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Veelah
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Veelah gutiars Taiwan. |
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Vega
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1903-1980s, 1989 to present |
History of
Vega guitars
Vega was originally a
Boston based company. Vega guitars made in the USA by
Harmony
http://harmony.demont.net/brands.php and
Egmond
according to
http://www.daisybelle.nl/nedgit.htm
1970 Vega was bought by
CF Martin .
1980 bought by
Korea's Galaxy Trading Company
1989 bought by
The Deering Banjo Company, Spring Valley, California. [Source:
Vintage Guitar Magazine Price Guide
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Vega company
at wikiedia
http://www.well.com/~wellvis/gitinfo.html#vega
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Guitar-General-649/Vega-acoustic-electric.htm
http://vintageguitarpro.com/vega.shtml
Vega
catalogs
1912 to 1970 Vega Banjo catalogs
Images eBay:
Label says The Vega Co Musical Instruments. 150 Columbus Ave,
Boston Mass.
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Charles Vega |
1993 to present |
Baltimore,
Maryland, USA.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7049/cgbs.htm |
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Veillette
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1995 to
present |
Veillette Guitars are built by Joe
Veillette, Martin Keith, and Ande Chase in Woodstock, NY.
Joe Veillette
co-founded Veillette-Citron (Harvey Citron) in 1975. In
1991 he founded Woodstock Music with Stuart Spector (of Basses
fame) until 1995.
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Veillette-Citron
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1975 to 1983 |
Founded by Joe Veillette and
Harvey Citron in 1975.
http://new.veilletteguitars.com/press_citron.shtml
Veillette-Citron catalogs
see
Veillette |
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Manuel Velazquez |
1946 -present |
Tribute at Cumpiano
Another at UFC news room
Image Gbase (1955 model) and2000
model
Guitar Salon International:
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Veleno®
Click to enlarge |
1970 - present |
"John Veleno
and his son Chris Veleno were making and selling guitars from
1970 to present. There were times that were difficult due to
John experiencing two strokes in 1975 but he was back in his
limited condition making guitars at various times through the
years. John directed in making three custom guitars for Todd Rundgren in late 1977 to 1978. Chris Veleno was making and
selling Veleno® guitars in the early 1990s
at a show in Nashville."
[Source: John Veleno, email 21/5/2007]
Dating
Veleno®
guitars
"Due to the extreme problem of counterfeited
guitars using the Veleno® name and stating that they were made by
me we are not divulging any dates of manufacture. Investigation
is still under way. It is very unfortunate that some folks will
not openly take credit for their personal and own
accomplishments as we do here, but rather imitate that they are
other people in order to make themselves look great. Under
those circumstances we do not reveal manufacture dates, however,
we do give them to people who send us a Veleno® guitar for a
verification inspection and receive a Certificate of
Authenticity." [Source: John Veleno, email 23/1/2007]
http://www.veleno.net/history2.htm
http://www.autohobbydigest.com/aluminum_guitars/veleno.html
http://www.fetishguitars.com/html/misc/usa/veleno.html
http://www.metalnecks.com/index.php/mID/3a3621f0/fuseaction/guitars.manu.htm
see
Jedistar Metal guitars for photo |
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Vendramini Guitars |
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Orleans, France
Vendramini Guitars at myspace |
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Vengeance Guitars and Graphix
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2002 to present |
Vengance guitars and graphix.
Guitars made in Fletcher, North Carolina, USA since 2002. .
Dating Vengeance guitars
Model and serial numbers are
located at the lower strap button region on the body and clear
coated over for protection. All serial/model numbers are hand
written by me to prevent forgery. The serial number is also the
Manufacturing date along with the customer's own numbers of
choice[Source and image courtesy of Rick Stewart, Vengence Guitars ,
email 25/9/2010]
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Venlonia
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Venlonia is a Netherlands guitar factory.
Daisybelle info
Venlonia at
wikipedia
Brands included Famos, Unicon, Top
Tuner, Magic, |
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Roberto-Venn |
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School of luthiery, Phoenix
Arizona USA
Image Venn
guitar from the 1970a ebay
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Ventura
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1960s to 1980s |
Ventura branded guitars that were imported to the United States
from Japan by C. Bruno and Company during the period of late
1960's until early 1980's. The best resource for Ventura guitars
is
http://www.catoosatrading.com/ventura_guitar.html
or
http://www.catoosatrading.com/ventura_guitar.html
Ventura catalogs and brochures
http://www.catoosatrading.com/ventura_guitar.html
Images Ventura labels eBay. 2nd label from 1967/8,
3rd Bruno name does not appear on label:
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Venus
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Found on ebay March 2010
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Vergara
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2000 to present |
Pepe Vergara, Southern California,
USA
I started repairing and
modifying guitars since I was a kid in the 1970's. However,
I started making guitars and
selling them professionally in 2000. The date of
manufacture is written on the label on each guitar. The seril
number includes codified information on type of woods, finish
and any other special detail particular to this guitar." [Source: Pepe Vergara, email,
10/10/2008 ]
Image courtesy of Pepe Vergara:
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Walter
Verreydt |
1985 to present |
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Verri |
1992 to present |
Henry Verri, Little Falls, New
York, USA |
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Versoul Guitars
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1994 to present
Finland |
"Versoul is a one man company and
founded in autumn 1994 by me and the first guitars were made in
December 1994.
So far less than 300 instruments have been made.
Nowadays Versoul models includes:
- Acoustic classic guitars, brand name Touco
- Acoustic steel 6 & 12 string guitars, brand names: Zoel,
Buxom, Baby Buxom, Junior Buxom, Minor Buxom, Kenny Burrell Jazz
Models 6 and
12 string models.
- Electric solid body 6 & 12 string guitars, brand names: Raya,
Henry
- Electric acoustic guitars, brand name Swan
- Electric acoustic resonator 6 and 12 string and baritone 6
string guitars; brand name ResoSun
- Electric solid body baritone guitars, 6 and 12 string models,
brand name Raya
- Acoustic steel string baritone guitars, 6 and 12 string
models, brand name Buxom
- Acoustic classic baritone guitars, 6 string, brand name Buxom
- Electric solid body basses, brand name: Raya
- Electric acoustic basses, brand name; Swan
Each guitar has "a running" serial number, starting 001 and now
closing 0300 ( = almost 300 instruments made)
Also each guitar is dated and signed by me with following
methods:
A. Electric solid body guitars and basses have serial number,
model and company name handwritten on backside of the headstock
with black or gold pencil. Also the same information is
written on the inner side of the pot cavity plate (on aluminium
tape).
B. Acoustics and electric acoustics have labels inside the
guitar.
1. Gold Label ( real gold leaf label) :
- Model and company name silk screened with black colour + hand
written: dated and signed with black pencil by me.
Gold Label Guitar's body East Indian rosewood or curly maple.
Note; A few real Silver Label instruments were made during the
1990's (guitar body mahogany or plain maple)
2. Palladium/Platinum Label (real precious leaf metal):
- Model and company name silk screened with black colour + hand
written: dated and signed with black pencil by me.
Guitar's body Honduras or Brazilian rosewood or superb curly
maple
C. Custom Versoul Models: (includes for example a few Strat and
Tele style guitars)
Each guitar has normal hand written serial number and company
name on back side of the headstock + my signature on the face
side of the
headstock ( black or gold pencil)." [Source: Kari Nieminen,
Versoul Ltd, email, 26/3/2008]
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Vester
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? mid 80s |
The Samuel Music company of Effingham,
Illinois (founded 1946) decided to launch its own brand of
guitars, Vester in the late 1980s. Vester used imported
instruments, which were made by Saehan Guitar Technology, a
subdivision of Zaozhuang Saehan Music Co., Ltd in South Korea
(now known as Sunghan Music). The guitars were imported into the
United States by Midco Music (now Musicorp). [Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vester_Guitars
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Vester fan page
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