Product: Jolana Special
Price Paid: US $120 used
Submitted
03/03/2006
at
06:35am
by
pete
Features
:
7
it's my first electric guitar and i like it very much
Sound
:
10
Perfect. i like the sound. it suonds unique and no other guitar can compare to it,
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
8
Reliability/Durability
:
8
it's still intact. a few scraches. that's all.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
9
i'll keep it till i die.
Product: Jolana Special
Price Paid: US $60
Submitted
08/24/2005
at
05:15am
by
Ress
Email: ress<at>tut dot by
Features
:
6
It was made in Czechoslovakia many years ago when (and where) the guitar technologies was not perfect.
It had hollow body, 3 single coil mediocre pickups, 22 frets, tremolo and very strange kind of 4 switches.
Blue 2-part case was included (separately for neck and body).
Now some tunig was done.
Bridge and neck singles were changed to humbuckers, the middle single was left and can be switched with the special little toggle switch. The fat humbucker sound can be now more bright with the old single.
The strange switches were left just as 'furniture' and not connected more. The LP-like 3-way selector is used instead.
Sound
:
7
Sometimes it sounds better then my favorite Ibanez Roadstar. But it's now after tuning and only with chords or jazz/blues clean sound.
The bass and treble controls can help to select a lot of interesting clean sounds.
Do not use distortions!!!
Do not play heavy music!
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
5
The native poor bridge was changed to a standard Tune-O-Matic.
Some of the high frets should be corrected. May be later.
Reliability/Durability
:
No Opinion
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
6
Not bad just for clean sounds and only after tuning.
The photos of the tuned one are here http://ress.at.tut.by/Guitars/index.htm#JolanaSpecial
Product: Jolana Special
Price Paid: 250 ( 1980 Soviet rubls ;))
Submitted
12/21/2004
at
09:26am
by
Anonymous
Features
:
5
Made in Czechoslovakia, about 1980
22 frets, hollowbody, strat style neck,tremolo.
3 passive very low output single coil pickups.
I changed one to humbucker (bridge), took away middle and left neck pickup just for reference. Now it gives sometimes interesting vintage sounds using different settings of my Zoom II 707.
Doesn't stay too long in tune...
Sound
:
No Opinion
Suits best for jazz
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
No Opinion
Reliability/Durability
:
9
I have had it about 25 years by now. It has many scratches, but still works ;)
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
NA
Overall Rating
:
7
I have played 30 years - rock, blues etc
I'm going to buy a new guitar soon, but will keep it for ever;)
I wouldn't suggest it for beginners, but it might be very interesting for collectioners.....
