Something In The Air
VIGIER G.V. HOLLOW £3,459
CONTACT High Tech Distribution PHONE 01722 410 002 WEB www.vigierguitars.com
When Patrice Vigier announced his G.V. single-cut guitar a decade ago, it was a thoroughly reimagined version of a Les Paul – or virtually every single-cut guitar you’d ever played. If you want vintage clones, don’t look to Vigier. 10 years on, at the start of this year, Vigier took the wraps off the G.V. Hollow with its heavily chambered alder body, a pair of distinctive soundholes and a flamed maple cap.
Solid or semi-hollow, the G.V. design pushes the electric guitar forwards. Like all other Vigier models, it uses a carbon-reinforced maple truss-rod-less neck design, the 10/90 System, which bolts to the body, and includes numerous other Vigier flourishes from the six-piece zero fret to one of the most elegant takes on the time-honoured tune-o-matic bridge and stud tailpiece.
Yet irrespective of its finer details, the G.V. Hollow looks like a far. We have players like Lapiro de Mbanga who was a big star in Cameroon – he told me, ‘I love the Vigier because it is the only guitar that resists the African humidity’ – or Stanley Jordan who is a master in jazz. So I wanted to show that we don’t only make shred guitars. That’s why I wanted to do a semi-hollow, not a jazz guitar but more in that spirit.”
