Hi folks. I have a really beautiful ES-335/330 type guitar but I can't find the brand anywhere. The logo looks like it was a screw-on, but a long vertical one probably because there's a screw hole at the top of the headstock and then another one down near the truss rod cover. Kinda like a "VOX" logo... but this guitar doesn't look like any Vox or Univox I've seen in any of the catalogs, unless I missed it. Any ideas?
I did write down on a card once that it might be a Voxton. I don't know what made me think that. I'm just looking at the card and it says "330 = Voxton?". I looked on google and most Voxton guitars appear to have a horizontal logo, and not vertical.
Notice the placement of the volume/tone controls. They are completely away from the f-hole. This is not common in most ES copies I've seen which tend to be scattered around the lower opening of the f-hole.
Also, notice the binding is interesting, with that extra dashed line.
Pickups are smaller than humbuckers, about P90 sized, and sound a bit like P90s.
Notice the wood inlay on the tremelo trapeze.
Lastly, the neck heel backplate says "Steel-Reinforced Neck" and then a 370 serial number, and then a sticker that says "Made in Japan". Very Matsumoku, no?
(note: I don't have the twang bar, nor the thumbwheels on the bridge, I actually use a different tunomatic style bridge, the one in the photo is the original, minus the thumbwheels).
I have more pictures if needed.