Welcome to my trubutesite to the Canadian guitar brand: Vantage – made in Japan by Matsumoku for Jam Industries Ltd, Montreal/Canada.
I can not take credit for the information on this site. I’m just a collector of Vantage Guitar – information.
I must say thanks to all the wonderful people on these sites who have shared their information and photos with us here on the Internet:
| WEBLINKS | KIND OF INFORMATION |
| matsumoku.org | my main source and where this idea came from. Many great guitar enthusiasts online here. |
| WikiPedia | online encyclopedia. |
| westoneguitars.no | Matsumoku produced a lot of awesome guitars and guitarpart to many other brands. You can say Westone and Vantage guitars have some common factoryhistory. This page is worth a visit!! |
| ebay | where you can buy and sell almost anything. |
| Vantage facebook-groupe | a group on facebook for all the Vantage-lovers out there to join. |
| gutar-museum.com | is a free webspace, were you can use it to find photos, description or the price of a guitar. |
| google.com | if it is on the internet, you’ll find it with Google. |
| finn.no | a norwegian website for buying and selling stuff. |
| eldigas.com | a forum for “El Degas replica instruments”. |
| dba.dk | a Danish website for buying and selling stuff. |
| guloggratis.no | a Danish website for buying and selling stuff. |
| samick.wikia.com/wiki/Vantage | The History of Vantage as a part of Samick |
| audiofanzine.com | a French page for musicmakers of all shapes and minds. |
| vintaxe.com | a website with guitar-stuff |
| lauritz.com | a Danish auctionwebsite |
Most gathered by using google.com.
There are written a hole bunch of books and magazine articles about guitars. I found something about Vantage MIJ in these books and magazines:
“History of Japanese electric Guitars” by Frank Meyers – ISBN 987-1-57424-315-4
“Guitar Stories Volume 1” by Michael Wright – ISBN 9781884883033
I’ll also found ads and catalogs with information about Vantage.
Best Regards
Johan Arne Andersen – Norway
| Special thanks to these people for their help and contribution: | ||
| Kees Rietvink Tsvetan Bratoychev Patrick Roach Pablo Rojero Scott Campbell Peter ‘Willfixinedit’ Bernie Brunet Jeremy Ploof Dave from Everking The Band Brian Hugessen Adam Burton Tom Moyers Mark Giaquinto Zachary Hudson Saxoman Noir Nouveau Gabriel Cantin Mark Wood Frank Townson |
Jack Jack Henrik Johannesen Antoine Mercier Kristen Ovenden Patrick Lafrenière Robert Ennor Gilles Adams Pierre-Sébastien Thériault Ethan Johnson Nelson Luiz Christianini David DeVries Torsten Redeker Martin Ariel Jeffrey Krasulak Gordon Currier Michael Walker Chad Tarasick Dan Thorson |
Ed Lauzon (Ottawa, Canada) Pascal Lacabe Roger Bergkvist Pascal Boraschi Michael Platzer David Brown Daniel Bolenbaugh Roger Topp Craig DeLay Patrick Scanlan Blandiniere Guillaume Darryl Campbell Ryan McGuire Pāvels (Daugavpils, Latvia) Kevin Ormsby Viacheslav “Slava” Lozovoy Mark Talbot Vincent Fusier Thomas GAUTREAU |
| A warm ‘Thank you!!’ for the donations: | ||
| Riley Broderick Lawrence Balogh Steven Jacks Claudio Bertlli Studio Szabries |
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Note:
If you have any information that may help to extend this ‘Vantage Guitars’ website, please contact me at: johan@gibostad.no.
Or even better: If you got something solid you want to send to me the old fashion way:
– ads
– catalogs
– books
– magazines
– flightcase
– soft bag
– some pictures
– maybe you got some Vantage-guitar-parts leftover
– a hole guitar you want to donate!!
Then use this address:
Johan Arne Andersen
Mollerenga 16
NO-9372 Gibostad
Norway.
If you really, really want to, you can make a donation by ‘PayPal’ to help run this site, provide more information about the Vantage MIJ Guitars. Any amount counts, thank you.