Hot on the heels of PRS’s entry into the T-style market, PJD’s new York model certainly wasn’t inspired by that launch. “No, this has literally been a guitar outline on my computer for about six years,” smiles Leigh Dovey, the driving force behind PJD Guitars. “It was one of those things I kept coming back to, tweaking it and thinking, ‘That’s it!’ But then the next day I’d be going, ‘No, I’m not happy with that.’ I tried different pickup configurations, visually, and then finally I got to the stage where I realised I was going to have to make one and see what it looked like.
“I didn’t want to do the same thing again with a Gotoh hardtail bridge [like the existing models in the PJD range] and just a different body shape,” Leigh continues, “because I’ve done that
