Short Scale Soviet Guitar on ebay.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:01 am

ELGAVA UNIKA-2

24in scale

Made in Moscow(1970s?).

Narco Martenot · Post by **Narco Martenot** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:11 am

Neat. That would be fun to fix up.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:13 am

Narco Martenot wrote:Neat. That would be fun to fix up.

Yeah,here is some info about this model from cheesyguitars

Ty · Post by Ty » Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:43 am

it kind of reminds me of that chopped up JM I posted awhile back.

Skip · Post by **Skip** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:47 pm

might be cool to give her some love and see if it can rock

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:08 pm

would look great with my sovtek.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:23 pm

LOL Terminator

My bandmate has one of these. It plays atrociously but the little built-in amp sounds cool
I recently went on a pilgrimage to my hometown music shop where for years, they had a Quest with a body in the shape of a shark.
It too had a little built-in amplifier. I fully intended to offer the shop owner 25 bucks for it but sadly, it wasn't there anymore.

hwestman · Post by **hwestman** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:30 pm

I word of warning though... I spent some time in Russia and tried out some Soviet music equipment... I think it is a fair assumption that neither the designers, nor the luthiers gave a flying f-k about making decent instruments... I think they are deeply instilled with soviet apathy and beyond help...

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:28 am

yea, that's I've read. they're supposed to sound horrible and play even worse. and I think from a design standpoint they're atrocious. they don't have any of the quirky-cool factor of the 60s japanese guitars, they're just all around badly designed, like the appearance was just a complete afterthought.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:34 am

some of the effects however look incredibly awesome and I'd really like to try them out.

EDIT: whoa, the russian LEL brand still exists and still make the pedals they made in the 80s. http://www.lell.ru/pedali.htm

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:56 am

Arent those things made of childrens tears?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:21 am

hwestman wrote:I word of warning though... I spent some time in Russia and tried out some Soviet music equipment... I think it is a fair assumption that neither the designers, nor the luthiers gave a flying f-k about making decent instruments... I think they are deeply instilled with soviet apathy and beyond help...

Sovtek Migs yo.

mezzio13 · Post by **mezzio13** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:01 pm

Holy neck pocket:

mezzio13 · Post by **mezzio13** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:07 pm

mage wrote:some of the effects however look incredibly awesome and I'd really like to try them out.

EDIT: whoa, the russian LEL brand still exists and still make the pedals they made in the 80s. http://www.lell.ru/pedali.htm

That looks like the storage thing my parents kept theie vhs tapes in. That said... want.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:33 pm

Black Cat Bone wrote:
hwestman wrote:I word of warning though... I spent some time in Russia and tried out some Soviet music equipment... I think it is a fair assumption that neither the designers, nor the luthiers gave a flying f-k about making decent instruments... I think they are deeply instilled with soviet apathy and beyond help...
Sovtek Migs yo.

+ 1,000,0000,000.1

My Mig 60 is stunning accomplishment of engineering. How they wired satan into a head case, I'll never understand.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:33 pm

If I could get a "Moscow Soviet Army experimental accordion factory" neckplate my life and my hypothetical custom-build would be complete. Kitsch? Gauche? Beautiful. Just beautiful.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:38 pm

"This accordeon kills Capitalists"

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:46 pm

Short scale, so it'd be limited to smashing the petite bourgeoisie.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:55 pm

scandoslav wrote:Short scale, so it'd be limited to smashing the petite bourgeoisie.

Fucking hell, noob! That's a grand entrance!

A+ post - would read again!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:37 am

endsjustifymeans wrote:A+ post - would read again!

(I seriously want that neck plate, no joke.)