to catch the show. I won't get to see Pete or Mikey but I don't much care. I'm gonna enjoy this.

William Jeffrey Jones (The worm has turned....)

Ok children, the DragonWing guitar from William Jeffrey Jones Guitars is finished. I must say that it's one of the most insane guitars I have ever seen. Look at how the ornamentation compliments both the lines of the guitar and the grain of the wood. That is the eye of an artist at work.

I talked to Jeffrey on the phone several times while we were developing the pickup for this guitar and was struck by the realization that this man is truly an artist in the most classic sense of the word. Although his sculpting medium has changed from time to time he is a guy who has made his living as a sculptor for most of his life. There is a very good chance you have seen his work.

Jeffrey has been building guitars for a long time. First as a hobby and a bit of an escape from his sculpting work. Then as demand for his fantastic instruments grew the guitars became a second passion. The DragonWing represents a coming together of the passions of William Jeffrey Jones. The artist and the craftsman that reside in his soul have come together into unbelievable works of art that are as grand to play and hear as they are fantastic to look at and feel.


The pickup for this guitar is a mellow sounding humbucking P-90 . This is a design I make exclusively for WJJ Guitars . I didn't make the cover. Come on... you have seen the guys carving ability. Does he need for me to carve a cover for him?

If you would like to buy one of William Jeffrey Jones unbelievable guitars you can Email Jeffery here . Or you can talk to Richard Glick from Guitars From Another Realm

I'm so sick...

I feel like I've been hit by a bus this week... I have some sort of cold that's kicking my ass but I'm cranking out pickups like a gum ball machine. So this weeks tune is Sick from FlyLeaf.

William Jeffrey Jones Guitars (Something wicked this way comes...)

William Jeffrey Jones has been hard at it building one of the most incredible guitars I have ever seen. (and I have seen some incredible guitars in my day...) I made a special humbucking P-90 for it. Ummm... that's about all I'm gonna say right now. More later this week.

The Searcy Mandolin Pickup ( listen to the mandolin wind...)

Some time ago I rebuilt a Gibson Mandolin pickup for Amy Hopkins who was rebuilding a Gibson electric mandolin that had been damaged in the floods after Katrina in NOLA. Check out the project here.

Ever since then I have wanted to try to make a copy of that pickup. Well, I finally got around to doing it. This is not an exact copy of the Gibson but it's close. It's basically a P-90 that has been cut down. It uses a pair of Alnico 5 magnets just like the original and has about the same output.

It's been said before. Searcy String Works can make a pickup for damn near anything.

This one will be headed out to Ellie guitars soon. I can't wait to see what she does with it.

Song of the week .... Adrian Legg

If you thought I was all metal all the time.... well... I'm not.

I love Adrian Legg!