The Lost Model · Korina, maple and sycamore · one in stock

Every so often a lost idea returns…

£2,375

Body	Hollow
Sides	Korina
Top	Flamed maple
Back	Spalted sycamore

Paid in full at order. Ships by UPS, insured for the full value. The only UK carrier that will.

Hear it Watch it The whole spec

John, on what happened

I was sketching from an old thick-bodied Gibson jazz guitar, an ES-175 with a single P90 on it, and I loved the horn. So I swapped the curved horn for a much more aggressive point — not an aggressive shape, a point — thought, that really works, and put it aside.

Read the rest

It got folded into a notebook and forgotten. Years later, moving bits from one notebook to the next, a post-it was stuck in the top, and on it was that design. Oh shit, I forgot about that. Fuck it, I'm making that next. So I did, and it took some working out, because a hollow Telecaster doesn't work with a Tele bridge, or with unpotted pickups, or with a hollow neck pocket. A heel block and a neck block solved it. It sounds glorious — a really rich, thick sound, particularly the neck pickup, which looks like a humbucker and is a humbucker-size P90. Once I'd finished it I decided the old Thickline was done. They're all going to have this point now.

Many years ago when I first began this journey I had a design in mind that for a change I committed to paper. Well, over the years sketchbooks get lost, bits of paper fade and again get lost… but, every so often a lost idea returns… Enter the Lost Model, my mash up of a Tele Thinline, my own signature 'Thickline' model and a Gibson ES-175 (well, the horn anyway)

Hollow body around a neck and heel block. Korina sides, a flamed maple internally braced, book-matched top and a locally sourced spalted sycamore back from Suffolk. Traditional Canadian rock maple neck on a 9.5 inch radius, rosewood fretboard with mother of pearl fret markers, full nitro lacquered topcoat, hand relic'd in a subtle but age appropriate way.

Fender cut down ashtray bridge, and powered by a stunning hand wound and handmade humbucker sized P90 from the legendary Thomas Nilsen and an always great Bare Knuckle Pickups hand wound 'True Grit' Tele pickup in the bridge. CTS pots, vintage PIO tone cap, Neutrik jack and Switchcraft selector switch. Hand cast selector skull detail and 70s style 'hi-fi' knobs finish off this stunning one of a kind instrument.

Ships in a Blind John's Guitars branded ABS case.

More of it

The back of the Lost Model, with its f-hole

The Lost Model's Fender ashtray bridge and the skull selector tip

The Lost Model Thickline - Hollow body, flame maple cap, sycamore back, maple neck, rosewood board, Thomas Nilsen HB sized P90 neck, BKP Old Guard bridge, relic tobaccoburst paint, Double bound guitar from Blind Johns Guitars - studio 2

The Lost Model's flame maple under raking light

The back of the Lost Model, close and soft

Hear it

This one, through the shed amp.

A Vox AC4TV with a Celestion Greenback, at one watt, clean and dirty. The recording is the answer to the question above.

clean0:34

dirty0:13

Fine for comparing guitars on most speakers.

On film

All the films

The Lost ModelKorina, maple and sycamore · in stock
Body	Hollow, around a neck and heel block
Sides	Korina
Top	Flamed maple, book-matched, braced inside
Back	Spalted sycamore, from Suffolk
Neck	Canadian rock maple, 9.5" radius, rosewood board, mother of pearl markers
Finish	Nitro, hand relic'd, subtle but age appropriate
Bridge	Fender cut-down ashtray
Pickups	Nilsen P90 neck, Bare Knuckle True Grit bridge, both hand wound
Electrics	CTS pots, PIO cap, Neutrik jack, Switchcraft switch
Details	Hand cast skull selector, 70s hi-fi knobs
Case	Branded ABS case
Relic'd	Lightly
Price	£2,375

Paid in full at order. Ships by UPS, insured for the full value. The only UK carrier that will.

Play it