Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Backlund JBD100

Posted by Jon in • Crazy Guitar Designs

Backlund JBD100
John Backlund started out as an Illustrator in the 70’s, entirely self taught John has always had an eye for Retro design. Although over the years he has had many jobs and sideline interests he seems to have finally found his niche with the design of this amazing Retro look guitars and amplifiers. John has teamed up with Bruce Bennett, a luthier for 30 years who has worked for Gibson (well to be specific he says the Steinberger/Tobias division in Nashville) and Warrior Guitars. He also designs custom effects pedals and amps. The third member of the partnership is Kevin Maxfield, a guitarist for many years who has been working with Bruce since 2002 designing and building inexpensive hot rod guitars.

Well the combination seems to be working as they have created the JBD100, check out the gallery page for some great hi-res shots. You can choose to customize the guitar when you order by choosing which 2 colours you would like from a pre-defined colour palette. This palette updates the photo of the guitar so that you can see exactly how your guitar will look. Aside from the colour you can choose which wood you prefer for the body, a choice of Mahogany, Alder, Basswood or Maple. You can also chooseeither a Maple or Mahogany neck and a Maple, Rosewood or Ebony fingerboard. But the coolest custom feature I like for this guitar is rather than choosing the DiMarzio or Seymour Duncan pickups, both of which are an option, you can choose to have colour matched Lace Sensor Alumitone™ Pickups. If you take a look at this photo to see a close up. I didn’t know anything about these pickups but I found a whole load of information at, surprise surprise, Lace Music Products’ site.

“This radical departure from pickup design is aluminum based, rather than copper. Result: less resistance, higher output coupled to a “current driven design” as opposed to conventional voltage based pickups. More bass then traditional single coils, more volume, mids are slightly more then conventional pickups. Highs are clear yet smooth, nicely equalized.“

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GLW on 08/20 at 02:03 AM

I’ve fancied trying out those alumintone pickups in a guitar for quite a while now, but don’t have a guitar that I want to actually swap out the pickups from, so it would mean getting or building yet another guitar just to try them.

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