#Vox phantom vi for sale professional
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The Vox Mark VI guitar was first offered to the US market in the 1966 'Vox, It's Whats Happening - Beatles Cover' catalog. By 1965, the popularity and world wide demand for Vox guitars caused JMI to supplement UK production at Eko in Italy.

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The 'Mark' series guitars and basses had the largest commercial success of all Vox guitars produced during the British Invasion. Vox expanded the 'teardrop' line to include the V252 Mark VI 'thin line' electro acoustic guitar, the V231 Mark IX nine string guitar, the V223 Mark XII twelve string guitar, the V224 Mark IV bass guitar and the V248 Wyman bass.Ī white two pickup Mark VI model was designed for Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, but oddly was not offered commercially by Vox in the 1960s. The teardrop was simply renamed the 'Mark VI'. Before long, the Phantom name was dropped on the teardrop model to avoid confusion with the original Phantom VI. Vox named this new 'teardrop' model the 'Phantom Mark VI' guitar when it was introduced in 1963.

The Phantom had a three position rotary pickup switch, the Teardrop used a three position toggle.

It also used the same bridge, vibrato arm and Eko manufactured 'paddle head stock' neck as the Phantom VI. This new guitar had the same 'Stratocaster' inspired triple single coil pickup arrangement that Vox used on the Phantom VI. On the heels of the introduction of the Phantom VI, a new solid body 'teardrop' shaped guitar was developed at Vox. The result of this initial effort was the 'coffin' shaped Phantom VI guitar. To help accomplish this styling goal, Vox entered into a contract with the London Design Centre in 1962 to suggest guitar body shapes.

#Vox phantom vi for sale professional

Their new professional guitar models would need to have body designs that were unique and iconic, making them immdiately recognizable as a Vox instrument. Vox determined that 'copy cat' guitar designs for their professional models would be unacceptable. Soon after Vox entered the guitar marketplace with student grade models in 1961, their development of professional level instruments commenced.