VINTAGE V100 ReIssued Electric Guitar ~ Lemon Drop

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Friction free Graph Tech Guitar Labs® nuts and saddles are also featured along with gold plated Grover machine heads, chosen for their reliability, accuracy, and smooth performance. The Vintage® ICON Series™ V100 'Lemon Drop' has become a classic in its own right, alongside the innovative Vintage® ICON Series™ Thomas Blug Signature V6 which featured another ‘Wilkinson-first’ wiring system that recreates this world renown guitarist’s treasured 1961 double cutaway guitar. You’re not going to confuse this with a Gibson, are you? The top nuts on both V100s are Graph Tech NuBone XB, which aims to “increase volume and enhance the low-end harmonics of your instrument” (Image credit: Future / Olly Curtis)

JHS had now proved they could design and produce world class products under the Vintage banner. With a reputation to build upon, the company looked to the future with a plan to grow and develop lines for acoustic, electro-acoustic, electric, and bass guitars and a superb range of folk instruments.

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Dennis Drumm JHS Executive Chairman comments, “So, how did it all begin?... Since the heady days of the beat boom in the mid 60’s with the birth in 1965 of the firm John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd., (now commonly referred to as JHS) the creator, owner and worldwide distributor of the Vintage brand, has been at the forefront of bringing affordable guitars to the market. A Vintage ICON electric already looks like your lifetime companion; the best part is, your journey is just beginning. Play on. Mass produced guitars always suffer to a varying degree from sharp burs on the edges of the frets where they have been cut off in production. By spending time "softening" these edges it makes a massive difference to the feel of the guitar. From a sharp, scratchy feel when moving your hand up and down the fretboard to a guitar that feels like it has been played in for years. Trev and I have always figured that there are two ways to build a guitar. You either build down to a price, or you follow the Vintage path and set your benchmarks as high as possible and let the price more or less fall where it lands. My live help facility isn't just for people who want to buy guitars but also people who have bought guitars. I am here for anyone who needs the help, most hours of the day, most days. I always say "If I am in, its on". Thats the general rule.

Credit subject to status and affordability. Terms & Conditions Apply. Guitar Guitar Limited is a credit broker and is Authorised Wilkinson Tune-O-Matic enables fine-tuning of each string for superb intonation all over the fretboard. Our online and showroom experience are unique in the industry. A completely tailored approach to ensure every customer gets the service they deserve - and want! I have original models, but like so many players these days, I really don’t want to take them on tour, they’re just too precious, I’d be devastated if they got lost or damaged.

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…

For enhanced playability 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 ‘dusty-end’ of the guitar's upper frets and opening up your playing.

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. This is exactly what I wanted this guitar to represent, my own interpretation and a hit on the incredible music of Jimmy Hendrix. I’d been performing with the white V6 playing and recording a tutorial DVD of his music, so I thought what can I do next with this theme? When I was young and in a band, we supported the original Fleetwood Mac to play at a gig we'd organised. Fleetwood Mac let us use their PA, and Peter Green even let me use his amp! He wouldn’t let me use his guitar but he was always my favourite guitarist rolled around, the spring arrived, and NAMM 2023 provided the platform for several big Vintage reveals. He asked if I’d like to work with JHS and Vintage to create my own signature model. So, we worked alongside my good friend and fantastic guitar maker Rob Armstrong, and designed the Gordon Giltrap Signature model from which, a variety of 6 & 12 string acoustic and electro-acoustic models have followed.

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UK singer songwriter/solo artists, Carrie Martin says: “Talking Vintage guitars is always easy for me because I love these guitars with a passion, what’s not to love? They ring out forever. Plugged in they are arguably the best sounding acoustics in their field and easily rival the more expensive higher end acoustics. Having been introduced to Vintage by my mentor Gordon Giltrap and becoming part of the team, it wasn’t long before I investigated all of the GG and Paul Brett range. The Vintage ReIssued™ Series combined JHS’s commercial knowledge and market insight, with Wilkinson’s amazing and encyclopædic knowledge of all things guitar with a genuine desire to do everything accurately, for the right reasons. As a result, those very first ReIssued V52, V6 and V100 models, have since become not only collectable, but the first call for guitarists playing live and in the studio. All models in the GG series, feature high-end appointments including abalone inlays, Gordon’s own choice of tonewoods specifically selected to enhance the guitar’s natural warmth, tight, rich bass, bright powerful midrange, and sweet highs, that sound wonderful in both the acoustic models and the electro-acoustic models fitted with Fishman® preamps. These stunning additions to the now very impressive and expanding Vintage catalogue, set a new benchmark within playability, specifications, and desirability, not only within the Vintage brand but again, showing the world that if one uses one’s knowledge honestly, it’s possible to do so much than is ever expected.

Yoichi Honma, President at Apollon Music, Japanese distributor for Vintage comments, “As you know, Japanese customers are very detail-oriented and will not let the slightest flaw in finish go unnoticed, and Vintage has never had a problem with that. In this day and age of online business, it is commonplace for customers to compare with the competition when choosing a product. By 2006 the JHS stand number was a priority call for the media at trade shows around the world, eager to be first to announce news of yet another Vintage launch. The Vintage ICON™ Series raised enough eyebrows to cause a draught when introduced at both Winter NAMM and Frankfurt Musikmesse in said year. The Vintage ICON Series theme was again, workhorse guitars, with incredibly authentic ‘played within an inch of their life’ relicing, instantly and equally appealing to students and to professional guitar players around the globe. the 25th Anniversary year of Vintage saw the realization of the ProShop® concept, where all those years of listening combined with the immense skills, talent and imagination of players and the Vintage® design and workshop team were put to work to create ProShop® Uniques, one-off individual guitars created to showcase the brand and give Vintage aficionados the opportunity to own a totally individual Vintage creation. People often don’t take hardware seriously, it’s frustrating. I fully understand that players are often more concerned with the visual cosmetics of a guitar, like a fancy maple cap for example, but the reality is, if you don’t have hardware that works, you can’t make a guitar.I work directly with the Director of Vintage Guitars and can communicate any issue - any problem - any requirement - straight to the man who can make it happen 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™. Two years ago, we needed a good solid bodied double cutaway electric guitar for some of our video demos and Paul offered to send us one of the Vintage ReIssued Series™ V6 models. There’s a lot of gigging guitar players at Graph Tech, including myself, and, when it arrived we were all really impressed with the build, the fretwork, feel, the playability and tone of this guitar.