The Vintage V100MRPGM Lemon Drop is a
Gibson Les Paul
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-style solid-body
electric guitar
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, designed by Trevor Wilkinson for
Vintage
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in 2006. The Vintage "Lemon Drop" is influenced by the look and sound of English guitarist
Peter Green's legendary
Gibson Les Paul
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(later purchased by Irish guitarist
Gary Moore
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directly from Green and now owned by
Kirk Hammett of Metallica). On Green's guitar, the neck
pickup was fitted backwards and wired out of phase; the V100MRPGM's pickups were voiced to imitate that specific tonal quality, and the pickups are wired to be out of phase when the selector switch is set to the middle position.
External links
* Revie
Vintage "Lemon Drop"(Guitar and Bass, December 2006).
Vintage V100 Lemon Drop
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