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Vintage Vox basses

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Funnily enough, the original Vox factory was about a five minute walk from where I now work. It's a lost bit of local history.

When I was a teenager, a friend of mine had a Vox bass. It was a short-scale with a Precision-type body. It also had a missing twelfth fret but I digress.

Any ideas? It was a lovely instrument.
 
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Din Of Win said:
Pardon the ignorance... but what's the difference between a Delta IV and a "Phantom".

I've only ever seen that body shape attributed to a "Vox Phantom".

Is that just the name of the shape... like the others are "Teardrop" basses?
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The Delta IV and the Phantom IV share the same 5-sided body shape but that's about all they have in common other than being made by the same manufacturer Eko (during the later part of the 1960"s) of course.

The Delta IV was designed by Thomas Organ in California and has onboard effects built-in to it. It uses the same neck/headstock as the Constellation IV, Stinger IV, Astro IV, Sidewinder IV, etc models. It also uses the same Ferro-Sonic Hi Output Vox pickups as those models. The Delta IV was only available in white factory finish with dark tortoise shell pickguard. Delta IV's are very hard to come by and generally command a high price.

The Phantom has no onboard effects and was designed in the early 60's by JMI (England). It has the much larger and wider neck with the smaller "paddle shaped" headstock with a black Vox decal logo on it just like the Mark IV Teardrop solid body basses had. The ones that have the "Phantom" logo on them are the early 60's version that were made in the UK. The Phantom IV has 2 Vox standard 4-pole pickups and was available in a number of colour finishes like Red, Black, White and Light Blue. Light Blue were English made.

Hope that helps.

TD
 
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GrumpiusMaximus said:
Funnily enough, the original Vox factory was about a five minute walk from where I now work. It's a lost bit of local history.

When I was a teenager, a friend of mine had a Vox bass. It was a short-scale with a Precision-type body. It also had a missing twelfth fret but I digress.

Any ideas? It was a lovely instrument.
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That would have been Vox Symphonic bass. Its design was loosely based upon that of a Fender Precision.

TD
 
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OK so I have a VOX Bass and I can not find a serial number on it anywhere. I have had the neck taken off and have looked everywhere but I am unable to locate anything. On the back I did notice a chrome cover stamped Japan but not sure if that is the cover or if the bass was from the era coming out of Japan. I have some pictures but I am not computer savy enough to upload them. I can send them to someone to upload on here if that would help.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 

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