NGD - BEHOLD THE ULTRAVIOLET V80

[Philly Q]

And what are the prices on your V50?

Which one's that?

[FELINEGUITARS]

OK - A quick bit of clarification of my range of Vs
Pricing is variable based on selected options (too many to list here), but this will give you an idea

V58 - Korina  from £2000



V70 - from £1800



V80 - shown here in ultraviolet - from £1800



V Supreme - shown here with floyd and block inlays - from £2500




I have also toyed with a version of the V90 and a few other oddball options too......

[gwEm]

Not sure whether they'd buy in to the V shape though. Gwem, do you get many 5-10 year olds lusting after you when you play a V? :lol:

not exactly :)

but the V is a funny thing I think, its different to other guitars in the way people see you. once you get known for playing a V theres no way back really. these days, i'd quite like to play strats - as I usually do at home.

i know though (from the occasions i've done it) that people who i may or may not know will come up to me after the show and ask whats happened to the V. theres no going back from it, i don't mind too much - I love Vs and they look fantastic after all, but I appreciate the qualities of other guitar models much more these days.

theres a few strat loving V players out there, and visa versa - and I can really see why!! i think that strats naturally encourage you to be play uniquely, particularly with lead. and obviously with a V, it has a very unique look about it, and people expect a certain flamboyant playing style.

now, in reality, my live guitar playing has gone from barely acceptable, to hamfistedly decent in the last couple of years - i'm no schenker. but play a V, and people will assume you are a guitar god simply having an off night. its a brilliant think to hide behind.

anyway, i've gone down the route a few of these players have done and tried to make my Vs more like strats. with bright neck pickups (parallel wired or miniHB) and one of my Vs I even moved the volume control to be nearer the strat position for violining. it all helps i think. i see Jonathan has put the volume control of his purple V in the ideal position too.

my favourite V, and infact guitar in general, is a Gibson '84 V (the Johnny Winter one) which Jonathan's had a little fettle of, and I've done some fettling of my own too. its fantastic, but i still dream of the volume knob being in the strat place :) no way i'm moving it on that guitar!

the other thing with Vs is - the different models all play so different. with strats, i find theres alot more consistency. for example my hardtail mahogany strat has a flat radius warmoth neck and should be very different to my 67 replica bravewood, but i still end up playing in pretty much the same way. i don't find the same with Vs, my 79 is very different from my 84, and again i played a 75 once which was different again. 70s Vs are about the loose string tension i think.

i could go on, but thats enough V ramblings for one night

[gwEm]

nah! I will bang on some more about my favourite thing :)

regarding the 84 Johnny Winter V. it has an ebony board, which is by far my preference. the action was already low and fast, and thanks to Jonathan its even more slick. but the funny thing is that despite the great action the neck profile has all the sophistication of a stoneage club. its not really fat at all, but theres not been much thought put into the radiusing of it. i really like it though - gives me a firm anchor point, and feels really trusty. similarly, the dirty finger pickups couldn't ever be described as sophisticated, but they are hot as lava and i like the 'gruff' sound as Jonathan puts it. fits the guitar.

i reckon if jonathan spec'd me a V theres not much i'd need to change about his ideas. i think hes got my taste in Vs sussed totally.

but funnily, the best babe magnet in my experience in the original 50s model. my first V was an Epiphone '58 copy which I still have and play. don't play it too much live any more. i've sometimes got lucky with the more modern looking Vs too, but that Epi was the only one where I actually got girls offering to help me carry it home. ending up going out with one of them for 5 years  :D

[FernandoDuarte]

but funnily, the best babe magnet in my experience in the original 50s model.  that Epi was the only one where I actually got girls offering to help me carry it home. ending up going out with one of them for 5 years  :D

Good to know :lol:

[FELINEGUITARS]

but funnily, the best babe magnet in my experience in the original 50s model.  that Epi was the only one where I actually got girls offering to help me carry it home. ending up going out with one of them for 5 years  :D

Good to know :lol:

So that's why I get so many enquiries about that model

[Philly Q]

but funnily, the best babe magnet in my experience in the original 50s model. my first V was an Epiphone '58 copy which I still have and play.

That's the only style of V I'd really like to have now.  I like the slightly different body and headstock shapes, the neck heel.... and the gold hardware on korina.  When you think that design is over 50 years old, it's amazing.

[HTH AMPS]

looks great, but I'd prefer neck binding (actually binding all round the body would be my preference).

love the colour, really unusual and striking.

Sounds like a custom order developing there Ian

ha ha, I'd love to mate but sadly I'd be lucky to scr@pe together a deposit nevermind anything else - for the next year I'll be broke saving a financial miracle (loan repayments end next October, woo!!!!).

[bucketshred]

I had a go on the purple Vee yesterday and what a lovely guitar it was! Smooth, huge, looks amazing in that purple and so easy to play! Even the Mrs was impressed!!

Paddy

[Andrew W]

but funnily, the best babe magnet in my experience in the original 50s model. my first V was an Epiphone '58 copy which I still have and play.

That's the only style of V I'd really like to have now.  I like the slightly different body and headstock shapes, the neck heel.... and the gold hardware on korina.  When you think that design is over 50 years old, it's amazing.

That Ted McCarty was a bright lad!

I love the 50s shape V most of all though I must admit that the 'sleeker' modern shape suits that purple V, seems to match the modernity of the paint job. I had a Tokai 50s style V for a while, it was the guitar that got me back into electrics so, although I don't have it anymore, I have a lot to thank it for.

[FELINEGUITARS]

but funnily, the best babe magnet in my experience in the original 50s model. my first V was an Epiphone '58 copy which I still have and play.

That's the only style of V I'd really like to have now.  I like the slightly different body and headstock shapes, the neck heel.... and the gold hardware on korina.  When you think that design is over 50 years old, it's amazing.

That Ted McCarty was a bright lad!

I love the 50s shape V most of all though I must admit that the 'sleeker' modern shape suits that purple V, seems to match the modernity of the paint job. I had a Tokai 50s style V for a while, it was the guitar that got me back into electrics so, although I don't have it anymore, I have a lot to thank it for.

Apparently it was Seth Lover of all people who designed the V...although McCartey's name appears on the patents

[Denim n Leather]

The violet one looks ace!

[Andrew W]

Apparently it was Seth Lover of all people who designed the V...although McCartey's name appears on the patents

That's interesting - someone somewhere is telling porkie pies then:

http://www.vintageguitar.com/2826/ted-mccarty/

Q: Obviously, I need to ask about those late-’50s futuristic guitars – the Flying V, the Explorer, and any Moderne prototypes – since they’ve become such collector’s items.

Ted: I personally designed those. Fender was talking about how Gibson was a bunch of old fuddie-duddies, and when I heard that through the grapevine, I was a little peeved. So I said, “Let’s shake ‘em up.” I wanted to come up with some guitar shapes that were different from anything else.

[Loomer]

I would like to go back to V's, but I'm kind of worried my flailing lead singer will snap it in half at some point.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Apparently it was Seth Lover of all people who designed the V...although McCartey's name appears on the patents

That's interesting - someone somewhere is telling porkie pies then:

http://www.vintageguitar.com/2826/ted-mccarty/

Q: Obviously, I need to ask about those late-’50s futuristic guitars – the Flying V, the Explorer, and any Moderne prototypes – since they’ve become such collector’s items.

Ted: I personally designed those. Fender was talking about how Gibson was a bunch of old fuddie-duddies, and when I heard that through the grapevine, I was a little peeved. So I said, “Let’s shake ‘em up.” I wanted to come up with some guitar shapes that were different from anything else.

Was Seymour Duncan who told me about the V and Seth Lover - I had asked him all about Seth one time when he was over in London and he spoke at length about him and said that he came up with the body shape on the V - mainly so it could stand up on it's own.

It may have been that ideas were tossed back and forth between Ted and his team and maybe Ted took the credit for it all - I don't know for sure...I'm just repeating what I was told