NAMM 2020: Vintage Guitars
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- čas přidán 28. 01. 2020
- Vintage Guitars has lot of new stuff for 2020. Love those "Range of Eight" guitars inspired by story telling, and the new Pro Series seems pretty awesome, too.
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Vintage make really good quality guitars. At that price point it's tough to match them for play ability. However, I'm really not a fan of their distressed look. It would have been really nice to see some more new, non-distressed models from Vintage this year. Great coverage Steve!
The icon series that are distressed also have the same available usually un reliced . I like the relic sunburs tele v59
I really like Vintage guitars but I wish they'd do a bit better job regarding their relicing. That's the one things that turns me off about them as it just doesn't look natural wear to me.
I like Vintage guitars, too and own several but I agree that their relicing is awful. I'm not a great fan of artificial relicing, but if you're going to do it at all, do it properly. The relicing on their guitars is not reproduced wear and tear by sanding but, as far as I can tell, the wear pattern is just stencilled spray. It might impress a 14 year old wannabe at 100 yards... but anyone else? At the price point you can't realistically expect anything better, so why bother with it at all? It's just naff.
The only reliced Vintage I have is the PG Lemon Drop Les Paul with the old style neck joint. At the time I got it, you could only get the reliced version. It's a great guitar, but the reliced paintwork? Sheesh! Even on their non-reliced models the acrylic is really THICK.
Thanks, Steve, for all the NAMM vids... great stuff
I own the reissue lemon drop, unbelievable quality for the money and sounds amazing.
Great guitars...forget the distressing
Really cool guitars! And I have to say to you Steve, you're one of my top five youtube guys. 👍🏻
Is it just me or does sanding a few edges, leaving most of the guitar shinny and new--not look aged! Just looks--fake? Like those ball caps where they wear out just the edge of the bill of the cap.
In my opinion, the relic doesn't look good, but I feel like it would be hard to do a proper relic job on a 400 dollar guitar.
Nice !!! and cool concept in those guitars in the end of the video !!
Spent £10’s of thousands on genuine fenders and Gibson’s over the years. Just spent £150 on a used vintage strat, and love it. Going to get some more for sure.
Those are unbelievably amazing
I love my bass "VJ 74" ..thanks Vintage_Guitars!!
"upgrade via distressing."
Whut?
I played a Vintage Strat and LP copy in one of the local music shops awhile back. It was fine I guess, especially for the price. Cool, cheap, fun guitars.
I checked and are nice guitars for the money and I lOVE relics but the distress job on those ones are just terrible.
I've never understood why distressing a new guitar. Would you do this with your new car ?
If I had a 67 chevy truck, yeah I would gloss over the distressed paintjob
I agree with you but I think dirt on spray exists so your car looks the part when going hunting
car != guitar
it's that simple
Some years ago I mentioned this brand to Steve.....time flew.
Honest: great guitars!!! Very underrated!!!
Are these completely original guitars or are they taking stock guitars and modifying them on the back end?
beatiful guitars , I love them
JUST WOW!
Great NAMM coverage Steve...Thanks!
Joe Doe Jailbird, not one of my best decisions. Hopefully, I can send it back ASAP, too many imperfections.
Thanks for the post Steve. Very cool guitars. I liked the "story" guitars. Very cool and unique.
Same here! I especially liked the cactus F-hole one. I thought it was a cool merger of story and function.
interesting to see they flipped the control plate and knobs so you can do volume swells easier on that guitar. They look great!
I thought the "story" guitars were shit! I just want one that plays good not a lot of hyped up bullshit!
Just.....stop "distressing" them....these are great guitars for price and speced out....but ease up on the relic and I feel like they'd take off more.
Fender appear more relaxed than Gibson are about other guitar companies copying their designs. Looking at Vintage's range here as an example, it appears to me that Vintage are having to change the designs of their Gibson copies more than their Fender copies. For the Fender copies there is just a very slight change to the headstock designs on the Vintage versions, the body shapes of their Strats and Teles appear the same. Looking at the Gibson copies, taking the 335 copies as an example on the Vintage copies not only is one of the horns set lower but also if you look at the body the lower bout bulges!
These are the best guitars for the money.
Just spotted Darnel Cole. Hi mate.
Sick
Fender killer guitar
I think it’s important to understand that vintage guitars aren’t expensive guitars.
You can’t make a 350$ icon model look like a 3500$ custom shop model !
Great vid Steve just wish you got some numbers
Fender design is so good other companies can make money reinventing the idea
Do they come in a NOT stupid looking finish?
Yes
Are these on-par quality-wise with the Squire & Epiphone stuff over the past 2 years? They look great & Im in the market for a LP Jr copy. I’ll be playing shows with it ... someday.
Done with Gibson
I would say they are better than Squier & Epiphone
@@Gueli I’m going to get one and see.
No basses at all on the Vintage booth - except a glimpse of a Hoefner Violin Bass I was able to catch in the second wall?
I am slightly disappointed. Not with you, Steve, but with Vintage.
Sure they had basses there. czcams.com/video/mwx2M_iVO_Y/video.html . Steve's interest is guitars, no need to show basses here.
Everybody complaining about the relics and there £300 ish!. Play and treat it hard for a year or so and it’ll look like it was £500 to build.
I’m sure these all play and sound great but I mean if the relic jobs are gonna be that bad, why not just make regular finishes only?
Because they sell, I guess.
Wonder what they will look like when they are vintage and of course because these are new they will sound awfull just like the ones on all those old albums cos its only because were hearing them now and there old that they sound amazing..... Ive got some vintage strings and a battery if anyones interested?
I decided to "Distress" my wife....give her that classic worn, vintage look....I get out of jail sometime in 2023.
btw, no.....no......no....YOU ROCK !!
It may be just me, but I don't get these brands... "Just exactly copy Gibson and Fender" and call it My "own" creation, WTF?
Check out the guy at 4:45
They are great guitars for the money, however, resale value is practically nothing and their ES335 models have been a horrible mess since 2013 when they introduced the offsets on the lower horn and extended lower bouts. Also, after sales is practically non-existent. I asked them a simple question about tuners by email and they couldnt be bothered to get back to me!
It's kinda like seeing a tribute band, even though they could sound great it's just not the real thing
Exactly how I felt. Sure, they are fun and cheap. But it’s not a Gibson or a Fender, that’s for sure.
Great guitars for the money
Just bought a les paul gold top like the one showed and the quality sucks, the finish start bubble, plastic not finished
Really poor quality control not worth the money
Vintage should stand behind their craftsmanship by providing a better warranty. Vintage is one year. Epiphone is lifetime to original owner.
I don't get this look at all🤔
Hmm. That relic shit is going to be as cheesey as a pair of 80's stonewash jeans very quickly.
I've been doing cabinet and furniture distressing for 25 years. Making thing look authentic. This company needs help. Nothing shown looks naturally worn.. Have him contact me
What a robbery business.
pre distressed guitars? good idea but ... puhleeez
What do you mean? Is it a good idea or not?
1:00 Nah. Get yourself a Nash.
Wow jus skip over all the nicest lp shapes ..why not.smh
I dont believe in ruining a guitar by pretending its old and worn by relicing it .a guitar is played practiced on dragged around the world 🌎 and repeat for 20 years or so then it has earned a reputation as its sound improves from tech tinkering with it changing parts as its maybe modified for better sound the electronics and hardware get worn some items get replaced over the years it gets dropped it falls over when leaning against a cabinet and so on as the frets and fingerboard gets worn in and it develops its on unique sound that no other can reproduce then its earned its scars and the many many stories as it might be sold and passed along to other musicians nothing can accurately represent a natural aging process thats earn between the guitar and the artist and techs .
I'm not a fan of relicing and even less so when it's done this poorly. They look like cheap guitars so I hope they are priced accordingly. If not, there's just too many others doing a better job.
I happen to own one and yes they are fairly priced! They do feel and play better than they look and I think it's cool that you get brand name hardware at an entry level price!
Why people are buying "relic" guitars is beyond me; they're for posers who want people to think they have an old guitar. It's truly ridiculous. I have a 48-year-old Tele that doesn't look as beat-up as these guitars. That Tele at 4:30 is laughable.
mel obrien very poor quality looking relic job
Looks trash
Then don't buy them. Plenty of people who will. They do most of these without the relic finish too.
I brought a few of these with the fake relic but after playing them I love the way they sound and never really cared much about the quality of the relic
Those relic jobs are atrocious. Just screams fake wear. I don't like relics anyway, but mass produced relic jobs are painful. Looks like a teen did it to his new guitar with a belt sander in the garage over a drunken night.
So I take it you’ve got the thousands to buy a real one 😂
@@alanneale3657 well I'm glad you made yourself laugh cos your point is complete nonsense. You do get that ANY guitar can be roadworn right? Wear isn't exclusive to 60's fenders. You can buy a squier for 200 bucks in 2010, gig the shit out of it for 10 years and... Oh my god you've got a genuine, road worn guitar! Does it make that guitar worth thousands? Or does it just make it a guitar with honest wear as opposed to obviously new guitars with a shitty attempt at faux aging?
The 'relic' nonsense with everyone is getting old...ha ha.
Don’t like any of these.
The relics look garbage
Whast the appeal of fake distressed guitars?. Soon you wont be able to find a new looking shiny guitar.
It's the same concept like when you buy a new Jeans- most of them today have cuts /holes / stitches marks
Distressing guitar bodies and paint.... just another silly bullshit fad to sell guitars !