Vintage ReIssued V65 | A bargain hardtail offset with Wilkinson P90s and tons of mojo! Review & Demo

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This is the Vintage ReIssued V65HTSB in Tobacco Sunburst – an affordable Trev Wilkinson-designed take on the iconic Fender Jazzmaster/Jaguar offset guitar body shape.

Find out more about the V65 here:

If you’re familiar with Fender’s offset guitars, you’ll appreciate that the V65 is something of a streamlined, simplified take on the idea. Typically on Jazzmasters and Jaguars you’ll find vibrato bridges, extra pickup switching options, and they come with their own respective pickup types too.

The Vintage V65HTSB – which will set you back around €400/$400 forgoes any of the extras, giving us Wilkinson single coil soapbar P90 pickups, and a Wilkinson hardtail bridge (although there is another Vintage model with a vibrato bridge too). You also get an alder body and a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard and 22 medium jumbo frets, with Wilkinson Deluxe tuners and a Graph Tech NuBone nut completing the hardware.

So, all that said, what we have here is a guitar that – on paper – looks to be an excellent first step into the world of the offset guitar… but how does it perform? That’s what we’re here to find out! In this video, I play the guitar in as many different styles as possible, from clean pop, folk and indie strumming to classic and hard rock, some alt rock and some punk, and even a bit of metal in Drop D! Let’s see if the V65 turns out to be a genuine Fender/Squier competitor.

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:14 Introduction to the Vintage V65
01:56 Specs and info
03:10 Today’s rig and plan

Clean Sounds
04:04 Clean tone reference chords on all pickup settings
04:23 60s pop rhythm tones
04:33 Indie pop jangly chords
04:48 Blues progression
05:00 Poppy barre chords
05:15 Ascending droning indie chords
05:29 Ringing open indie pop chords
05:42 Country strummed chords (all pickup settings)
06:02 Country ballad arpeggios
06:15 Country lead sound
06:22 V65 tone control test
07:20 Folk pop chords

Clean Sounds with extra reverb/tremolo
07:38 Melodic poppy soundscapes
08:04 Surf pop chords
08:24 Jazzy indie arpeggios
08:40 Indie pop picked arpeggios

Overdriven Sounds
09:02 Indie rock descending riff
09:08 Edgy indie barre chords
09:22 Upbeat indie rock barre chords (all pickup settings)
09:45 V65 volume control test
10:08 Indie rock octave chords
10:33 Choppy barre chords
10:42 Indie rock rhythm sound
10:58 Kings Of Leon inspired indie rock riff

11:13 Classic rock riff
11:29 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
11:46 Groovy classic rock riff (all pickup settings)
12:12 Airbourne inspired rock riff
12:30 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff

Higher gain drive sounds
12:47 Classic hard rock riff
13:04 Hard rock riff
13:20 Hard rock melodic lead
13:33 Glam rock riff
13:49 Chunky alt rock chords
14:02 Alternative rock riff
14:16 Pop punk riff
14:29 Pop punk melodic lead riff
14:45 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
14:59 Punk rock power chords
15:25 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
15:41 Modern rock palm-muted chords (Drop D)

Heavy Distortion sounds (all in Drop D)
16:05 Metal chugging riff
16:22 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
16:34 Hardcore punk riff
16:49 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff
17:03 Modern metal riff
17:14 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff

17:49 My thoughts
18:45 First impressions
19:07 Weight
19:28 Build quality and hardware
20:15 Playability and neck
21:00 Sounds and pickups discussion
23:58 What other cheap offset guitars should you consider?
25:33 My conclusions on the V65
26:32 Thanks and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the V65 into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, using my Fender Tre-Verb for extra reverb and tremolo sounds, my Greer Lightspeed for overdrive, and my Revv G3 for heavy distortion sounds. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
Greer Lightspeed:
Revv G3:
Fender Tre-Verb:
Focusrite 4i4 (the new 2i4):
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Enjoy!

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Controlled Distress – Biz Baz Studio.

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