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Love this tele. Great sunburst.
What’s your “all-around” guitar?
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How about tree fiddy?
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No way. I paid $800 - err… $2500 for it!
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I’ve always wondered about Solar guitars. I’m not certain it would be an “all around” for me but I still want to eventually try one.I kinda look at it like, “if life goes sideways and I have to sell off all my gear, what guitar would I hang onto the longest hoping to keep it?” and that’s the silver one in this pic.
They’re almost identical guitars, but something about the silver one just inspires me to keep playing it. Written TONS of music on it and tend to forget how much I love it when I don’t play it for a bit, but when I do pick it up, the mojo just radiates from it.
I think, at the moment, I have about 15 guitars and basses, but this silver one is THE guitar for me.
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That’s pretty nifty. The S2s are still American made, correct?I have 3 guitars, one for a specific use. But, I would say... My modified PRS S2 Standard 22Darth Paul is my "all around" even if it's on drop C.
The reason why I would call it my "all around" because of the many options it gives me:
- It has 2 mini toggles, the front switch is for the neck p/u, and the rear switch is for the bridge p/u. In the "downward" positions, the pickups are in series. In the upward positions, the pickups are in parallel. They give the guitar tremendous control over the guitars overall tone depending on what position the switches are set to, and what the Megaswitch is set to.
- The tone control is normally out of the circuit. It is engaged when you pull the tone knob up. It is a 250k CTS pot with a .01uF CRL ceramic disc cap. It will give a clean tone, an overdriven "blues" tone, or a high gain tone. It will have the full potential of the p/u's output when the tone knob is "down" in its normal position, since the tone pot and cap are disengaged in that position.
- The volume pot is a 1 meg . This will result in the most output the pickups are able to produce, short of wiring them directly to the jack.
What are those pickups?
My all around #1. It's loaded with a Dimarzio Air Norton with a raw nickle cover at the bridge, a Planet Tone 63 Classic middle, and a Dimarzio 36th Anniversary Neck at the neck. It's wired with push/pull Volume for coil tapping and push/pull (1st) Tone to activate the neck pickup when pulled up (Gilmour mod). The second Tone is wired to the bridge pickup, not the middle. Tusq string retainers.
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Hahahah I definitely would not call mine an all-around guitar and I don’t think adding a single coil to one would make it any different. It’s kinda like my JEM; yeah, it CAN do Strat-like tones, but would I want to play some bluesy/country shit with it? Not really and it’d only be so long before I ended up getting noodly.
But in general I love the Solar stuff and will be getting more. Love the necks, a good C shape, not too thick/thin and the fact most of them cost under $1500 doesn’t hurt at all.
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Yes, S2 are American made with imported electronics and hardware which we all replaced except for the locking tuners. The pickups are DiMarzio D-Activator X set with half covers.
