Thanks Ozeshin for digging up the info.
That info is also part of my book, I already had that.
I knew about Vestax which I falsely called Vestar in my previous reply and I am in e-mail contact with the previous manufacturer.
I hope that someday the questions I have put will come to an answer.
To me Vester is an underrated guitar brand as far as Tradition Series
Strats, Teles, Les Pauls, SG's, Explorers, ES355, as well as P and J Bass models are concerned.
Personally I do not really dig their Superstrat gear or any other superstrat for that matter.
Some of the custom shop Vester Acoustics are also first class instruments.
The trouble is that Vester is mostly negatively judged by their lesser
models (Stage Series and 'more of the same' Superstrats).
They are often dismissed as "I would not touch them with a stick".
That is not a justified and it makes no sense towards the real quality stuff they made. Finally, this passage is in my book.
Quote:
What Vester did was nothing new, other mainly Japanese guitar manufacturers like Ibanez, Orville, Fernandez and Tokai produced what is now commonly known as the "law suit era" guitars.
The heydays ran from early 1970's up to the early 1980's; by then bitter contests in legal proceedings put paid to that era.
I must underscore that Vester guitars were no part of the above period.
Vesters were American guitars made in Korea, and a law suit against them was never filed. There was only a clear threat of legal action and that was apparently enough to shut down a relatively small scale business. They stood no chance anyway.
Vester only made the Tradition Series in the late 1980's, early 1990's.
In fact Vester copied the copycats, thereby more or less creating the Korean "law suit era". I have no full proof but several build indications
make me suspect that a Vester Tradition Series might be a copy of some Japanese "law suit era" guitars, which in itself were copies of American Fenders and or Gibsons.
So a US company copying Japanese copies of American guitars in Korea.
In order to counter any proliferation of Asian good quality copycats, Fender and Gibson themselves set up guitar factories in Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan and China.
Fender launched the Squier brand and Gibson revived the name of Epiphone to fight the Japanese and Koreans on their own turf.
And that is where they met Vester.
At this moment in time the Chinese law suit era"is the third stage.
Unquote.
That info is also part of my book, I already had that.
I knew about Vestax which I falsely called Vestar in my previous reply and I am in e-mail contact with the previous manufacturer.
I hope that someday the questions I have put will come to an answer.
To me Vester is an underrated guitar brand as far as Tradition Series
Strats, Teles, Les Pauls, SG's, Explorers, ES355, as well as P and J Bass models are concerned.
Personally I do not really dig their Superstrat gear or any other superstrat for that matter.
Some of the custom shop Vester Acoustics are also first class instruments.
The trouble is that Vester is mostly negatively judged by their lesser
models (Stage Series and 'more of the same' Superstrats).
They are often dismissed as "I would not touch them with a stick".
That is not a justified and it makes no sense towards the real quality stuff they made. Finally, this passage is in my book.
Quote:
What Vester did was nothing new, other mainly Japanese guitar manufacturers like Ibanez, Orville, Fernandez and Tokai produced what is now commonly known as the "law suit era" guitars.
The heydays ran from early 1970's up to the early 1980's; by then bitter contests in legal proceedings put paid to that era.
I must underscore that Vester guitars were no part of the above period.
Vesters were American guitars made in Korea, and a law suit against them was never filed. There was only a clear threat of legal action and that was apparently enough to shut down a relatively small scale business. They stood no chance anyway.
Vester only made the Tradition Series in the late 1980's, early 1990's.
In fact Vester copied the copycats, thereby more or less creating the Korean "law suit era". I have no full proof but several build indications
make me suspect that a Vester Tradition Series might be a copy of some Japanese "law suit era" guitars, which in itself were copies of American Fenders and or Gibsons.
So a US company copying Japanese copies of American guitars in Korea.
In order to counter any proliferation of Asian good quality copycats, Fender and Gibson themselves set up guitar factories in Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan and China.
Fender launched the Squier brand and Gibson revived the name of Epiphone to fight the Japanese and Koreans on their own turf.
And that is where they met Vester.
At this moment in time the Chinese law suit era"is the third stage.
Unquote.
