PJD Guitars was founded in 2010 by Leigh Dovey. The name PJD is dedicated to the memory of Leigh's late father who was prop maker for the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden.
Leigh started working with knowledge of wood work picked up from his father and was fortunate enough to inherit his tools as well as a small home workshop.
Leigh spent his days working as a sound and video engineer at the Royal Opera House and his evenings honing his craft in guitar building. Leigh was lucky early on in having the chance to work with some great artists, giving him the confidence to grow his skills.
Fast forward to 2017 and a move up to York to a bigger workshop, and for the past 5 years Leigh has been putting his heart and soul into building the best instruments he's ever built. Standardising his prototype models like the Carey and St John, Leigh now has more models in development and wants to bring even more British hand made PJD guitars to the guitar industry.
The new PJD Carey Standard Plus is our solid bodied single cut guitar featuring a Bigsby tremolo, belly cut and arm rest contours. Fitted with a PJD Parkins Cream P90 and a Wadfather Zebra Coil Humbucker. These scatter hand wound pickups provide a huge dynamic range with a clear and expressive voice. The Standard Plus lightweight Obeche body is resonant and musical, which makes long stints on stage, practicing or in the studio comfortable.
The plain maple neck now features a silk screen decal, drilled truss rod access and tinted lacquer for a vintage inspired aesthetic. A 25.5 inch scale length provides plenty of brightness and a familiar string tension. Our ultra comfortable modern medium c shape neck, has a 10 inch fretboard radius and medium Jescar 55090 frets.
There is a dual pickup route at the neck position which means you can opt for a P90 or humbucker.
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MODEL: carey
SERIES: standard
WEIGHT: 3195 gr.
SNR: #2057
COLOR: midnight black
BODY WOOD: obeche
BODY FINISH: nitrocellulose
NECK WOOD: maple
NECK PROFILE: standard "c"
NECK RADIUS: 10"
NUT: 42 mm ( bone )
SCALE: 25,5"
FRETS: 22 jescar 55090
NECK PICKUP: pjd parkins cream P90
BRIDGE PICKUP: wadfather zebra coil humbucker
CONTROLS: volume, tone (500k cts)
SWITCH: 3 way toggle (switchcraft)
BRIDGE: bigsby b50
TUNING MACHINES: goto vintage-style
PICKGUARD: tortoise
HARDWARE: nickel
CASE: -
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