Matsumoku Ibi JKL No.1 - Modern Vintage Custom-built for Keith Levene

We have two guitars recreated for the late great Keith Levene to explore some ideas and see what we could achieve without joining huge long queues for boutique builders. This is one of them.

The brief was to create some specific tones with a short scale. More details of how this brief evolved are on our website, but here are the details of this guitar.

A pair of 1953 Häussel P90s are accompanied by a Häussel dummy coil hidden under the scratchplate. A 5-way switch in conjunction with a push/push tone pot provides the following tones:

Position 1 is the neck P90 on its own
Position 2 is the neck P90 and dummy coil in parallel (in series with the tone pot up)
Position 3 is the 2 P90s together in parallel
Position 4 is the bridge and dummy coil in parallel (in series with the tone pot up)
Position 5 is the bridge P90 on its own.

The strings are top and tailed with a Gotoh FX6 bridge and SGS510 locking tuners at the other end.

This is a very purposeful build - it delivers a very specific set of tones, some ideal clean and some especially good and useful when amps are driven. It's a guitar that had a nuts brief, a nuts approach to specification, a nuts donor instrument and the result is perfectly nuts. This is a guitar built with fun in mind. It will likely take your playing and imagination in very different directions.

A percentage of this sale will be donated to a charity that Keef would have approved of.

For more detailed photos, a live demo or you'd like us to talk you through the guitar, please contact us on the Matsumoku.Rocks website.