Sold: J Joye Roadmaster Semi Hollow £400

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Bonjour tout le monde ! Here we have for sale a unique semi-hollow, aluminium topped, P90 equipped beauty, made by French luthier Jeremy Joye in northern France.

I bought it from @JerkMoans of this parish, who I believe bought it from @dazzajl , also of this parish. 

It's been great fun while it's lasted, but it's on the chopping block as I'm looking to sell 2 or 3 guitars to fund a "turning 40 midlife crisis" splurge on something a bit special.

Specs:

Body - alder semi-hollow with center block, aluminium engraved top

Neck - maple C shape, 25.5" scale, 22 frets. Ebony 9.5"radius fingerboard, clay dots. Bone nut. Nut width 42mm (1.65"), 1st fret thickness 23mm (.826"), 12th fret thickness (0.905"). 

Electronics - 2 single coil vintage classic, AlNico5, 1vol, 1 tone, 3 way switch 

Hardware - short bridge, brass saddles (upgraded to Wilkinson by previous owner), vintage tuners. 

Finish - sonic blue, neck has an amber Danish oil finish. 

It's light, super resonant and the pickups (handwound by a French pickup winder from the Calais area) are really quite nice. They have a nice P90 honkiness to them, without sounding at all as harsh and brittle as you might expect P90s screwed into metal to be! 

Link to original FS thread here, with considerably better photos then I can take:

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/212299/

Link to the luthier's original Reverb ad:

J.Joye roadmaster 2020 sonic blue https://reverb.com/item/32773106?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=32773106

Just looking to get back what I paid for it.

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Link to some more of my own half arsed photography  https://imgur.com/gallery/0MhXZHB

mikeyrob73

how cool is that ? GLWTS 

THR1LLHAU5

Awesome looking thing! 

Cookiemonster

Intrigued by this, how would you describe the tones on this ? 

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Cookiemonster said:

Intrigued by this, how would you describe the tones on this ? 

Resonant and nice and bright acoustically. Plugged in it's surprisingly versatile sounding. I expected it to be really quite angry sounding with P90s screwed straight into metal. However, i think they must be pretty low output (no idea on the actual measurements), as they're surprisingly clean and sweet sounding. Definitely has that semi-hollow "airiness" to it. 

dazzajl

. Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

Cookiemonster said:

Intrigued by this, how would you describe the tones on this ? 

Resonant and nice and bright acoustically. Plugged in it's surprisingly versatile sounding. I expected it to be really quite angry sounding with P90s screwed straight into metal. However, i think they must be pretty low output (no idea on the actual measurements), as they're surprisingly clean and sweet sounding. Definitely has that semi-hollow "airiness" to it. 

From what I remember Jeremy has the pickups wound for his guitars individually and these did feel like a perfect match for it. I thought they were pretty low output too, so more sweet and soulful than grit and punch. Though they do sound great with some OD added too.

Kinda wish I still had this one 

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Sorry folks, now sold to a local connoisseur of French luthierie. It's off to join a collection of Trussarts and Le Papes! 

Rich31k

Thank goodness for that