Info on Vox branded Guyatone

[RayL]

If it helps, here are the four Guyatone guitars that were available in 1961.

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Ray

[ecca]

The guitar you have there is a Vox SB2 (Solid Body 2 pick up). It pre dates the Stroller and Shadow models by several months and would I'm sure, have a single sided headstock just like the Guyatone LG models. Pictures of that would be interesting. Thanks for posting. MK http://www.voxguitars.info

Never heard of it , can't find anything about it.
Any details at all ?

[JimN]

Ray's extract from the venerable Bell Musical Instruments catalogue certainly brings back memories. The guitar captioned as a Guyatone LG40 looks very similar to the instrument shown in my own 1965 edition (the one with the yellow/orange cover), though it is just a little different and was by then labelled the "Broadway" guitar, available with one pickup or with two pickups and tremolo.

I can still recall the sense of excitement when those catalogues used to arrive by post from Surrey (which to me, seemed like the other side of the planet at the time).

JN

[RayL]

Jim, since we last met I have visited Liverpool for the very first time by travelling on a bus through the Birkenhead tunnel and you are right - it IS the other side of the planet.



Ray

[JimN]

Ray: There's no such place as Liverpool any more. The locality still has the same name, but an entirely different city has been dropped on top of it.

JN

[rockinscott]

Hi all,

Many thanks for the replies, the owner says the writing on the tailpiece say Vibratone, it has the long skinny hadstock and the pickups appear hand cut or filed..

Thanks again

Scott

[cockroach]

The LG 40 double cutaway was also around here in Australia in about 1962/3. Mate of mine at secondary school had one..I think it may have been sold as a Top Twenty or Top Forty brand not Guyatone or Broadway over here..

I also sent away for the Bell catalogue in the UK in about 1962 before I emigrated to Oz...young lad's dreams of electric guitars!

[rockinscott]

This is the same shape head stock as the said guitar and he is after a switch for the pick up selector.



Thanks for your help guys

Scott

[geoff1711]

In the 60's the British band The Eagles album cover showed 2 of them with Vox versions of a strat and a strat style bass, I remember seeing them in Denmark street at the time, rather than the rather thin and cheap looking previous strat style guitars these looked the business, same thickness as a strat and well finished but with the Vox shape headstock, I wonder if any have survived?

Geoff

[JimN]

Hi Geoff,

Do a Google search for the Vox Soundcaster and the Vox Symphonic Bass...

Samples:

http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/voxSoundcaster.php
http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/vox65_5.php

JN