General
Model Number
SL-STKZEB-1
Series
ST Style
Body Information
Body Material
Engineered Zebrawood
Body Shape
ST Style
Body Finish
Unfinished
Neck Information
Neck Material
Maple
Neck Shape
Modern C
Neck Finish
Unfinished
Scale Length
25.5" - 648mm
Fingerboard Material
Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius
12"
Number of Frets
21
Frets
Medium Jumbo, Nickel Silver
Nut Material
Plastic
Nut Width
42mm
Position Inlays
Dot
Truss Rod
2-Way-Action
Truss Rod Nut
4 mm Hex
Hardware & Electronics
Finish
Chrome
Pickup Configuration
S-S-S
Pickups
Ceramic Pickups
Pickguard
3-Ply White - WBW
Controls
1V, 2T, 5-Way Toggle
Bridge
Tremolo bridge
Tuning Machines
Schaller Type
Potentiometers
Full Sized Pots
Misc
Includes all mounting screws, strap buttons, and plates
Accessories
Includes
Hex Adjustment Keys, Tremolo Arm & Instrument Cable
bluesfan (verified buyer) –
Hi,
This is my 20 Th Kit from Solo. Again it was a crazy fast shipment with great packaging. All parts made the trip safely.
After 19 kits I did not know what to build then I did see this new kit. I was curious and interested by the Zebrawood
for a while but until then it was available only from ”obscure” internet sellers… so I confirmed my order with Solo
on the spot.
The body was great, clean cut, cavities and neck pocket. The neck was fantastic, very straight, very smooth fret ends
which were well levelled. The neck joint had a perfect fit and alignment with the bridge. A very good start.
As usual I did not use the electronics and saved only the jack plate and the strap buttons, I had my plans.
Body mods:
Cut the neck pocket to suit the Solo Custom Shape neck plate and shaped the cutaway for better high frets access.
Also filled all the screw holes for the new 2 HB pickups black pickguard and tremolo coved plate. This was expected.
Neck mods:
Cut the headstock to look like a Fender Strat, filled the extra hole at the heel and the string trees holes to locate them
further up on the headstock. Ebonized the fretboard with 4 coats of Higgins India Ink. Installed wilkinson tuners from Solo.
Electronics:
2 Humbuckers, Alnico 5 with 8,6 K neck and 9,5 K neck Hot Vintage.
2 independent volume push/push pots A500K with brass bushing and shaft wired to have the screw coil active in coil split
mode. Also added a 1.1 resistor from the coil split lug to ground to keep some signal from the cut coil in coil split mode.
1 master tone B500K with brass bushing and shaft vintage wired.
Pickups are wired to the volume pots then to the 3 way real blade switch to have the separate volumes.
Bridge:
Installed a vintage style tremolo with a full solid steel shorty block to fit the body thickness.
Finishing:
The Zebrawood works like mahogany for cutting, drilling and sanding.
On the body I sanded by hand to 220 grit paper the grey 3M pad then applied 1 cost a natural stain just to bring
the wood grain and color alive followed by 4 thin coats of Samans water based flat varnish. Buffed with 3M grey
pad between each coat.
On the neck I did the same preparation and finish but used a mix of Golden Wheath and Dark Walnut to match
the light lines of the Zebrawood.
It turned out fantastic, just love it.
The final set up was a breeze again, thanks to good construction tolerances. I only needed to do a light
polish of the frets and lower the nut slots a bit.
I do have a very low action without fret buzz.
She looks, plays and sounds just fantastic, can’t wait for the next band practice…
I wish I could give this kit a 6 stars review!
Thanks again Solo.
Regards, Michel