Victoria Mustang Copy

Sunburst finish looks like almost a Tobacco but lighter in the middle. Fat neck 22 frets fixed bridge action a bit higher than I like, plays a little harder than My Epi LP neck but really great for slide work with heavy strings that's what it's best for. Single coil Pickup with good working Volume and Tone controls. All original parts.

Kind of like a warm single coil not too heavy, clean is very good, but sounds good with a distortion pedal, I use an old Big Muff from the '70's and that's it.

I couldn't get the action as low as I wanted so I decided to use this as my Slide guitar and that's where it shines. I tune it to DADGAD for most things and use it for Blues Slide and can still finger open chords.

This guitar is over 40 years old and still works, nuf said.

Who would you talk to? I think they are all dead or retired by now.

I've had this guitar since the early '70's, was my Uncles who died in Vietnam he never learned to play guitar. This guitar was made in Japan sometime in the late 50's or early 60's before the big companies took over, so it's kind of roughly built, I think someone had a woodshop and just built these by hand, that's the way they look. It was a cheap guitar sold in Department Stores and maybe some Music stores. A beginner's guitar for sure, but now it's an Antique and kind of rare. I only keep it as part of my collection not as a serious player but love to take it out and jam with it when I need a slider.

This guitar was made about 1961 or 62. Single pickup with Victoria printed on it, and a Volume and Tone control. Bolt on neck with Made in Japan stamped on the back plate. It's was a cheap guitar back then and would be a cheap guitar today, they make cheap guitars better these days but someone had to start the process and learn how it was done. Back then it as made by hand, today they are made by a machiene. I wouldn't buy this guitar as a real player but as a collector's item it's a gem. I took it to a local Jam session and blew everyone away, they are used to me playing a Tele and I stuck this guitar in my Gig bag and when I pulled it out somebody said Wow, where did you get that! I told them I've had it forever and jammed all night with it, real Nostalga.

Sound is good, better than you would expect from a cheap guitar. Think warm Tele neck tone. Not to twangy, I played some Jazz tunes on it and it sounded nice.

I had to adjust the action after several years of sitting in the closet and not being played. Action is a bit high but works well for slide and you can still play chords ok up the neck, I could lower it somemore. The finish is starting to check but still looks good.

I donno know I've had it about 44 years and it still pays! Yu tell me.

What support is there still a company?

What can I say, it's not a $1000 Tele ot a $2000 Les Paul. But it was a good starter guitar.

when i saw this bad boy in the pawnshop, i just had to have it, especially with that $15 price tag. this is the ultimate pawnshop classic, no model, your guess is as good as mine about the year. vaguely reminisent of a Fender Mustang body style, with 2 single coils, floating bridge, plastic tuners. the bridge was particularly interesting as it had no whammy bar and the slot didnt seem to fit any standard sized bars i tried on it so i ended up using a screw driver for a while. the neck was a dream, shaped just like a 2x4...

ha ha ha! the pickups are very anemic and thin, the output is very low. playing it clean was not an option, you could hardly hear it. distortion kind of hides the low output, instead it just sounded like the noisiest, screechiest, most abrasive thing you've ever heard. i guess it would be usable for punk rock, or sonic youth type stuff. one time i jammed with this guy but i only had one guitar and amp, so i let him use this guitar through my sisters karaoke machine. it made this machine like distortion from the guitar overdriving the karaoke machines input. we just turned the karaoke machine down for a "clean tone." that was sctually the best we ever got that guitar to sound come to think of it.

the action was actually very low, unfortunately there is no way to adjust it and the low E was so low that you couldnt get any note to sustain for more than a couple seconds. we tried sticking a 58 guage string on it but that didnt really help. the low action is sort of a moot point when you wrap your hand around the neck anyway. it is a square, and about as thick as your arm. maybe the machine that turns 3 foot planks of wood into guitar necks was broken that day and they didnt think anyone would notice if they just stuck a piece of raw lumber on it. i dont know. i dont even want to know what kind of "wood" it was, it has about the weight of bolsa. my guess is plywood or masonite. the finish was a beat up tobaaco sunburst. we ended up covering it with bright orange road paint and leaving it out to dry, and we never got around to putting it back together. ill give it a 3 because of the action.

thats a joke, the only way i would have taken this to a gig was to start off a song then smash it to pieces.

good luck, i have no idea what "victoria" is, probably made by sears or something.

i bought this guitar after having played for 2 years. my only other guitar was a lotus strat, and even that piece of shit blew this guitar away. i bought it for novelty value, i thought maybe i could fix it up a little and get some fucked up sounds out of it. i did get some fucked up sounds, but not in a good way. its no good for any style. i read an interview with Jerry Cantrel from Alice in Chains and he said he played a victoria in his first band. it was worth the $15 just for laughs, ive spent as much going to some really shitty shows. after we repainted it we never put it back together and it sat in the garage for a couple years. we dug it up when we were cleaning out the garage and we took it to the dump. if you ever run across one, buy it (but dont spend more than $25) and youll get years of laughter out of it.