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Wing Instruments

Wing Instruments specialize in making short scale electric and bass guitars. The product line started with the Wing Bass  - developed as a portable instrument for travel, performance and practice. The desgin is like putting a capo at the twelfth fret of a standard bass and chopping the neck off behind the capo. The result is the short scale Wing Bass… a compact instrument that feels, plays and sounds like a standard scale bass with a capo at the 12th fret. The Wing Bass is small enough to fit in a 21″ carry on, or to place under the seat in front of you, making it easy to take it with you on trips anywhere.

The Wing Guitar was launched at NAMM 2016 and employs the same concept as the bass - its like a full sized guitar capoed at the 5th fret and the neck behind the capo removed. This gives it the same overall size as the Wing Bass. The guitar can be tuned A to A, or with heavy guage strings it be tuned to standard E to E pitch.

Partscaster

Partscaster is not a brand name as such, but refers to guitars assembled from parts taken off other guitars - or bought from suppliers. These are usually Fender style guitars as these have interchangable necks and bodies and many players spend years swapping parts and installing upgrades to get their perfect guitar.

VIG

VIG Guitars was a budget electric guitar and bass brand launched around 2007 by GEWA. At launch in 2007 the range included the following guitar models: Poison, Cobra, Spirit, Screech, Eruption and Dragster.  Poison and Cobra were also available as 4&5 string basses, All guitars were priced below €300 and all basses below €400. By 2009 the VIG brand name was replaced by VGS.

Source: VIG Guitars catalog 2007

Source: VIG guitars website (Archived 2008)

Winston

Winston was a brand name of the Kent musical products division of Buegelesien and Jacobson (B&J). Winston guitars were made in Japan for import into the USA in the 1960s and 1970s.

Source: Winston catalogs 1966, 1968, 1970

Wishbass

Wishbass basses are made by Steve Wishnevsky. He specializes in unique designs which usually feature his open headstock. Wishbasses are usually inexpensive due to their simple electronics, design and lack of finish. Wishnevsky uses the minimum of components in his instruments and for this reason some owners choose to add new pickups / finishes to their Wishbasses.

Scavenger

Scavenger was established by Dominic Allan around 2020 in Dorset, UK. Dom had worked in musical instrument manufacture, repair , retail and performance for 30 years. Since 2003 he worked as an instrument technician at All Instruments, Westbury Wilts. He faced a problem common to piano dealers: what do you do with a scrap piano? His solution is to recycle the piano wood into Scavenger electric guitars and basses.

Source: Scavenger website (7 October 2021)

Vik Guitars

Vik Guitars are made by Viachaslau "Vik" Kuletski in Belarus. Vik became disillusioned while studying law so he dropped out of college in 2004 and joined a luthier who taught him the basics of the job. Over the next few years he serviced and repaired guitars with the occasional custom build. Iniitially he built the classic Fender & Gibson designs - learning the alphabet of guitar making but in 2007 he came up with his first original design.It took years of hard work both in the shop and online to make his original designs a success. He now makes the Caprice S and T, Duality, Black Lotus, Saviour and Domineer models. He has worked with and created instruments for: Jeff Kollman, Adam Nolly Getgood, Tosin Abasi, Keith Merrow, Fredrik Thordendal, Alan Sacha Laskow, and Fred Brum.

Source: Vik Guitars website (30 September 2021)

Wilkes

Doug Wilkes started making guitars in 1972 in his home workshop. In the 1980s Wilkes developed "The Answer" guitar pickup system - with sliding single coils on rails that allowed for a wide range of single coil and humbucker tones. Wilkes made a The Answer guitar for David Gilmour. After an abandoned plan in 1985 to open a guitar factory in North Wales with Richard Branson - Wilkes went on to set up a large factory in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. He employed nine people at the Hanley factory the largest independent guitar factory in the country at the time. The factory closed in 1992 and Doug gave away all his big machinery, and moved to Keele, where he now makes bespoke guitars, bass guitars and other instruments from his garden workshop.

Source: Wilkes Guitars website (29 September 2021)

Wesley

Wesley Guitars was a budget guitar brand founded by John Wesley in County Durham, UK.  Wesley studied guitar for three years in London at the Guildhall School of Music, the Guitar Institute of Technology and the Gateway School of Music, Sound Technology and Music Business studies. For 10 years he worked with a team at Wesley Guitars Ltd selling 25,000 guitars, basses, mandolins and banjos worldwide. These instruments were imported - but Wesley personally set many of them up. The Wesley brand has now been discontinued.

Source: John Wesley website (20 September 2021)

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