PJD Guitars - Meet the Maker!
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⏰ Timestamps ⏰
» 0:00 Intro Jam!
» 1:24 Introducing Lee Dovey!
» 1:43 How Did You Get Started?
» 4:30 Standard vs Custom Shop?
» 5:52 About the Standard Series
» 6:36 St. John
» 8:22 York
» 9:03 Carey
» 9:12 The Contouring & Wood?
» 10:23 Woodford
» 11:56 The Build Process?
» 15:25 York Standard Plus
» 16:48 Prices?
» 17:23 Finish?
» 20:55 Pete Plays a Carey
» 21:54 The Pickups?
» 23:20 Working with Artists?
» 26:32 What's Next?
» 27:20 Thanks For Watching!
» 28:40 Outro Playing!
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Great respect for small builders like this.
The biggest reason why companies like this can offer higher quality for the same price has to do with the fact that they don't have millions of dollars (or pounds) of overhead to pay out that each guitar sold needs to help cover.
A smaller number of guitars built by a smaller number of skilled craftsmen (people) means they won't take in lots of money from quantity sold. So each guitar needs to bring in a higher margin, which they can because of that lower overhead. So even with fewer numbers of items sold, they can still bring in enough to cover salaries, overhead and some profit.
I'm glad to see a home-grown builder putting out good product. Best of luck and success!
Recently purchased a Carey Apprentice. By a wide margin, it’s the nicest guitar I’ve ever had my hands on. So grateful to have come across it. Weighs next to nothing, feels absolutely top quality, and Just plain wonderful to play.
i really really dig the finish, both neck and body, on these. the whole look is such a cool hybrid between modern and old school.
A Sinjin with that purple spray-over is now a life goal for me. Such cool guitars.
They look very beautiful, and if they play as well as they look then that explains why Pete is evidently having a lot of fun playing. Great to see a relatively new British Company producing high end guitars. I may not have the money this year, but they are on my radar from now on, so I’m sure they will do well, and deserve to.
i REALLY like these. the colors and body styles are very nice. knowing more about the brand helps put these on my list. great interview as always
Black with Tortoiseshell and maple fingerboards are always a win.
Beautiful instruments. Congratulations and every success going forward.
How amazing it is that the craft is magically passed down from father to son just by observing.
Amazing indeed. Observation is a key component of learning.
Great looking guitars, and their factory is 6 miles from my home…..dangerous times ahead!!
Great to see this! Had my St John for 18 months now and love the thing. My only issue now is trying to resist getting a nice woodford too...
Happy Thanksgiving from Florida. Thanks for a great channel.
Great video. Beautiful guitars! The great advantage of being a small shop is the attention to detail and craftsmanship of the instrument.
I think the artificial damage is the divisive/controversial bit. When a builder just does some cosmetic light aging ie, some added paint wear and some hardware tarnish, it becomes something very different that people really seem to like. I think that’s why Murphy Lab guitars are so loved.
Love the intro - love the guitars too!
Well hello from Pocklington since your down the road :)
Beautiful Guitars. Clear and open sounding, but rich, full and warm. The open graininess has to be adding to that tone.
Wow! Lovely guitars. Definitey going on my 'sometime in the future' list! I'd love to on a British-made instrument. :)
Very nice guitars. I want one now!
PJD hit the nail on the head...love these !
The open-pore finish is awesome.
They look super super nice 🙌🏻
Blimey, but your soloing is getting good, Lee! Really assured and tasteful licks.
A York with Bigsby, p90 neck and split-able humbucker at bridge would be killer.
You're a master builder Harry
Morning gents! Great looking and sounding guitars. Would love to add one to the collection🤘🏾🤘🏾
Danish Pete has the SOUL!
Killer solo by Lee during the intro jam!
My only problem (indeed with nearly all of your videos), is that it is really difficult for me to imagine how the guitar would sound in my hands. Seeing as Pete could make a diddley bow sound awesome, could we ask him to play left-handed occasionally?
Need Trogly to review one!
Love the colors and designs. If they play half as good as they look...
Being from York, I want one!!
I'm interested. As I am in the US I would Luke more info as to your review of the tone, playability, and how does to compare to other familiar guitars. Love to support smaller builders. For example I bought montys pickups based upon your positive review of their tone and really pleased.
Playability is exceptional, especially on the York. On par with the best guitars I’ve played - 61’ Masterbuilt Strat and a Customshop Murphy Lab SG and Firebird and a 58’ ES-335. Tone wise, definitely a more modern sound compared to the vintage soun of a 61’ Strat or 63’ Tele. The York has a lovely neck and bridge pickup. Neck pickup is exceptionally voiced such that you can get Strat tones from it, and the bridge has the signature bark and bite with a lovely balanced midrange. The York is the standout model to me, however the Carey, St John and Woodford are all top notch. Really like the St John with the single F-hole with a P90 neck and a humbucker bridge. The flame maple tops look incredible. As well as the single humbucker versions of the St John’s too. Overall, top quality guitars. I happen to have met the owner once before, really nice guy. Would not hesitate to buy one. Reliable instrument with great feel and sound and you’re supporting a smaller builder.
The York for some reason ~also~ reminds me of an old (circa early 90s) Patrick Eggle New York.
I started designing and carving my own electrics to make something original and a bit more user-friendly. It's a daunting task and a massive learning curve. Congrats to PJD and big props on those fantastic sounding pickups and very cool guitars. Let me know if you are looking for some other original designs or will do small orders of original painted bodies.
medium/vintage output HB bridge / p90 neck is the absolute best combo. missed opportunity on most manuf
I would love one. i live in Canada......
I think Ben Crowe from crimson guitars would be a great interview
These look good
The Carey Elite seems to be the flagship. Boutique competitive with B&G Little Sister.
These look quite nice. I don’t like the relic’ed one, but that’s a matter of personal taste. My favorite is the York. It’s obviously influenced by the Telecaster, but it’s not a total clone like so many other brands are. Nice design with Tele-style hardware and pickups. Looks like my kind of guitar! Do they ship to the US?
15:23 I could not stop laughing at that unique sound. Sounds great too.
Hard to believe these are made in my home town... I just need to get rich to buy one now...
Sound very musical and resonant with good intonation, good value at that price, American would be 3 times that.
I bought a Carey apprentice with just one p90 in it this January. The finish is in sherwood green and the neck is the best in my collection (including Gibson and Fender).
I just love that thing and it gets played a lot.
Godspeed to pjd
Same here, same color. Amazing guitar... favorite I’ve ever played. Enjoy yours!!
They only made 12 of these, right ?
Take care and all the best from Germany@@Richiez22908
@@jocheneisentrager8379 I saw that indicated too… 12 of each color… but who knows. Greetings from Florida,USA!
wow ! How did you find a pjd in the states ?
@@Richiez22908
Great to see a British company producing, what certainly looks like quality guitars at reasonable prices. Some nice finishes on these. 👍🏻
Any plans to make a hard case option available to fit the York? Or is there a commercially available generic case that fits it well? Have to confess the lack of a standard hard case option is probably the only thing that has held me back from adding a York to my collection.
Hi David, you can spec a hard case with these, if you speak to the Andertons team directly they will be able to help you.
This was great! When are you going to carry Bunting Guitars and get Yaniv Loria on the show? 😉
the St John quiet good loocking
Cool guitars! Only Pete can make a PJD guitar sound like a Tuba 16:17 ! lol
That's a great price!
Nice to see something British made for once.
There's lots of stuff made in Britain.
@@johntate5050 It was meant positively. :)
Nice
great now I want a Carey plus I was happy with my 4 electrics and 2 acoustics WHY?
Aesthetically wise, the only thing that lets them down, are the position markers on the fret board.
Funny how subjective it is. I think they look amazing.
@@stuminnis4050 . Good for you ☺️
so, how much of this company do you also own lee??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just stop watching mate, if it's that big of a deal! 😅
@rasmus I think he was obviously joking… c‘mon, Lee will cope with that. 😊
@@TomReinerDESeeing as PJD were supposed to make the British Chapman range way back when I’d say he’s definitely got some shares in PJD. Either way they the guitars clearly speak for themselves and keeping the prices relatively low is respectable
None according to Companies House
@@locky828That was through the UK Guitar Builders thing, which was just a collective project through with smaller builders (like PJD Guitars) could make high-end guitars for larger companies (like Chapman). It says nothing about Lee being financially involved in PJD itself other than being a retailer that sells PJD guitars - it’s like suggesting that Lee has shares in the World Music factory in Korea, because they build the Chapman Pro range
Lovely to see a GB company doing something special , I had a Gordon Smith many years ago , had nice neck profile ... love the P90 / Humbucker confit , like a mid range Yamaha Pacifica , but for the high prices you would need to really want one and really want keep the guitar as ( if you fall out of love with it or need cash quickly ) like any non big brand item , I would bet resale value isn’t anywhere near a Fender Gibson etc price equivalent , not a reason not to get one but it’s still a factor in guitars costing over a grand plus. Maybe in the £500 / £800 they would seriously sell and not gather dust 🤷♂️
I wish I was earning money to afford one of those purple offset ones! But as I'm unemployed, it doesn't look like I'll ever be able to show one on my channel?
Must say the 'York' bears a striking resemblance to the old Patrick Eggle 'New York'.
👍👏👌
Look very cool. Out of my budget but someday I would like to have a hand built guitar like one of these
It freaks me out that my initials are PJD haha
Always nice to have options. But at £2k for a Start style guitat I'm probably going to buy a used Suhr or Silver Sky. At £3k I'm going to get a Patrick James Eggle 96 or a Custom Shop Fender.
The Woodford standard is actually £1299 or £1449 for the Trem version 🤟🏼
@@Pjdguitars. That's good to know and thank you. I live near the Andertons store so I'll certainly check them out next time I'm there. At the end of the day a good guitar is a good guitar.
I have a Shijie amongst others, It's brilliant, some people would dismiss it just because it's made in China. It's a cut above some Fender, Gibson and PRS models I have. So I'll certainly take a look at your models with interest.
@@Pjdguitars. I'm not a big fan of maple fretboards, ebony, rosewood or dark roasted pau ferro I do like. Do you plan to offer some of the less expensive models with dark fretboards. Looking at current stock at Andertons only the higher end Woodford Pioneer models have rosewood.
I like that you have incorporated a body/belly carve on the Carey models. A gripe I have with most Gibson guitars is the lack of one. A Carey with a dark rosewood or ebony fretboard and P90 / humbucker is something I'd consider. Even more so if the scale was 24.75"
We do indeed plan on offering quite a few different options on the entry level models, with different fretboards being one of them
Just ordered a St John from Wildwire (Arctic White, roasted maple neck), although it still shows as available! Hopefully that updates soon. Very much looking forward to receiving it. I hope the fretwork is as good as the rest of it looks. @@Pjdguitars.
Hard to get too excited about these, but good luck to them.
Sounds great! Looks pretty as well. Oh, and the guitars are ok too, I guess! Lol
Pete's got a purple tele type hasn't he?
Honestly should have mentioned that Chapman guitars, and thus in a way Andertons, was one of the brands interested in working with PJD Guitars
There's so much I like about these guitars but the 42mm nut width stops me buying. Shame!
Still too pricey for what they actually are but not as bad as the modern day epis or prs se.
But credit where it's due they've finally dropped the handmade tag.
Also nice to see a company winding pickups in house, thats a good touch.
Still wouldnt buy one, I'd do what I've been doing more and more, buy from a local luthier and get something truly unique.
Good to see an english firm getting out there and making waves though. Good on you fella.
IMO...They are worth the money as they are built down the way by people in your community.
A team of 6, and some of these going for 2k is suuper reasonable. UK wages are also pretty high. They cant be pumping out guitars as fast as gibson yet they are cheaper
Why did they drop the handmade tag?
They are certainly over priced for what they are (as are Gibson/PRS & some Epis) if luthiers who work single handedly without CNC can put out guitars with equal if not better results for less than 2k these are overpriced, yes the lead time is greater but the final result is a truly unique instrument. But not everyone would agree with me nor would I want them to :)
The wages in the UK aren't that high, certainly not enough to add a rediculous premium onto an instrument that's put together this way.
The handmade tag states everything is done by hand without cnc, the handbuilt tag would mean everything is assembled and finished by hand which is correct.
My biggest gripe was the claiming and charging handmade for what is essentially (and quite harshly) a kit build (all be it one that has been CNC cut in house).
@@AnimalJohn85i get what youre saying but yes. By that statement about 90% of guitars are overpriced. Its still competing fairy with other brands
I heard Lee secretly owns this company.
£1299 for the cheapest! 😬
Let's take a slab of wood and see how expensive we could sell it for, using the same 80 year old technology.
I love that he made a point to say they don't call themselves "master builders". I find it so insulting that Fender does that when absolutely none of them are anywhere close to mastering even one facet of the built process let alone the entirety of it. You ever hear about a fender builder that felled their own lumber? Milled it? Dried it? Ever heard of any that created a new alloy? Forged and cast their own parts? Machined them even?!?! What about the finish, surely one of them has developed their own varnish right?!?! NO!?!? So lets see... what about what they do is "building" rather than "assembling"? I think if the Fender Master builders were half as competent as they've led their customers to believe, John Cruz wouldn't have fallen flat on his face trying to make his own guitars... correct me if I'm wrong but before he left, wasn't he considered the premier builder at Fender? The absolute best they had to offer couldn't even come close to being successful on his own... Hency why I'd much rather buy a guitar from a brand like PJD thats not feeding me a bunch of bullshit.
Made with real British people and love?
I like Anderson’s video’s. The Gibson tours were brilliant until they got to the Murphy lab and Lee kept going on about the debate about whether people like relicing on their guitars or not. Now he’s going on about it now. If you like it, buy it. If you don’t, don’t.
In 2024 it seems to me that fret finishing is an expectation. Every review and builder likes to talk about it as a selling point, but I challenge you to find me any new guitar that is selling with sharp frets. It does not exist.
Day 4,947 of asking why is there a decibel meter in the room
Sad to say my experience with PJD models has been less than stellar. Poorly cut nut is all too common, bridges placed off the correct position, plus frets being poorly done. And they've been incredibly reluctant to accommodate custom requests outside of woods or colours. For the prices they ask, they're simply not up to scratch.
There's far better builders in the UK for less and who deliver on quality and customisability.
Anyone paying this sort of money on a guitar should be playing it in-store, capable of assessing the instrument and prepared to have a luthier set it up to their specification. People need to take responsibility for their own guitar purchase and be a bit brand-agnostic. (I say that because I played one guitar for twenty years and the first time I handed it to a luthier after that time he told me the bridge had been put on in the wrong place!)
Poor bloke is so skint on money, he's wearing the same trousers that he wore when he was a wee lad
This is the best comment I’ve ever seen 😂 major wardrobe malfunction!
Severely underpriced.
I just don’t get the point of paying fender price for a guitar that is obviously trying to be a fender lol. They have the whole fender lineup for fender prices but not fenders…
Except for the ones that are Gibson inspired. But yeah. It makes sense though, people seem to need a familiar frame of reference. Bear in mind that hundreds of thousands of builders have made violins and cellos and they all faithfully riff off of the successful archetypes of a Stradivarius and a Guarneri. Once a builder really gets some traction , they can begin expanding their designs. At first though, a familiar face sells.
Hi,will they becoming to the Republicans of the United States of America?
Cheap? 60% of the price is cuz it says "Brittish"?
More likely because it's hand built and not made in an Asian sweatshop by dirt poor people being exploited.
@@johntate5050
Ok, then buy 10 of them.
These are owned by Andertons yes? It’s their house brand guitar. Who can blame them? Fender boned all their dealers and are going direct to public. Except for custom shops. But it’s only a matter of time before they go direct with those as well. I predict that will be a long term disaster for fender because the dealers are protecting themselves via other brands. Like we see here. Fender just started competing with their dealers with the same product with no consultation and that leads to disaster. What’s the bet andertons is pushing these over factory fenders?
Not owned by Andertons, or Lee or anything to do with us. We’re just a dealer. 🤦🏼♂️
too much Hill St Blues and Frasier ...play some harder rock please 🙃
This guy is just one big bad vibe. Guitars look great though.
How rude! (In Jar Jar Binks voice)
Enough with the SHORTS!!! Again WASTING MY TIME!!