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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 )

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 🤷‍♂️

Selfishly I would like to see how you swap out the effects haha

The music selection on the backgroung was absolutely spot on ... RATM .. what else...!! and i loved the process of remodeniztion/renovation of the guitar .. well done Tim ..

Always appreciate some "Driver 8".

Yep. I got a shirt with that mix of colours. A gift from my best friend, Loli. It's a cool, cool wear. And it has a lot of buttons, too.

It's nice to see different projects. Thank you!

Make this guitar like real hippie psyhodelic rock guitar with crazy water purple-blue-yellow painting and crazy effects

"THE COLOR OF FUZZ, You have to use that

Cut the headstock... NNNNOOOOOOOO!!! That headstock was so cool before.

I love your skill, enthusiasm and optimism, that's a very unusual but fascinating instrument, I like what you have done to it, I can certainly understand your interest in everything guitars, well done!😊

Sweet guitar. I like what you did with it. Such a tough decision about whether to try to repair the effects and make them work or to go with your own stuff inside... Hmmm... Can't wait for the next video!

I really enjoy and respect your approach and appreciation to guitars. 🎸👊

i remember a very simillar piece at my school back then. It was in somewhat gnarly shape as generations of school bands were abusing it, but that variant had buttons instead of switches, not sure originally or someone has modded it. Our music teacher was beatlomaniac and sometimes he used that guitar to play - i guess only at those moments it was tuned and sounded pleasant. School band usually didn't last long enough to properly tame this instrument, but punk-rock was always possible to hammer-out :) I remember that neck too, it was painful to play.

Oh, I played on the same guitar (but its bass version) in school band. Made in Belarusian SSR, in city Borisov. It was called "BASS-I VC 253-BL". Neck is uncomfortable, with rounded square shape profile. Absolute log, but, what the memories)

It seems like a lot of those Soviet guitar makers never left the late 60s in terms of design. It reminds me of a Mosrite or Supro from that time. The wiring looks really crazy too I’m sure some neat mods could be done to make it better, definitely a cool guitar!

yay! It's this series again!. Love the weirdness of these things.

Naw i see that I was scarried to do with my mom's guitar, I was played on in 1995. Thank you for doing this video, glad to see haw old USSR program works through the time and distanse, indeed!

Definitely an interesting style! I love the weird switches and the color of the pick guard. Inspiration for the future.

I am not sure that the original electronics would ever work as intended... It might be that every guitar was unique. At the beginning of the ninties I had swapped some resistors in my brother's guitar until he was pleased with the sound of it... I had ended reshaping the neck too, so your video brought back some good memories. 🙂 Greetings from Romania!

Awesome guitar Tim and nice product placement! 👍🏼

Playing a little “Rage” in the background. Awesome!!

This guitar touches on an idea I have been mulling over for the last few weeks. I have learned through playing that I prefer the strat neck, the tele body, the less Paul pickup switch location and playing comfort (not a lot of important controls to hit when I strum), the bigsby style tremolo, and the option of having a humbucker or single coil (split coil) like many other guitars today offer. I think I want to try and build it, but I'm debating over how to wire it. HSS is the way I want to do the pickups, but if I split coil, I don't think the standard 5 position switch from the strat would work. Maybe if I went with the Soviet style 3 on off switches for each pickup. Anyways, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. Keep up the great work on this channel. It's fast becoming a favorite of mine.

Cool project! Cruddy sounding fx. There are so many diy circuits available online to solder up that you might consider making your own. Heck, I've got a bunch of half-finished projects soldered up, I'd be happy to throw some your way.

You could probably locate a Russian Cyrillic OCR app to convert the text on the schematic.

The green on black looks awesome. Add whatever effects you like so long as the pickguard stays.

That song you were playing during fret work and after Rage was wicked industrial!

Definitely a cool looking guitar! No shame in modding that guitar! I'm sure it's an improvement! Thanks for sharing!!

Some old Jolana guitars (czechoslovakia) have the same type of bridge.. And even the neck is shaped like that on Galaxis model for example

Cool, I, for one, hope you continue to document what you do with this guitar. Very interesting guitar. Personally, I'd've taken the lazy way out and placed the adapter inside the guitar body, permanently plugged in, with the quarter inch becoming the new visible jack.

yes! absolutely do your thing with the guitar effects! i mean, you already cut the headstock and shaped the neck, you might as well go all out imho

I always see old Soviet guitars pop up on eBay and Reverb and always wondered what they were all about.

It's cool that you found a Solo with that pickguard,usually there's different colored boxes around the dials. Also yeah the baseball bat neck is interesting 😂

This guitar is Borisov Solo-2/Formanta guitar if anyone curious!

Mean Machine Bro ,love that fully adjustable bridge great idea ...

I think make the switches to buttons keep the same pickguard layout abs and replace the effects with the same effects but with ones that work

The first 3 notes sound like the intro of let’s get it on by Marvin Gaye XD

That was a fun video! Cool guitar for collecting 🤘

this guitar looks wicked!! normally videos don’t do a guitar’s neck profile justice but goodness that neck’s Heavy D shape is preposterous

Loving these old Soviet era guitars! Get the original effects working. I would love to hear how they sound!

The whole video I was like wow this bridge is so creative, it brings so much ideas as a instrument maker, then you go “dont get me wrong, this bridge is a piece of garbage” lol

The electronic board was probably designed for the Soyutz 11! The previous ones were with thermionic tubes and did not fit in them also due to the size of the Transformer and the weight. :) :) :)

So glad to have found this channel!

Just make a second pickguard without the effects that you can swap out whenever you want.

The switches look like they might be the same size as a rocker switch. If so, you could keep them as switches, but not have to worry about accidentally flipping them.

Mod the design of the switches and get them to do something else! Excellent work once again!

I need one. That's perfect for the band I play guitar in given that my main getup for that one is gonna involve a mask with a Soviet themed paint job and stuff. It honestly seems like a sorta modern guitar that'd be made today

You should try to get a hold of the Orpheus 12 string, they're not that expensive or rare either in europe. They do have that weird output jack but man those are cool looking!

You should work with Milos Popovich, he makes some great FX's and he's in Serbia (I have a few of his handmade stomp boxes)

Благодаря этому человеку, я наконец-то разобрался в схеме этой гитары

The body style with the pickguard is fantastic.

If the guitar should have effects on board, then i would take the self amplified guitar ElectroPhonic Model One. It's more modern and extra amp is optional.

I like the awkward look. Maybe because I like weird things. Looks fun. I'm going to get into building more guitars to sell and I'll be watching more of your videos. I'm highly interested in the routing machines you have used. Doing it by hand is nerve racking. Especially without templates 🤣

When you whipped out the wood chisel, I said "yeah".

I love the look of the guitar. I'd like you to build one with a similar look ... from scratch. I think , unless it's a copy right thing, would have a cool sell-able guitar line.

I used to think that sound engineers had the best job in the world, and then luthiers entered the chat.

Since the guitar has been physically altered already it seems like getting the guitar to work properly would be the best route. Restoring a clunker to its original design seems like it would be a wasted effort. If I ever bought something like this, and because of my limited skills at fixing guitars, it would likely go on a wall as a conversation piece.

Cool video and guitar. Love the color combo. Another Sehat collab? Mahalo for sharing! 🙂🐒

Never did I think I’d find a video where someone works on an Post soviet union guitar interesting, lol. I guess this was suggested after my old bass electronics stopped working and was considering working on it myself. Great interesting video, the guitar was definitely unique.

It’ll be interesting to see what you end up doing with the built-in effects.

I'd say keep the idea, but do it your way. It's not that these effects are the holy grail of tone - so I'd buy some great sounding pedals and put that in the guitar to maintain the spirit of having a small FX-loop inside. This will even give you the freedom to move all knobs and switches to places you prefer.

The design of the pickups is reminiscent of the AT-AT combat walker from Star Wars Empire Strikes Back

Oh man I've been looking at getting one of those super funky looking ural basses. It's good to know that you can just swap the 5 pin with a normal jack. I might finally pull the trigger on one finally

Keep the effects and pickgaurd color, ditch the switches for buttons. Even pedal foot switch buttons would be better than turning the effects off accidentally while playing.

I'm all for whatever solution is weirder.

Like Teisco, you must rebuild all the electronics. But nice designs, nice colours, nice shape. I love this guitar, like Teiscos too.

It has been decades since I have seen one of those old metal-can (TO-5?) ICs in a metal can.

Man imagine saying you own a Soviet Era guitar. Most badass thing.

Man if I was local to you I'd take a crack at those electronics, you should see who's in your area doing vintage electronics (maybe you already know someone) we electronics tecs love weirdness like that lol. Also on the switch something I've done on many guitars is to just chop em short, that thing is in a bad spot. Also also thanks now I'm looking for a reason to buy a bass version of this. 😁

3:30 this plate on the bridge made it hard for Soviet guitar players to play with palm mute - this way the government prevented hard rock and metal music spread in the country.

Something about RatM and a beat up Soviet guitar restoration just feels right

Definitely replace the electronics with preset levels. How about cutting down the ‘flip’ switches so they’re still easily useable but low enough to miss hitting them? Simple fix and keeps the aesthetics.

Была такая гитара у меня,фигня полная...хорошо,что сейчас,можно купить дешевле намного и лучше!!!

I used to have an Electra brand guitar that looked very similar to this. I love all the switches! Very cool! I also have an old 60’s Welson guitar from Italy that has a bunch of crazy switches. But half of them don’t work.. It kinda looks like a Fender Jaguar. It’s called a Welson Primate.

I once had a guitar like that. Thank you very much for the kind words about Soviet guitars (although they were not very good), and for your video.

YEEEzES!!! I've been waiting for this one Do your thing with the efects! It'll be awesome P I C K S

The Russian version of Teisco...

Nice video :) I have a Soviet Aelita 2 guitar with old Japanese style pick-ups.

Dude the head stock was cool

Зачем заморачиваться с переделкой головы грифа? Нормальная же форма была! А вообще, если хотите настоящий хардкор, то советую обратить внимание на гитару "Элгава Уника - 2"

Русские, вы где?)

Apart from the body shape, this is totally original and so cool Maybee check the output of those IC's I would love to hear those effects working

An interesting guitar..I like what you did to the headstock.👍