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VOX Saito

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https://reverb.com/uk/shop/the-vox-shop-uk

Ooh, these look nice...

VOX Saito TLC Natural image 1

Oh yes. Very nice. That's cool...
VOX Saito JMC Carrot Orange image 1

Good value for money too. 
Oh yeah. I'm inter....WHAT THE FUCK?!?!/?!!?1/1/11?

VOX Saito JMC Carrot Orange image 9

Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.

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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5092
    Oddly, I don’t hate that at all. I have a Vox guitar, Korean not Japanese like these and it’s fabulous and faultless. 

    Can’t see these selling well at £1K though. There just isn’t the demand for Vox branded guitars to support the price, however good they might be. 
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  • guitargeek62guitargeek62 Frets: 3696
    Oooh I quite like those!

    I’d rather see another take on their Virage and SSC/SDC lines though - they had some really interesting features and great concepts.
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  • KittyfriskKittyfrisk Frets: 16332
    It needs the head to be deeper & read  
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  • barnstormbarnstorm Frets: 557
    Oooh I quite like those!

    I’d rather see another take on their Virage and SSC/SDC lines though - they had some really interesting features and great concepts.
    Hard agree. Their guitar-making seems totally directionless. The Virage was the one recent design that felt considered and 'ownable', and they just binned it. Baffling.

    Also baffling: why do they keep using that logo?! It was terrible 60 years ago and looks even worse now.
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  • Rich31kRich31k Frets: 705
    These seem to be made by Saito Guitars. A boutique maker in Tokyo. 

    Not saying they’re necessarily good value for money, but the only one I can see in Europe with a quick google is here:

    https://www.guitarsrebellion.com/en/products/saito-s622cs-fashion-gray-211765

    €2,349 + shipping 

    Saito seems to be a high end maker with positive (but limited) feedback in English. 

    Wonder how they ended up making some guitars with Vox branding. 
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  • BigsbyBigsby Frets: 2770
    IMHO, the headstock is the best bit. Vox always did distinctive shapes, these bodies just look too ordinary. I liked the look of the pointy double cut SDC models, though I've only ever seen photos of them.
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  • barnstormbarnstorm Frets: 557
    Interesting @Rich31k – looks like Saito guitars are distributed through Korg in Japan. Wonder if the bigwigs at Korg were thinking about farming out guitar-making duties to a local business they already had a relationship with? Or maybe it was just some sort of promotional thing?
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  • barnstormbarnstorm Frets: 557
    I see someone's bought the blue super-Strat – wonder if there will be a NGD post here soon?!
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  • tomajohatomajoha Frets: 822
    I like the fact the offset is in ‘carrot orange’, these could some really nice instruments at a good price given the Japanese pedigree 
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  • english_bobenglish_bob Frets: 4817
    edited September 2023
    Rich31k said:

    Wonder how they ended up making some guitars with Vox branding. 
     I guess the Korg connection pointed out by @barnstorm is where it started, but I also guess, based on the fact that these guitars are only on Vox's direct sales shop on Reverb and nowhere else, and that they're all one-offs, that it's a direction Vox ultimately decided not to go in.

    I can see why- all the recent Vox guitar designs at least as far back as the Virage and the SSC/SDCs (and probably all the way back to the Teardrops of the 60s) have been fairly adventurous, whereas (excepting the "Body off Baywatch, Face off Crimewatch" headstock design) these are very tasteful takes on traditional designs.

    Bigsby said:
    IMHO, the headstock is the best bit. Vox always did distinctive shapes, these bodies just look too ordinary. I liked the look of the pointy double cut SDC models, though I've only ever seen photos of them.
    I tried one of the mid-priced 33 series back when they came out and I had about that much money to spend on a new guitar. It was fine, but it felt like a step down in quality compared to the lower end Gibsons and the PRS X series that it was competing with. Maybe I wasn't who that guitar was aimed at.

    Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.

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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    Does the world need another brand selling Telecasters? 

    And why oh why would they put the volume so close to the switch? 
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  • Creed_ClicksCreed_Clicks Frets: 1255
    I like the headstock, but the bodies are same old same old....
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  • english_bobenglish_bob Frets: 4817
    stickyfiddle said:
    Does the world need another brand selling Telecasters? 

    And why oh why would they put the volume so close to the switch? 

    I would guess that a similar conversation happened at Vox HQ. No reason not to make some of the money they spent on prototypes back though.

    Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.

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  • JonathangusJonathangus Frets: 4080
    stickyfiddle said:
    Does the world need another brand selling Telecasters? 

    And why oh why would they put the volume so close to the switch? 
    Because that's what Leo did?
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  • FX_MunkeeFX_Munkee Frets: 2467
    Baffling, considering Vox already have a 6 in line headstock shape that they've used for decades.
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  • ThePrettyDamnedThePrettyDamned Frets: 7416
    Love that colour on the offset 
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    The Yellow Submarine
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  • english_bobenglish_bob Frets: 4817
    FX_Munkee said:
    Baffling, considering Vox already have a 6 in line headstock shape that they've used for decades.

    The one from the old Teardrop and Phantom guitars?

    The VOX Showroom - Vox 50th Anniverasry MkIII Teardrop Guitar

    I don't hate it.

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  • FX_MunkeeFX_Munkee Frets: 2467
    english_bob said:
    FX_Munkee said:
    Baffling, considering Vox already have a 6 in line headstock shape that they've used for decades.

    The one from the old Teardrop and Phantom guitars?

    The VOX Showroom - Vox 50th Anniverasry MkIII Teardrop Guitar

    I don't hate it.

    Yes, that one. They've used it on and off for pretty much ever. Like on my (Matsumoko) Custom 25 from the eighties.

    Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame, you give love a bad name. Not to mention archery tuition.
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  • guitargeek62guitargeek62 Frets: 3696
    @FX_Munkee - the traditional Vox one's horrid though, I'd choose the Saito one over that.


    Going back to the Virage models, look at how nice the hardware on them was, I'd love to get my hands on these for my own builds... I might try to resurrect some of their design language:

     


    They really were beautiful:
     
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  • tomajohatomajoha Frets: 822
    guitargeek62 said:
    @FX_Munkee - the traditional Vox one's horrid though, I'd choose the Saito one over that.


    Going back to the Virage models, look at how nice the hardware on them was, I'd love to get my hands on these for my own builds... I might try to resurrect some of their design language:

     


    They really were beautiful:
     
    And Prince played them on his final tour so extra cool points!
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  • downsideup11downsideup11 Frets: 9
    Don't know why they don't just make proper (modern) versions of the Phantom and Teardrop. Surely they're the only Vox guitars that people might actually want?
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  • StefBStefB Frets: 2139
    edited September 2023
    Don't know why they don't just make proper (modern) versions of the Phantom and Teardrop. Surely they're the only Vox guitars that people might actually want?
    You mean these didn't fly off the shelves like we all thought they would?

     https://imgur.com/a/AiOqfAu 
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