I restored a painted and remodeled junk guitar. 

As beautiful as this restoration is (love your channel), I find something aesthetically pleasing about the way the owner customized his/her instrument. Like it would be fun to see a professional version of some of these design ideas :)

Beautiful but I loved the paint job a previous owner had done.

Vintage beauty restored to glory! That DiMarzio single coil is now very rare. They sound great. I hope you will use it one of your projects!

I have a soft spot for old Japanese guitars, and this one made a remarkable transformation thanks to you. Well done!

It looked way cooler before your remodel tbh

Guitars made in Japan are certainly not junk as you can see there under that grime was something really nice great job bringing it back to glory

AWWWWW. It was art. Now it's just a garage sale junker.

Great restoration. I would have liked to hear the Humbucker, Tele, Strat pickup set up it had because it is so unique, but the pickups you put in it sounded awesome! Great work bringing it back to it's original beauty. 乙!

What an amazing restoration ! Well done Man, you're a pure artist, this guitar sounds and looks great ! See you next video..

The original sunburst to black is absolutely beautiful

Great restoration and great riffs !!!

Excellent restoration work!👌🏼✨

Great video. True craftsmanship. Aria Pros are great guitars! Cobain had one for awhile

Another beautiful job, great job on the restoration of that guitar!!..

All I can say is what a beautiful restoration project. I'm speechless!!!

I think you should have left the paint paint looked pretty cool but nice aspiration anyway

Wow! @ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1068">17:48</a>, the way you take the old hacked-out pickguard and used it as a template to trace out the new one from a blank is GENIUS! Very Nice!

Heavy tones with single coils are awesome! Lottsa times when I put a humbucker in a Strat-style, it eventually gets taken back out. You can dirty-up the lower-output pickups but you can't take the output out of a high-gain humbucker for convincing single-coil tones. Splitting coils is seemingly as lackluster as noiseless single coils seem to be...(and mixing both in same guitar is an unbalanced compromise .) This turned out beautiful. Bravo cutting that pickguard. Stay too long in one spot with that Dremel, and you'd have to start all over or accept the consequences

Beautiful. And the frets and pickguard looked so nice.

Outstanding job sir love your work

Awesome playing. Very cool

Great video - nice job 👏

Your playing is equally impressive as your restoration skills! More power to you 🤟🏽

amazing work!

Awesome job! I love the fact that you replaced the humbucker on the neck with a single coil pickup, looks beautiful! ⭐

いい動画でした。

It looked so beautiful before and so average now!

Very cool! Looks 👍🏼

Beautiful job❤

完成度高い👍

A fabulous made in japan Aria restored to former glory! Kudos Studio asyl.

Nice job!

That before pick up set up looked interesting!!!

I want it...what a great player guitar. Yes, that was a very expensive setup. If I recall it has Gibson style electronics for the neck, and that bridge pickup is a hotrail humbucker That was very expensive new.

When looking up this model of Aria I found the auction where you got the guitar. The same one! Beautiful job!

great restoration

元の状態がサイケデリックペイントみたいでカッコイイ

I have a RS Stray Cat built in 1982 that was in a worse condition than this one, it required a lot of love and elbow grease... I also have a 1985 Knight Warrior that I got brand new back then... That said, I'm always impressed with your skills and the end results of the guitar restoration... Great job on the new custom pickguard by the way...

Perfect!!!! You're the man!!!!

what a treat hearing pitfall on that guitar!!! <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1708">28:28</a>

I liked the paint job. Oh well.

Aria good solid machines.Own a pro ii bass and also banjo. Both been worked hard and still play nicely

The art was cool. Reminded me of Clapton's Fool.

Me estoy volviendo loco viendo la perfección de estos trabajos...es IMPRESIONANTE

Nice! And long live Algernon Cadwallader!

Hi! Greetings from Spain! Well, I really like your videos, and your approach to restoring guitars. In fact, I'm running out of videos, so you've better find more guitars to restore!! From this video, I've got a few things: 1. The method for making a new pickguard from scratch. Awesome! 2. As a constructive critic: You could have put more love on the fretboard: many frets were dented, so watching you doing a fret leveling and crowning job would have been great. Also, I would have cleaned all the grease near the frets with naphta or lemon oil before waxing. 3. I like your guitar playing and your "studio" idea, but you could also earn a living being a Luthier, I think you have a touch for that. So I dare you to build a guitar!!

I'll buy any Aria Pro-II (early 80s Matsumoku) that's sold as "junk". Because they never are. Beautiful restoration!! 🙏

プロの仕事ですね。素晴らしいです!

Um ótimo trabalho nessas guitarras você faz. Muito bom essas guitarras são lindas.

Very nice. In July of 2021 I pulled an old Global bass from the 70's out of the trash and resurrected it. It was in tough shape with green latex paint on it. I removed the paint and used Varathane pecan on it. I replaced the bridge, tuners and shimmed the neck. The action was about 1/4" high at the 12th fret, now it's about 3mm. It plays quite well. I'm using it right now actually.

Really nice job! It's very impressive to watch somebody put a lot of detail into something that other people have thrown away and bring it back to life!

Aw. The front painting was cute. You should have tried to restore it making it pop a bit.

毎回、これだけ状態の悪いギターベースを探して来るリサーチ力がスゴい😂

I have bought many guitars from Hard-off. Its a great place to get guitars like this. Good job on the guitar.

Great restoration! You got some skills. I however like the paint job before. It’s super unique. Even the pickup layout was awesome. 👍

こにちわ amazing video as always!

OMG, I didn't even realize until he started taking it apart what kind of guitar this was. An Aria Pro II RS Special V. What really surprised me is I actually have the exact same guitar, in white that I bought brand new back in the early 80s. (It's still in great shape, if anyone wants to buy it. LOL). I played this guitar for a long time back in the 80s until I figured out that the neck is actually smaller width wise. I happen to have very long fingers, so once I figured out that a wider neck is much easier for me to play, I stopped playing this one. But since this was my first "real" guitar (Not one of the $100 ones from back then), I just couldn't seem to part with it. But for someone with smaller fingers, I bet they would love it. Doesn't make much sense to let it sit here and never play it, right? If anyone is interested, let me know.

It's actually a nice finish under all that paint and junk. 🥲

クリーンの音が結構好きです

Very nicely done. I bet you can get those small scratches out with some polish or light sanding.

good job!

I would love to own any one of the guitars you've refurbished!

Amazing job and great guitar player , i ve got one like the Frankie of EVH

This is one of the best sounding guitars you've refurbished. I wonder what the new pickups are.

Eu tenho uma Aria Pro II STRATOCASTER e digo que ela não perde em nada para uma Fender. Belo trabalho.

サイケデリックなペイントの下から現れるサンバースト、大変goodです！お疲れ様でした！

As said by others, great restoration but more so great riffs! Sound mean and dirty with the single coils!

\m/ nice work. rock on!

Muy buen trabajo

Honestly it looked cooler before. Just needed a new pickguard and some cleaning

That's Hide's painting design!

I like it like it was …. Only needed a little cleaning and strings. 😊

hermoso.. fantastico.. awesome...!!!

The style of the drawing reminds me the Burny Mg-145x Hide signature ❤️🇯🇵

Видно мастер потрудился на славу!

Obviously the previous owner was an XJapan fan because that paint scheme was just like the one on Hides' Burny Mockingbird style guitar.

I really love what you're doing! By no means am I insulting your work, but the paintjob was neat. It would have been cool if you fixed up the paint and redid some areas, then covered it with clearcoat or maybe laquer.

awesome

Guitar was never junk. I would have keep original paint, because that is the history of this guitar.

Tres belle restauration 👍🎸

Great work dude, my only criticism is the frets should have been replaced or at least leveled and crowned. Just my own OCD 😂

Ok, where is this giant pile of guitars that somebody just left out in some field for this dude to find and restore...? Some of the rust looks chemically enhanced if not fully synthesized.

I was like Nooo, this paint job isn't that bad But then i was like Yeah, that's much better

ASMRタグつけて工具爆音はなかなか挑戦的(耳がやられる)

I'm really disappointed you didn't keep the period artwork...

I love what you do, but I think you did a disservice to this guitar. Surely there was a way to restore the guitar and leave the artwork!

Se echa de menos un poco de música, el resto asombro

altro miracolo contro l'erosione del tempo

Great work but I think you should level the frets or maybe even refret if its too far gone.

Glue wood back in where they chipped it out

Nice work on this one! I sensed from the pickup assortment and layout that we'd be replacing those. I wasn't sure if they actually made your pickguard still or if you'd have to build your own. The only thing that bothers me are the missing brand name caps on the tuning keys. Do they not make those anymore? That would make me mental. I also noticed the frets had some deep string grooves. Do you ever go as far as to refret a neck or you just don't bother? Another great vid!

.......I be owned aria's.....nice guitars...had an Aria Pro II Cat...built in pre amp

Taking a cat and giving her a good ol make over

That thing looked like Steve Miller got ahold of it.

Where are you finding these, pawn shop next to an art school? You do really good, solid work but I end up preferring the "befores" a lot of the time PS You plat them really well, too; don't want to just give you a hard time!

I wouldn't of restored it....I would of continued with customization of it.I always thought that particular Aria model stock kinda sucked , at least it had some cool vibes going for it and I'm pretty sure it had better pickups in it before you restored it. The pickups in it now look like any other no name cheap set . I bet it sounded way better before. Just my opinion. I'm almost positive Yngwie used to play one of those back when he was in Steeler.

Oh no, that was hand painted by Santana!!

アウトプットジャックプレートにまでアリアプロの刻印が入ってますね。80年代前半までですね。しかしここまで復元するとは、、

You should have kept the humbucker just moved it to the bridge position and you didn't put a bezel on the side of that pickgaurd .

What product are you using to remove the paint? Thanks