Kit Guitar From Solo Music Gear | Stock Hardware Demo
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2017
- Check out how the stock hardware and pickups perform on this guitar kit. I'm pleasantly surprised.
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Sounds really good also you don't need a disclaimer about your playing you play the guitar fine keep up the good work
Thank you.
Ya, downplaying your playing is always the best bet. Being conceited about your playing makes you sound like an A hole.... even if you can back it up like Yngwie Malmsteen. Case in point, Yngwie Malmsteen lol.
Hahaha classic example. “More is more!?!”
Honestly, this is awesome! I’ve watched so many of our videos and I’m confident on restoring my old strat back to new condition or better!
I’m glad to hear that. I hope your project goes well!
Just so you know watching your videos got me into making and customizing guitars. I added it to my current gunsmithing business. I been playing for years but never thought to go this route. Thanks.
That’s great to hear!
i AM SHOCKED! YOU AND THE PICKUPS SOUND REALLY GOOD! PEOPLE WILL WATCH MORE IF U PLAY MORE! NICE JOB, MAN! COOL DEMO
New series: amateur hour pickup demos haha.
I just bought one of the double F hole Telecaster kits - Never seen one before except in their kits - looking forward to getting it and the build.
i have been building for 30 years, i bought this kit, saw all of Brad's vid's. GREAT JOB , Brad. and he is spot on !!!! i was so impressed with the kit, the pocket, and ya the pick up's they are not bad! way to go SOLO MUISIC GEAR !!!!!! I will buy more and spread the word. for a DIY kit this is the best bang for your buck!!
Very glad to hear that yours is good too. I wasn’t 100% sure if maybe I got lucky or something.
Looking forward to your finish job and mods!
Thank you.
awesome. Thank you so much. Seems like a good deal and pretty straight forward assembly. Yay!
Nice job on guitar set up..seems to play great and your playing is fine! I've just ordered a Solo Tele kit and can't wait for it to arrive. I'll be using your videos as a guide.
I hope it goes well for you.
Hey Brad. Thankx 4 getting back to me, that was pretty coool of u. I posted your site on my face book today, I have buddies that like to tinger around with guitars. I laugh at the wise cracks from u and us ! Ha !
Haha thanks Dave.
The guitar sounds great!!
I would have been very glad to have this purchase. I am playing my Tele now .I don't think mine sounds better.
Good job!!
Amen!!!
Thanks Chris.
I liked your noodling around and you can tell you enjoy playing when you do play!
It’s nice to have time to actually play one for a change haha.
I'm loving my P Bass kit from Solo. I've gotten all advice of painting from you and going good so far. I LOVED the neck I got, it was actually in better shape than the neck on my Ibanez NDM4, that one was full of rough spots that needed sanding STRAIGHT FROM THE FACTORY I of course upgraded to Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders so can't speak about the pickups that came with my P Bass kit. I'll be buying another kit from them for that LP Standard I've been wanting.
Awesome to hear. I’m glad you like your kit.
This is getting fun.
I need to create a second account just so I can use it to comment before you.
Brad Angove hahah. I will stop.
Well, you are definitely winning. Usually by the time I get the email notification for yours there are already 10 comments.
That actually sounded really good. I’ve been converted some what on the tele’s. Great project for my son and I. I’m sold. O and nice job playing. Do more.✌🏻
Thank you.
Great job! I like your vids! Looking forward to the build out. Best of luck!
Thank you!
I know I'm way too late but I have to throw in my two cents. I am definitely getting one of these and when I get it I'm putting in one Jerry Donahue Telecaster pickup.
You are trully awesome men! I learned more on how to paint properly. Thanks
Thanks for watching.
Sweet playing, and super cute cat. 10/10 Liked 👍
Such a new millennium house build: Beige walls, Home Depot hollow core doors, plastic louvered blinds. Reminds me of my time in Oilberta.
The walls are grey.
Those pickups sounds actually good, thanks for the demo
Thanks for watching.
I have to agree with the group here. Your playing and the cheap electronics were pretty good
Thank you. It seems to have gone well.
You sound way better than me when I started 50 years ago. Love your videos!
Thanks Monty
Sounds good
Love it!
Pretty nice tone actually
That sounds pretty good to me! I think the cat was asking you to paint a “Hello Kitty” guitar. LOL!
That cat is ridiculous.
Those pickups sound good for el cheapo's. Can't wait to see what you have planned for this kit.
Hopefully it turns out ok haha. As usual, I plan to demonstrate a bunch of techniques, some of which may not really jive with the whole theme, but they’re good to know.
Im Impressed Brad I Really Like The Sound of The Pick Ups To Say There Stock, And You Should Play More Liked What You Did Thank You
Thanks. I’m pretty pleased with them; as you can tell.
Sounded good man
I’m glad you like it.
I knew that you were going to be good, when you said that you were not. Excellent playing. I do have a suggestion. Build one and do the minimum to enhance the possibility of maximum success. Such as the cavity insulation. There are many people out there who just don't want to sink anything into upgrading a DIY kit. As Trevor Wilkinson states, you go the route of building a cheap kit and plan to upgrade you could have and should have bought his kit. The trouble with his kits is that they are so expensive you could have bought a Fender Telecaster, or close enough to it.
Great video. I love the way you eventually finished the guitar. I built this same kit and left it totally stock. I plugged it into a Peavey Bandit Red Stripe mic’d it into garage band. Then wrote a simple tune and recorded it. The tune has a bassline and four guitar parts each using different pickup settings and this guitar really does sound great. There are three rhythm parts and a solo. I go through the three pickup positions during the solo. Honestly guys for the money you can’t beat this kit. I’ll be building more for sure. Cheers!
Thanks Lucas. That sounds like a cool recording project. I wish I knew how to do that properly haha.
I did a video of it. If you'd like to see it let me know. I'd be thrilled if you might be willing to share. I did not want to spam your channel. Cheers!
Post the link. It’ll probably get filtered, but I can fix that.
Thank you Brad! I appreciate that very much. Here's the link; ua-cam.com/video/203J5_6gRS8/v-deo.html
Cheers.
Nice job there Brad.....thanks a lot for doing the bog standard test of what the kit comes with. I think that you're pleasantly surprised, no? Of course things can be improved, no doubt about that, but you're certainly not starting off with a dog and I think SOLO deserve some credit here. I love the fit of the neck...magic!
I'm looking forward to see where you go with this Tele. Now, go get some beer!! :p
I’m glad I ended up doing this. You’re right; I’m pleasantly surprised. A few adjustments and this would actually be a pretty decent instrument just with the stuff out of the box.
My body is ready for this journey.
How many times have you had that whispered in your ear...
Nice guitar kit at least the headstock is shaped and Rosewood style neck with binding on one side too.Good vibrato for a guitar player who says hes not that good.Oh us guitar players why are we so always so modest about are guitar skills,LOLL.Nice job Brad thanks for the video Glenn in N.Y.
Thanks Glen.
Thanks Brad your shop and skills are very impressive on its own.After seeing your videos of this guitar and looking at other kits of the same guitar over the last few days.The idea of you embracing this kit from Solo to buy one and putting it together sold me as I ordered one today,LOL.Many years ago late 60S I bought new
a 1968or69 real Fender white Telecaster it was very cheaply made then but as you know what there worth now its crazy. I think this kit is probably better than that old Fender only my opinion maybe not,Ha.. Thanks again ...Glenn.
I was wondering if you were planing on doing a series of "How to finish a guitar with Nitrocellulose" but with spray cans, such as Northwest Guitars UK Nitrocellulose paints and lacquers... That would be really cool for those that love the vintage look but don't have the spraying equipment to work with regular Nitro stuff! Thanks in advance! Keep doing what you do man, LOVE the content!
I did one, but it was titled differently. And I used a vinyl sealer at the beginning.
The Behlen stringed instrument lacquer is nitrocellulose based, so have a look at my series on how to finish your guitar with behlen’s guitar finishing kit.
I'm 56 years old and I've played my whole life on some of the finest guitars around and in my opinion the best guitar that I would play the most would be one that I built myself even from the kit. If more people would only do this instead of wasting money at Guitar Center they would be a lot more in tune with their instrument, pardon the pun! Great job buddy!
Thank you sir!
Surprisingly the neck pup sounded really nice
I was pretty pleased with it.
I like the way you play guitar.
Thank you.
What a gorgeous cat !
Well for an inexpensive kit those pickups are not terrible. For an entry-level to see if you're going to like playing guitar, practice and learn some stuff on it before you move on, it seems reasonable. In the upgrades I suggest you change the selector switch to a fender. 4 way and take advantage of the pickups in series option that affords because it's available and free. Then replace all that cheap Chinese plastic wire with traditional vintage cloth covered. Improve the tone capacitor to a .033uf orange dip, and if you can find it use a braided shielded wire between the volume control and the output Jack In addition to shielding the entire cavities especially if you're going to use non noiseless pickups. If you can't use braided wire to the output, then twist the wires to 4 turns per inch. And then if you want to go one step further to improve high frequency bypass when using the volume control on the guitar install a treble bleed bypass capacitor on the volume control between lug 1 and lug 2. If you Google this you'll find options also on UA-cam. Anyway I'm looking forward to seeing what you end up doing with it.
2bikemike better listen to him brad I️ look up to this guy he builds awesome guitars to I’m going to take his advice myself when I️ Build this kit.
Thanks Mike. Always appreciate your insight.
Of course I’m going to listen to him haha. It’s usually pretty easy to tell when someone knows what they’re talking about, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about mention a treble bleed bypass capacitor haha. That’s a pretty high-end mod, in that most of the less knowledgeable folk just keep the tone knob dimed all the time and don’t realize that half of them are basically on/off switches in stock form haha.
Brad Angove
Okay dokey. I amended my above comment a bit.
Ronald Leggett Jr
Thanks for the plug Ron. Appreciate it.
The neck need 2 days strung in tune after initial setup to stabilize. I will be changing the nut to a Guyker adjustable nut found on Amazon. I use them on all my guitars.
robert carra! Please, see if you can follow me... I saw Jimi Hendrix. There is a reason he played
a right-handed Stratocaster upside-down, and being left-handed isn't the most important reason.
For the first time in human musical history a stringed instrument had individual, two-way adjustable
bridge pieces for each string. You could use an oscilloscope, what TV repairmen used, to tune a Strat.
That's why Jimi was able to use the new phase and flange effects he had custom built for him,
being a former U.S.A.F. radar technician, and be in tune for multiple overdubs with multiple effects.
If you have adjustable bridge pieces and didn't use an oscilloscope to tune, you're not in tune enough.
I have never heard of an adjustable nut. It's all about being as bonded as possible with the neck wood.
You might be typing about a locking nut, something that turns changing a string into a repair job.
You don't seem to be the kind of rock star who needs a roadie to come onstage as part of the show.
Brad, might be a good idea to change the tone pot to a Bourns or a CTS 250K audio taper pot, to make the rolloff smoother.
I’m hoping a new cap and possibly a treble bleed with accomplish that.
eh brad time for pitch video sick and tire of companies u need to buy this telecaster thanks so much john stay safe merry xmax
hey brad. that kit does not look cheap at all. pickups sound good overall.
Love the cat
Thanks Filipe. I’m happy with it.
Sounds surprisingly good. Looks like the kitty wants to play it, so that's like the Swiss flag - a big plus. I'd pay for one of these and then stain it to look like George Harrison's rosewood one.
Swiss flag haha. Never heard that one before.
Brad, I think your kitty wanted to hear you play "Cat Scratch Fever". ;)
Hahaha
Man, these guys are located just down the street from me! Looking at picking up a bass kit!
Tell them I sent you haha. They’re a good group over there. I’ve heard a lot of good things about their customer service from the people I’ve sent. I’ve also heard one guy say he had a bad experience though, which I found surprising.
If the guitar buzzes More when you touch the strings, I'm going to suggest your input jack is wired backwards. It should remove buzz when you act as the ground by touching it.
Yes; it would definitely be a sign of some substantial grounding issue. That would be very funny if the input jack was wired backwards haha.
I only know because I've done it lol :D
I’m pretty sure I did that on my first one back in the day.
Another great video Brad. How is the neck pickup mounted? It looked like it was just screwed to the pick guard. You playing sounds good.
The neck pickup was just mounted to the guard the usual way on this one. Of course I changed that later in haha.
I bought a Fender Telecaster many years ago and the pickups were horrendous. I ended up routing out the body and replacing them with Di Marzio humbuckers. Should be receiving a cheap bass kit from Amazon tomorrow. Fortunately I work for a company which has full woodworking tools and I'm looking forward to getting a good bass.
Nice. Having access to decent tools is always helpful.
You know, I wouldn’t change anything on this guitar. It sounds awesome. A little shielding maybe, not even sure about that. It’s “Made in Canada”, sounds like the company producing this got it all right, there’s no need to change anything. I will be ordering a LPK-75 Les Paul Maple top with Mahogany body, right after I finish typing,😃
I was really pleased with this one. I’m almost 100% sure it’s made in China though.
i am impress with the pickups i play blues bro
Wow! You play like this after only 3 months lessons..?! I'm jealous,I am only learning now and it's so damn hard.. Thumbs up man! Oh and nice guitar kit.. :)
Thanks David. Those lessons were a long one ago, so I’ve learned more on my own since then. I also used to play violin, which made learning guitar a bit easier.
Those ceramic pups would have to go for me. I'm not a big fan. Nice playing for someone that doesn't practice. I'm more of a fan of vintage spec wound A-II or A-V pickups for Tele. Thanks for this video series. I just ordered Warmoth parts for a Telepartscaster.
Warmoth has some quality stuff. That should be good.
If anyone can help, its got a yellow wire from the neck pick up.
A red wire from the bridge pick up
And two black and one yellow from the control unit.
Im thinking about getting this kit. you made it look easy. I have a few guitar wood stain questions if you have the time.
Fire away.
I noticed a lot of guys knocking the pickups and electronics on these kits. Yours actually sounds nice! For the price I think it's hard to beat!
Ya; I’m pleasantly surprised by the quality of them.
Brad Angove that's good to hear. Im waiting on a Tele and a Strat kit. Should be delivered today. Can't wait! Definitely gonna do a relic finish on Strat. Not sure on Tele. What type of finish did you put on yours?
It’s a weird combination of things honestly. It’s not finished yet either. Unfortunately, with my schedule being what it is, I’m kind of in an upload as you go situation, so I’m only a few steps ahead of the video series at any given time.
Brad Angove ok...thanks for gettin back to me. They were just delivered and I opened them both. The quality is really surprising for the price! Everything looks great! Can't wait to get started. Take care!☺
Good to hear. I hope they go well for you.
Wow. 😍
“Sorry I can’t play guitar” now watch be border line shred some licks, lol, good job bro. Also did you shave the body? Looked like a chest indent on the back
I did, but didn’t mention it because I haven’t posted the tutorial for that yet. That’s next on the list.
Has anyone done any builds lately. I’m thinking of buying one but am still very skeptical of current kits
thx man...can you do a video on how to shave the body...I have a squire affinity tele and the boxyness is the only thing that bugs me...prob because I've been playing ibanez rg's up until now.
Shave the body? You mean like make it thinner?
Oh you really did turn into Jonny 5 on metal mode haha.
Can you zoom in on that binding?
It looks like the kits we get and it took me ages to realise its not real binding, it's a line of ink all the way around the wood.
I usually keep the control panel too. There's not much difference swapping them unless you want a different colour.
Put one of those amazon hot rails in the bridge. They're only like ten bucks and they're silent but beastly sounding.
More like Johnny 3. As in what he would sound like if he only had 3 fingers. I ordered a hot rail. I believe this one is a thin plastic binding.
Brad Angove they all fit straight in as long as you ordered the telecaster Bridge version
Yup. I’m not worried; it should fit fine.
By the way..these solo kits have string through the bridge plate ends rather than strings running through the body. Have you considered drilling holes and stringing through body as part of your upgrades?
I have considered it. I don’t see it as an upgrade per se, but I might do one like that at some point.
That kit was like $120 US. I'm impressed.
Hi Brad, great channel. question: I just bought an ES style semi hollow from Solo Guitar and had a quick question on finishing. I plan on staining the top using artist oil paints and then using wipe on poly. Should I put on a sealing compound before the poly or can I just apply the poly with sandpaper to fill the grain and then build up coats from there? thanks in advance, Doug
Hi Doug. You can’t really use the sandpaper method to apply poly over paint. It will sand into the paint and possibly remove some etc. It’s generally pretty likely to screw It up.
If you put some sealer on there first that works with that paint, you can just wipe or brush on the poly afterward.
Hello Brad,guitar I got from Solo plays real good totally assembled now .Did you have to lower the nut on your kit guitar mine was way too high and unplayable in first position out of tune.I popped it out and took off from the bottom about 1/16 of an inch and its perfect now.I also upgraded & ordered Fender tailpiece so I could put the Ashtray chrome bridge cover on.I like the look of that.Also installed thru body ferrules for the strings and a Fender logoed neck plate in the back for shits and giggles.May upgrade later the pickups for now sounds good enough.Love the guitar!Glenn in N.Y.
I didn't end up having to lower the nut on mine, but I hear that's a fairly common thing that people have to change.
Sounds pretty damned good for a mid level priced kit. Usually you get trash Pickups in kits
Ya, I’m actually quite happy with it. I’m going to switch them out regardless, but I might actually use them in a different project at some point.
Sorry Brad, I went in to Solo today but they don't do referrals except for online purchases. When they get the double neck Steinberger's back in I'll get it online.
No worries Steve. Thanks for thinking of me!
Are you going to change out that linear tone pot for an audio pot? That and upgrading the tone cap to an orange drop are the only changes I think I’d do to the controls. Maybe add a treble bleed, depending on the pickups you add.
I’m not sure if I’ll be changing the pots. I’ll probably do the caps though, and hopefully I can figure out the treble bleed. I’ve never done one before.
Brad Angove The treble bleed is so simple you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner. It’s a tone cap and resistor in parallel, and is soldered to the output and input poles on the volume pot. Basically just the two poles that aren’t the ground. Any 150K-ohm 1/4-watt resistor (1% tolerance) in parallel with a .001uF capacitor (I prefer orange drops) will do. The direction in which they are connected to each other and/or the volume pot doesn’t matter. I love it on my mustang, but my friend has a Charvel that has a sweet spot that a treble bleed circuit would kill, so it really depends on the guitar and it’s pickups as to whether or not it would be an improvement.
Brad Angove I pretty much always change any B (linear) pot that I get with an A (audio) pot so that it feels more like a control than an on/off switch.
I imagine it would be an improvement in this case.
tbh those stock electronix aren't the worst, it would be playable until u could upgrade to rail emg's i think when you shield it that hum will mostly go away
Ya, I would think a proper shielding job should take care of most of that.
Can you tell us what fretwork you did, what is necessary, and how you did it? Thanks
If you check the playlist for this build there is a specific video dedicated to the fretwork.
I like the instrument. Did yours come with the strat-style indent on the back?
The belly carve? No, I put one in myself later in the series haha.
hey brad i need suggestion from you (others may help me answer this as well)
i bought a new neck for my strat, a reversed headstock.
and its side end still have some little space so it wont snug fit one the body.
what should i do? get some tapes? or leave it be since it'll get screwed on?
thanks
Get a bit of veneer and glue it into the cavity so it fits snugly.
Idk if by cheap ebay you meant the PANGO ones? I just bought their flying v. Have you done Pango brand one yet? I think it's probably similar to the green prs you gave up on lol. The one I got looks fine enough and I figured it's kinda hard to mess up a 67 style V.
Also, I don't think you should even bother with the hardware they come with ever. I don't intend on opening the hardware bag and just using graph tech or something.
I haven’t done one of the Pango ones. I hope it goes well for you. Damn that PRS kit...
eh brad what type of file r using to file the frets what type yellow the tele had in the 1950 thanks john
Are you asking what type of fret file I use now?
man! for three months of lessons you soaked em all up dude cant bitch about that!!! sounds good!!!!
Haha thanks. That was a long time ago, so I’ve had some opportunity to improve since then. Plus I played violin and piano before I started, which helps.
I gottta get practicing!!! Played drums for 40 + years but want to learn guitar!
Luckily it’s a pretty straightforward instrument to get the hang of.
Ya Man Im findin that out!! Just need to get my drive goin! Thanks man!!
Hey Brad how did you figure where the string trees go? Are they necessary? Thanks
I hesitate to say that they’re necessary, but they do help with string tension. Particularly if the nut slots aren’t very deep. You just need to make sure they’re aligned with the strings. The positioning isn’t all that finicky. A strong retainer bar serves the same purpose. I would just look at a picture of a similar headstock, and approximate the position.
sorry brad i bought the kit from solo guitars alder body maple neck as same as the tool kit ever thought of doing a fender jazzmaster style guitar ? where can i get all the videos thanks john
I have a playlist on my channel for this build if you want the whole series.
I wouldn’t mind doing a jazzmaster; I just have a bunch of projects in the queue.
lovely cats brad..
They’re quite ridiculous sometimes.
How do you think this compares to a glarry gtl guitar for 89bucks
I’m not familiar with that one.
Sounds pretty good - I've been thinking of grabbing a Solo guitar kit since last year, I think this just sealed the deal. When are you doing the giveaway? You could save me from having to order my own ;)
The giveaway is in process. Have a look at the video and get your entries in if you haven’t yet. You have until Wednesday. The winner will be announced Friday.
keep up the good work
Thanks Neil.
In your opinion which guitar kit out there has impressed you?
The spalted maple top Les Paul from solomusicgear. I did a whole build series on it.
how's the action on it and how do you adjust the action if it's to high
The action was fine. You adjust it by setting the height of the saddles and fine tuning the truss rod adjustment.
I have one question: is this a canadian made kit, I mean, appart from the hardware, pick-ups ans everything else, is the neck and body are made in Canada?
I highly doubt it. It’s Canadian spec, but probably made in China.
You should do a soldering tutorial, that's the only guitar related thing im not confident in doing.
I’ll go through the process for that when we get to the assembly phase on this one. Unfortunately my soldering station is pretty mangled, but we will make it work haha.
Music to my ears brad, cheers.
Yeah, I am only replacing the electronics on my solo kits out of learning to change hardware, not because it *needs* it due to being crappy or anything...
Sounds fair.
Hey, just found your Videos and they are super helpful!
I got a question though:
What did you do to the low fret you found in the last video of this series? You said there was one and you didn't cover it in this one but you said the fretwork was finished.. Did you do that in a seperate video? I couldn't really find one.
I think I found the video (how to make an inexpensive guitar awesome (Part 3)) and it helped but just to be sure: did you level down all the other frets with the x-file to match the low one?
And when did you stop filing? When the marker was off everywhere?
Also just some constructive criticism: I think it would be easier to find the right videos for people like me if all vids of the series were called the same with just the added "Part X". :)
Sounds like you did find it. It was an axe file haha. Using a wider tool may also make this easier, but an axe file is very easy to acquire.
Yes, I just file until the marker along the tops of all of them is gone.
I have a standardized part of the title as well as “part x” in each of them to assist with navigating through the series. Obviously I don’t just want people to find them if they’re already looking through the series though. If I don’t add more than that to the title, how do you suppose people will search for/find them?
My apologies. That video’s title did need some work. I was having issues with the length of it.
Brad Angove Thank you very much for your response! That helped a lot!
I think I wrote it a bit wrong - the only thing meant was that in all the videos there was “solo music gear“ in the title but in the one I searched for there wasn't.
Also these two videos had “Part 3“ in their name, so I thought the other video was part of another series. That's all I meant with my “critic".
I modified the title to include that. You were right; it was a bit confusing.
I'd say sick the rail in but go for a push pull pot to split it. I shoved a rail in my tele but really missed the tele twang of the single so shoved a push pull split on the tone. The treble bleed only works when you turn the guitar volume knob down. As the volume drops, the tone muddies up but with a treble bleed, it doesn't. I rarely turn the knobs down, just use them as on/off switches so my bleed mods are pretty much pointless.
I like to keep my volume and tone down just slightly when I’m using a boosted crunch channel so I can use them as a bit of an extra boost when I want one.
I just turn it to 11.......
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I apologise if this is in the wrong place and if it breaks some rules of some sort, but HOW would you do something like this? A holographic type thing with UV glowy-ness in? I have an old tele body I think it would look good on. Or bad. In which case it'd be sanded and try something completely different again! But how would you go about doing this? Maybe do a demo on a guitar body? Or tell me to bugger off. Either / or. Cheers Brad.
Are you sure you posted the right link? I don’t see anything holographic or UV reactive in there. It just looks like an abstract spray if a variety of colours, likely done with an airbrush and some pretty standard paint.
+Brad Angove erm .. maybe. I was looking at it on my phone and it looked holographic on the teeny screen and the guy said he'd thrown uv powder in the mix.😔 sorry. but out of interest, how would you do a holographic finish? 😑
I wish I sucked at guitar as much as you do. Gawd
A little bit of editing helps haha.
How do you shield the cavities?
With conductive paint or copper tape. I have videos on it.
That there's a TeleCATster, obviously,
Hi Brad, just both a tele from Solo, i would like to stain or paint? butterscotch blone, any advice, tricks?
I don’t think you can really stain butterscotch blond. Have you found a stain for that?
@@BradAngove no stain, only paint at Benjamin Moore
Ok. You should be able to follow one of my many guitar finishing tutorials then.
I'd keep the pups. Seriously.
I just went on your post 4 the solo TC, I mentioned about basswood, everybody has there opinion, I think I'm going to order it $ 180.00 bucks to my door. in sarnia on. I enjoy building them keeps me out of trouble. My cat is the same way, I better cut the strings or my axe will be on the floor. Ha.
Bass wood isn’t the prettiest material. I wouldn’t call it junk though. It depends on what type of finish you’re looking for.
You’re in Sarnia? That’s convenient. My grandfather lives there.
Hey Brad, is that real binding, or just ink like you get on the kits we get in the UK?
Pretty sure it’s real binding. I’ll double check.
Cheers dude.
Confirmed. It’s a single ply plastic binding.
Wow, that's awesome. Major plus point for solo music kits, most kits at that price have either a fake ink binding, or no binding.
I have one of these kits. Haven't got a clue how to wire it up. And it came with no instructions.🤔🤔
There’s a video on that (made by me) on solo’s website/UA-cam.
@@BradAngove Ok thank you 👍
Brad, is there a link to that video please?
Lol "I'm no good keep in mind" lol busts out some cool shit
Haha well I tried.
How are the tuners on these kits?
Not bad. I replaced mine with inexpensive locking tuners that seem to work great.
Brad Angove I have always noticed that in the cheap Chinese kits that the tuners were the weakest link.... well, hardware in general.... but the tuners were always trash. Pups are always a "personal preference" as to wanting to upgrade.... and honestly, a bridge is a bridge. Thanks for the response my friend.
The way you’ve said caveat is a crime thats influence knows no bounds.
Nice to know I have such far reaching influence.
@@BradAngove lmaooo your channel slaps!