The Lucio
Three pickups. Full leather pickguard. Sunburst. The color.
Named for who came before.
The Lucio honors the family of ranchers who worked the land for decades before us. Their name shaped the place the workshop sits on.
The Lucio is a made-to-order walnut electric guitar built by Preston and Jim Wimberly around a three-pickup silhouette. Same walnut body, same Tru-Oil finish, same maple neck, same blued steel, same blackened nickel tuners, same blackened nickel ashtray bridge cover, same raw brass saddles as The Jack. The difference is in the pickguard and the signal: full-coverage veg-tanned leather, the Wimberly sunburst, a signature finish, and three Seymour Duncan Antiquity Strat pickups on a Gunstreet 50s wiring harness.
The maple headstock face is Tru-Oil finished and signed with one small burned W. No decal. No inlay. No surrounding ornament. The W stands alone.
The color.
Where the Jack is the cut, the Lucio is the color: three single-coils, a full sweep of hand-dyed leather, and the sunburst running dark at the edges to amber-gold at the center.
One pickup or three. Cut or color. Both walnut. Both leather. Both signed with the W.
Dyed by hand, amber to walnut.
8 oz veg-tanned leather, full coverage, cut and burnished by hand, then routed for the Lucio's three pickups. The detail shown here is the dye work before final routing: dark at the edges, fading to amber-gold at the center, in the same family as a tobacco-burst rifle stock or a saddle skirt.
It darkens with use. Every mark becomes part of the record.
How it is built.
- Configuration
- Three single-coil pickups. Five-way selector switch. Full-coverage leather pickguard. Top-mounted jack. Three knobs, volume, tone, tone.
- Body
- Solid walnut. Hand-rubbed Tru-Oil finish. No poly, no varnish, no spray.
- Neck
- Vintage-style maple neck with rosewood fretboard. Maple headstock face, Tru-Oil finished.
- Pickups
- Seymour Duncan Antiquity Strat set, three vintage-voiced single coils across neck, middle, and bridge.
- Bridge
- Hardtail Strat bridge with blackened nickel ashtray bridge cover. Steel plate fire-colored in the shop. Raw brass compensated saddles left to patina honestly.
- Controls
- Three top-mounted dome knobs, oxide-finished steel. Five-way blade selector.
- Wiring
- Gunstreet 50s harness. Hand-soldered.
- Hardware finish
- Bridge plate, ferrules, neck plate, jack cup, control hardware, and pickguard fasteners are blued or fire-colored steel. Ashtray bridge cover is blackened nickel. Saddles are raw brass. All sealed with oil or wax, wiped almost dry.
- Tuners
- Vintage oval Gotoh-style machines, JAX-blackened, lightly carded after the blackener sets, sealed with a thin oil or wax wipe. Gunmetal functional screws.
- Pickguard
- 8 oz veg-tanned leather, full coverage. Cut, burnished, and dyed by hand. Engraved with the Wimberly pattern. Sunburst standard. Fastened with blued steel hardware finished in the shop.
- Headstock
- Maple, Tru-Oil finished. One small burned W on the face, branded into the wood. No decal, no inlay, no surrounding ornament. The W stands alone.
Commission a Lucio.
Built by Preston and Jim Wimberly in a father-and-son shop. New builds are currently waitlisted; once a slot opens, build time is 12–16 weeks.
Notes from the bench.
The shop sends a build journal now and then. Wood, leather, steel, and what comes off the bench. No noise.