Vester SFT-70A

I bought this guitar at guitar center used, i haggled a gig bag into the deal but they wouldn't drop the price. the ugly yellow color and hard angles caught my eye. it looks like what i thought an electric guitar should look like before i ever touched a guitar, EXTREME. it came with an 81 emg pickup installed at the bridge so it sounds great for leading and has a lot of gain. as for the stock pickups, the humbucker is a nice contrast to the emg. its a much softer, quitier sound and is very forgiving. the single coil, forget about it, its only used for the brief moment when switching humbuckers.
floyd rose works, guitar stays in tune well.
the neck is the nicest ive found, thin and fast. maple on maple and glossy. 24frets and they all sound nice.
changing the battery in the emg does require taking the pick guard off but can be managed without taking off the strings.

i use a metal zone, wammy, and wah so im not always hearing the guitar as much as the pedals. when i just use the original humbucker and nothing else it has a real nice soft sound. the emg sounds like an emg and really cant be included in the review.

some of the floyd rose's fine tuners are going, maybe they need some lube. everything else is holding up.

havent played it live but its solid. i dont know how old it is but i play it everyday and aside from wear it works fine. i never break strings with it, ive broke one in 3 years. with that in mind and since it stays in tune well i would gig with it. id probally bring a backup cause you never know.

no idea, they went out of business before i had heard of them

ive been playing for 12 years i have some other ibanez's. this is far and away my favorite and the only one i use. i love the neck, i love the shape (thicker and sharper angles and cuts then strats and ib's). the color is awful but i love it. almost everything i own is black or dark colored (guitars, car, clothes etc)this guitar is like my hidden side. no one would expect me to own anything this YELLOW. i love that it was only 100 bucks and sounds nicier and plays better than anything i own or my friends own. this guitar is awesome, all the figures may not add up to 10 overall but thats the kind of mysterious power this guitar holds. its sum is greater than its parts. if i lost it id comb ebay for another, luckly i dont get out enough to lose it. the yellow color almost guarantees it from getting stollen, its like a built in security device.

Controls: volume, tone and 5 way selector.
Pickup configuration: H/S/H
Pickups: Vester PR II and I series pickups
Passive electronics
Body Style: Strat (double cutout)
Bridge: Floyd Rose
Tuners: locking

Music style: Great for classic rock ( would need a more distortion for heavy rock/metal
Using Roland 100w amp (home) and Crappy Mark II from an electric drum set (travel amp).
Has reasonable volume level
Tuning is excellent transition from Bright to mellow and from Rich to full
Wide variety of sounds but difficult to fine-tune them
nothing Sounds great and perfect for lounging around.

Unknown factory setup: unit was purchased used and was in moderately maintained condition. the following comments are based on the condition the unit was in after my purchase
Pickups needed slight adjustment
Bridge was improperly set
The tuners were in horrible condition mechanically but all parts retained their initial chrome. The body had undergone moderate abuse and was missing the back plate.

The unit appears to be able to withstand live playing
The hardware appears moderatly used. Especially the tuners which will be replaced
the finish is in good condition
Strap buttons are solid
Guitar is curently not completely dependable - replacement of tuners wil solve this problem
I would not use any insturment on a gig w/o a backup (except a full size piano)

Customer support was not avalible w/ this unit. I look online but the company could not be found.

I have been playing guitar for about 3 years and own a fender Strat, Newporter and Bronco as well as Jackson based Custom built unit I constructed Myself From Fiberglas
I found out all the information I needed before the purchase
If the unit were lost or stolen I feel that the unit would be worth replaceing
I love the variaty of sound, I hate the yellow color, My favroite feature is the quick tuning Floyd Tremulo bridge
I wish it had better tuners and a black body
For a used unit I feel the price I paid made this steal. Also note that just because a unit looks crappy is no real indication of the sound quality.

Dont know much about the guitar. Looks like its made in Asia somwhere.
24 frets. Really nice neck. Nicer than my ESP m252BB. Frets are just the right size and the neck is real fast. Total quality. The neck is the best feature.
The guitar is made out of some wood, not laminate, and is finished in high gloss red.
Controls are pretty average. 1 tone with push pull pot, 1 volume, five way slotted.
Pickup config is SSH. Pickups are SP-I (singles) and SP-II (humbucker).
The body reminds me a lot of he Ibanez RG series.
The bridge is of the floyd rose licenced variety. Pretty good for a licenced floyd. No problems with it.
Gotoh tuners, excellent quality. All hardware is black.
The neck is incredibly fat thin and fast. Nicest neck ive seen for a while.

I rate this guitar 8 in stock configuration.

I play all sorts of music. Esplecially rock/metal. I play lead and rhythm. In stock config this guitar is ideal for that. But I must say I wasnt to fond of the sound. The humbucker lacks crunch. The single coils, are, well, crap. The humbucker sounds like a single coil off a Strat.
The guitar is very quiet.
I have since upgraded the whole electrics setup on the guitar, it has been greatly improved.
At the bridge i have an EMG89 dual mode active humbucker, in them middle i have a Seymour Duncan Duckbucker for a twangy strat sound, and at the neck i have a Seymour Duncan HotRails. I think this setup has greatly improved the guitar.

In stock config ill give the guitar a seven, after hot rodding, it gets a ten, die to the vast tonal pallette i now have.

I got the guitar second hand, so i dontk nwo whoat the setup was like. I set the whole thing up how i like it. All the routings were fine.

The electrics were a bit iffy, but since theyre long gone I dont care. Its the wood that i thin that counts, and this was tip top.

Action on this guitar is amazing. It is my favourite axe over my 11 other guitars.

This is my guitar of choice for everything. Gigging, you name it, the works. With the new electrics, this guitar would sirvive a nuclear blast. The finish is a hell of a lot better than that of a Fender or most other guitars. It doesnt seem to chip very easily.

Strap buttons are of extreme quality. They never need tightening. Its as if theyre paer of the body. One is a part of the neckplate.

I could easily get away with this axe at a gig without a backup, but i like to use something different on certain songs.

Never dealt with them. Never will.

Been playing 4/5 years. I own a whole load of gear including axes from ESP, Fender, Charvel, Gibson, PRS, Brian Moore etc. I play through Various Marshall, and Orange amps and cabs. This guitar sounds the bollocks with the new pickups through these. I use a Jim Dunlop CryBaBy WahWah, Rockteck flanger, and a Mesa tube overdrive. I use Zoom digital effects.

If you get one of these, i would seriously reckomend getting some serious pickups.

If this axe would get lost or stolen, i would be really pissed off, because it is not replaceable. It is a very specia guitar.

I give it a 10, because you cant go wrong for 100 quid, and it beats a shitty ibanez into a cocked hat.

Early 90's model, Korean "rock strat" shape.

Maple neck lightly varnished, rosewood fingerboard, 24 nice, tough frets, not too wide, quite high. The neck is quite flat, although not as flat as a Ibanez or whatever. The inlays are quite nice pearloid V-shapes. The fingerboard's bound nicely too. The heel is tapered on the treble sound, so high fret access is fairly easy (although the lower cutaway could be bigger). The neck is the best thing about this guitar, really.

God knows what the body is, no doubt some cheap laminate. No scratchplate. S/S/H, five-way pickup switch, 1 volume control and 1 tone pot which is also the coil-tap switch. Dodgy pickups, I've heard worse but there's no class, they're labelled: SP-I (single coils) and SP-II (humbucker) which tells you everything.

The bridge is a Floyd Rose licensced version, which worked well for a while... The tuners are actual, real Gotoh: just standard but they work. Locking nut does the job, metal may be a bit soft.

This is quite a typical rock guitar and as such it does suit that playing style. However, the humbucker just isn't as dynamic as it ought to be. The upshot of this is that whereas rhythm (heavy palm muting, power chords etc.) sounds excellent, leads suffer from a lack of body and come out sounding pretty thin. This is through a Marshall Valvestate 8080, so I can only blame the guitar, really. Clean, the humbucker is frightenly sharp: dogs howl.

The middle single coil is really weak and I wouldn't use it for anything, possibly something jazzy with the tone rolled off a little (but that's desperation). The neck pickup is really quite nice, though: warm and quite fat, really, and can be used with both distorted and clean sounds.

The coil-tap doesn't really do anything, which sums up how one-sided that humbucker is. However, I'll say it again, rhythm playing is really, really good.

The guitar was fairly well set-up, although I think the shop I bought it from may have had a hand in that. The neck it practically ideal for me and the action is low-medium. The fingerboard is bound, so there's no need to worry about and sharp frets hanging off it. The finish is very good, although mine's scratched and pock-marked al over nowbeing of the abuse it's been through. Everthing's is quite solid (apart from the aforementioned whammy bar). The only minor point that I could raise would be the string guide. It is in a very stupid place so that the string rubs against it, and they (the strings) do not travel it a straight line to the capstans. Oh! And the inlays aren't set very well (quite a lot of wood glue around the larger ones).

This guitar is pretty solid. The only thing that'll need replacing is the cheap Floyd Rose copy and the matching locking nut. Everything else is sturdy and the guitar comes with locking strap buttons (and the accompanying strap). Very dependable, I can't imagine anything affecting the guitar's peformance on stage: the tuning's stable.

Vester is defunct.

Well... I've had the guitar for, ermmm..., six years now and it's lasted well. Once I can afford to replace the old trem and the humbucker it'll be a very playable guitar. I've played on all manner of guitars, and can honestly say that the neck on this Vester is among the most playable. That's it's best feature, the rest is fairly standard stuff. My most hated features of it must be (guess) that Floyd Rose and the fact that the volume control is a little too close to the strings. I've gigged it a number of times and it's never let me down. I bought it to learn on, and it's ideal in that respect--learning on a nice neck is excellent.

If you can find one used and in good condition, I'd would certainly recommend that you haggle for it, a nice, cheap backup guitar for definate.