Kamil Kisiel
Power User
I now own two. I picked up the Surfretter used from Reverb for my birthday last year. I play a bit Shamisen, which is like a 3-string fretless Japanese banjo, and have always wanted an electric guitar that was fretless. When I found out about the Vigier Surfretter and how the metal fretboard actually provides decent sustain on an electric guitar, I had to have one. It's a really unique instrument. When I got it I really fell in love with the overall neck feel and balance of the instrument as well, it definitely had that modern superstrat thing going but with a bit more of a classic aesthetic.
I later discovered the Shawn Lane model (left) which also ticked a lot of boxes for me. I've always liked the feel of playing Gibson-scale guitars, but I also mostly prefer strat type guitars with a superstrat layout, and non-locking trems. This had all of that, plus a bunch of other interesting features I don't see on many other guitars like this: zero fret, dive-only trem with roller saddles. Another very unusual thing about this guitar is that there is no radius to the fretboard... it's completely flat. At first it felt very unusual, as if the fretboard was actually curved in the opposite direction, but I soon got used to it and now I wish my other guitars also had this
Anyone else on the forum play Vigier guitars? Would love to see them!
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