PJD Guitars York Standard | A UK-built Telecaster-type for $1,500... with a twist! Review & Demo

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This is the PJD Guitars York Standard: a UK-built electric guitar that mixes classic Telecaster stylings with its own unique design twists and innovations!

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PJD Guitars have been around since 2010, and the York – which is built in York, England, and starts at a rather affordable £1,299 (around $1,500/€1,500) – is one of its newest and most exciting models.

With a few key elements that clearly scream Telecaster – the pickups, bridge and control plate layout chief among them – the York also has its own uniquely shaped body, lending it the air of a real mix of traditional and boutique modern luthier styles.

You get a fair bit for your money here too. The solid (yet lightweight) obeche body is satin nitro finished, the pickups are PJD’s own hand wound High Tea set, and the ashtray bridge – which is rocking three brass saddles for true Tele tones – is a Gotoh In-Tune model. Meanwhile, the pots are 250K CTS, and the switch and jack are by Switchcraft.

The nitro-finished neck and the board – which get a PLEK treatment before being shipped out of PJD HQ – are maple, and you get 22 Jescar nickel frets. The neck features PJD’s lovely, comfy C-shaped profile and has a 10” radius and a 25.5” scale length. You also get a bone nut, and Gotoh vintage style tuners at the headstock.

It all comes in a pretty chunky gig bag too – so the value is adding up and up here. But the key question is, as ever: how good is the York in terms of tones and playability? In this video, we’re going to find out, as I put the guitar through its paces 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!
00:11 Introduction to the PJD York Standard
01:17 Specs and info
03:49 Today’s rig and plan

Clean Sounds
04:30 Clean tone reference chords on all pickup settings
04:43 Ringing open indie pop chords
04:55 Strummed country chords
05:14 Country ballad arpeggios
05:27 Country lead sound
05:33 Poppy barre chords
05:49 Blues progression
06:00 Funky rhythms
06:13 Ascending droning indie chords
06:27 Tone control test
07:26 Atmospheric arpeggios

Light and Medium Overdrive Sounds
07:45 Kings Of Leon inspired riff
07:59 Droning open string indie riff
08:11 Southern rock picked arpeggios
08:31 Garage rock riff
08:47 Choppy barre chords
08:57 Upbeat indie barre chords
09:27 Volume control roll off test
09:47 Fat indie rock rhythm chords
10:17 Indie octave chords
10:42 Airbourne inspired rock riff
10:53 Quacky rock riff
11:02 AC/DC inspired riff
11:20 Hendrix inspired riff
11:37 Classic rock riff

Heavy Overdrive Sounds
11:51 Van Halen inspired riff
12:10 80s rock riff
12:29 Melodic hard rock lead
12:50 Classic hard rock riff
13:08 Glam rock riff
13:23 NWOBHM riff
13:42 Chunky alt rock chords
14:05 Alternative rock riff
14:19 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
14:33 Pop punk melodic lead riff
14:48 Pop punk riff
15:01 Punk rock power chords
15:15 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
15:31 Modern rock palm-muted chords (Drop D)
15:56 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D)

Heavy Distortion Sounds (all in Drop D)
16:13 Metal chugging riff
16:30 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
16:43 Pop metal riff
16:53 Heavy metal lead sound
17:08 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff
17:21 Hardcore punk riff

17:33 My thoughts
18:35 First impressions and looks
18:57 Weight
19:46 Build quality and hardware
20:21 Playability, neck and balance
21:24 Sounds and pickups discussion
24:05 What other similar guitars are out there?
26:43 My conclusions on the York Standard and why you should buy it

My setup was as follows: I ran the York into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed and my Revv G3 pedals for overdrive and heavy distortion sounds. 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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