[NAMM] Vintage Summer Of Love V6MRHDX

Published on 07/26/2011 by TonyBruno, last updated on 07/26/2011

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Thomas Blug has joined forces with Vintage guitars to produce a new signature model influenced by the man many people think of as the greatest guitarist of all time.

The Vintage Summer Of Love V6MRHDX is a nod to an iconic guitar played by Jimi Hendrix. The newest model in the Vintage ICON range of distressed, or reliced, instruments, the Summer Of Love’s body and parts have all been aged to simulate years of onstage use.

The guitar features the same specs as Thomas’s '61 and his original Vintage signature, the V6MRTBG – the only differences being the reverse headstock and the hand-applied graphics created by German artist Daniel Hahn.

The V6MRHDX’s body is alder, and it features a hard maple, bolt-on neck with a 7 ½” radius rosewood fingerboard and 21 frets. The hardware is genuine Wilkinson, including the three vintage-voiced single coil pickups, with aged ivory covers and Thomas’s Bukkaswitch, which is operated by a push/push pot on the back tone control, and provides a hum-cancelling, subtly tone-altering extra dummy coil when needed.

Vintage Summer Of Love V6MRHDX specs:

Body: Alder
Neck: Hard Maple – Bolt-On
Fingerboard: 7 1/2" Rosewood
Frets: 21
Tuners: Wilkinson Deluxe WJ55D EZ-Lok
Vibrato: Wilkinson WVCD
Scale: 25.5”/648mm
Pickups: Wilkinson single coil x 3 aged ivory (N) WVS (M) WVSM rw/rp(B) WHCC (Back tone push/push hum-cancelling extra coil)
Controls: 1 Volume, 2 Tone, 5-Way Selector
Scratchplate: 3-ply distressed
Hardware: Nickel