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.
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