Vantage

This guitar has a wide neck - 1.75 inches. Very nice for finger picking. :bravo: The old electronics were broken - so I replaced them with a no-name brand. Works fine. Also replaced the tuners, nut, and I have purchased a compensated bridge to put in. I believe the guitar's top to be made of solid Nato wood, which is a wood similar to mahogany. The sides, I am pretty sure is a laminate, again Nato wood. (I had to enlarge the hole for the new electronics and I am pretty sure it's a laminate.) The guitar projects great and with the new compensated bridge it really sounds and feels great. It has a deep tone. All in all, it is a fine guitar to get cheap and upgrade. It's now about the quality of a 1000 dollar guitar. This guitar model was made in Korea by the precursors of Samick.

(Originally written by the12/translated from Audiofanzine FR) Made in Indonesia Preamp with volume and tone controls The main particularity of this guitar is its wood (but I don't know what it is) Mine has six screws at the 19th fret. I wouldn't call it precision work In spite of its 30 years and some wearing marks it aged very well It looks beautiful Grover machine heads... UTILIZATION Very pleasant neck. Very good access to the upper frets in spite of the six screws mentioned above... Standard folk guitar shape SOUNDS I only play it unplugged. The guitar sounds quite loud I never tried to plug it. It's only good for blues And it's perfect for me Very present lows and mids... It's my ideal acoustic sound It always sounds fantastic both fingerpicking and with a pick and even if you hammer the strings It doesn't sound good for pop and modern music styles (not enough high-mids and highs) but that's not a problem for me OVERALL OPINION I've been using it for about two years. I like the fact that it's a unique guitar from a brand that you don't see very often I bought it secondhand without trying it out before... I play it every day since and I won't give it away I'll cry if it ever gets lost If I find a second one anywhere I'll buy it I'm very happy with my purchase.

(Originally written by Polln/translated from Audiofanzine FR) Guitar made in Korea. One humbucker and two single coils. Volume and two tone controls. I don't agree with some reviews I've read and I find there is a real difference between the different pickups. UTILIZATION Wide and very slim neck. It feels very pleasant. The bottom cutaway allows a very easy access to the upper frets. The guitar is not TOO heavy, it's well-balanced. It immediately sounds good and provides a long sustain. SOUNDS The pickups are not the best I know. However the sound is not disappointing neither clean nor distorted. I play this guitar with D'Adarrio XL140 strings and I get very good results. OVERALL OPINION I tried out several low-end models and this one was the best. I bought it secondhand for next to nothing and I think it was a very good deal.

When I started guitar, I had a classical guitar. It got extremely boring so I started saving up for an electric guitar. after a couple days, at some party my mom was hosting, i was talking to my cousin Randi about me buying an electric guitar. He said he would give me one of his electric guitars, but not his fender stratocaster. He gave it to me a few days later, and since then ive bonded with the guitar. Thanx Randi Its electric. I dont care much what kind of guitar it is as long as it plays well and is electric. I also like the mahogany-black color of the body with the tan color of the neck. When I got the guitar, the strings were set too high, so it was a bit hard to play, but i got that fixed. It has a locking nut but no allan key. I dont care much about that though, because my cousin put that on himself. maple neck and fingerboard with 3 single coil EMG pickups and a 5 way switch. The fingerboard is bolted onto the body which has a nice transparent brown finish. It has chrome hardware, a tremolo bar, and the input jack is in the front. it has a volume control with rythm and lead tone controls This is THE uitar to have. its cooler than fender or ibanez or whatever you may prefer. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

This is an interesting guitar manufacture that was not very popular in the early 80s late 70s. This company is called Vantage and a primary filter guitars out of Japan with pretty good solid building techniques. This is a pretty well-built guitar even though it looks sort of funky and goofy. It kind of has the body shape of a Gibson 335 mix between a Gibson SG instrument. Probably because of the two cutaway horns that almost look like the SG and the double cut away Gibson 335. This is a thick dense guitar that features mahogany for the wings and a maple wood in the middle UTILIZATION As far as features go this guitar is pretty basic. You have a volume control knob and a tone control knob with a pickup selector in between. It is equipped with two humbucker pickups and that is about it as far as features go. Sort of your ordinary guitar with no added bells and whistles. SOUNDS If you've ever played any type of Gibson instrument than can you probably will feel very comfortable with this guitar. This is a mahogany based guitar that uses a simple slab of maple in the middle chamber of the body. You get a warm sick tone but also solid high frequencies with the use of the maple wood. So you get a pretty good balance of total versatility with this instrument. One of the things I don't really like about this guitar is this unusually large headstock. It's rather big and clumsy looking. Overall it's a decent instrument if you can find one pretty cheaply and want to restorative. These guitars are not very common and would be very hard to find on the open market. OVERALL OPINION I have never seen these want guitars used anywhere because they were built in the early 80s and many of them did not last through the ages and they weren't very common to begin with either. I have heard of people finding him in yard sales and different classified sections for well under hundred dollars. It's a cool and unique if you're somewhat of a nostalgic collector but otherwise there's many other instruments that can do virtually the same exact thing that this guitar can and you can find them a lot easier.