REVIEW - Some Vintage Paradise.
Aug 10, 2022 18:57:15 GMT
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Post by grayn on Aug 10, 2022 18:57:15 GMT
Rather than do yet another NGD on this guitar. I thought I'd play it for a while and do a review.
I bought this guitar, a Vintage V100AFD Paradise, in Flamed Amber, 2 months ago.
As you'll see, it is in the style of the famed Gibson single-cut electric. Yes, a Les Paul
It features a solid, 2-peice mahogany, single cutaway body, with a genuine carved maple cap and flame maple veneer top.
It has an all mahaogany set neck and is fitted with a pair of WVHZ Wilkinson Zebra humbucking pickups.
Now I have been lucky enough to own many high end electrics over the years, including Gibson and Japanese Tokai Les Pauls.
This Vintage can be had for around £400 or less and that is new. Yet I have to say that this Paradise electric is really up there
with those. In fact I was talking with a muscician who owns 21 Gibsons and he admitted that he felt a little bitter when he tried
out some of the better Vintage LPs, as they were so bloody good, at a fraction of the price.
I've been playing it pretty much every day since getting it, when I am not playing my MD Firebird.
It's a solid beastie and reeasonably weighty but no back breaker. The build quality and finish is spot on.
It has a really good balance to it and is very nice and easy to play. The pickups are beefy and quite high output.
Overdrive is pushed well, with a thick sound, yet articulate. I was also impressed with it played clean.
The neck pickup sounds great, knocking out jazz chords and smooth licks.
I think the best thing I can say about this guitar is that if I could only own one electric guitar and it had to be this one, I would
be quite happy. In fact I often think I wish I had the good sense just to have one. But that just isn't going to happen.
Minor gripes? I am not a fan of the gold Vintage headstock logo. It looks a little cheap, as do the white buttons, on the tuners.
Fortunately those tuners do function very nicely.
Not much else to add really. The proof is in the pudding and this sweet guitar continues to impress me. Oh yeah, I think it looks
amazing too.
I bought this guitar, a Vintage V100AFD Paradise, in Flamed Amber, 2 months ago.
As you'll see, it is in the style of the famed Gibson single-cut electric. Yes, a Les Paul
It features a solid, 2-peice mahogany, single cutaway body, with a genuine carved maple cap and flame maple veneer top.
It has an all mahaogany set neck and is fitted with a pair of WVHZ Wilkinson Zebra humbucking pickups.
Now I have been lucky enough to own many high end electrics over the years, including Gibson and Japanese Tokai Les Pauls.
This Vintage can be had for around £400 or less and that is new. Yet I have to say that this Paradise electric is really up there
with those. In fact I was talking with a muscician who owns 21 Gibsons and he admitted that he felt a little bitter when he tried
out some of the better Vintage LPs, as they were so bloody good, at a fraction of the price.
I've been playing it pretty much every day since getting it, when I am not playing my MD Firebird.
It's a solid beastie and reeasonably weighty but no back breaker. The build quality and finish is spot on.
It has a really good balance to it and is very nice and easy to play. The pickups are beefy and quite high output.
Overdrive is pushed well, with a thick sound, yet articulate. I was also impressed with it played clean.
The neck pickup sounds great, knocking out jazz chords and smooth licks.
I think the best thing I can say about this guitar is that if I could only own one electric guitar and it had to be this one, I would
be quite happy. In fact I often think I wish I had the good sense just to have one. But that just isn't going to happen.
Minor gripes? I am not a fan of the gold Vintage headstock logo. It looks a little cheap, as do the white buttons, on the tuners.
Fortunately those tuners do function very nicely.
Not much else to add really. The proof is in the pudding and this sweet guitar continues to impress me. Oh yeah, I think it looks
amazing too.