Please note that this used Flight Vanguard ukulele is available for purchase by UK customers only.
The Pathfinder and Centurion have been a revelation the past couple of years bringing a playable, affordable solid body electric ukulele to the masses for the first time. It only makes sense Flight would want to expand this range given the popularity and growing popularity of sister company to Flight; Jet (a guitar brand gaining fantastic reviews).
The Vanguard is more than a little bit based on an extremely famous set neck electric guitar models favoured by many modern guitar players. Available initially in a crazy cool trans black and a purple capped top with a pair of humbucker magnetic pickups. If you want to plug in with effects or explore the overdrive channel of your amp, then this ukulele was built with you in mind. Equally, if you want to roll back the volume and tone and learn some jazz chords the unique metallic timbre of brighter edge to this ukulele can certainly exceed your expectations.
The Flight Vanguard, solid body tenor ukulele is a dual cutaway steel string electric ukulele, offering the tonal possibilities of a true electric ukulele from the trusted name of Flight Ukulele. The ukulele itself is stunning with a purple flamed maple top with blue basswood body and neck. The ukulele features a rosewood fingerboard, 35mm nut width, white ABS binding, hardtail fixed bridge, back-through stringing, humbuckers, chrome hardware, single controls for volume and tone, and a three-way switch.
The steel strings, slim taper to the neck and lack of acoustic chambering mean that this uke will require some adjustment to your playing style to truly master. It's clear Flight thought long and hard about the spec of this ukulele because it has a zero fret, an electric mandolin style bridge with individual saddles and finally a nice padded blue Flight gigbag.
The question you will be asking now is whether this instrument can be nearly as good as the Risa LP, ST or TE models that have been on the market for the better half of the last decade and I would say that these ukes offer the same experience with perfectly acceptable and serviceable hardware but they are still a Chinese factory ukulele (the Risas are made in the EU) with cosmetic marks visible when you really scrutinise it.
This used model is in 8/10 condition with few surface scratches and a small ding. It comes with the original Flight gigbag included.
