The Vintage brand celebrated its 25th anniversary back in 2020 and today exports its wide range of inspired-by models worldwide. As the company’s success proves, there are an awful lot of us that buy and play budget instruments.
This writer’s V62 was purchased well over a decade ago from Cash Convertors for around £60. It was one of the early Vintage ‘relics’ and far from accurate or believable. But with a considerable amount of modding – including trying to reduce the relicing, stripping the neck finish and oiling and waxing it, plus a fret dress and polish, a lot of fingerboard edge rolling, a steel block Wilkinson vibrato with added titanium saddles, a bone nut, oh, and a set
