Chording up the neck was impossible, and would have been completely out of tune had I managed it. Dutch-made Vega guitars are fairly hard to find for the simple reasons that:Ī.) They didn't sell well, because the players who made up the target market (players who couldn't quite afford a Martin) didn't really have any awareness of the Vega brand name, either ī.) The neck joints on a high percentage of them developed serious problems, rendering quite a few of them unplayable.Īll but one that I've run across have had sprung necks, and were barely playable in first position. There were serious quality control problems at that factory, which ultimately resulted in the whole deal being shut down after a year or two. They bought the Vega brand name, and made Vega banjos for a few years shortly thereafter they gained control of a guitar factory in the Netherlands and attempted to introduce a less-expensive guitar brand by using the Vega name on guitars manufactured at that plant. The story on that is that Martin was in a period where they were expanding and acquiring other brand names. Doug, I seriously doubt that this Dutch-made Vega dreadnought has any Brazilian rosewood anywhere on it.
