VINTAGE V100 ReIssued Electric Guitar ~ Lemon Drop

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I never thought I’d actually go to a Les Paul before my beloved strats! Can’t praise this Lemondrop enough really!

Semi pros love ‘em ‘cos whatever their main instrument is, they can have ‘the other styles’ with credibility and without breaking the bank. Pros and collectors love ‘em ‘cos they can leave their ‘Closet Classics’ at home and take a Vintage out which absolutely does the job, but they don’t have twenty thousand quid at risk on a pub gig stage. In 2015, I took over the artist relations and press work for Vintage here at RBI Music, signing up a bunch of players to take the guitars on tour and get the brand name up and out there. We use a lot of hired gear when we are flown out to shows, so I’m not sure what I’m going play. It’s often different at every gig, but the Yellow Peril has the same Graham Oliver sound whatever amp I use, it plays and sounds so good every time, I love it. The Vintage® guitar brand, guided throughout by the remarkably proactive team at JHS® situated in Garforth, Leeds, England, has achieved more respect in thirty years than some brands could hope for in a lifetime. Vintage launched its ICON Series in 2006 and then broke the mould later in the year with the introduction of the Vintage ICON Series V100MRPG, an ‘homage’ which ‘doffed it’s cap’, as Guitar and Bass magazine said in its December 2006 review, to a certain guitar which had been in the ownership of both Peter Green and Gary Moore.

There’s an appeal for the younger folk, first and second time buyers, where we deliver an amazing instrument at birthday party money, teachers love Vintage ‘cos the intrinsic quality helps a starter progress and looks/sounds the part. Whether you're searching for your first guitar or your last, every member of the Vintage ReIssued Series is a keeper. Then play on.. The new Vintage line of Joe Doe Guitars also launched at 2020 Winter NAMM and had the same enormously high degree of interest. In limited edition runs, each guitar is indeed a one off, and based on the chassis of the highly regarded Vintage® V6™, V52™ and V72™. Another minor issue is the quality of the general finish on the guitar. There are several areas on the sides where there are visible small lumps in the finish, where the spray-paint has spattered and dried hard. This could be intentional to try and suggest touch-ups over the years, however.

The Trev Wilkinson-designed Vintage V100 features a unique evolutionary body shape with a graceful descending bass side shoulder and an ingeniously designed offset heel providing improved access to the ‘dusty-end’ of the guitar's upper frets and opening up your playing.

Brit-conceived and long-running lookalike brand Vintage is going places – particularly across the pond in the USA. Is now the time to reconsider the copy? We think so…

Such was the success of the Hondo line around the world, that by the early eighties, we were having issues with supply in the UK, which prompted us to look at expanding the Encore line into electric guitars and basses. Mahogany body with carved flame Maple veneer provides resonance, tone and ‘correct weight’ comfort. The Vintage V100 features a unique, evolutionary body shape, with a graceful descending bass side shoulder and an ingeniously-designed offset heel providing improved access to the upper reaches of the fretboard.