Hondo Guitar Serial Number Lookup

1. Hondo Guitar Model Numbers

I need some help from someone, who really knows about the old Hondo ll Les Paul copies, made in the period of 1977 to 1983 ( made in Japan at this time). I bought one for $50. It needs a new nut (bone is $40 installed), a set-up with new strings ($20 for neck set up, intonation and string height) and new electronics ( LES Paul rebuild kit from Guitar Electronics is $34 plus shipping).Pickups are DiMarzio humbuckers and are working fine. Roughly, I need to know if this guitar is worth spending $160 bucks on it to get it up and going again. I'm a 25 year experienced player, who is now just playing for fun.

I can afford the upgrades and repairs.The neck is bolt-on and my luthier says the neck and body are OK. The body is tobacco sunburst and visually, the guitar is an 9 on a 1-10 scale.I'd appreciate anyone's opinion, or who can supply some information about the guitar in general, who is familiar with specifically the HONDO ll LES Paul copies.with the bolt on neck.Thank you for your time. Well, I don't know how much this applies, but I got a Hondo II model 732 around Christmas for like $50. It needed a new nut, tuners, and a pickup, but I ended up giving it my first fret job and setting the neck foreward about 1/8 inch due to some intonation issues. I also made a pickguard, refinished the whole thing and added new electronics and GFS Mean 90s.

Hondo Guitar Model Numbers

Nov 21, 2015. The MIK Tokais didn't have serial numbers at all. I can neither prove nor disprove this, but I would certainly assume that Tokai was likely to build their Korean made models at the Samick plant which they had been upgrading before it started making electrics for Hondo (IMC brought Tokai engineers to.

Why did I do all this crap to a $50 guitar? Like you I knew it had potential, and 'good bones' and now I couldn't be happier with it! Hondo made a gajillion LP knockoffs back in the day and some are great and many are crap. Hell, your model sounds better than mine from the get go!All the parts makers got their sea legs modding Japanese seventies guitars, so do your best and have fun. I personally would use it to learn how to do this stuff yourself. You can't make it worse, right?

1. Nov 29, 2018  If your guitar serial number shows you that there is a possibility for more than one year, refer to our fender research guides section to get a more accurate timespan. Chart Number 2 – First two digits followed by a space and then the rest of the digits, starts with 76 or is only the number 500.
2. The Gibson Serial Number Decoder currently supports 6 formats from 4 Factories. For guitars made prior to 1977 use the extended search function. This new function will try to match the serial number against older formats, details required for an exact match are listed in yellow.

So in summation, Hondo made some POS guitars, but Hondo II were pretty good.hat's true and some are more than pretty good i own 2 of those a dc model made by matsumoku, and a genesis model.both set neck guitars and set neck hondo's are quite rare.slimpicker a serialnumber wont help, in the most cases they just made those up, only the production date is sometimes to get out of it.that is if you can find a serialnumber at all, only my uncle mat hondo has a serial number the genesis has no number at all. I had a Japanese made Hondo II strat copy from the same era. It was a 70's style. It needed a bit of work (really needed a fret level), but the quality of woods used and the overal build quality was pretty damn good. The DiMarzio pups sounded fantastic. I gave $70 for it, did a clean up and fret level and got something like $170 out of it.

They are certainly not investment instruments, mainly because of the bad juju associated with the Hondo name. However, the late 70's, early 80's Japanese made stuff can be quite nice.edit to add.maple neck with ash body. But if you have more money than time, I understand, and that's not much money in the grand scheme of things. So go for it!There are people who've been playing 30 years and still can't play that great. Asking the question leads me believe the OP just likes to mess around vs being ready to play proffessionally.The point about doing it himself is a good one especially on a cheap guitar and since it already has the Dimarzios it may be worth the electronics and nut, $25, done by him.I had a Hondo II Strat copy 15 years ago wich I got for virtually nothing.

Plywood and the cheapest parts imaginable. They're pretty much the lowest quality I've seen.