New old Hondo day

[straycat]

Needs some fret work so no biggie do that tomorrow.

[straycat]

Kind of has a Peter Green vibe

[Racerx2k]

Wow, she looks real nice! How does she play and sound?

[Trem]

wow they went the mile on that the binding and everything, nice score eh.

[jgcable]

Is it made out of plywood. I have smashed several of them in the past. Nice tops, plywood bodies.
You can tell if its plywood by removing any of the cavity covers. Also.. they are extremely heavy. With that said... even the plywood bodies models played and sounded great. Hondo was very popular back in the day. They were one of the only companies that made nice copies. They also made some really crappy copies. Yours looks real nice.

[straycat]

No plywood from a closer inspection.The body is a multi piece much like the Gibson pancake bodies of the same time period this one is an early 70's from my research.
Yes its pretty heavy but not too extreme at 10 lbs.The body looks just like mahogany maybe Luan or an Asian form of mahogany.The neck has the same grain as the body.
This from my research this is a MIJ Hondo and not Korean not sure when they changed mfg location maybe when the Hondo II line came out not sure tho.
Heres a pic of the neck pick up route so can see better.You guys tell me what you see.
I sounds really nice very mellow IMO.

[straycat]

Shot of the back of the neck.

[RobRR]

Looks like solid mahogany to me... also looks to be a 1/8" top, alot better than the paper veneers we have today... on $2300+ USA Jacksons none the less.

[Trem]

my first guitar was the hondo rr and it was plywood and heavy, all i knew is it ruled
my friend had the evh striped hondo strat and we both had gorilla amps

[straycat]

Plays great up to the 12 fret then shits out because the last 8 frets are worn down pretty bad so I will replace those give it a level and crown, should be good to go after that.

[jgcable]

Back in the late 70's when we were all playing $99.00 cheeze wiz guitars, one of our rich friends got a Hondo II cherry sunburst Les Paul. yep. It was plywood but it smoked anything we had and he ruled with it. Looked just like Ace's.

[jgcable]

Pics look real good. I bet that guitar is as good if not better than anything stock you could get out of Gibson nowadays.

[straycat]

Not sure about that but its a damn nice guitar.

[DonP]

The tenon looks almost like a long.

They did a very good job copying Gibson down to the pancake bodies. I bet they wished they new better and tried copying a 1958-1960 model.

What pickups?

Go for jumbo frets and make it a shredder.

[Trussrod]

I had one of those when you could still buy them new.