VOX S66B Bobcat Bigsby Jet Black

The VOX S66B Bobcat with Bigsby in Jet Black recreates the stunning aesthetic of ‘60s Vox guitars for today’s players. This model combines a stealthy all-black finish with the Bobcat’s classic looks, while changes below the surface dramatically improve playability and tone. Beautifully made and supplied in a hardshell case, the VOX S66B Bobcat Bigsby is a stunning homage to the hallowed original.

The VOX S66B Bobcat Bigsby Jet Black is now available from Merchant City Music, online and in our Glasgow store. We are Glasgow’s longest-established guitar specialist, shipping fast to our customers in the UK, Europe and Worldwide. Every guitar we sell is rigorously checked over and professionally set up, ensuring you receive the best possible example.

VOX BC-S66B-BK Bobcat Guitar with Three Single-Coil Pickups and Bigsby Vibrato - Jet Black

The VOX Bobcat was originally produced during the mid-1960s, epitomising vintage hollow-body style. The Bobcat, unusually for a hollow-body guitar, featured three single-coil pickups. As befitting its revival, Vox have kept the historic design of this guitar unchanged, but brought it up to date for today's music scene by improving playability, controlling acoustic feedback, and raising the performance of the pickups; the result is the Bobcat S66B.

Carrying on the original design
The pickguard and pickup are based on the design of the original VOX Bobcat. The knobs are also made of aluminium as used on the original guitars. The headstock logo reproduces the vertical orientation of the original, projecting the same retro/vintage feel as the models of the 1960s.

Improved playability
The neck joint uses a set neck method that makes it easy to play even on the higher frets. The fixed Tune-o-matic bridge allows the optimal neck angle for easy playing, significantly improving the playability when compared to the original.

Semi-hollow structure that suppresses acoustic feedback even during high-volume performance
The semi-hollow body structure uses a weight-relieved center block, increasing sustain while being resistant to feedback even at high volume levels.

Three single-coil pickups and volume controls for a variety of tones
The VOX Bobcat S66B features three single-coil pickups, a departure from the semi-hollow body guitar norm. These pickups can be used in combination for a wide variety of tones. Each pickup has its own volume control, offering the player six different combinations of sound: neck and bridge, middle and neck, middle and bridge, middle only, neck only and bridge. This lets you enjoy the variations in tone by mixing sound from different pickups. Setting the pickups to the same level gives you a so-called “halftone” sound, and adding a bit of the middle adds a kind of thickness or a humbucker-type feel to the neck or bridge sound.

Bigsby vibrato tailpiece
The Bigsby vibrato tailpiece was first introduced in the 1940’s and has since been popular ever since, used on a huge variety of guitars from a wealth of different brands. A Bigsby bridge allows the player to add that characteristic vibrato sound to their performances.

Open-gear tuning heads made by Grover
The tuning heads are an open-gear type, which are lightweight and transmit the string vibration effectively.