Vester Stageseries

Strat body, s-s-h, floyd rose, 21 frets, made in Japan. She's playing wild for 21 years, and it's just great!

From surf rock to dire straits, from Pink Floyd to Metallica, with this guitar I can play almost everything! Great "fender" sound, hambucker with good power and wild!

The paint job after 15years started giving me problems, but a new paint and it's new again! The wood's are great, never had problems. The set-up at the factory was poor, but every guitar needs to get a set-up "made by yourself".

She's playing for 21years, almost every week on road! What should I say??

I never needed to.

I have that Vester, I have also one OLP Petrucci Licenced Copy and bought now one Ibanex RG470. I've played with Fender, Epiphone, LTD and PRS Santana. My Vester is the guitar I hope to stay working till I'm 80 years old (and I'm just 25).

was made in korea i don't know when (late 80's early 90's?) 21 frets
s/s/h with volume, tone and h/bucker splitter knobs, on off switches for each pu, pu's are covered and have a vester decal, floyd rose bridge and locking nut, gotoh tuners, bound maple neck with very thin laminate and rosewood fret board, with leather vester strap and gig bag, black body with very thick laminate and bizzarre broken egg art work.

this guitar has multiple personality disorder. don't believe some of the bad reviews of this guitar on this site, as i have a sneaking suspiscion that whoever wrote them must either have badly beaten and abused guitars (as a lot of the reviewers themselves point out) or simply don't know what the F*** they are talking about. mine is in near new condition and has wonderful warm clean neck tones and lovely distorted brige sound, and a lot of variety thanks to the pu on/off switches which give you more tone options and are more reliable than those notorious 3/5 way selectors which seem to be dirt magnets. excellent. very useful guitar.

finish on my guitar is very nice, not spectacular but nice. i have no idea what the set up was like from the factory, but this guitar is at least ten years old and spent a good 5 years sitting in its bag waiting for some attention and apart from the bridge which was in very bad shape, everything else is A1 (little bit of dirt in the pots, but i defy anyone to find a ten year old 2nd hand guitar that dosn't need the pots cleaned). pretty well built guitar for the going price.

after removing the badly rusted, poorly designed old bridge and installing a shiny new floyd rose, i can use this guitar exclusively no problems. in some other reviews i read of this guitar people complained about how hard it is to tune, to them i have this to say: learn how to use a locking nut you fools! once you master this somewhat-tedious-at-first feature, with properly stretched strings, this guitar will stay in tune for WEEKS. as for the other complaints about noisy 3/5way selectors, my guess is a little bit of tlc and pot cleaning would remedy this, but my 3 on/off selectors are ideal. its on or its off, no scratchy back and forth, and more versatile. finish on the body looks about 1.5 mm thick so its not going anywhere in a hurry, especially if you take care of it. 7 because of the bridge.

vester who? i think they are seajay or seagull guitars now.

i have been playing for 16 years, have played lots of different guitars, and for a guitar that apparently inhabbits the lower end of the market, this is a bargain (especially as i didn't pay for mine!) in my oppinion. my example is in very good condition however, so i'd be careful with one thats been abused (but then again, wouldn't you be anyway?) i have a feeling that mine may have been made near the end of the life of vester guitars as some of the features of mine don't appear in other reviews, so maybe vester were picking up thier act a bit towards the end of thier run, as the electrics seem fine (they didn't die while the bridge rusted away) and everything else about it seemed to be easily on a par with other Ibanez's i've owned. on a note of interest i have a friend who owns a Jackson (the guitar the stage series was copied off) and in every respect they are identical (except for the strange broken egg artwork). from a short distance you would not be able to tell that they are from two different companies, but with the vester apparently about 1/3 - 1/4 the price, this is a sh*t hot bargain. don't believe the crap reviews by idiots that don't know what they are on about, if it has been taken care of and shown some love, it will sing or shred with the best (just get rid of the original bridge!)

Made sometime in the '80's in korea I believe, 22 frets solid top 1 volume 1 tone individual pickup on/off switches.
S/S/H stock passive pickups, I couldn't comment on the wood, something reasonably heavy.
Super strat style body with a tremolo similar to a floyd rose.
thin neck with jackson style inlays and angled head.
7 because it's adequate but the individual switches are excellent.

This guitar souinds extremely good, sound being the most important category as far as I am concerned, it sounds better than my Ibanez and cost my 1/3 the price. In fact I'm selling the I banez and buying a second vester. It gets a little bit noisy if you really crank up the overdrive but it's not intrusive and very few guitars don't. The neck pickup is really warm and full while the bridge is brighter (no surprises there!!) and sounds better distorted. The pickups are quite good and fairly hot for stock pickups. 9 because I don't believe anything is perfect.

I bought it second hand so factory settings are irrelevent, it takes forever to tune after changing string height because of the locking tremolo. For the same reason though you can set the string height wherever you like.

Nothing on the guitar has broken while I've had it so that's a good sign! The finish is really good, you'd need to hit it with a hammer to mark it. The original screws holding the strap buttons on were very short, I didn't give them a chance to rip out I just reeplaced them.

company is defunct, victim of rampant protectionist litigation

If it were stolen or lost I would be verrry upset it is the best guitar I have had. I've compared it to a few others including my Ibanez, a Cort X6 and a Squier strat (nothing too flash, Im not made of money) and t beat them all. I give it a 9 overall because not only is it damn good, it ws damn cheap too. $100!! you can spend more on a service at some places!! I've seen karaoke drinking binges that cost more and sounded much much worse!!

22 frets, solid top, volume, tone, 3 pickup switches, s/s/h, active electronics, snakeskin pattern finish, floyd rose bridge, thin neck, sharkfin inlays, included tremolo arm and gig bag

i mainly play surf instrumental with this guitar, and it works well with it, but it can switch to metal or acoustic rock with a stomp of a pedal, i use a boss distortion pedal and a rogue gs-50r amp, it buzzes alot around the amp, but thats more the amp's fault than anything, it doesnt feedback, no matter how close you get to amp, it can make just about any sound you want it to, the pots need to be cleaned

the action was just a little high, but i fixed that with a turn of a screw, other than that this is a great guitar, it could be a lot lighter though

this is a great guitar, worth using at smaller gigs, but a bit difficult to deal with for long concerts due to its weight, i wouldnt use a backup if i was only playing surf at the gig, but i would if i was going to play other styles because i rest my hand on the bridge and with the vester it messes with the sound while i play

fender sued this company out of business because they thought "vester" sounded too much like "fender"...what a bunch of bungholes

this is definitly a guitar worth checking out

I dont know anything about when the guitar made and where.
22 frets.1 volume,1 tone, I think 5 way selector.
It have a S/S/H configurations.
the style is like a strat. Floyde rose.

I like very much the sound when I use it with an marshall valvestate amplifier an a jackjamer from marsahll too. I think its good for any music style. you can play hard rock or sweet music like jazz or wathever, but you must knowing how set de sound for have a good result.

I think taht is very good coz it have a lot of time and still sound good and you can use it with no probelm(sometime)

I DON'T KNOW ANiTHING ABOUT IT. IF SOMEBODY CAN HELP ME TO FIND SOME INFORMATION ABOUT IT, PLEASE WRITE ME "mspillo@hotmail.com"

this guitar can be very good if you know how tu use it. very goods pick ups.

Don't know the building year. bought it in early 2000 used.
22 frets, big frets
S/S/H configuration with (i guess) a split coil function on the tone knob
1 tone, 1 volume, 5 way selector
very heavy body, strat copy
don't know what fretboard is used (it's dark)
passive elements
finish, when i bought it, it was white, now i re-painted it, and it is like the union jack
bridge looks like a floyd rose, with locking tuners

over the years the sound had been changed a lot. it had a terrible setup when i bought it, and i have repaired it and so, and now it sounds a lot better then before
i use it over an boss GT-6 and an Randall RG100SC amp
i play a wide variety of music styles with it, from pop, rock to metal and gothic and punk.
once the middle single coil broke down because some thing i did, and after i repaired that, it sounded very different. there is much difference between the 2 single coils, the neck one has a very low sound with not much high, the middle single coil has is both, and the humbucker is very clean.

i don't know how it was set up exactly, because when i bought it i just played for half a year guiter. i guess it could a lot better, and so i did. i have a low action now, because i like it this way. i like it the way it is now, because the wide variety of sounds i can get from it (see above) and it's capable for playing my styles.
the 5 way switch is not bad, but in position 2 it is bad, and it cut's away al the high tones from the 2 single coils, so that gives a very special sound which i like, so it maybe is a 6-way switch now :-P

i play in 2 bands now, and with both i play often on stage.
i have never had any problems with this guitar, only my strings broke 2 times, but that can happen with each guitar. because the poor quality of the pu's, it wil easily give feedback with the distortion on. about the bridge: it looks good, but in the beginning it was broke because the 3 screws were f***** up, and the bridge was about 1 inch from the body. i glue-ed it together with 1-second-glue, and i don't now how long this will hold, but i guess it won't lasts long.
i haven't a back-up guitar, so on stage i have to borrow one from the other guitarist if this one is broken.
if i have my new guitar (Ibanez rg 2570EX) then i will use this guitar as a back-up guitar.
i have my own finish on this guitar (union jack flag-paint) so i don't know how good it will last, but for now it looks very good.

no, never dealt with the company, because they don't exist anymore.

it's also very hard to get any info on the internet, this is the first site that has reviews about this guitar, but i don't know if all the reviews above are from the same guitar, because the set up is so different (21, 22 frets, pu configuration, 1 of 2 tone-controls etc) i have a photo posted on my website (http://members.lycos.nl/vester86), so check if it is the same guitar...
i will buy this guitar again when it is stolen, then i will paint it again like it is now, and then i will put it on the wall, because it was my first guitar, and i will keep it forever. when this one is stolen i will buy a ibanez rg 2570, because i want a good-quality guitar. i love the heavy body, because it sounds good, i hate the strap buttons, and the bridge is also not good, but it does stay in tune really good, so no comments anymore. a good feature is the fine-tuners on the bridge, they work better than the normal tuners.
i wish it had a neck-humbucker pu but my new guitar will have that :>
for a starter-guitar it's very good i think, i like it very much.

I bouht this guitar from a friend , used only paid U$ 40
It had some problems that were solved when I set the guitar up
it has 22 frets , two simple coils , one humbucker at the bottom , 2 pots one for tone the oter for volume, a floyd rose , and has a locking tuners , don't know the brand , it also has a 5 way selector
and all passive electronics ,I ain't shure of what kind of wood it is made of. it is pure black , no details or draws.
She is just awesome!!.

I often use it for playing heavy metal with a heavy distortion ,i use a peavey amplifier, the sound produced by the humbucker is awesome it just pierce trogh your ears (really powerfull). But sometimes I use it to play acoustic , clean sound , very rich and sweet .
If you calibrate the coils and equalize it well the sound just pro.
Can't complain about it's sound

I'have this guitar for almost a year and a half and the last owner had it for 3 years, sinceresly i haven't take enough care of her , but it stills sounds like the first day i played it. it just has a little noise from the volume pot , I think it's dirty , i should clean it.
Very strong guitar.

In relation to the price and the quality of the guitar I can only say it's the best i 've ever found.

I've played different guitars,
Fender, Peavey , Epiphone, Yamaha, etc
And all I have to say is that this guitar is the one i liked best , i would change it for nothing ( but maybe for an ESP F200)

I have bought it for almost 1 year, is red wine coulerd, I think mine it was made in the UK,I guess, it has 22 frets solid top with 2 controls (Volume and tone) S/S/H pickup configuration with (on /off) per PU, i dont know the maker but the single coils are good but not with much gain as the Ham Pu as, but not as clear as the single ones, Passive elctronics, very Good wood, mine as sufferd a lot and still in sharp condition..

It suits me well for my music style that is progressive metal with Low ends and dropped tunnig(all C). I use a Mental monster pedal->Roland signal processor->H&K Attax 100 combo power amp with 2x12.
It's not noisy becouse i waxed the pick ups and i have a very good response with out hums or feedbacking.It as a great clean sound on the single coils and lots of gain in the hambucker but not to clear( i will replace it). i can play very kind of stuff with the guitar since Funk/jazz to extreme metal passing thru blues. My likes are the quality of contrution if i look at the price and features, deslikes, the arm is to fat, but is excelent for learning, once you learn on this babe, you will play with a ibanez Jem...

Very well set up and adjusted....

I do live acts with no back up, it's my guitar and as normally i do to all my stuff, super well maintence and cheking for no fails, the hardware was built for my grandsons, only a periodic clennig is needed(pick up, floyd, ect). the strap buttons are solid and i can depend on it, i use it with out a backup.

never eared anything from them...

i've been playing for 5 years, i own a Custom guitar for practice and the vester for playing, i have Marshall and H&K amps, if it was stolen by the price i bought it , i would buy it again with no doubt, I love the clean sound and the arm, is so solid.... i wish it had a Hambucker like Emg 81 or similar...

This Vester guitar is special. It's a Stage Series but has got the shape of a Jackson RR (Randy Rhoads), very nice and very metal. Has got 2 humbuckers, a bit noisy but very powerful if used with much low sound on an equalizator or amplifier. 22 frets, quite thin neck. The original color vas white with black controls an pickups. Just like the Jackson!!

The humbuckers have an high sound, it penetrates into your ear like a blade!! I use to play metal with this guitar, and it sounds pretty good, expecially on stage, where the particular shape of the guitar adds that bit more to the show. I play it with a bit add of "low" on the equalization to have a power sound. With a flat equalization it sounds a bit noisy.

The electrics in this guitar are not so good, in fact I had to re-build the electric connections twice. But the wood is great, and solid.

It's a metal guitar, made to last: but only the wood!! The electrics are quite unpredictable!! Sometimes (before I rebuild them) they simply will leave you without sound... and you were fucked (expecially on the stage!!!). But it's a part of the show, ain't it?

The Vester broke, or not?

It's good for the study because is thin, it's great for the stage because of the shape. It's the heavy-metal-show guitar every guitarist would like play sometimes. But I take always with me 2 other guitars as an insurance!! (a Fender Stratocaster and a Jackson).

I am not quite sure where or when my Vester was made. It has 22 frets. It has a 3-way, volume, and tone. Pickups are s/s/h. It has a maple neck with a mahogany fret board. It has a Floyd Rose fine tuning bridge, locking tuner system. Kind of looks like a srat. The necks thin. And it came with a case.

This guitar will make every sound in the book. The problem is that in the punk rock music they usily go cleen to heavy. It takes a lot to get this guitar to do that. It sounds like crap when you pause in the middle of a song. Other than that it sounds great!

I didn't buy this guitar from the factory, or new for that matter. But it is origional everything except for (I think) the active electronics.

This guitar has been in band after band and i havent herd any troubble withe it. I would use this in a gig with out a backup any day!

I have been playing for 2 years. this is my first electric guitar and I hav never hade any problems. I love the distorted sound it makes, the blusey tone, and the full acoustic.