Almost Amazing: Soviet-Era Guitar Looks So Good, But...

It's so close to being a desirable guitar, but...

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Tim

[guitourney]

Tim I get an ad every 3 mins. I don't know if it's intentional or not but it seems a little excessive

[lanerj]

That guitar looks like when animators who haven't ever played a guitar have to design a guitar for a show or movie

[DrewKane]

Honestly, those old Soviet guitars and the weirder Harmony/Teisco stuff out of Japan are some of my favourite guitars of all time, looks wise.

[zibbezabba]

The original headstock was one of the best features of the guitar IMHO. It had the look of a mandolin about it.

[ChampionOrchestra]

Your whole moding of this guitar is such a "Soviet" thing in itself.

[Jurgen_Wulf]

This guitar (with effects built-in and working) is a noisecore monster. Shame you cut off the headstock

[Cheyne_TetraMFG]

6:21 Fitting that you're listening to Rage and working on a Soviet guitar LOL

[russellhill]

I used to own one back in the 80s. It looked so modern and cool so I bought it. The price was 245r or 275r a rough equivalent to 300usd back then. The guitar was a souless piece of junk even compared to other guitars made in USSR. Possibly the worst guitar ever. Good memories though )

[Fernando.Canal]

If I had this guitar I'd spend more time to chose a tone than actually playing

[jvin]

Instead of a symmetrical 'Gibson-style' headstock a bit of offset angle on the headstock would match better with the body style.

[etoineschrdlu]

About that 9 volt battery compartment: The industry standards for battery sizes are amazingly loose. I will assume the Soviet designers only had access to the cheap batteries and those tend to be on the small end of industry standard. Higher quality cells tend to be larger, so I'm not surprised that yours did not fit. How do I know? I design battery compartments for handheld scientific instruments. I have designed instruments that use AA, C, and several different Li-ion cells, and I have found that there is a huge tolerance allowed for variation in size. Our marketing department wants our instruments to as small as possible but they also want the largest battery packaged inside it. I

[Rowsdowr]

Oh man. You should do a collab with Look Mum No Computer where you guys both get some guitar with built in effects and mod them to do different things.

[robbietremblay]

I can't believe this showed up in my recommendations! The lead guitar in my band bought one of these recently and we r waiting for it from a guitar shop

[elijahlayman]

In the Soviet Union, the instructions read «after assembly, process with a file» 😁

[skaeggo]

If it was a keyboard, that switch right under the strings that's impossible not to hit would be the DEMO button. Maybe you could mod it to play a recording of stairway to heaven when you hit it? I feel like the original creators of this guitar just didn't think of it or it would have been an original feature.

[krabik]

Как гитара она не очень но в рукопашном бою незаменима ). А вообще играли на подобных и радовались.

[moonboogien]

In my humble opinion, you should definitely strip out those old effects circuits and put in some new ones.
A phaser is cool and all, but a reverb would be a better and more versatile effect. A fuzz cicuit is always a good choice.
Man, that guitar does look unique. I love the vibe too. Awesome score.

[spidertheakronaut]

Man thanks for doing this, this is why I learned to work on guitars. Had an old Silvertone as a kid my local guitar store wouldn't fix because it "wasn't worth the time to fix it" and if I wanted it repaired I should "learn to do it myself"

Fell in love with Tonika guitars later and here we are 🤷‍♂️

[Avetarx]

Great video. What's crazy is that guitar was made in my hometown Borisov (Belarus) and the model is even named after the city (Borisov Solo II). I remember vividly that my father used to have one in cherry red color.

[wvom]

Cut the headstock...

That headstock was so cool before.