Description
Vantage VA900 1980 Matsumoko – Natural satin
Here’s a Vantage VA-900 from 1980.
Made in Japan at the Matsumoko plant, these early Vantage guitars are extremely well made and have some pretty cool features!
The VA900 “Virtuoso” is considered the top of the line electric from Vantage at the time.
Featuring a neck-through body design, a multi-faceted active/passive electronic system, premium woods and top-notch craftsmanship this guitar still sounds and plays great even compared to today’s guitars.
The electronics consist of an active preamp providing up to 13 dB of boost to overdrive your sound and an active equalization/tone control offering a total of ±25 dB of tone shaping.
This Vantage is in great-excellent condtiion.
All the electronics work as they should, the frets and neck are in great shape with minimal wear and lots of life left.
The body shows just a couple small dings and scratches as shown in the photos. They are pretty hard to see until you look closely.
The original Vantage branded case (quite rare in itself!) is included with this VA900.
With the variety of tones, comfortable playing neck and high quality construction, it’s no wonder these 1980’s Vantage guitars are collectable and sought after.
Specs:
Scale length 25½ inches
Number of frets 24
Neck (material & construction) Three pieces of laminated maple with two walnut stripes and a multilayered center of ask, walnut and maple running the entire length of the guitar in the “transmit” style design.
Adjustable truss rod.
Fingerboard Rosewood with a brass nut.
Body (material & construction) Multi-layered ash, walnut and maple with two walnut strings.
Finish Matte oak finish.
Pickups Two Vantage 600GD custom-engineered humbucking pickups.
Circuitry Preamp volume boost and active tone equalizatiion. Controls and switches Master volume
Active treble & bass control
Coil tap / phase / boost / pickup selector switches.
LED indicates low battery level (two 9 volt)
Machine heads Gold-plated, die-cast precision tuners.
Control knobs Brass with groove grip.
Bridge / talepiece Brass adjustable combination bridge / tailepiece.
In production1979