Solar Guitars by Ola Englund

[cthsqd]

Ahh right, my bad

 

[ezboarderz]

the latest svart 7 string with a floyd looks pretty sick, i must say.

 

[ezboarderz]

I waited to long to find the url for it but its here: https://www.solar-guitars.com/product/a1-7fr-svart-carbon-black-matte/

€1250 and it comes with the FR 1000 instead of the special. Thats actually pretty competitive pricing for the specs.

 

[Tisca]

S and V Svart series models with Evertune still missing and will inevitably arrive. If the price is ok I'm putting my buying pants on.
I'm liking that they've listened to the ppl who don't like the fretboard logo and more models with binding came also.

 

[Ericjutsu]

There's always Schecter XXX if you want something real classy

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I used to have this guitar

 

[Zado]

Anyone here talking me out of Solars?

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

The Evertune was a good idea. I noticed she was constantly retuning her Hamer between songs. Apparently that thing refused to stay in tune for longer than a couple songs

The more I think about it the more bummed imma be if she gets a sig model and it's just another pointy modern specced King V clone. I really hope she's able to convince them to do something more classic shaped.

 

[STRHelvete]

The more I think about it the more bummed imma be if she gets a sig model and it's just another pointy modern specced King V clone. I really hope she's able to convince them to do something more classic shaped.

That would be cool.

 

[Albake21]

Anyone here talking me out of Solars?

I don't know if I'd talk someone out of a Solar, as I do think they're decent for the price if it's truly what you want. But I will say the Solar S1.6HLB I had just was not that nice looking or feeling.

With that said, I also played a different model before that (E1.7FBB) in store and thought it played wonderfully. So maybe there's just some inconsistencies.

All I know is I've been very turned off from them since my S1.6 experience.

 

[RevDrucifer]

I’m definitely not talking anyone out of them. This will be my 2nd once I squirrel away a little more funds.

 

[Zado]

So all in all they are fine guitars but nothing absolutely must have right? Cause price here in Europe is tempting, much more than LTDs and Schecs, and I dig the very basic look. What are the problem usually seen on them? Do they feel plastic-y? Or sound dull? Frets?

 

[RevDrucifer]

So all in all they are fine guitars but nothing absolutely must have right? Cause price here in Europe is tempting, much more than LTDs and Schecs, and I dig the very basic look. What are the problem usually seen on them? Do they feel plastic-y? Or sound dull? Frets?

Well, when I make comparisons of the Solar I own with what I’ve known for years, I’m mainly comparing them to 90’s MIJ Ibanez stuff. My E-type is flawless, even though it’s a B-stock. It took me 5 minutes to find the dent on the face of the body when I got it and I’ve done far more damage to it since then.

Sorry, it’s not flawless; one of the side dots isn’t perfectly in line with the other ones. That and the “dent” were the only two flaws in mine. Fretwork, overall construction, finish, everything else knocked it out of the park.

While that’s the only one I played, my buddy has 4-5 of them and the only issue he ran into was a slight imperfection in the wood around the nut area that wasn’t even an issue he wanted to spend time fixing, if I remember right it just wasn’t sanded perfectly smooth in the nut slot, but didn’t fuck anything up.

Be prepared for someone to bring up cracked fingerboards, I’ve been asking for proof it’s happened on more than one guitar but all I get back is “trust me bro”. $20 goes to the first person who can show me multiple pics of cracked fingerboards with proof it’s not the same guitar!

 

[TheBloodstained]

So all in all they are fine guitars but nothing absolutely must have right? Cause price here in Europe is tempting, much more than LTDs and Schecs, and I dig the very basic look. What are the problem usually seen on them? Do they feel plastic-y? Or sound dull? Frets?

They are just solid workhorses. Nothing super special, and yet not super basic. I still very much enjoy my first-run A2.6 (NGD: Solar A2.6 - Pics and first impression) which I keep in B standard tuning.
It sounds great, plays great and - objectively - looks great.

I've been tempted more than once to add another Solar to my collection, but a lot of the models often comes with specs/features which aren't to my liking. I'm somewhat picky I guess...

 

[Tisca]

New Svart models today, V's with Evertune.
Every product on release day has B-stock with QC passed stickers. wtf

 

[RevDrucifer]

New Svart models today, V's with Evertune.
Every product on release day has B-stock with QC passed stickers. wtf

Kinda how that works for any company, guitars come in, they check for functionality and finish, if it’s all good that’s all there is to it, if it’s in perfect working order but has a blemish in the finish it becomes B-stock.

I dunno about you, but I’d rather they identify the b-stocks instead of the customers doing it for them after they’ve received the guitar, which is how Gibson does it.

 

[drb]

Well, when I make comparisons of the Solar I own with what I’ve known for years, I’m mainly comparing them to 90’s MIJ Ibanez stuff. My E-type is flawless, even though it’s a B-stock. It took me 5 minutes to find the dent on the face of the body when I got it and I’ve done far more damage to it since then.

Sorry, it’s not flawless; one of the side dots isn’t perfectly in line with the other ones. That and the “dent” were the only two flaws in mine. Fretwork, overall construction, finish, everything else knocked it out of the park.

While that’s the only one I played, my buddy has 4-5 of them and the only issue he ran into was a slight imperfection in the wood around the nut area that wasn’t even an issue he wanted to spend time fixing, if I remember right it just wasn’t sanded perfectly smooth in the nut slot, but didn’t fuck anything up.

Be prepared for someone to bring up cracked fingerboards, I’ve been asking for proof it’s happened on more than one guitar but all I get back is “trust me bro”. $20 goes to the first person who can show me multiple pics of cracked fingerboards with proof it’s not the same guitar!

I have an A1.6 and A2.7. The former is how you describe and feels practically flawless, I genuinely couldn't ask for anything better. The latter had a small, but real, crack at the first fret (fixed by the shop I bought it from), in fact I was the first person to post about the issue on the main Facebook owners group. There have been an abundance of evidenced occasions of cracked fretboards, even in other materials such as roasted maple. So, with the greatest of respect, outright stating the issue doesn't exist is cognitive bias. However, generally the cracks are barely even an aesthetic issue, let alone functional, and seem to have been otherwise rectified outside of 2020-2021 made guitars.

Pic of crack, it looked worse in person but still wasn't much of an issue:

 

[Zado]

Are stock pickups keepers? Or is the swap mandatory? What about the overall hardware, is it on par with high end Schecs and LTDs?

 

[RevDrucifer]

I have an A1.6 and A2.7. The former is how you describe and feels practically flawless, I genuinely couldn't ask for anything better. The latter had a small, but real, crack at the first fret (fixed by the shop I bought it from), in fact I was the first person to post about the issue on the main Facebook owners group. There have been an abundance of evidenced occasions of cracked fretboards, even in other materials such as roasted maple. So, with the greatest of respect, outright stating the issue doesn't exist is cognitive bias. However, generally the cracks are barely even an aesthetic issue, let alone functional, and seem to have been otherwise rectified outside of 2020-2021 made guitars.

Pic of crack, it looked worse in person but still wasn't much of an issue:

I was more than happy to unconfirm my bias with actual evidence via pics, but as I said, no one ever presented them to me. Hahahaha I think you can find another post by me in this thread saying “Show me pics of anything but the same red Solar with a crack in the fingerboard”, though the pic I was referring to had the cracks around the inlay and it was the only pic I was ever shown when asked for proof.

I’d be more than happy to change my stance on it all, I was back when it was being said incessantly, but I ultimately just put it in the ‘internet hater hype’ file because despite how many times I asked for proof, it was never given, outside of the same pic of a red A type with a crack around the inlay.

The bias was created by seeing more texts posts about issues without seeing any actual proof of it.

 

[RevDrucifer]

Are stock pickups keepers? Or is the swap mandatory? What about the overall hardware, is it on par with high end Schecs and LTDs?

I initially planned on changing mine then decided against it when I actually got it in my hands. I’m on the fence now. It sounds fine, it’s just more curiosity that’s making me wonder if something else would sound better. I’ve been wanting to put a Nazgûl in it for a while.

 

[drb]

I was more than happy to unconfirm my bias with actual evidence via pics, but as I said, no one ever presented them to me. Hahahaha I think you can find another post by me in this thread saying “Show me pics of anything but the same red Solar with a crack in the fingerboard”, though the pic I was referring to had the cracks around the inlay and it was the only pic I was ever shown when asked for proof.

I’d be more than happy to change my stance on it all, I was back when it was being said incessantly, but I ultimately just put it in the ‘internet hater hype’ file because despite how many times I asked for proof, it was never given, outside of the same pic of a red A type with a crack around the inlay.

The bias was created by seeing more texts posts about issues without seeing any actual proof of it.

Yeah that's fair, I'm not gonna insist you trust me (bro) over your own experience. There definitely were a good few on the Facebook group for a period, but my point was that regardless it was hardly the issue it was made out to be. I'd still get another Solar any day, they're great guitars.