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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Just arrived from the factory, care of the good folks at LAV, perhaps the first custom VXT made? Back is finished in high gloss natural, top is "ultimate flame Koa" according to the accompanying custom order certificate of authenticity, and the binding is the darker ivoroid style from Hamer. The natural stain and high gloss finish on the back really brings out the grain of the mahogany as well as matches the general appearance of the Koa top, which is nearly identical to the color and grain of Al's Koala. I'm experimenting with different pickup rings and knobs to complete the "ultimate" look (cream or chrome), but I'm thinking this one is sensational!
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Location: Central Massachusetts | beauty! |
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Location: Le Havre (France) | Really nice !!!!! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Dude! Nice line! |
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Location: Tennessee | WOW! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Oooh, my. I hope you setup your royalty contract in advance on that scheme. That's just stunning, Professor. The nicest vxt I've seen by a longshot. Very nice work. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | needs a pick guard...
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Son of a ... Seriously nice looking guitar.
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | No pick guard Jeff, it speaks for itself. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | It's simply stunning! That's got to be an awesome feeling when a guitar that you pretty much designed yourself shows up at the door...this one, and Remy's - just amazing. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | As Jas would say Mike, +1. :cool: |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Nice: 12 string version? Seriously: Beauty! |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Now THAT gives me a reason to want one of these guitars. That black thing they offer reminds me of those all-black Les Paul Studios that the teenagers buy because it's the cheapest one they can get their hands on. If I saw something like yours in the store it would give me a good reason not to look at a T5 right off the bat.
What I mean to say is...very beautiful. |
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Location: Paris/France | Congrats Professor, it's a beautiful guitar!!!
J :) |
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Location: Orange County, California | Nice!! |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Prof, congrats! That VXT is awful!
I was thinking of a VXT custom order in a natural finish, but your's beats all! Very, very nice!
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Location: NJ | this guitar came out above and beyond all expectations.
simply beautiful.
I have been telling the factory for years not to use bowl paint on the back of vipers.
maybe now they will start to offer it just as an option.
The vxt is a really nice guitar and this koa one is spectacular. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Very Nice |
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Location: NJ | oh sure, . . . he waits till AFTER I leave Colorado t'break it out! . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and Cliff......why does this surprise you? :p |
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Location: NJ | Yeah, I guess . . .
btw, Stephen;
THANKS for letting me "spank" your guitars for a while on Saturday . . .
That was Fun! . . LemmeKnow what I owe you for strings ;) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Hah...I think the guitars were happy to have a musician on them for a bit instead of a hack!...although we did play a rousing version of ELP's "From the Beginning". |
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Location: closely held secret | Yeah, we hear FTB a lot at the Tours... it's Cliff's test song for new guitars. Apparently yours 'passed'. |
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Location: NJ | . . . with Flying Colours.
I was particularly enamoured with the little Tak with the "NewYorker"-sized body.
If y'like the acoustic guitar sound on a lot of the old JethroTull albums, . . . THIS is the guitar (other than the original Martin counterpart, naturally).
Very sweet guitar.
'course the Collings was no "slouch" either, just a different animal . . . |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Superb !! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Pretty real pretty
I take it It was bit $1600 for that??
Does the Koa change the sound on either acoustic or electric? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Spent about an hour with the VXT Koa last evening. I found the tone to be excellent, very similar to my recollection of what a normal spruce top model sounded like a few months ago, but without one against the other, I don't really have a reference point. The fell is superb. The sculpted back provides a contour which is extremely comfortable. Against all the other Ovation solid bodies, the VXT appears most similar to the UKii. I intend to A/B it against some of the other non-Ovation solids (three different Strats, a 52 Tele RI, a Jaguar, An LP Standard, and the LP Proto) in addition to the old Ovation solids. This should be fun! |
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Location: Las Vegas | Now THAT one I wouldn't paint over with Polane!!!
Can I have one in rosewood? Or santos palisander, whatever the heckyacallit?
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Location: Nashville TN. | Like the UKII???
Maybe I want one. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | When I refer to the similarity of the VXT and UKii, I mean in the body footprint. They are currently next to one another in the bandroom and the exterior body shape, other than the treble horn which is a bit more rounded on the VXT. The VXT also shares similar exterior dimensions with the EA Vipers. The case is the same for both (so says the tag on the end). |
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VXT Custom . . . the first?