Tim Lerch Plays The Soloway S14
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
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S14 Specs
lower bout: 14"
body depth: 2"
weight: 5 lbs 10 oz
Woods
top: Alaskan Western Red Cedar
body: Spanish Cedar
body finish: amber
top finish: tawny burst
Pickups
configuration: Neck and Bridge
make: Lindy Fralin, Big Single, matched set
Neck
neck wood: roasted maple
neck finish: satin oil
fretboard: Indian Rosewood
scale length: 25.5 / 22 fret
nut width: 1.7"
headstock: tiltback
back shape: U (full with some meat in the shoulder but not chunky)
taper: 850-940 (full)
frets: 6150ss
fingerboard radius: 12"
neck stability: dual action truss rod and carbon fiber rods
The backing track on the video is taken from Tim’s New Book Melodic Blues Guitar Soloing.
Available now on Amazon click geni.us/melodicblues - Zábava
The backing track for the performance at the end of this video is from my latest book, Melodic Blues Guitar Solos this solo
geni.us/melodicblues This solo is different from the one in the book but if you like this kind of thing please check out my book.
The Jazz Lebowski abides 🙂
awesome!
kind of sounds like an old thinline tele deluxe... kind of.
awesome playing!
I sure loved my Soloway. Jim is a incredibly nice guy, solid player, and strong builder.
Beautiful guitar and playing that equals the instrument. I'm glad Jim has chosen to once again offer the Soloway line.
[Jim is not offering these - another luthier is doing everything with Jim's "OK"]
@@Jimi-austin I understand that, obviously my post was poorly worded. Thanks for your reply.
Tim. Wonderful presentation of this beautiful instrument. Thank you.
Beautiful guitar.
Great playing, Tim Lerch! I almost bought a Soloway guitar from Jim at thr last NAMM show I was able to attend, maybe 2005 pr 2006. At the time, he wad making very long-scale guitars, maybe 27”. I loved the feel-I think the one I tried had .010” strings on it, and with the longer scale they felt like .011”s, but I still had some chops back then so I liked the firmer feel. Anyway, I didn’t buy the guitar; I figured my wife would kill me if I bought yet another one! These days I’d rather have a 25-1/2” scale anyway-I’m mostly a Tele player.
Top notch playing on a nice guitar! I appreciate that you use mainly clean tones. Adding distortion masks the actual sound of the guitar
Sounds great and, as always, great playing, Tim.
Your Blues Guitar Riad Trip DVD was the first time I heard anyone say that blues wasn't about scales or licks, but finding melodies - paraphrasing badly.
I have one of original versions..the gosling....absolutely the finest finger style guitar you could play in my opinion...i have played daily for years with it...1.75 at the nut...i believe and a relatively flat radius makes the difference..as well as top quality hardware and pickups..
Sounds amazing. So much definition - and character. Superb playing once again. I could listen to you play jazz blues all day! 🙏
Great review and wonderful playing as always, Tim - thanks! Such cool guitars!
Love these modern high definition jazz guitars! Awesome, Tim!
lovely- 🎧 I like the bolt on neck design.
Nice design!
Sounds awesome. Different than a normal Tele though.
You are right, it’s not trying to be a “normal tele” it’s a completely different design. But on its own merits I think it succeeds.
Beautiful guitar - well played. Interesting to me, I've heard you get very similar sounds out of your Telecasters which are radically different guitars. Perhaps lending credence to the 'tone is in the fingers' saying.
That’s a great axe. But that sound comes largely from Tim’s “dancingly smooth” fingers.
Fantastic demo!
[What's not being discussed on the "usual" sites (TGP, Jazz Guitar Forum, etc) is these guitars are close to $5K, and made by a little-/no-name (to most) builder (watch the vid - these are NOT made by Jim S). They look like killer guitars, and I would most likely buy one ... if they were reasonably priced for what they are! Again, if this guitar were made by a well-known luthier -- sure, $5K is about right (if not a bit high); this guitar built by a good guy who has Jim's plans/blessing? Not worth $5K, IMO, and then resale will be rough, too, if one wanted to sell. I wish Chris and Jim the best, but I'm concerned about their business model. No one is talking about this ... Has anyone out there actually bought one?]
Hi Jim. Chris Cole here...
I appreciate the feedback and totally understand the skepticism - it's something Jim and I anticipated and discussed early on.
You are right. I am not a known builder or luthier - like Cesar Gueikian at Gibson or Howard Paul at Benedetto I am not a luthier at all. My background is in global consulting and my company succeeds by putting together the right teams and processes. I have brought that same People-Process-Tools mindset to Soloway Guitars.
We have put together an outstanding team, with decades of experience with big name brands. Our neck builder is the same guy Jim started with 20+ years ago. Our Setup and QA guy has decades of experience with a well-known guitar manufacturer and is world-class. Our finishers have decades of experience doing work for the custom shops at large brands. Our CAD / CAM / Innovation team come from aerospace engineering and can solve any complex design requirement.
We have top-end tools, like multiple 5-axis CNCs. We have honed our processes, such as the steam bending technique we use to form the arm contour on the top of the guitar (it's a hollow body guitar with a steam-bent top, not a solid body with a simple carve).
All along the way, we have been consulting not just with Jim but also with multiple experts and respected luthiers who have been very generous with feedback and advice - the guitar builder community is awesome.
We have put in 3 years of work and prototyping - we have test-driven ideas and parts and components and processes to get the right mix that gives us the quality, tone and playability we want.
When we sent the final Prototype to Jim Soloway for his feedback, he said "This is better than anything we made in the 10 years I ran the company." We asked Tim for his feedback on the guitar to see if there was anything we could improve on. Instead, he gave the glowing review you see in this video. Everybody that has played the guitar has raved about it.
My point is that Soloway Guitars is not about me. It is about The Team and about the Quality of the guitar we are building.
Hope this helps in some way. :)
Chris
@@chriscole9661 Hey Chris - thanks for the detailed response!
What Amp are You playing it Thru Tim??
Princeton reverb
Sounds thin compared to real teles……