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HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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Might be worth £250 each on a very good day, more likely about £150. They're actually not interestingly crap enough!
(Edit - no I don't think it's a headstock repair, it's just a poorly-matched original scarf joint since the 'Made In Japan' lettering is over the top of it.)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
If I was looking to spend £1200 on a guitar, as someone who does not know vintage guitars well, I'd go to a guitar shop and try some new ones out, maybe just maybe would consider a used model if highly recommended by someone I trusted on here.
But... presumably anyone who wants to spend £1200 on 40yr old guitars will know the territory? So the seller here is essentially hoping for someone daft enough to blind buy something on the off-chance it is worth what they are paying for it?!
Possibly that - although I doubt it, given how enthusiastic the seller is re. his 'collection'...maybe more of a case of crazy over-valuation?
I'm with @ICBM on this - approx. £150 each, tops...
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
I'd rather have one of these which seems more reasonably priced:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/hondo-h-1030-guitar/322750946226?_trkparms=aid=222007&algo=SIM.MBE&ao=2&asc=47510&meid=c7d947ae44ee40919dcca289931b69b9&pid=100005&rk=5&rkt=6&sd=122716279165&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851
Within the last six months, I have had the dubious pleasure of working on two Hondo instruments. One was a momento of its owner's deceased father. The other was a banana masquerading as a P-style Bass.
The eBay vendor has provided a Make Offer option. If enough people send messages, suggesting figures in the region of two fifty to three hundred quid, he might get the hint.
In my opinion, the uses and abuses of the word "mint" in sales descriptions deserves a whole thread to itself.
https://i.imgur.com/BNHhrwz.jpg?1
I cannot decide whether somebody has been using this pickguard as a cutting board or it is a tribute to the Inca lines in the Nazca desert.
The only thing "mint" about it is the colour.
I had one of the typical Les Paul copies with a thin ply arched top over blocks and horribly microphonic single-coil pickups in humbucker casings, which was indeed shit! But I also had a couple of acoustics, a J200 and in particular an Everly Brothers, which were really very nice even though they were still ply.
Some of the more upmarket natural-wood electric models like the one Sassafras posted - while very much of their time, usually a bit heavy and what we would now call characterless sounding - were actually pretty well-made and had top-quality hardware, including DiMarzio pickups.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The several different names that Hondo used over the years do make me wonder if they were aware of their dodgy reputation. Rebranding to "Hondo Professional", "Hondo II" and then "Revival by Hondo" does kind of suggest they constantly wanted to imply that their current range wasn't as bad as the old ones!
He means they were made in the Japanese Mint.....