Kiesel Aries - 5 Years Later 

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My Vader has a Birdseye maple board with abalone inlays and I’ve been using steel wool on it since the first string change. 3 years later the board looks exactly as it did the day I got it, it won’t mess anything up, as an upside it also polished the frets to a mirror finish.

Hey brother just wanted to say thank you! For putting out such a well crafted video. You have a calm and authentic Aura about you , keep that up!Also video and sound quality are top notch! This is my first video watching you but certainly wont be my last!!! I can’t wait to be able to afford a Kiesel !

Amazing video, so well edited together, fantastic guitar… what more does a man truly need… time to start saving for my own Kiesel!!!

Love it dude. Rad Aries build and great to see it has held up so well over the years.

We have identical taste in guitar aesthetics; I LOVE the clear back with the turquoise burst quilted top, had a Peavey HP special for a while with that same look, white pickups, gold frets, etc. Beautiful instrument!

Cool video. I have a Aries coming very soon. It's my second Kiesel. I had a issue after i got my first kiesel where every other guitar i owned i wouldn't want to play anymore.

sounds like a absolute dream

Such a sick build! I'd love to see a video on that purple 7 string too

Reviews like these are super helpful and valuable. Hearing a variety of simple examples combined with personal, genuine experience is exactly what I’m looking for when deciding on a new instrument. Thank you! Any chance of you reviewing a Valravn at some point?

Great video man. I own 5 Kiesels myself. Big sparkle fan. Have 2 Aeries and they are fricken amazing.

I own several Carvin/Kiesels and just got an Aries off Reverb. I'm mainly a bass player but I really like this instrument. Found one about 3 years old with virtually zero use for $975. I couldn't say no!

I got a Kiesel Aries 7 a month ago , it was used but less than a year old and had everything I was going to get on the Aries I planned on ordering next year , only difference is I was going for a 3 piece and this one has a 5 piece so even better. I also have never played a Kiesel so it’s a nice dip into it . It’s truly Most amazing guitar I’ve ever played and I’ve played a few high end custom shops ! I’m excited to get a zeus made soon and since how I got the Aries early I’ll be able to get another Kiesel made next year . Love your guitar too , Kiesel really makes works of art and incredibly high quality builds . Kiesels play better than some $10k guitars I’ve played

Nice! That’s a gorgeous guitar, and you play really well! The Lithium humbuckers sound great-it’s nice to hear a demo on those, especially with clean tones. I have an Aries with a bolt-on 5-piece flame maple and purpleheart neck, pale moon ebony fretboard with abalone blocks (it’s a big one; I got the extra-thick profile with 20” radius), trans white swamp-ash back with a quilted-maple top in Purple Arctic, chrome hardware, and the Kiesel trem( and three Lithium single-coil pickups. I almost went with an all-Lithium HSH setup, but I hadn’t heard the Lithium humbuckers yet when I ordered the guitar, and I’m more of a single-coil player anyway. I’ll try to post a pic if I can figure out how to do it on this page.

Nice video, thanks for all the details. I am waiting for my Kiesel for 30 days more or less :D You got a subscriber!

Sick video man! Love my Kiesels :). Noticed the Hedd Studio Monitors, how do you like them? I'm thinking about picking some up.....

I got my first Kiesel in 2016 and it has held up perfectly. Only issue is that it has a satin finish and I have the glossy spots, but that is the nature of satin finish. I don't mind them at all. Natural wear and tear that I did myself. I have 10 Kiesel's now and all are awesome. I use 0000 steel wool all the time on my fretboards. Works great. Cleans the board and polishes the frets.

Such a nice guitar! just curious what neck radius did you go for? and did you pick the thinner neck option?

Very nice demo. Even though the Lithium pickups aren't for me, I think they are great for your modern playing style. I have an old D.C. 127 that I've been thinking of trying the Beryllium pickups on.

I use steel wool all the time, usually at the first string change on a new guitar and then you won't need it for some time when you maintain your neck and wash your hands before playing. It's difficult to tell from the video but I think your frets especially need a bit of a polish. Don't be afraid to use steel wool for the fretboard and frets and oil the fretboard afterwards.

I've been playing Kiesel exclusively since 2018 🤘

If you're worried just use a rubber eraser, it'll get a lot of the grime off with none of the anxiety. And if you use if regularly you won't need anything else

Cool video!

You can use steekwool 0000, no problem. I have a Kiesel DC700 with flamed maple fretboard and abalone dot inlays. On a regular basis I clean the fretboard and polish the frets with steelwool. No issues thus far

Shout out to using MS Paint to create mock ups before the guitar builder was developed! I built my DC600 the exact same way :)

You’ll have to do another one of these for the multi scale 7 string I see hiding back there.

Sorry if you mentioned this and I missed it, but...what is the body wood on that guitar? The back looks great!

At the beginning you said you were a light touch player then later you said you like to dig in deep. Light fretting do you mean? But a heavy picker?

Hey, very curious, are the frets stainless steel? (Sorry if i missed it in the video!)

Hey this is cool.

Which neck profile did you get? Fretboard radius?

That guitar could be backed up by a Godin SD - kind of like the one on the front left - 😁🎸

Is that aqua burst or night burst

HA You re Welcome ! They did a great job on your Finish. I brought the first Aqua Burst idea to Carvin over 15 years ago. The concept of what it would look like if you were siting on a beach in the Caribbean. How do i Know this ? Well they used my guitar color scheme as the protype and 3 months later I saw the perfect version of my guitar on their very last print catalogue cover no coincidence. I only got a 500 credit for the concept they knew they took from me and standardized it. Since that guitar Carvin and then Kiesel were the first to take that Burst idea to the entire industry. No one was doing burst color schemes back then. It certainly propelled something every guitar company does now.

Fuck that's gorgeous. I've been playing casually for many many years. The bad thing about being a casual is that you still want these, but you can't justify it because you are kinda trash. Nothing feels dumber than when you have guests over and they see pretty guitars and are like "play us something" and you definitely aren't at the level to have that many pretty guitars.

always get mixed feelings on Kiesel some video's reviews make feel ok give them a go like your video for example, other video's people's guitars turn up with terrible QC and others say customer service is hit and miss.... 😅😅😅😅😆😆😆and now there price's are basically on par with Suhr etc 😅

DAh!!! do not touch the abalone inlayd with the steel wool!