Jake E Lee replica

[WezV]

Since i finally posted on this forum i though i should post a warmoth build i did not to long ago

its a lefthanded replica of JAke E lee's 'whitey' which is actually a 74 sunburst hardtail strat that was heavily modified for him but charvel.

I wasnt about to butcher a 74 strat to do it so i got warmoth to make me a hardtail strat body routed like a traditional strat and its also a warmoth strat neck.  The original had its large headstock reduced in size but i just went with a normal strat neck on this.. unfortunately this meant no bullet truss rod adjuster so i removed the walnut plug from the headstock and it now was a faux bullet as a truss rod cover.

 

[Mor Paul]

Looks good, but how does it sound?

 

[Watershed]

Hey very nice job, well thought out.

James

 

[dmraco]

nice job...jake e is one of the most under rated guitar players of all time.  Bark at the moon rocks!

I hope he is still playing!

 

[DocNrock]

Nice!  Reminds me of his old Charvel.  What are the pickups?

 

[WezV]

sound excellent.  It has 2 dimarzio SDS'1 single coils and a custom humbucker made by bare knuckle pickups.  Unfortunately i never got to play it much with it being a lefty

the finishing was done this end because of the mods i needed to do to body and neck to get the JEL specs.

here is the original

and some info

Jake's number one guitar and his personal favorite. It consists of a 1974-75 Fender Stratocaster body, maple neck with rosewood fret board and Gibson frets, brass bridge and Gotoh tuners. The original Fender neck had a large CBS headstock. It was re-shaped and painted by a friend of Jake's who worked at Charvel and also affixed the Charvel logo. Notice the tell-tale Fender "Bullet" truss rod adjustment at the nut.

there are photo's of him playing it before the conversion too

 

[GoDrex]

Cool guitar - I dig Jake too. Saw him live with Ozzy a couple of times way way back when and he was fantastic. He was an inspiration to me at the time because he didn't use a Floyd or other vibrato.

 

[Mor Paul]

sound excellent.  It has 2 dimarzio SDS'1 single coils and a custom humbucker made by bare knuckle pickups.  Unfortunately i never got to play it much with it being a lefty

NonsenseTele (Fernando) will love that Bare Knuckle  :icon_thumright:

And I'm not sure if I understand that second part... are you a righty?

 

[Soylent]

max your young age is showing..  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[Mor Paul]

max your young age is showing..  :icon_jokercolor:

I meant to add "or was it built for someone else"

 

[smavridis]

Cool guitar - I dig Jake too. Saw him live with Ozzy a couple of times way way back when and he was fantastic. He was an inspiration to me at the time because he didn't use a Floyd or other vibrato.

wait what? have you listened to bark at the moon? right before the chorus he dive bombs!

 

[m4rk0]

That looks fantastic!! I too am a big Jake e Lee fan! like him even (much) better than Zakk Wylde!!
this one always reminds me of the solo where Ozzy drags him around by his hair.. still have in on VHS somewhere
(hey didn't we just talk about this last week?)

Never knew it was a modified fender rather than an actual Charvel! very interesting.. would love to see a pic from before the conversion.

 

[m4rk0]

Cool guitar - I dig Jake too. Saw him live with Ozzy a couple of times way way back when and he was fantastic. He was an inspiration to me at the time because he didn't use a Floyd or other vibrato.

wait what? have you listened to bark at the moon? right before the chorus he dive bombs!

How the feck does he do it?????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSNuIzw9VfU

 

[GoDrex]

I can't tell from that video - too me it sounds like a whammy pedal but I don't know.

http://www.jakeelee.com/html/modules/Interviews/JakeNov1986.htm

But it is Jake�s development of finger-vibrato and various techniques simulating the effect created by a vibrato bar which are mainstays of his style.

One of Jake�s oft-used techniques is the dive-bomb effect-he places his left-hand fingers on the strings between the nut and tuning pegs, presses down and raises the pitch of the strings. With his right hand he taps on the fretboard (usually at the 12th fret) and pulls off. The tension behind the nut is released and as the string is being lowered the dive bomb effect is simulated. The end of �Lightning Strikes� is an example of this.

Another variation is the simple lowering of the E string via the tuning head and then applying pressure behind the nut or even pulling on the string. At times, Lee will take the low E string, lodge it between the two single-coil pickups and create elephant-like sounds.

And then there are the simple neck-bending routines. �I bend it a lot; my roadie is always afraid I�m going to break it.�

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/BLABBERMOUTH.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=46624

And while Jake doesn't use the bar, he sometimes simulates dive bombs by de-tuning his low E string at the machine head. For more subtle dives, he would bend the neck ala Michael Schenker.

 

[GP]

too me it sounds like a whammy pedal

That'd be my guess.

 

[Nando Vallart]

max your young age is showing..  :icon_jokercolor:

I meant to add "or was it built for someone else"

That's problably this...

Looks good Wez (minus these angled single coils )

 

[smavridis]

I can't tell from that video - too me it sounds like a whammy pedal but I don't know.

http://www.jakeelee.com/html/modules/Interviews/JakeNov1986.htm

But it is Jake�s development of finger-vibrato and various techniques simulating the effect created by a vibrato bar which are mainstays of his style.

One of Jake�s oft-used techniques is the dive-bomb effect-he places his left-hand fingers on the strings between the nut and tuning pegs, presses down and raises the pitch of the strings. With his right hand he taps on the fretboard (usually at the 12th fret) and pulls off. The tension behind the nut is released and as the string is being lowered the dive bomb effect is simulated. The end of �Lightning Strikes� is an example of this.

Another variation is the simple lowering of the E string via the tuning head and then applying pressure behind the nut or even pulling on the string. At times, Lee will take the low E string, lodge it between the two single-coil pickups and create elephant-like sounds.

And then there are the simple neck-bending routines. �I bend it a lot; my roadie is always afraid I�m going to break it.�

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/BLABBERMOUTH.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=46624

And while Jake doesn't use the bar, he sometimes simulates dive bombs by de-tuning his low E string at the machine head. For more subtle dives, he would bend the neck ala Michael Schenker.

and now he is definitely my favorite guitarist.

 

[m4rk0]

I just spend about an hour watching old Jake E Lee clips on you tube... and thinking back about that time I first got into Ozzy (which was when Jake was in)

He had great style, great vibrato and his solos were so melodic and creative! - can't say that about Zakk..
I wish he used less chorus though.. his tone wasn't always the best.

 

[Mor Paul]

From the sound of that clip, I think I'm more of a Lee guy than a Wilde fan too.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I will always be a Wylde fan, but ironically I don't care for his Ozzy or BLS stuff.  It's his Pride and Glory and Book of Shadows stuff.  After watching the Bark at the Moon clip, I can definitely see the Lee influence on Wylde's playing.  The vibrato and pings for sure.  Rhoads and Wylde tend to be the "Ozzy" guitarists most think of, but Lee and Brad Gillis are kind of the forgotten ones.  Did anybody ever get into Badlands?  I love their bass player.