Vintage ICON V6 (Dec 7, 2021)

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00:00This

00:29is the Vintage V6 Icon which features a Gun Hill blue finish over Sunburst and I have

00:37to say that the aging effect is incredible. It looks really well done, very authentic,

00:43all the wear is in all the right places and it looks and feels like a guitar that we've

00:48been playing for 20 years or so. So what I'm going to do is to go over the features of

00:53this guitar and give you some demonstrations of the tones.

00:58Looking at the headstock we have Wilkinson EZ-Lock tuners. Now these tuners have a staggered

01:05set of poles that enables the maximum brake angle across the nut. The nut is a 43mm graphite

01:13nut and allied with the locking tuners you have a really great stable aid to maximum tuning

01:19stability.

01:21The neck is a rock maple neck. This particular model features a worn in satin finish on the

01:27back that feels really, really nice. Really smooth and easy to play. I love the neck profile

01:33on the V6 as well. It's a soft seat. I find it very, very comfortable, really easy to play.

01:40All the fingerboard edges feel nice and smooth. The fret ends have finished really, really

01:44well. It's a lovely playing experience. The fingerboard on this guitar is rosewood and it

01:51features 22 medium frets. The fingerboard radius is a 10 inch radius and I think this

01:57is a really nice compromise between enough of a curve for comfortable chording whilst remaining

02:12flat enough to enable nice comfy wide string bends.

02:28The body is made of eastern poplar and it provides a lovely resonant stable tone. It feels really

02:36nice. You know all of the body contouring is accurate and feels, it just presents that lovely

02:42comfortable feeling. The pickups are Wilkinson WVS pickups. Now this set is calibrated so that as we

02:51move from the neck pickup to the bridge pickup, the bridge pickup is a little bit hotter, has a bit more

02:56output. Now a bit more detail about these pickups. These feature Alnico 5 magnets. They give you that

03:04classic throaty tone that we associate with a vintage type single coil. We have chamfered edge pole pieces,

03:12staggered pole pieces and again play an important role in developing the right kind of tone.

03:17We have a five-way switch and in positions four and two this works with a reverse wound middle pickup to

03:26give us noise cancellation. So if you're working in the studio, you're working on stage and you need a

03:33hum-free environment. This will work for you really really well. Let's take a look at the vibrato bridge.

03:39It's a Wilkinson WVC vibrato bridge. Now to all intents and purposes it resembles a standard

03:49vintage vibrato. Pardon the pun. And indeed we have bent steel saddles which we would expect for this

03:57style of guitar. The bent steel saddles contribute greatly to that nice

04:02zingy throaty sound we expect from this instrument. Let's just whiz through a couple of chords here.

04:12It sounds lovely and breathy and it's got a nice bright zingy top end. It's really nice.

04:17Now there are a few more details with this bridge that kind of subtly update it.

04:21The vibrato arm is a pushing vibrato arm and its action can be adjusted with a small grub screw.

04:28So if you like the arm to be a little bit stiffer or a little have a little bit more play in it you

04:32can set that yourself and the player can also set the height of the arm. So you can really kind of

04:37customize this to your to your own feel. The block that the bridge is mounted on features a staggered

04:45hole for the g-string and what that does that places the g-string at the correct brake angle

04:52across the saddle and unlike a genuine vintage bridge which was designed in the old days where

04:58they used to use a wound third string this is specially calibrated to allow for the extra bendability and

05:03travel that we have for a wound third. And again that plays a whole role in tandem with the locking tuners

05:10and the graphite nut in presenting much more reliable tuning stability when you're deploying the vibrato.

05:17Let's give the vibrato a little bit of a workout and just test its tuning stability.

05:21It has a lovely bouncy feel. Let's try it with some single notes here.

05:38Pretty good. Come back dead solid and in tune. Okay let's run through some sounds. I'm going to start

05:53with the neck pickup clean and then move on to overdriven and we'll do the same for the other

05:59pickup positions.

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06:31Position two, okay, let's try middle pick-up.

07:00A bit of overdrive on here.

07:29Position two, see if we can get some of that classic quack.

07:56A bit of overdrive on here.

08:03Bridge pick-up.

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09:41guitar. The playability is brilliant. The neck feels amazing. The sounds from the Wilkinson

09:48pickups are absolutely spot on. Everything you need is here. Unparalleled versatility,

09:55amazing tuning stability, and I really, really love the worn-in aged look. So if you are in the

10:02market for a guitar with this kind of pre-aged feel, then you have to go a long way to beat this

10:08guitar. Go online and check out the Vintage V6 or pop along to your local vintage dealer and I

10:14guarantee you won't be disappointed. I'm Tim Slater. It's been a pleasure to demonstrate this

10:18guitar to you today. I'll see you again soon.

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