It's VOX! It's What's Happening!

A friend of mine has been buying and restoring electric guitars and amps for a few years, now. He recently sent me a picture of a VOX Super Lynx Deluxe he just picked up:

As you can see, it is pretty trashed. Now, my first "real" guitar as a teenager was a VOX Super Lynx Deluxe. (It replaced a CONRAD solid body that had replaced the SEARS SILVERTONE guitar that got incinerated in a day-after-Christmas house fire. But I digress...)

I have a picture of me playing the VOX box around here somewhere, I just can't find it right now.

What I did find, however, was a 35 year old picture I took for my 11th grade photography class. It is basically bunch of junk that crystallized my High-School obsessions:

Can you spot the Beatles LPs and songbooks? How about the open reel tapes and headphones? Harder to spot is the HARMONY H-440 amp head and 8mm movie projector. Right there in the middle, though, is my VOX Super Lynx Deluxe!

I scanned some higher-quality details for my pal. Here you can see the pickguard and the bridge that are missing from his corpse.

And here is the headstock, showing the tuners with their weird plastic tuning pegs. These might be kind of hard to get exact replacements for. (Oh, yeah, there's my Popeye Spinach Can toy.)

This guitar is long-gone, so I can't wait to see how my friend's restoration job turns out.

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(Here's a mint version in the original case)

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HERE IS AN UPDATE FROM MY FRIEND: "Hi Craig, Here is a shot of the Vox so far. The body is back together and all the hardware is cleaned up and working. Except for some replaced screws everything is original. The fretboard needed to be planed down and the fret slots ended up a bit too shallow to hold the new frets. I whipped up a Jackass jig to press them in place till the glue set. It seems to be working although it will take more tinkering to make the finished job look good. Normaly I would just cut new slots but that would go through the neck binding and that would drive me nuts. Today I will shape and polish the frets then install the new grover repro tunners. If the bridge ever arrives the guitar should be back together and hopefully playing by next week."

Lookin' good, Bill!