VINTAGE 25TH ANNIVERSARY SERIES V6H, V100 & V75

While we haven’t quite reached the stage where you can pick up a ‘vintage Vintage’, last year was the silver anniversary year for the main in-house guitar brand of British distributor John Hornby Skewes, and it celebrated in suitably sparkly style with a triumvirate of time-tested designs.

Vintage began as a more upmarket series within JHS’s entry-level Encore line but soon outgrew that stable on its way to what almost feels like world domination in today’s sub-£500 market, with designs that stick as close as is legally permissible to established Fender and Gibson templates but that are built in China without cutting corners.

There are no surprises in the models chosen for this 25th Anniversary Series, then: a straight down the line T-type, S-type (with bridge humbucker) and LP-type. Each model is limited to