Man, I've been thinking of how these would look with a pickguard and I thought it'd be cool if there were a form-fit one that fit into those horn carves somehow. I think because of Ibanez/Fender guards I want it to go down to the bridge on the left side.
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As for Solar, I have an E-type and it's fanfuckingtastic. They're made at the same joint Schecters are at WMI, so along the quality of Schecters in the same price point. Mine was a B-stock and was still really great as far as QC goes, the fret job is insane for stainless steel on a $1200 guitar. My benchmark has always been 90's Ibanez MIJ RG's, if that says anything. This is easily on par with many Ibanez Prestige's I've played and the general 90's RG. My JEM showed up with more issues than my Solar did.
The pickups are good, it's what you hear every time Ola plays any of his Solars, though there are two types of it now. I think the Solar+ has more output and an EQ tweak? I replaced mine, which I do with every guitar so it really says nothing about the stock pickup, I just had a specific thing I was going for. The pots are crap, I gotta replace mine as I have a loose tone knob and tightening the knob itself does nothing, it's the shaft and the travel just doesn't feel like a quality pot. The Luminlay side dots are pretty slick.
You can bend just fine with an Evertune but there IS a learning curve to it just the same as there is with any bridge. There's some nuance around Zones 2 and 3, you need to be right on the cusp of Zone 3 for bending to feel normal. You basically just tune the string up until it starts raising pitch, then back it down right until it falls into proper pitch and stop. There's a huge amount of travel in Zone 2 and if you put it in any of that area outside of the cusp of 3, bending will have that 'latency' feel.
They do kill some sustain past the 12th fret, or maybe it's better to say notes decay differently past the 12th fret. There's still sustain but there's an abrupt cutoff at the end of the sustained note that really implies the idea of less sustain. When playing leads I've yet to run into a situation where I've needed more from it, which is why I think the decay is implying it more than it actually exists.
I'm not sure I'm going to get another Evertune guitar. After I get a Tele I'm getting another Solar w/ a Floyd as I need a new 24-fret shredder but I want another chugging guitar after that and I'll likely go with something with a Hipshot or ToM just to compare a fixed bridge Solar to the Evertune.
