Electric Guitars

It is absolutely true to say that the best guitars are built from the inside out and Vintage enjoys a very well earned reputation for building great guitars. In the following review, we will see about the Vintage V100 Series Electric Guitars, which is a tribute to the legendary Les Paul guitar. The Vintage V100 Guitar combines a high level specification and build quality to produce some exceptionally impressive tones and screaming lead runs. It is simply a stylish, self-assured, authoritative, affordable and great sounding single cut electric guitar.

Classic design:

The Vintage V100 electric guitar has a solid mahogany body, based on the classic LP design. The guitar includes a set of quality attributes including a set mahogany neck, dual covered humbuckers, along with separate volume and tone controls for each of them. The V100 possess some seriously good looks, thanks to its well detailed finishing including cream body and neck binding along with a flamed maple tops on certain models. An accurately carved gently arched front gives the V100 its distinctive look. One of the most notable design features of the V100 is that, its Mahogany neck is set into the body as opposed to the bolt neck, thus making it a very genuine instrument to listen to and play with. This combination just maximises its tone enhancing rigidity. This combo of neck joint and mahogany body has long been used on the top quality guitars that tend to fetch quite a deal of price. From a distance, the V100 will be totally indistinguishable from the other guitars that are worth five times as much and even with close inspection, you will have to be nit picking to pull it down.

Features:

The rosewood fingerboard with 22 frets offers it a very positive feel. The block shaped symmetrical headstock of the Vintage V100 guitar is adorned with Kulson style tuners, bearing green plastic tulip knobs in a classic three as side formation. At its tip, the Vintage logo is inlaid in pearloid, in addition to the pearloid emblem. The Trapezoid position inlays down the fretboard contributes well to the V100’s classic styling and they guide your fingers. The neck feels very sturdy and smooth with its gloss lacquer running up around the cream fingerboard binding, concealing the fret ends. The darkened Rosewood fretboard has a very nice feel to it and plays equally well right down the neck.

The Vintage V100 series LP Style Electric Guitar seems to be taking full advantage of its single cutaway body shape, by offering a generous portion of the upper frets in easy reach. On the upper shoulder of the body is the pickup switch that has 3 positions from rhythm to treble and both together. In a gist, lay on some gain and you have got a great grungy crunch, and lean it off a little, you have that classic blues rock sound.  In addition to all the metal works, there are also some cream plastic fittings including pickup surrounds, pickup selector backplate along with a raised pickguard. The four rotary controls allow you to alter the volume and tone and these are paired to control the bridge and neck pickups. The volume and tone controls are of golden resin speed variety along with white numbering.

Fabulous colours and design:

Vintage V100 is available in a glamorous range of colours and finishes to choose from: Tobacco Sunburst, Flame Maple Cherry Sunburst, Gloss Black Chrome Hardware, Gloss Black Gold Hardware, Wine Red, Gold Top, Flamed Iced Tea, Flamed Honey Burst and Artic White. The Tobacco sunburst and Wine Red models have gold hardware and translucent finishing that helps bring out the wood grain beneath. The Gloss Black version has also been complimented with gold hardware, with a solid coloured finishing. The stunning Cherry Sunburst V100 possess a flame maple finish and chrome hardware. The Tobacco Sunburst finish and Flame Maple Cherry Sunburst finishing is also available in left hand style; just for a few pounds extra.

Sound and Action:

The Vintage V100 is equipped with Wilkinson hardware including the deluxe tuners and dual covered humbuckers. The twin humbucker pickups provide incredible sustain, which will not disappoint. The Tune-o-matic bridge helps with the sound intonation and maintains strong tuning. When combined with a separate volume and tone controls, there is a powerful sound to be harnessed and has a lot of scope for tone shaping. Both the rhythm and treble are very powerful and they successfully deliver an excellent thick tone. When used together, they produce a full bodied sound that works great with clean and distorted amp settings alike; and separately, the treble humbucker will cut through with precision and there is just enough bluesy colour to the neck pickup, in order to keep the solos sounding full of life.

Verdict:

No prizes for guessing that the Vintage V100 series is modelled on the timeless classic design of Les Paul. But it is certainly not a cheap replica of the legendary model with no substance. The Vintage V100 Electric Guitar is loaded with features and simply irresistible performance to match it. The Maple and Mahogany tone woods are that killer ideal recipe for the smoky blueness with a very warm jazzy feel while the charging to the other extreme allows the guitar to rage and rampage through high gain amplification like no other. If you have got your eye on this style of electric guitar then the V100 beats the competition at the sub £200 mark and even £300 guitars will not offer much more in the way of build, components and style. Overall, we feel that the Vintage V100 Electric Guitar is a best buy.

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