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mozart
PostPosted: Sun 15 Jul 2012 04:40 AM 
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Well, the 96 catalog says "set in neck" - but......it's YOUR guitar, Cudamax, and if she looks neckthrough to you, that's ok......
Whether neckthru or set neck - the most important thing is that you like her (in spite of the fact that she ain't Mat made). Samick has made some nice guitars too.
If you wanna play a "real" japanese Vantage neckthru, I highly recommend the VA-800 or 900 series! :wink:

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PostPosted: Sun 15 Jul 2012 09:47 AM 
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mozart wrote:
Well, the 96 catalog says "set in neck" - but......it's YOUR guitar, Cudamax, and if she looks neckthrough to you, that's ok......
Whether neckthru or set neck - the most important thing is that you like her (in spite of the fact that she ain't Mat made). Samick has made some nice guitars too.
If you wanna play a "real" japanese Vantage neckthru, I highly recommend the VA-800 or 900 series! :wink:


That's right, get someone else looking for them. After all there are enough to go around :x :D
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PostPosted: Sun 15 Jul 2012 04:48 PM 
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mozart wrote:
If you wanna play a "real" japanese Vantage neckthru, I highly recommend the VA-800 or 900 series! :wink:



Matter of fact, here's one screaming your name.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vantage-VA-800- ... 2ec01e8996

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$400 for a project guitar that you can't check out first? Not my name.
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Jorg wrote:
mozart wrote:
If you wanna play a "real" japanese Vantage neckthru, I highly recommend the VA-800 or 900 series! :wink:


Matter of fact, here's one screaming your name.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vantage-VA-800- ... 2ec01e8996

400 seems too much to me, too. Besides, the marker dots appear to be brass, and the placing of the tuners seem kinda funny. I suspect this to be a Cort (Korea) made Mann/Gumika, not a Matsumoko made Vantage VA800 'Phantom'.

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Regarding the topic...

A couple of years ago I saw a 928GDT on eboink, almost certain it was neck thru...
Googled an image: http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~pribeiro/images/guitar2.jpg
Definitly Korean made, still pretty cool.
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Now THAT may very well be a neck thru. Without seeing the back, we can only guess. I have pics of the OP guitar.
Neck thru it aint. :no:

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Alright Ill post photos of my new Babys neck scarf joints which by the way are just like a Charvels model 6 neck and man do I love this thing. The neck is really nice and of all my Guitars this is one of just a couple that the Intonation is right on and it plays Frick-in Great
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Not a real neck thru.... set in neck...Westone came out with some great models like that....

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