Solar unveils new Artist Series guitars with premium specs

By Rob Laing
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Ola Englund's brand releases two new six-string models and a seven-string guitar

Ola Englund's Solar Guitars have released three new Artist Series electric guitar models featuring a Black Open Pore finish with 3-piece roasted maple necks and fingerboards with six- and seven-string options.

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The AB1.6BOP Artist LTD ( $/€ 1,199) six-string bolt on S-style model with a  swamp ash body, thin-C neck profile neck and 25.5-inch scale neck, 24 stainless steel frets, Luminlay side dots, EverTune bridge, Solar locking tuners, and locking strap pins.

The Duncan Solar pickups feature a push/pull coil-split and three-way blade switch. The guitar includes a gigbag.

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The AB1.7BOP Artist LTD ( $/€ 1,299) features the same spec but with seven strings.

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The second new six-string Artist Series model is the V1.6RBOP Artist LTD ($/€ 1,199) is a V-shape with a set neck but offers the same impressive feature set elsewhere as the other two models. 

For more info on Solar, head over to  solar-guitars.com 

Rob Laing
Rob Laing
Guitars Editor, MusicRadar

I'm the Guitars Editor for MusicRadar, handling news, reviews, features, tuition, advice for the strings side of the site and everything in between. Before MusicRadar I worked on guitar magazines for 15 years, including Editor of Total Guitar in the UK. When I'm not rejigging pedalboards I'm usually thinking about rejigging pedalboards.