Vox White Shadow

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you may remember i posted a thread about burns guitars a bit ago as i was thinking of buying one. yesterday i was in big deal, a shop that buys and sells anything electronic really, but mainly muscial instruments. they had a vox white shadow guitar for £125, i asked him why this was so cheap and he said simply because they bought it cheap. has anyone else seen/played on/had this guitar and can tell me what it is like. i didnt get to play on it as the shop was about to shut when i got there.
thanks
 
The Vox guitars were built by an Italian company, whose name I cant think right now. I'm not familiar with the White shadow, but the Phantom and Teardrop are two I have played, having owned a Phantom. A luthier I knew had old Teardrop in for repair that had been Bill Wymans and the current owner was in the supporting act when they toured New Zealand in the 60's, he bought it off him at the end of the tour and it was shit.
The were a budget model, sounded OK, but not tyhe best to play, these both had single coils on them.
If you can get it cheap it might be OK.
 
cheers for the info man, this guitar had humbuckers though.
 
The very first Vox solid-body electric guitar bodies were made by a furniture company in England. Tom Jennings wanted a piece of the market beyond amplifiers.

As the international electric guitar market took off by early 1964, the original British supplier couldn't begin to keep up. So Jennings transferred production to the experienced Italian company EKO, producer of many weird and wonderful private-label guitars for various "manufacturers" for many years.

As the owner of an Eastwood Phantom VI Chinese clone, I would love to get a British and an Italian Vox phantom side-by-side to cmpare details and see which one mine is a copy of!
 
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