PJD Guitars Carey Apprentice Standard Silverburst | A Les Paul Junior... but better! Review & Demo

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This is the PJD Guitars Carey Apprentice Standard: a UK-built singlecut electric guitar in a stunning one-off Silverburst finish!

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On first glance, you might think that the Carey Apprentice Standard is a take on the legendary Gibson Les Paul Junior – and you’d be right. But it’s more than that, too – look closer, and read the spec sheet, and you’ll see that it also has a healthy dose of Fender Esquire DNA in it as well.

This is all great news, because I love those two models: they’re stripped back, no frills rock and roll machines with no unnecessary features and everything you need to simply plug in and bring the house down in style!

This Carey Apprentice Standard leaves you in the perfect position to do that right from the off. The Silverburst open pore satin nitro finish is absolutely gorgeous, and it pairs beautifully with the guitar’s rosewood fingerboard and maple neck (also nitro finished).

Other than that, it’s a case of everything you need, and nothing you don’t: a single PJD Parkins Cream P90 pickup and a volume control – no tone knob here – and a Gotoh hardtail bridge (another visual nod to Fender) adorn the body, with matching Gotoh split head tuners at the Telecaster-esque headstock.

The neck’s 25.5” scale length is also Fender-y, and you get 22 medium frets and a bone nut on a 10” fingerboard radius, along with PJD’s lovely medium C neck profile.

This specific guitar costs £899, which, for a made in England guitar is exceptionally affordable, especially considering it comes in a nice, chunky gig bag AND it gets the PLEK treatment at PJD HQ before making its way into the world.

On paper, then, amazing. But in reality, just how versatile can a guitar like this truly be? That’s what we’re about to find out! In the video, I try the Carey in as many different musical styles as I can, from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, punk, metal, and more.

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:19 Introduction to the PJD Carey Apprentice Standard
02:03 Specs and features
04:51 Today’s rig and plan

05:36 Clean tone reference chords and volume knob sweep
06:04 Clean pop, country, blues, and strummed tones
08:08 Clean ambient sounds with extra delay and reverb (Source Audio Collider)
09:44 Indie and garage rock tones
12:05 Classic rock tones
14:04 Fuzz tones (JHS Bender)
15:37 Hard rock tones
17:05 ProCo Rat heavy rock tones
18:04 Punk rock tones
18:45 Alternative rock tones
19:35 Modern progressive rock tones (Drop D tuning)
20:31 Metal and hardcore punk tones (Revv G3, Drop D)

23:05 My thoughts
24:00 First impressions and looks
25:07 Weight
25:35 Build quality and hardware
26:12 Playability, neck and balance
27:19 Sounds and pickup discussion
31:26 What other similar guitars are out there?
33:32 My conclusions on the Carey Apprentice Standard and why you should buy it

My setup was as follows: I ran the Carey into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed, Revv G3, JHS Bender Fuzz and ProCo Rat 2 pedals for overdrive and heavy distortion sounds, and my Source Audio Collider for some extra delay and reverb. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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