Solo Music Gear Hollow Body Assembly Manual

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Solo ES Style DIY

Hollow Body

Electric Guitar Kit

Assembly Manual

ESK-35

V 1.02

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Page 2 Solo ES Style DIY Hollow Body Electric Guitar Kit Show Off Your Custom Built Guitar! When you have your guitar finished, please take a few pictures and send them to us for potential posting into the picture gallery on our website.
Page 3: Tools And Materials Needed
Solo ES Style DIY Hollow Body Electric Guitar Kit Thank you for purchasing a Solo DIY guitar kit. This unfinished guitar kit has everything for building an electric guitar – you will need only some basic tools and finishing supplies. All challenging wood cutting, drilling and shaping is already professionally done, as well as fret leveling and dressing.
Page 4 STEP 1 – Gluing the Neck. The ESK-35 is a semi-hollow body guitar and has a glued in neck (no screws). This design is known as a set-neck. Assuming your guitar body and neck have been prepared for finishing, and that all surfaces have been cleaned up, you can 'dry-fit' the neck to the body (just hold it in place to see how tight or loose it fits).
Page 5 Solo ES Style DIY Hollow Body Electric Guitar Kit location with regards to the pickups and bridge. You can use a clamp to lightly hold the neck in place while you take 2 straight edged rulers and hold them against the sides of the neck (remember that the neck should be flat to the bottom of the neck cavity and pushed into the neck cavity as far as possible)...align the neck so...
Page 6 Solo ES Style DIY Hollow Body Electric Guitar Kit make sure the pickups are evenly aligned between the straight-edges, and parallel to the end of the neck. Using an awl, mark the holes in the corners of the pickup surrounds, drill a tiny pilot hole and fasten the pickups to the guitar.
Page 7 Solo ES Style DIY Hollow Body Electric Guitar Kit reduces discoloration and dirt from entering the pores in the wood. You can purchase fret-board oil, or you can use any light non-food oils, like tung oil or walnut oil or lemon oil.
Page 8 Solo ES Style DIY Hollow Body Electric Guitar Kit supplied allen key for the saddle screws, you can raise or lower the strings at the bridge..remember, the lower the action the easier the guitar will play, but the more prone to the strings buzzing on the frets! The higher the strings, the harder the guitar is to play, but you eliminate the fret buzz.
Page 9 Solo ES Style DIY Hollow Body Electric Guitar Kit and by turning counter-clockwise you will increase the gap. Never turn the truss rod screw more than 1/4 turn at a time! Now return to the 'Adjusting String Height' section and re -adjust your string height so you have nice low action on the strings without buzzing on the frets! If you do have 'string or fret buzz', you will either have to increase the neck relief slightly, or increase you string height.

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