Armenesi sovietica fece chitarre Krunk dalla fabbrica di Yerevan.

I find these very interesting even though they weren’t good instruments by any means. Soviet electric guitars were generally pretty terrible, but the ones made in Armenia were considered a level worse.

While the build quality was pretty bad, it was made worse by the fact that none of these models had adjustable truss-rods, which means you were unable to adjust the guitar neck to raise or lower the strings.

The guitars had floating trem system much like on American made Fender Jazzmaster, which was a very interesting choice considering even Fender with all their resources was struggling with making that design optimal, because of low string tension at the bridge the string would pop out of the saddles during bends. Ironically this was less of a problem for people playing Krunk guitars, because Soviet pop music didn’t require bends. Still you were better off not touching the trem system at all, because even the slightest Vibrato would detune the guitar to hell.

I got to play one of these a decade ago, and they were pretty terrible. Impossible to tune, heavy as a black hole, and sounded all around terrible.

The single coil pickup humm like crazy even without any distortion so you constantly had to palm mute the strings while playing. But even with your best efforts it was still guaranteed to make all sorts of weird noises.

You should only get these as relics/cool history pieces. I suspect that it’s impossible to make them playable.

Here’s a rundown I found online.

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Common features of models made at the Erevan factory:

All models have a black metal-flake finish.
All models have a pick-shaped, three-bolt neckplate with serial number on it (except the mandolin, which has two bolts without neckplate).
Not a single Erevan model has a truss-rod, not even basses. The necks are obviously very thick.
All models have pickups with chrome covers and either red or green plastic inserts.
Fretboards are usually unfinished, with pink plastic dot markers.
Extremely sloppy assembly quality.