🔥2022🔥 Solar E1.6KW Kirk Windstein Signature~ Explorer Matte White~EMG~Gig Bag

🎸SOLAR E1.6KW KIRK WINDSTEIN SIGNATURE🎸

This Explorer type guitar from Solar is an absolute beast! It’s in excellent condition having had minor home use by one owner from new (who imported it at a cost of over £1,200)

There’s one ding at the edge that has been touched up but other than that it’s immaculate and plays like a dream!

These are incredibly rare to find and especially in the UK!

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Kirk Windstein of Crowbar and Down has a new signature model from Solar Guitars

And the E1.6KW is all white, all angles and sharp edges, making for a state-of-the-art EX-style with a single EMG-81 humbucker for putting meat on Windstein's sludge riffs

Solar Guitars has added the kingpin of New Orleans sludge metal guitar Kirk Windstein to its artist roster, launching a new signature guitar that takes the Type E format and pares it down to the bare essentials.

Windstein’s E1.6KW is a riffer’s guitar, a single-pickup electric, finished in White Matte, with a reverse headstock you could use as a harpoon.

Comprising an alder body, with a three-piece maple neck, it has a 24.75” scale – loosely an EX-style electric albeit one that’s been sharped out of sight. Its ebony fingerboard has a NOLA fleur-de-lis inlay at the 12th fret, block inlays elsewhere, and is topped with 22 stainless steel frets.

There’s a string-through-body Tonepros tune-o-matic bridge, Solar-branded locking tuners, and it ships with its own gig-bag.

Windstein has opted for some classic active humbucker power, with an EMG-81 occupying the bridge position. He sees no need for tone controls so all you have is a volume pot and that’s you. What else is there in life?

Of course, such a stripped-down platform invites a no-messing, big powerchords only approach, but this being Solar, you can count on that maple neck’s C profile being on the emaciated side of thin. It’ll be super-quick.

Windstein is a stalwart of the New Orleans metal scene, making his name with Crowbar, which existed in various guises before being renamed in 1990 and releasing its uncompromising debut album, Obedience Thru Suffering, in ’91.