Vester question?

[coloradoman25]

Found a Vester Concert II in decent id say 7+ condition at a local shop. They are asking 185 for it.

Trans red hardware seems in great shape no bar as usual. I played it a bit and it seemed decent for a knock around axe. Not sure of the history on these. I seem to only find them on a bunch of foreign sites.

I found one on evil bay but I am assuming the guy is on the pipe at 600 and change.

Any info would be great!

[CharvelRocker]

They were Korean. Not bad from the ones I played, but they had pretty bland pickups and horrible hardware. I would get him down to about $155 cash on it.

[Rich#6]

That is high. I had one , nice feel to the neck but I had to glue the neck back together at the nut and glue the pickup back onto the plate.

[GryphonGuitar]

Vesters were made in Japan as well though...

Here's the Wiki on Vester:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vester_Guitars

I've got one myself! It's a trans Blue Concert Series II:



I use it with a POD XT in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81kHHE-DYt8

Awesome guitar! Mine's MIJ and really high quality.

[Super_shredder]

awesome playing and tone man !

[AfterForever]

^That one looks great. I had bad expierence with Vesters though, but I'm not sure with model it was. The trem actually broke of :/.

[Overlord]

When I was in S. Korea in the mid '90s, they were everywhere. At the time, Vesters and Samicks were the only guitars there that I could be sure weren't knock offs. I felt Samicks were a little higher quality (and cost a bit more). Pricing in the mid '90's started around the $250 dollar range (USD in Korea), and went up from there. I returned to S. Korea in '01, but didn't see any Vesters.

[Accept2]

I dont remember Vester ever being made in Japan. As far as I know, Midco just replaced the Arbor brand with Vester on their superstrat knock offs, and kept the Arbor name for Gibson knockoffs until they mothballed Arbor. I have never seen a Vester say "Made in Japan.".............

[Dave L]

A guy I went to high school with played a Vester "Dinky" in a blue-red-yellow crackle finish, presumably built around 1990. I haven´t seen that guitar for years and years, but as far as I can remember it had pretty good workmanship for a cheap knock-off and a solid wood body. The single locking bridge was pretty horrible, though, and ended up blocked both ways. I can´t comment on the pickups, since he´d changed them for pickups that came out of a japanese Fender.

[straycat]

There is a black and silver crackle neck thru Vester in a pawn shop close to me.Quite a nice guitar really looks identical to a model 6 except for the headstock.

[Ripley7t]

I bought one of those cobalt blue flagship models from the magazine ad. After a few weeks of playing it I realized the fretwork was bad and something was wrong with the neck. Even though it looked hot, it played like crap. Of course, you can always find a $100 turd and also sometimes a $3000 turd. I have played alot of cheap guitars that were great also.

[MichaelLitvak]

my guitat teacher has about 10 of them... he says they are alright.. they are mainly for backup

[straycat]

Picked up the neck thru Vester II concert series in black and siver crackle today and its a keeper plays great and sounds killer too.
1 hum, 1 slanted single and a decent recessed floyd copy,Gotoh tuners.Binding has yellowed nicely, missing 1 strap button but the rest is intact. 9 out of 10 shape wise.
Ontario cavity route looks just like a model 6 route.Trem cavity is not recessed.
New strings and a fresh set up should get this one up to snuff.

[GryphonGuitar]

Good luck with Your new Vester!

[coloradoman25]

Cool deal stray. I will hit the shpop this weekend see if its still there I may snag it as a beater.

Kinda tapped on funds right now though so we shall see.