GOWEN J
Our double-cutaway guitar.
The J-Type is our version of a highly contoured 'super-strat' body.
Our J guitars are available in a choice of different solid woods, with or without tops, and with the option to specify humbuckers, single coils, or a combination.
Prices start at around £2350 (-10% with student discount) for a new J shape guitar in a solid Alder / Walnut / Ash body with two pickups and 2 control pots.
Unique, figured tone wood bodies or tops or extra veneers add between £150 and £700+ to the basic cost of the instrument - visit the Shop page for more information on the body wood and top combinations we currently have available, or email us for details of the look / wood you'd like for your guitar. We can source completely individual top and body woods especially for your guitar.
J-Type Specification
Double cutaway body with either single, twin or three pickups.
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Schaller Hardtail Bridge
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front/ rear contours
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Schaller straplock buttons
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Body finish customisable, but a basic specification level would be Osmo's hardwax oil, sanded to a satin finish or Tru Oil for a gloss finish. Additional finish options include Nitrocellulose Laquer in a range of glossier finishes.
Electrics
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All CTS /Bourns switches and pots
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Pickups 100% customisable but a basic specification might include an Irongear Humbucker in the bridge and an Irongear Single Coil or Humbucker in the neck (a third pickup and choice of House of Tone / Gemini pickups are additional upgrades)
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x1 tone and x1 volume pot
Neck
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Bolt-on Maple/Mahogany neck, Rosewood /Ebony/Ash fretboard, dotted fret markers
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648mm or 628mm scale length
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Medium-jumbo sized frets
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Chrome Gotoh machine heads
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Silver 1914 threepence inlaid in truss rod cover
For more information about hardware / pickups options - please email us here .
Model History
We completed our first J Type in 2024, a one-piece body in English Yew with a H-S-S pickup combination (Seymour Duncan JB Junior plus Gemini Single Coils) for Lucy Gowen.
Our second J Type was also commissioned by Lucy Gowen, this time built form a one-piece slab of Isle Of Wight Holly, again with a H-S-S pickup combination (Seymour Duncan JB Junior plus Gemini Single Coils).