Vintage V6 ReIssued, Candy Apple Blue Overview
With a traditionally styled American Alder body, a balanced set of three Wilkinson WVS vintage-voiced Alnico V pickups, and a Wilkinson WVC vibrato bridge, the Vintage V6 Reissued in Candy Apple Blue is every inch a masterpiece of detail, style, and playability.
The WVS pickups feature staggered, chamfered edge pole pieces for that authentic tone and power, while the reverse wound, reverse polarity centre pickup provides hum cancelling in switch positions 2 and 4. A positive location, 6 screw trem and bridge design, with ‘push-in’ variable tension delrin-bushed arm, provides an accurate return to pitch; perpendicular bend, high grade steel saddles enhance tonality and ‘snap’, and a ground base plate corners provides authentic looks.
Comfort, speed, and supreme playability are ensured by way of a Classic Vintage ‘soft C’ profile Maple neck, and a 10" radius Lignum Rosa™ fingerboard. 22 Medium Profile frets add to the comfort, accuracy and classic feel of the Vintage V6, while the addition of a Graphite top nut, and Wilkinson WJ55 E-Z-Lok locking tuners ensure that tuning remains both constant and stable; staggered string posts, a feature usually only seen on higher priced instruments, provide the ideal string rake angle for smooth vibrato action and correct playing tension.
The V6™ is an original Vintage® ReIssued Series guitar, designed and created by Trev Wilkinson and the UK Vintage design team.
What Vintage say:
The Vintage ReIssued Series V6LB combines the very best of time-served aesthetics and forward-thinking design ingenuity. A trio of Wilkinson WVS Alnico V pickups give the guitar the perfect balance between scorching highs, rich mids and plummy low end, just what you'd expect from a guitar of this nature. The Wilkinson vibrato bridge, meanwhile, features an innovative stagger-drilled block which radically improves the guitar's intonation, whilst maintaining incredible return-to-pitch accuracy.
Whether you're searching for your first guitar or your last, every member of the Vintage ReIssued Series is a keeper. Play on.
- Body: American Alder
- Neck: Hard Maple – Bolt On
- Scale: 25.5″/648mm
- Frets: 22
- Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot
- Tuners: Wilkinson® WJ55 E-Z-LOK™
- Vibrato: Wilkinson® WVC Pickups: Wilkinson® Single Coil x 3 (N) WVS (M) WVS (B) WVS
- Hardware: Chrome
- Controls: 1 Volume/ 2 Tone/ 5-Way Lever