This is the Vintage Guitars REVO Series Surfmaster Thinline Twin: an affordable new – yet somehow old – take on the iconic offset electric guitar!

More info here: https://www.jhs.co.uk/collections/vin...

The REVO Series – REVO stands for Retro Vintage Originals – is Vintage’s new family of guitars. Designed in collaboration with Alan Entwistle, the REVO guitars all take their inspiration from the quirky (often offset) designs I’d often associate with Italian guitars from the 1960s. This means you get interesting body shapes, cool finishes and pickups options, and the usual Vintage quality meets value for money philosophy.

The Surfmaster Thinline Twin – which costs between $500-600/€500-600/£499.00, depending on where you look – is one of the most eye-catching in the REVO family, especially in this wonderful Greenburst finish and the tortoiseshell guard.

A semi-hollow guitar that’s a clear visual reminder of the iconic Fender Jazzmaster (or a Squier!), the Surfmaster has a double bound okoume body and a bound maple neck with jatoba fingerboard. The neck has a Graph Tech nut, a 24.75” scale length, and you get 22 medium jumbo frets with awesome block inlays – and a zero fret. Up at the headstock you get a set of Wilkinson Deluxe E-Z-Lok tuners.

These locking tuners might well be needed, as at the body we have traditional offset vibrato and a roller bridge for all our jangly, wobbly action. Pickups-wise. we get a pair of Alan Entwistle Classic Nashville ND Filtertron-style humbuckers, with a three-way switch and Entwistle’s ATN-5 Variator, a 5-way rotary switch that – not unlike the famed Gibson Varitone – gives you a bunch of extra tonal and EQ options via clever circuitry.

With all these tonal option, the Surfmaster Thinline should give us a wealth of tones across all musical genres, although being an offset you’d expect it to excel at jangly cleans, indie rock, surf, grunge, and alternative rock. Well, in this video I put the guitar to the test in as many genres as possible, from all of the above to country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, punk, metal, and more.

Let me know your thoughts on the Surfmaster in the comments!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:17 Introduction to the Surfmaster Thinline Twin
01:22 Specs and info
03:26 The ATN-5 Variator
05:33 Today’s rig and plan

06:23 Clean tone reference chords on all pickup settings
06:59 Clean tone riffs
10:28 Surf and classic jangly tones with extra delay and reverb
12:48 Ambient alternative and post rock sounds with extra delay and reverb
14:25 Indie and alternative rock sounds
17:44 Classic rock sounds
19:34 Hard rock sounds
21:07 Punk rock sounds
21:35 Progressive and modern rock sounds
22:32 Metal sounds

23:56 My thoughts
24:47 First impressions and looks
25:47 Weight
26:21 Build quality and hardware
27:11 Playability and neck
28:29 Sounds and pickups
31:23 The ATN-5 Variator
32:28 What other similar cheap offset guitars are out there?
34:20 My conclusions on the Surfmaster Thinline and why you should buy it

Learn more about the ATN-5 Variator here: https://www.revelationguitars.co.uk/t...

My setup was as follows: I ran the guitar into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed and my Revv G3 pedals for overdrive and heavy distortion sounds, and my Source Audio Collider for extra delay and reverb. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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