Friday, March 28, 2008

Delaney's True Blue Lou

Posted by Jon in • Cool Guitars

Delaney guitars True Blue Lou
After featuring Abel Axe guitars yesterday I thought it was only fitting that I also featured one half of the Abel Axe team Mike Delaney. Mike Delaney is a custom builder of more traditional guitars and you can check out his site here. The guitar that really caught my eye was the “True Blue Lou” pictured left, this particular guitar was built for a bluesman in North Carolina. It has a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard. The swamp ash body has a black dye and a nitrocellulose lacquer finish that is so thin that the grain lines are visible which creates an amazing finish. The body is topped off with a spalted maple pickguard, I don’t think I have ever seen that before and I really like the effect I would like to see more natural wood pickguards used by manufacturers. The pickups are Seymour Duncan which have a volume, tone, blender combination with a five-way switch which gives the guitar a wide variety of tones and make the instrument very versatile. The middle pickup looks like a Duckbucker which is a Vintage output single-coil-sized humbucker excellent for country, pop, surf, rockabilly, blues, ska and classic rock and I would hazard a guess that the neck pickup and maybe the bridge pickup are Little ‘59™ humbuckers.

Recently on Guitar Noize

Clicking on ads has been proven to make you a better guitar player, just wanted to put that out there...
on 03/29 at 12:34 AM

I agree with you wooden pickguards are awesome, more companies should use them.
What’s up with those pickups though, are they like a Single/Bucker split or something?

on 03/29 at 12:37 AM

N/m^, I just read the rest.

Mike Delaney on 03/30 at 02:02 AM

Jon,
excellent guesses on the pickups. The bridge pickup, in actuality, is a JB jr. This combination of pickups with the blender knob gives this guitar ALOT of versatility. It’s one of my favorite set-ups.

Mike

on 03/31 at 11:21 AM

Ah! I was close then, I’ve never heard Seymour’s single coil sized humbuckers do you have any videos of your guitars in action Mike?

Page 1 of 1 pages

Post a comment

Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.