REVIEW
VINTAGE V100AFD Doug Doppler
often found in these respective positions.
Key Features
Solid Mahogany Body with Carved
Maple Cap and Flame Maple Veneer
Set 24.75” Mahogany Neck with 22
Fret Rosewood Fingerboard
Wilkinson® WJ44 Tuners
it right, so you might as well do it right.” This
commitment to quality does not stop at the
While I don’t tend to buy instruments based on
factory. Each instrument gets a new set of
looks, this guitar is drop dead gorgeous. That
D’Addario XL-110 strings and a thorough setup
said, what was most impressive was how it felt
upon arrival in the States.
under my fingertips and sounded to my ears.
Tune-O-Matic Bridge
The fretwork was excellent, the action was set
While this guitar is far from your average
low enough to wail away yet high enough to
beginner’s
2x Volume and Tone, Controls
dig in, and the G String stayed refreshingly in
impressed by Trev’s take on the subject, “If a
3-Way Pickup Selector
tune. The neck angle joining the body is three
kid gets a bad guitar he thinks it is him, when in
Straplocks Included
degrees and the headstock angle is right around
reality it is the guitar. What we’re trying to do is
Wilkinson® WVHZ Double Coil
Pickups
instrument,
I
was
particularly
fifteen. In combination with properly machining
give them the best possible guitar we can. We
Based in the UK and manufactured to Trev
the nut, Wilkinson believes this allows you to
know it’s an aspirational industry and that’s fine,
Wilkinson’s
Vietnam,
get the proper down tension from the tailpiece
but coming in you deserve the best guitar you
the V100AFD delivers a combination of
exacting
specs
in
to the bridge necessary to get the G string to
can possibly afford. You’ll stay in the industry,
crafts