Vintage V100 Lemon Drop "Greeny" Vs. Epiphone Kirk Hammett Greeny 

Vintage lemon drop distressed and regular are around 450 bucks in europe. Great deal

I'm in the UK and got a second-hand Vintage Greeny last year for £399 and I love it. The pickups are great too. Definitely a bit of an undiscovered gem.

Good to see an old musical youtube colleague back uploading after some rest time. Nice to have you back here. Greetings!

these last two videos might not be covers, but I'm glad to see you're back, still rocking!

I was a big Epiphone man, I still have three of them, but Vintage are my new go to make when buying new, the V100PGM just blew me away, sincerely recommend the V58JD telecaster (Jerry Donahue) which in my humble opinion is fantastic value for money, so many different sounds available. (y)

Got the Vintage Lemon Drop put locking tuners, Bare Knuckle PG Blues and had it set up. It Rocks! 🤟😎

I had an older non relic V100PGM and those Wilkinsons are still my absolute favorite humbuckers. I absolutely loved that guitar, but couldn't deal with the thin neck. When the Epiphone Lazarus came out I bought one and turned it into a Greeny tribute. I couldn't pull the burstbuckers out fast enough! I bought a set of the Wilkinson WVCs, and as you noticed, there's not a set available with the magnet flipped. The V100PGM gets the out of phase sound by flipping the wiring on the neck pickup, but when I got the set for the Lazarus, I flipped the magnet. Once I got them installed and got the pickup heights dialed perfectly, the two guitars sounded exactly the same. The build quality of the Vintage was much better than the Epi, but I had to keep the Lazarus because of the great neck. You absolutely can't go wrong with the Vintage as long as you're OK with the thin neck. Personally, I'm probably going to spring for the Gibson Greeny (the regular model, not the $20k model!), but in all liklihood, the Wilkinsons from my Lazarus will probably wind up going in.

I bought my V100MR-PGM a year after they came out. I saw a video of Trevor explaining the mindset behind the design and I was hooked. Beautiful guitar. I paid $650 for it 5 or 6 years ago. Mine has Wilkinson's signature on the back of the head stock.

SayonaraSixString - Came across your channel recently, OIutstanding playing and great camera work that gives viewers a great view of what and how you're playing. Like your song selection also, not the usual fare that 100 other guitar players have posted. Look forward to future videos...

I had a vintage Les Paul special tv yellow p90 . I sold it a few years back . I regret selling it ever since. The built quality are tremendously almost perfect, and they nailed the yellow tint too. I love that brand and their parts and pick ups are killer. I think I’ll get one this new year . I’m a new subscriber btw. Keep the good work 🤘🏻🔥

I bought my Vintage Lemon Drop in around 2007 for £349 brand new. That was the RRP back then. It's still the best guitar I own. Plays like a £6K Gibson R9 I tried recently. It's current price in the UK is £549 RRP. Considering you get a real rosewood fretboard, a real flamed maple cap (the Epiphone is a veneer) and pickups that were designed by a guy who was shown the original method for making PAF's by Seth Lover himself, £549 is an absolute steal! You can actually get them for as little as £350 new if you shop around too. Bargain of the century as far as I'm concerned.

Bought my Vintage PGM for 400 Euros. New. Over here in Belgium. And to anyone wondering: great guitar. Plays and sounds awesome. Stays in tune as well imagine that. A true rocker.

I owned a couple of Vintage models over the years and recommend them to anyone looking for an "inspired by" guitar. A buddy of mine was looking to buy a guitar parts kit to tinker around with so I suggested he buy a Strat inspired Vintage instead. It was way cheaper than a parts kit (a Fender neck costs more than a whole guitar) and he's taken it apart/tricked it out/repainted it multiple times... he's having a ton of fun with it, loves the feel & tone, and that's what matters. Even cooler, it's "his guitar" now.

I bought a used one of the earlier non-reliced Vintage PGMs (closer to the real LP shape) during the pandemic for £249 delivered (about $316 usd) and it’s a really nice guitar. Every time I play it I’m amazed by how good the pickups sound. The only thing I don’t like is the weight but I guess that’s a LP thing 😄

I bought my vintage v100 for £200 3 years ago. With a decent setup it's just a great guitar.

yeah i grabbed a 13' model "greeny". the distress job looks and feels natural, not cheesy looking. sounds amazing. plays any style music i want, so much versatility in those pups. also has Trevs signature on headstock. I don't wanna put it down, love this guitar. Its def got some mojo! thinking of upgrading the Wilkinsons tuners to locking ones?? Any suggestions on tuners for this one? A big Thanks to Vintage guitars for their craftsmanship!

The Vintage is nice, the price you grabbed it for is outstanding!!

Bought a Vintage SG a week ago for 300E, awesome guitar.

I have the Vintage Lemon Drop(non relic'd version). I bought it second hand from a dealer's on line shop but they have a big physical store too. I paid £199 for it(sorry!) It is a 2011 model in 100% mint condition. The only slight negative for me is the thin neck--but I can live with it. But I am seriously considering the Epi Greeny. I saw your demo of the Epi Greeny and your out of phase sound on that is the best I have heard. The Vintage is a distant second to my ears.

Was considering a Epi greeny and a V100 But i figured why not get a set of greenybuckers and Turn my 2011 Epi Bonomassa goldtop darkback into a Goldtop greeny. it already has grovers ,mis matched nobs, CTS pots, switchcraft, orange drop caps, so i switched the Burstbuckers's 2/3 for greenybuckers and it weighs 9.5 pounds ,and it now sounds fat and wooley with the out of phase tone, hard to put it down ,it might just replace my Epi Lazarus 59 thanks SSS 4 your review.

Where I can purchase a Vintage in the USA?

Love Vintage brand guitars❤

I believe that 'PGM' is a tribute to both Peter Green and Gary Moore

My vintage I had nitro finished and Pio caps and audio taper pots .. Faber hardware and Grover’s

Earlier models had the same neck heel as the gibbos

Here in Portugal it costs 568 euros, pretty cheap and always sold out so I bought another Vintage model which seems to be great from the vids I saw but it only arrives next week. My Gibson Les Paul sounds great because of the S.D. pups I put in it, before the stock pups were the burstbucker 61R and 61T which are identical and sounded like a nightmare and I paid 2099 euros for a Les Paul standard and then had to spend 290 euros for good quality pups.

I thought the M stood for Moore. I have one, love it.

I’ve had a Vintage Lemon Drop for years and it cost me £120. It’s really great!

I have a 2013 version of the Vintage V100 Lemon drop.. Its is even better because it has the traditional neck heel and the correct body curve around the pickup switch area... before they changed to the funky shape heel and body curve... Having tried the Epiphone version I actually prefer the older V100 lemon drop because the pickups are so well voiced the general build of the guitar is great with a rosewood fretboard... The Epiphone is definitely over priced for a guitar with a glued on veneer top and a laurel fretboard...

Vintage all the way for me, fantastic value for your £ or $

I had the Vintage greenie, years ago.. it was an excellent guitar.. not a fan of distressed guitars, so I sold it.. bought it for $450 Canadian, sold it for $600.

In the UK 2nd hand market you can pick the Vintage Lemondrop up for as low £150 if you look around.

Thanks nice review, how is the neck.on the epiphone in comparison to lazarus? Is it a fatter neck?

I’m not someone who is really into chasing the greeny thing but I love les Paul’s though and I own four Gibson standards (one is a “dirty lemon” that looks like a cross between this and slash’s original AFD LP copy - not the orange one they make now). And I have a “vintage paradise” that I got new off of reverb in 2018 for 400 dollars. The vintage plays very well for such an inexpensive guitar and better than many epiphones that I have played. I would say the flame veneer on mine looks kind of cheesy and not so realistic, but a solid guitar nonetheless. I let my kids bang around on it ha.

Had the vintage hated the neck seemed thin,but they did a nice job on the top

The epi is 2.6 k here in New Zealand . The vintage is 900 dollars .

Well look at this....More About the Epiphone Company This Gibson-owned factory was, when it first opened, led by Gibson luthier Mike Voltz, overseeing the production of Epiphone’s core line of guitars.

I have the earlier vintage lemon drop

I have a 77 les paul which has had the shot played out of it It looks brand new compared to some custom lab reliced guitars . Long Nitro cellulose

And wolfetome VMag PAFs with flipped magnet and our Of phase

How is Vintage build quality? Is it as good as Epiphone?

Anyone near Manchester uk after a lemon dropv100 there’s one on marketplace for 180 quid ( not mine, just saying 😂) it’s looks good for that money , if I had time to get up there I’d have it myself 👍👍🤠🎸

I think the epi Greeny looks nice. I don’t grasp the price. Its all subjective. Some wont mind. The Vintage looks nice

The v100 sounds and plays pretty good but the frets are that soft you will be in for a refret a lot sooner than the Epi.

I live in the UK, I have three v100s. I live in the UK and paid £250 for a Gold top with P90s and £250 for a standard tobacco burst. I paid £350 for my lemon drop. I'm not a fan of relic guitars and all my guitars are no-relic. I have a 35 year old Strat and Gibson these guitars have aged naturally and don't look as if they were pulled out of a dumpster.

Vintage were producing better guitars before 2014 IMHO (your MCMR SG is one of these early models) as at that time they were producing straight copies of Gibsons in terms of the body shapes. After 2014 the JHS company expanded into the USA and had to change a lot of their body shapes to avoid Gibson litigation so for example the lower bout was extended and the lower horn offset was introduced which destroyed the symmetry of a lot of the guitars they manufacture.

the painted player offers a sort of custom remade epiphone with greeny specs for 1099£

Made in Vietnam... truly excellent guitars - and if you didn't notice they have a one piece neck

Weight?

PGM stands for Peter Green/Gary Moore. Getting both the names of the famous users in.

PGM - Not Pete Green Model, it's an amalgamation of Peter Green Gary Moore. The 1st incarnation was a closer to the LP shape

I seem to be the only person on Earth who is wholly immune to the charm of "distressed" guitars. Just wished they offered it without that silliness.

$2999 for the Epiphone in Australia

I don't understand hype about the Vintage PGM. I owned one and it sounded good, but the build quality was really not good and it was too heavy. It played nothing like a good Gibson.

I can’t believe a guitar that epi puts out is 1500 😂😂😂

I just don't like that pointy horn on the Vintage Les Pauls

Epiphone still has the chonky horn 😅

PGM = Peter Green/Gary Moore

Peter Green, Gary Moore=PGM

If you can afford 1500 you buy a second hand Standard

The epiphone looks too much like an epiphone. Looks like the wish version, cheap and basic. Not impressed. Might sound good… but ugly compared to Gibson.

Stop calling it the Kirk Hammet Greeny, it’s Peter Green’s Greeny!

The Vintage brand uses real rosewood, not that indian laurel crap

Never liked The Vintage guitars. Necks are too thin and uncomfortable. Clearly they were skimping on wood costs.

*OVERPRIZED!*

Over priced. BK 13

Wilkinson pickups are crap and the relic job looks like a drunk kids first attempt.

Gibson is rippinng the 💩 outta people. Shameful. Im interested in Vintage guitars. Cool video.

I love my Vintage Lemon Drop!