Putting On The Style
Regular Guitarist readers will be aware of York-based guitar maker Leigh Dovey and his PJD team. If you caught our last issue, you’ll also know he’s busy preparing production of a new Cream T guitar co-designed with none other than Billy F Gibbons and, without letting any cats out of the bag, there are more collaborations in the pipeline. In the past 12 months since we last reviewed a PJD, the company has taken on more staff – which now number 12 – and is producing nearly 40 instruments per month. It all seems a long time away from playing an early PJD Woodford, nearly four years ago, which we featured in issue 438. Promise isn’t always fulfilled, but in this case it most definitely has been.
Aside from that original Woodford, we’ve mainly focused on the Carey, the central model in the PJD range, but earlier this year PJD announced a paired-back Woodford Standard conceived as a “hand-built guitar that won’t break
