Vintage V100 VMX Series – Satin Black Electric Guitar

Step onto the stage with the soul of a heavy-hitting rock icon with the Vintage V100 VMX Series. Designed in the UK by legendary guitar guru Trev Wilkinson, the VMX Series (Vintage Metal Xtreme) strips away the flashy dress of traditional single-cuts to deliver a dark, menacing, and ultra-focused performance machine.

Dressed in a stealthy, understated Satin Black matte finish, this guitar boasts a premium all-mahogany construction and a high-performance hardware suite designed to handle aggressive riffs and massive drop-tuned tracks. Featuring an unbound fast neck, blacked-out hardware, and custom-calibrated, high-output Wilkinson humbuckers, it stands as the definitive choice for intermediate players, modern rock enthusiasts, and metal shredders looking to capture deep, organic crunch with rock-solid reliability.

Product Highlights

• Resonant Mahogany Body & Carved Top: Built with a solid mahogany body capped with a classic carved top layout. This traditional tonewood combination provides massive natural sustain, rich low-end resonance, and a thick, punchy midrange that anchors high-gain rhythms perfectly.

• Streamlined VMX Satin Black Finish: Features a sleek, frictionless matte Satin Black finish across the entire body and neck. Free of traditional plastic binding, this minimalist aesthetic maximizes the natural vibration transfer of the woods while ensuring your hands never stick during intense performances.

• Custom-Voiced Wilkinson High-Output Humbuckers: Loaded with a calibrated pair of Wilkinson open-coil humbucking pickups in an HH layout. These ceramic-magnet pickups are wound hot to eliminate muddy low-end frequencies entirely, delivering a crisp, aggressive crunch and singing sustain when pushing high-gain tube amps or digital modelers.

• Classic Set-Neck Construction: Built with a traditional set-neck joint where the solid mahogany neck is deeply glued into the body cavity. This classic engineering layout sharpens overall note articulation, maximizes upper-fret access stability, and provides legendary string-to-body acoustic transfer.

• Smooth 12” Radius Lignum Rosa Fretboard: Outfitted with a premium Lignum Rosa fingerboard featuring 22 medium-profile frets and minimalist dot inlays. The $12\text{”}$ radius offers a perfectly flat, modern platform that facilitates lightning-fast solo runs and wide, choke-free string bends.

• Rock-Solid Tune-O-Matic Bridge Suite: Equipped with a blacked-out Wilkinson Tune-O-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece assembly. This fixed mechanical layout locks down your intonation parameters securely, enhances sustain, and allows for quick drop-tuning tracking without changing setup parameters.

• Wilkinson WJ44 Die-Cast Tuners: Outfitted with high-precision Wilkinson WJ44 sealed die-cast machine heads. Featuring a smooth, high-ratio gear architecture, these tuners keep your string tension perfectly balanced during aggressive rhythm chugging or deep string-bending styles.

• Graph Tech NuBone Nut Integration: Upgraded with a precision-cut Graph Tech NuBone nut. This high-density, low-friction material eliminates string binding at the headstock, sharpening your overall acoustic balance and note definition over time.

Specifications

Tonal Configuration Mapping (3-Way Toggle Switch)

• Position 1 (Bridge Pickup): Activates the hot open-coil bridge humbucker. Delivers a thick, high-output rock tone optimized for crunchy metal power chords, sharp rhythm tracks, and screaming harmonic overdrive solos.

• Position 2 (Bridge + Neck Pickups): Combines both humbuckers simultaneously. Yields a highly balanced, scooped tone with crisp highs and deep, punchy lows—perfect for clean alternative arpeggios, progressive rock rhythms, and tight ambient sections.

• Position 3 (Neck Pickup): Activates the neck humbucker. Rich, warm, and deeply vocal character that provides liquid-smooth sustain, fat jazz voicings, and iconic, fluid blues-rock solo roundness.

Why Choose the Vintage V100 VMX?

The Vintage V100 VMX represents a global benchmark for high-performance single-cut rock performance, offering a massive competitive edge over standard factory models. While typical budget single-cut guitars often feel overly heavy, suffer from sticky gloss neck finishes, or use low-grade pickups that muddy up under heavy distortion, the V100 VMX prioritizes modern, aggressive player comfort.

The short $24.75\text{”}$ scale length lowers overall string tension, making complex rhythm chugging and wide multi-fret string bends effortless. Backed by a high-output Wilkinson HH pickup array that handles high gain with ease and a Tune-O-Matic hardtail bridge setup that keeps your pitch locked tight, this guitar delivers raw power and premium reliability over time.

Unleash your inner rock god with dark, uncompromising style. Available now at Guitar Paradise!