PJD Guitars
PJD Guitars are handcrafted by Leigh Dovey and his team at their impressive workshop in York, UK. PJD specialise in a range of classically inspired, beautifully built premium quality instruments, made with the finest woods and components. These are professional grade guitars built to perform.
PJD Guitars Carey Model
The Carey is PJD Guitars take on the classic single cut design. The new PJD Carey Standard features 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 Standards 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. Each Standard series guitar is supplied in a premium gig bag.
PJD Guitars St. John Model
The St. John is PJD Guitars offset model, a timeless design with a modern twist. The new PJD St John Standard is a solid bodied guitar featuring 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 Standards 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. There is a dual pickup route at the neck position which means you can opt for a P90 or humbucker. Each Standard series guitar is supplied in a premium gig bag.
PJD Guitars Woodford Model
PJD’s new Woodford Standard is light weight, smooth to play and features a huge range of single coil and humbucker tones. The Woodfords hand wound PJD Dr Wallace and Wadfather pickups provide a vintage modern array of tones with warmth, depth and clarity at the heart of their tone. The ultra-thin finish allows the guitar to mature and develop quickly. Elegant, familiar and made from scratch in York England. The new PJD Woodford Elite brings the finest finishes, tone woods and style to the age old double cut shape. PJD have designed a guitar in the Woodford Elite which is lightweight yet packs a huge sonic punch The guitar features a chambered swamp ash body with a stunning flame maple top. The Woodford Elite is beautifully contoured, smooth to play and fitted with P90 pickups and Gotoh hardware.
PJD Guitars York Model
The PJD York introduces PJD’s take on a time honoured and revered guitar. Featuring their very own PJD, custom hand wound, single coil, ‘High Tea’ pickups and an open grain nitrocellulose finish. The guitar’s light weight body lends itself perfectly to performance without compromise and is musically resonant. The York’s rich and full bodied tone, allows for a range of styles to be explored and the ultra-thin nitro finish, means the guitar will open up and develop quickly. The development of this guitar pushedPJD to explore new ideas and led them to manufacturing their own pickups. This is the first PJD in the standard line up, that will come exclusively with PJD’s own hand wound ‘High Tea’ pickups.