My guitar of choice is typically a strat style guitar. I do like other styles of guitars for their tones and I was needing Les Paul style guitar for demo’s that I have plans for doing. Anyway after looking around and asking some friends for advice I was lead to check out the Dean Soltero. The Soltero was designed by Dean Zelinsky and has that dean V Neck. Right off the bat I really liked the looks of the Soltero and to be honest I dig the looks more than a Les Paul. Within the Soltero line there are an American, Japanese, and Korean mad line. Since this would be a secondary guitar I didnt want to drop a big chunk of change so I decided to go for the Korean line and chose the “Scar Cherry” color. I typically don’t buy guitars without playing them first but at this price point I decided to take a chance and order a new one from a place I could return it. After un-boxing the guitar I looked it over for fit and finish flaws. Well, I couldn’t find any. The frets were finished off very well with none of them were had any over hang. The string alignment was very good and to my surprise the maple top wasn’t a veneer thin layer over cheaper wood. It actually is a decently striped for an import. The only negatives I could say is I wasn’t into the pick-ups but to be honest I tend to replace most of my pick-ups no matter the cost and I replaced the mini pots for full size 500k pots. You may wonder what pups I pup in there. Well lets leave that for a later post.

Overall, what a great guitar! I’ve owned guitars for over three times as much and this one is really great. It may even make me re-think my strat fetish.

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