Hiya, this was my late dad's guitar and it now belongs to your friend who you've restored it for. Can I just say its amazing to see it in its prime again and being played and loved, its very heartwarming! Thank you, you've done an amazing job with it
That's the Hohner headstock and diamond inlay. Good guitars! Seventies, Japanese, pancake, proper top, same weight as a real one, and tonally authentic. I had a Kay which for a moment I thought that was. Lovely!🍀
Interesting stuff! I didn't know Hohner had sold guitars already in the 70's and had thought this happened only later, in the mid to late 80's with their 'Professional' line! 🙂
Hey mighty V! Hohner are a German company that were around when Queen Victoria was still alive... Butvyeah, they started building Japanese electric guitars in the seventies, and were among the first serious European makers to set up shop in Korea. They have made some extremely good instruments over the years, there are a few sleepers with that unfancied name on the headstock... The Steinberger clone springs to mind!🍀
@@blacktoothfox677 - Oh yes! Hohner have been around forever! 😀 Most folks would associate that name with harmonicas, melodicas and similar instruments, though! 🙂 Several of my friends and bandmates had started out on Hohner 'Professional' guitars and basses, not long after those had first been introduced, some others have been collecting them over the past ten years or so 😀 I remember trying the Steinberger bass clone out in a music store, in '88 or '89; Quite cool, but unfortunately its strings sounded dead 😆 The 'Prince' Tele also comes to my mind whenever I hear or read "Hohner guitars" 😊
Yup, looks like a Hohner to me. The truss cover is quite distinctive. I've also seen the odd one without logos so I'm not sure what the story is there. There used to be a website run by a German guy many years back who was right into Hohners. Don't know if it still exists. I also believe some guitars were made in Germany at some point, though I'm not sure which particular models. I have a friend who plays semi pro and is also a bit of a guitar nut. He showed up with a German built Hohner Strat some time back. He was gushing about how he had spied it in a pawn shop and couldn't get his wallet out fast enough. Apparently they are most desirable among those 'in the know'. He played it along side his American Fender and I have to say side by side, without getting into comparing screws etc,. the only thing that told them apart was the logo. Looked the same, wieghed the same, felt the same, and sounded identical.
I am waiting on my fourth Hohner LP style guitar, set to arrive Friday. I have one from Wisconsin with Seymour Duncan PUPs that is remarkable and got one from Germany that is all original. From 1982, I believe. the one coming Friday is a 1977 that was used extensively on stage almost all its life and has been set up. I won't buy anything else. I do have an actual LP but need to make myself take it out once and while. Have a start and a couple of Donner semi-hollow bodies and the wife has said enough is enough. Pushing these through a Fender Princeton Chorus and I'm quite content.
I'd once owned a _Yamato_ Les Paul, made in Japan, which also had fake humbuckers; Must've been quite common back in the 70's! 😆 They'd actually sounded fairly decent, and I only found out after I'd decided to take off the covers for a 'cooler' look 😄 The keys player of my band had bought an Ibanez SG copy with Bigsby-lookalike around the same time to learn the guitar, which had its pick-ups replaced with DiMarzios, and he agreed to sell me the original Super-70's for only 20 bucks! 😁👍 Of course those went straight into the _Yamato_ , which then sounded REALLY great! 😊 PS: I think it also had that 'plywood over blocks' construction of the top, which I'd in hindsight mistaken for early attempts of weight relief 😅 Still, I miss that guitar; I sold it to a good friend before migrating from Germany to NZ, now 20 years ago, who meanwhile spruced it up a bit, too! 😀 www.guitars-and-more.de/gitarren/yamato-70er-japan-les-paul
yeah the fakebuckers do sound great... but they sound like single coils not like the classic les paul sound most folk expect.the bent top sounds like it should be a shit thing..but in reality it if anything makes the guitar sound more alive- they are pretty much more "semi hollow" than thinline teles are....
@@MADMALKO - You won't believe this, but I've never ever played on a Thinline Tele in all of my nearly 53 years of existence! 😄 Same goes for the Jazzmaster and the Jaguar! I'll have to go to a well-stocked music store one day soon to finally change this, albeit not by actually _buying_ one of them 😅 And there was a photo in a posting in a _The Damned_ fb group this morning showing the _Blitzkrieg_ shop on London Road in Glasgow, and I straight away recognised a guitar in its window as one of your 'Buckycasters'! 😀👍 Have a great weekend! 😊
Hiya, this was my late dad's guitar and it now belongs to your friend who you've restored it for. Can I just say its amazing to see it in its prime again and being played and loved, its very heartwarming! Thank you, you've done an amazing job with it
oh thats lovely thanks
It's a lovely looking old thing. Looks very much like my first real guitar!🍀
wow. touching how life can be.
That's the Hohner headstock and diamond inlay.
Good guitars! Seventies, Japanese, pancake, proper top, same weight as a real one, and tonally authentic.
I had a Kay which for a moment I thought that was.
Lovely!🍀
Interesting stuff! I didn't know Hohner had sold guitars already in the 70's and had thought this happened only later, in the mid to late 80's with their 'Professional' line! 🙂
Hey mighty V!
Hohner are a German company that were around when Queen Victoria was still alive...
Butvyeah, they started building Japanese electric guitars in the seventies, and were among the first serious European makers to set up shop in Korea.
They have made some extremely good instruments over the years, there are a few sleepers with that unfancied name on the headstock... The Steinberger clone springs to mind!🍀
@@blacktoothfox677 - Oh yes! Hohner have been around forever! 😀 Most folks would associate that name with harmonicas, melodicas and similar instruments, though! 🙂 Several of my friends and bandmates had started out on Hohner 'Professional' guitars and basses, not long after those had first been introduced, some others have been collecting them over the past ten years or so 😀 I remember trying the Steinberger bass clone out in a music store, in '88 or '89; Quite cool, but unfortunately its strings sounded dead 😆 The 'Prince' Tele also comes to my mind whenever I hear or read "Hohner guitars" 😊
Good review. Definitely better than the one from years ago. Thanks for sharing! 👍🎸😀
haha cheers
Yup, looks like a Hohner to me. The truss cover is quite distinctive. I've also seen the odd one without logos so I'm not sure what the story is there. There used to be a website run by a German guy many years back who was right into Hohners. Don't know if it still exists. I also believe some guitars were made in Germany at some point, though I'm not sure which particular models. I have a friend who plays semi pro and is also a bit of a guitar nut. He showed up with a German built Hohner Strat some time back. He was gushing about how he had spied it in a pawn shop and couldn't get his wallet out fast enough. Apparently they are most desirable among those 'in the know'. He played it along side his American Fender and I have to say side by side, without getting into comparing screws etc,. the only thing that told them apart was the logo. Looked the same, wieghed the same, felt the same, and sounded identical.
Just bought a cherry sunburst one. Hoping it’s decent when it arrives. No branding.
I am waiting on my fourth Hohner LP style guitar, set to arrive Friday. I have one from Wisconsin with Seymour Duncan PUPs that is remarkable and got one from Germany that is all original. From
1982, I believe. the one coming Friday is a 1977 that was used extensively on stage almost all its life and has been set up. I won't buy anything else. I do have an actual LP but need to make myself take it out once and while. Have a start and a couple of Donner semi-hollow bodies and the wife has said enough is enough. Pushing these through a Fender Princeton Chorus and I'm quite content.
Could be a stagg they used that headstock graphic but they usually not very good, so maybe not.
Like all these company's they start out great then the bean vou tees come in...
Must apologise. I've been forgetting to hit like button. Will spend the w/e rectifying this.
I'd once owned a _Yamato_ Les Paul, made in Japan, which also had fake humbuckers; Must've been quite common back in the 70's! 😆 They'd actually sounded fairly decent, and I only found out after I'd decided to take off the covers for a 'cooler' look 😄 The keys player of my band had bought an Ibanez SG copy with Bigsby-lookalike around the same time to learn the guitar, which had its pick-ups replaced with DiMarzios, and he agreed to sell me the original Super-70's for only 20 bucks! 😁👍 Of course those went straight into the _Yamato_ , which then sounded REALLY great! 😊 PS: I think it also had that 'plywood over blocks' construction of the top, which I'd in hindsight mistaken for early attempts of weight relief 😅 Still, I miss that guitar; I sold it to a good friend before migrating from Germany to NZ, now 20 years ago, who meanwhile spruced it up a bit, too! 😀 www.guitars-and-more.de/gitarren/yamato-70er-japan-les-paul
yeah the fakebuckers do sound great... but they sound like single coils not like the classic les paul sound most folk expect.the bent top sounds like it should be a shit thing..but in reality it if anything makes the guitar sound more alive- they are pretty much more "semi hollow" than thinline teles are....
@@MADMALKO - You won't believe this, but I've never ever played on a Thinline Tele in all of my nearly 53 years of existence! 😄 Same goes for the Jazzmaster and the Jaguar! I'll have to go to a well-stocked music store one day soon to finally change this, albeit not by actually _buying_ one of them 😅 And there was a photo in a posting in a _The Damned_ fb group this morning showing the _Blitzkrieg_ shop on London Road in Glasgow, and I straight away recognised a guitar in its window as one of your 'Buckycasters'! 😀👍 Have a great weekend! 😊