SubscribeIntroducing “This Year’s Model”, a Jazzmaster guitar from The Creamery
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The Blackguard Series pt.1 – The First Three
Quick progress update. Here are the first three guitars from the Blackguard series – 6 guitars crafted from 30yr old pine. A jazzmaster style with custom handwound H-cover humbuckers, a Standard telecaster and a Tele Custom style, both with sets of my handwound pickups.
Esquire Style Guitar – ‘Dirty Northern Town’
Named after a comment I overheard whilst climbing off the train at Manchester Piccadilly station, as a group of guys climbed on, eager to get back home south.
A tele take on the Les Paul Junior. Whilst waiting for a batch of parts to arrive so I could wind the single P90 needed, the guitar was wired up with an old Gibson P90 I had lying around. Eager to hear a P90 in the bridge position the old Gibson pickup was only ever meant to be temporary measure, especially as this was a neck pickup, the pole spacing too narrow for the wider telecaster bridge.
The Blackguard Series – 6 Guitars from 30yr old pine
The first in a series of 6 guitars carved from a 30yr old pine. Introducing No.1 – Based on the famous Jazzmaster shape. 2 Custom, scatterwound humbuckers with chrome plated nickel H-covers. Gotoh bridge & stoptail. 1 tone, 1 volume, 3 way switching. CTS pots & vintage capacitor. Body treated with nothing more then Danish oil.
The Butcher’s Block Telecaster
There was just something about it. When tapped it had that ‘ring’, that sound that was far more than the usual dull thud you get with many woods. Maybe its the many blocks of birch laminated together under pressure. Maybe its the 40mm thickness. Maybe, maybe, maybe. One thing’s for sure – it sounds good.
Vintage Telecaster Neck Specs
1950/60 – AWG 43 PE wire – 8,000 CCW winds – 7.7k – Alnico 5 – South pole
1960/70 – AWG 43 PE wire – 7,800 CCW winds – 6.9k – Alnico 5 – South pole
Vintage Telecaster Bridge specs
Telecaster bridge pickups had a zinc plated steel baseplate until early 1951 when Fender changed it to copper plated steel (.05″ thick)
Introducing The Fencepost Guitar – Made from an old sentimental piece of wood
Hand made from an old fencepost with scatterwound vintage 40yr old 43AWG coil wire in our C001 Custom Creamery Hot Tele Bridge, wired to The Creamery’s own twist on the original Fender electronics with a .0047uf cap where the resistor should sit – this is essentially the same as the ‘Eldred Mod’ giving the out-of-phase or cocked-wah sound in the front position. The growl and snap is helped along by the wood, an old sentimental piece of pine fencepost that lay drying out for twenty years.
When the pickup wire snaps….
This is what happens when you’re winding a vintage pickup and the 40yr old spool of vintage 42AWG decides to act like a cranky old man, losing its temper and snapping.
Going live in 2010 – The Creamery: Guitars crafted by hand
Guitars, pickups and effects, handcrafted in Manchester, UK. A small one-man boutique company building electric guitars by hand, in many cases from quality reclaimed wood. All pickups are handwound to vintage and modern specs.
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