Vox Custom 25

I dont know where it was made and I really dont care. I got the VOX by trading a guild songbird hollowbody acoustic electic. I love the VOX. Heavy as a friggen tank, built like a brick **** house. I love it. I dont think that I would be very happy if I had yo replace it with one of those guitar center pieces of ****. I've upgraded mine with demarsio humbuckers and I've also replaced the wiring which made a LOT of difference.

It's a one piece guitar. it has great sustain, remarkable in fact and it can go from Les Paul to Strat in sound. None of this plankity plank sound you get from massed produced guitars these days.

I've had it for ten years and it has never given me a problem. I restored the finish on the hardware of my own volition because it was a little tarnished. other than that it has been my rig.

like I said good, good, good. Buy one of you can find one.l

old guitars are used and hopefully well cared for.

I bought her in a second hand shop in the mid 80's, and it looked and played like a quality piece. Bought it for a snip. The features were the main attraction. Quality Brass nut, nice inlays and finish. Its Japanese made, cos it says so on the back of the head.

Sounds suberb, although for band work/gigging, to really make use of the full range of settings takes some getting used to. The p/u selectors, and taps work as expected, but the 'Out of phase' switch takes some getting used to, and with practice can emulate a variety of Brian May type sounds. Great 'prog rock' guitar, when using the more subtle combinations and a clean sound. Power playing is great. I feel the sustain isnt quite clean enough, and I cant pinpoint what it is. If you knock (like on a door) the neck and then the body, the responding tones are greater than a tone apart, and Im told this is the reason, can someone confirm???

There isnt a single noticable scratch on mine, the woodwork is beautiful, and finish perfect. Playability is good due to the double cutaway, and the neck setting is perfect. Its not a strat for playability, and is a little heavy, but its a good compromise.
Downside: Gold finish wearing off, although new parts are still available if you look hard enough.

I would use this guitar to gig, it looks and sounds great, wont let you down, and its a rarity.

Im not qualified to comment, although I did speak to Vox UK for some background info on the guitar, they didnt have much, but they were reasonably helpful, and did try their best.

Ive been playing for 20 years, and I would miss it.
This guitar has helped develop my style in a range of musical directions, although I don't often get it out now.

I bought the Vox 25 custom new back in the 80's It has 24 frets.
It is simaliar to the others described here doubl;e cut away,neck through body. the body is flat and is two tone brown light in the middle dark on the wings. I was thinking it was maple because it sooo heavy. two soild bar magnet pickups with coil tap swihch and a phase swith

This guitar has great sustain and is good for heavy power chords and lead with distortion.I found the lead single coil setting to be thin sounding and not Fender like but the front coil sounds great for smooth rythum or lead.. you really can't get Fender type sound out of this guitar.I think it more to the Les Paul or Gibson SG sound.

The finish on this guitar is beautiful very pretty wood grain and colors..Unfortunately the gold has worn off much of the hardware.Everything else looks and works pretty much the same as when I bought it..

This is a solid made guitar the only thing is the neck has moved some and tends to choke off the notes higher up the neck..I am thinking of taking it in to a shop for some adjustment..I don't play in a band just use it for personal use and jamming with some friends. I use to have a small midi and four track set up...Al

Never had any use for customer suport

Been playing for about 40 yreas..I was looking at a used Gibson Flying V at the time kind of wish i had got it as it would be worth more today.
The neck through body design it great for the sustain and access up the neck but leaves no options for making any neck adjustment if needed

Japanese Guitar made in the 80's, I bought it way back in 84 when I started gigging. This is a very solid guitar with a straight through maple neck, double cutaway and 24 frets. Double twin humbuckers, not too responsive but replicates an SG sound pretty well. Nice and warm for Jazz work too. Frets not quite jumbo but certainly not Les paul like. The neck is quite a fat piece of wood (compared to my Strat) but reminicient of a Les Paul.

This was my only electric guitar for 10 years, I bought it because I played a lot of hard rock at the time and it was cheaper than a gibson.. and I have never regretted it. It sounds pretty good coupled to my Crate TD 70 tube amp, and it is such a solid guitar that it has a wonderfully warm tone. With better pickups it would be unbeatable. I also spent a spell playing Jazz/fusion, and for the more be-bop type stuff it is a good substitute for a semi acoustic. The humbuickers can switch in to single coil mode and replicate a strat to some extent, just not so tinny..

I bought this new, and have had it set up professionally twice. The action was always a little high and the frets buzz with very light strings. My neck is also slightly twisted, didn't recognise this when I was a newbie, now of course I would. Good for lead work, but a struggle at the 24th.. The one thing about this guitar is that it is very heavy. After a 2 hr gig my shoulder kills me. This is the reason why I swap it in and out for my strat. Also with the slightly higher action it is not bad for slide work.

I used this for 10 years at gigs with no backup, and only once even had a string break on me (my fault).This is a robust and solid guoitar, very reliable and woudl certainly withstand live playing. It has been dropped, hit by projectiles and had beer spilt on it.

Never had to deal with them

Been playing over 20 years, mainly in rock cover bands, also some blues and Jazz. HAven't gigged for a while. I own a strat, and ovation semi and the vox. I have a RD6 effect pedal and a Crate amp. Together this rig can replicate just about anything from Wes Montgomery to Dave Gilmore. The Vox is my fave, but is a little slower than the strat, and is harder to keep wearing throught a gig. I wish it were lighter (I even contemplated routing out a lot of the wood in the body to make it lighter). I have played other more expensive twin humbucker artifacts but I woudl not trade my vox for something 10 times the price. If it were stoled I woudl be very very upset.

I have no idea which year this guitar was made or where. It has 24 frets on a rosewood neck with mother of pearl inlays. It has three humbucker pickups with an active/passive switch for aech and a separate three-way selector switch above the pickups. There are two sets of volume and tone knobs. It has a sort of Gibson SG body shape. The headstock is rectangular with a nice notch at the top. The neck is a 'straight-though', running all the way through the body with two separate pieces glued on the side. I have been told the proper anme for this model is the 'maple custon 24', so I assume the body is maple. It weighs a ton. The bridge is a fixed string-thru type with individual string adjustment, so the harmonics are perfec.

It is a great-sounding guitar. Nice rich warm lows and a sharp attack with the bridge pickup. There is a strange phased zone with the middle selector setting which is quite useful. It is very quiet, no hum at all. It's great fo blues and rhythm

Action is VERY low with little fret rattle. the string spacings and thin neck make this a good guitar for lead work

I've not had a problem with this guitar in ten years. Built like a tank.

I got this second-hand in a guitar shop in Brixton London. So, no guarantee. Vox doesn't have it listed on their site, but that's pretty standard for their '80s guitars.

I ahve been playing for 20 years. This is the best guitar I have played (except for a sixties strat a friend had). If I lost it I would be very upset

The guitar was made in Japan sometime in the 80s...I believe between 1980 and 1985. 24 frets. 3-way pickup selector, two volume knobs, two tone knobs, and a coil-tapping switch. Pickups are two humbuckers, possibly Dimarzio X2Ns. I believe the guitar is solid mahogany, neck-through-body construction. Looks like a Les Paul doublecut I guess, with the ol' teardrop headstock. Transparent finish, has the two-tone look with the blond wood in the middle and the darker wings attached. Some sort of tremelo on there...although the tremelo bar doesn't go all the way in anymore, I gotta get that fixed. String-thru body. Non-locking stock Vox tuners. Pretty big neck, big guitar altogether, very heavy. Bought with Vox case.

I play in a ska band and it is very well suited for it. The guitar has very versatile clean tone (although the bridge pickup has significantly lost some power since I purchased it---probably due to my poor care of it). I don't like the bridge pickup's sound by itself, a bit too thin. I was using the middle setting, but now am using just the neck pickup with a lot of treble on my amp, a Peavey Supreme XL. Capable of very silky, thick tone, lots of mids, very rich and full. The guitar is not very noisy...does feedback when distorted at high volumes, but never while clean. Hums at high volume, though. The guitar can make great thick clean tone and fair distorted tone (my amp isn't too great in the distortion department). Lots of variety with the coil tapping.

I bought it from the Recycler, the set-up was OK, I didn't adjust it then, but am contemplating it now. The action is good, very little buzz if any. The nut at the top has tiny, tiny grooves, which makes it nearly impossible to play with a thick E string, I've had it come out of the groove a few times at shows. No big deal, I just put it right back in and tuned it back up. The guitar isn't great about staying in tune...it's not horrible, but it's not great. Very solid construction otherwise.

This is my main gigging guitar, withstands live playing well, and I play hard. On the other hand, I do often break strings and it usually needs to be retuned every few songs. The bridge shows the only signs of aging on the guitar, it has been tarnished from gold to bronze. The hardware seems like it will last another 20 years. The finish is great, unfortunately the first week I had it, I accidently dropped it on a linoleum floor. A square inch of finish chipped off, thank God that was the only damage. The strap buttons are solid but I won't play without a locking strap. I depend on it greatly, often playing shows without a backup, although that's not too smart. The thing was built like a tank.

The Vox website doesn't show any information for this guitar, I'm sure they would be useless in a support setting. It is, of course, not under warranty and I doubt any replacement parts exist.

I've been playing for about two and a half years. I own a Peavey Supreme XL head, a Crate GX212 combo, a Jackson DS10 (why????), and a couple of acoustics. This guitar started me on a Vox craze, I nearly bought a 60s Bulldog the other day but lost the eBay auction (damn!). If it were stolen, I might cry. This is my only piece of of gear that I really care about, it's my baby. I don't think this guitar could ever be replaced, I'd be lucky to find another for so cheap. At the time of purchase, I was also considering an Epiphone Standard Les Paul. This is the best choice I ever made. At half the price, the Vox blows the Epiphone straight out of the water. I would easily have paid more for this than the Epiphone, lucky I found this deal.

CONTACT ME IF YOU OWN THIS GUITAR!!