Hohner G3T

I've got 2 of these G3Ts & i totally adore them! 1 i've had for 8 years, the other for about 2. Would buy more but they now seem quite hard to get hold of... They have a fantastic feature-set - extremely versatile pickup arrangement/combinations available (all 3 pups at same time OR any combo of them independently, PLUS coil-tapping options), & has THE BEST trem system in the world for the price (absolutely solid as a rock, mine stay in tune for months on end despite extensive & heavy trem usage). Also, the headless system is extremely quick & easy for string changes - changing strings can be done & re-tuned in literally in 2 mins.
I am a massive fan of the tiny body - its SO comfortable to hold & play, & is nice & light - since having these i cant bear to play big bulky traditional electrics anymore, they're just so cumbersome compared to these lil' crackers!! People say they're hard to get used to but i think that's nonsense - just spend a short while with one & its BLATANTLY such a triumph of ergonomics, & incredibly well-balanced. Neck is quite chunky but strangely comfortable & both my G3Ts have VERY low actions (although i know some folks cant seem to get very low action on theirs).
Gig bag?? supplied ones tend to be V flimsy but Ritter do a really great headless guitar bag that's both cool & sturdy. PS, these guitars are a joy to carry/travel with as they're so small & light (i travel with mine with a miniature battery amp in the gig bag & its the PERFECT compact companion! and this surprising littel setup always amazes & impresses friends!).

I play anything & everything, requiring tones from death metal to jazz & funk. The EMGs supplied are great basic pickups because they are really clean & transparrent, making them very versatile & extremely welcoming to lots of effects & processing (as the pickups themselves won't colour the sound of the effects you're using). However, they were a little 'tame' for my tastes so i whipped 'em out on both my G3Ts & they now have Dimarzio's in them. Now, for me, the G3T will (& often does) blow ANY other guitar i've EVER PLAYED out of the water. The switching system & pickup selection capabilities of this guitar make it the most versatile iv'e ever used. Whatever you want, this can do it in a flash.

All were fine for me. Action on most guitars needs tweaking to personal taste, but the fit & finish on mine were great - those modern-looking black beauties look as cool as can be in my book! No fancy figured maple, but, ahhh, who needs it - its a 200-odd quid cricket bat for god's sake!!

These are totally S O L I D !!! You can drop 'em, mash 'em, crash 'em, etc... they wont break!

Never had to use them - gotta be a good sign, right?!

In my 20 years of playing experience i've had MANY guitars. Ibanez, Fender, Gibson, Yamaha, etc, etc, etc, you name it, i'll have bought in the search for my perfect axe. I even had a Music Man Van Halen signature model for about 11 years which was my absolute pride & joy, but last year i did the unthinkable & sold it. 'WHY?!' u might shout, but it was simply because i never played it any more. Its that simple - i was playing my little Hohner G3T all the time - even more than my 2-&-a-half grand's worth of Music Man! That's how good i think these guitars are - i think my last one i bought for around #200 second hand off ebay. Its now got #150 worth of Dimarzio pickups in it & i've sanded the neck to give it a natural finish. So, for around #350 & half an hour's sanding i've got what i consider to be the best guitar i've ever used & one that can hold its head up right next to anything else out there - perfect action, FANTASTIC trem/tuning method, incrediably versatile pickup switching, & an extremely small/light/comfortable guitar. Critics say these are ugly - if they weren't so f**king narrow minded they would see that they are NOT - this design is the ultimate expression of function over form - every part of this guitar is there only for a purpose, & as a result the purity of this design makes it incredibly beautiful & brilliant.

I bought this new, made in Korea. They seem to have stopped making them (again!) and there were very few to choose from. 24 frets (23 clear of the body!). I bought it in shiny black, which looks a lot more classy than the other options methinks. Usual three pickup configuration (S/S/H) by EMG. Passive volume and tone pot with three individual pickup switches (the Humbucker has a coil tap position). Steinberger licensed tremolo bridge. Nightmare trying to get hold of a gig bag (not supplied) but by chance it fitted perfectly in my tenor sax bag for starters!

I play a whole range of styles from jazz to funk to world music to pop and rock sounds and it handles them all well. I use a Roland GL100 Guitar Driver (twin channel amp simulator) with an SE50 rack Effects Processor going direct to the PA desk in stereo. I use the monitor feed to run a 100W Fender powered floor wedge on stage (i.e. no guitar amp). That covers pretty much all bases for sound options. The GT3 surprised me, being a bit bright/toppy for the settings I use on my other guitars but with a couple of hours tweaking my settings I just loved it - all the way from flat single coil to full distortion HB. Having said that, the pickups felt a little underpowered at first and the middle one is now redundant for me (it sounds muddy and distant the way I'm set up but the combination of the other two more than make up).

Great set up, straight out of the box, fast fluid and funky. No complaints (improved my playing within hours). Don't know why people complain about the bridge, solid as a rock tuning from one day to the next. The tuners are a little tough to turn in small doses but with practice, no complaints. Looks great of course, although the tremelo adjustment warning sticker offends the eye from a playing point of view and is stuck on with some kind of superglue! It's fab though and gets all the right reactions from friends and fans alike.

So far so good. Seems really solid and well constructed. No worries about gigging without a backup (and let's face it, who'd want to lug anything else around after buying something that small!). Could use a larger strap button on the neck heel though (I'd buy one of those strap locks for peace of mind).

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I've played for 25 years on a range of instruments but ration my gigging to carrying one acoustic and one solid body. I use an Ovation Celebrity Deluxe on the acoustic stuff but the GT3 has definitely taken the solid spot - no contest (better than many guitars at 4 or 5 times the price). The carry factor is a huge bonus and I bought it as a backup originally but it's now my main instrument. Amazing value overall.

Ok, you know this guitar because everybody described it: very very little, it's like the original Steinberger L series but it's not a fully graphite instrument but a wood one, beautiful neck throught construction. The neck is a D one, very little and almost perfect. Low action. I bought it used and I need to adjust frets (no change, just polish). This guitar is about 10 years old, now Hohner still produce it but I didn't see a new one. Mine is black, I saw there are white or black old production models and silver or black new production models. It has a very good Steinberger licensed simple trem (it's a solid one, I don't know if nowdays production is still so strong). Configuration: HSS, The humbucker is splittable. One volume control (pull up for split hum), one tone control, three 2 position switches, you can turn on and off every single pickup. I noted that if you turn off all pickup and you split the hummy, you can ear sound, i don't know if it is a defect.... So you have a lot of possible configurations. There is a leg rest, licensed by Steinberger too, and it's very comfortable to play staying on a chair. The guitar is lightweight, you can carry it without problems. I suggest to buy strings 009-042 because if you use a bigger ones the thin neck will bend. It's a limit, I just found La Bella and D'Addario Strings. I prefer La Bella because they are 009-042 (D'addario are 009-046).
The neck is fast, even if it's painted. I prefer satin necks, but this is good.

Very good sound, a full sound. I think you can play everything with this guitar. Mine is little noisy with some effects, I think because of a not so good electric shield. I'm using a Laney TFX1, a Zoom 9150 and a Zoom PS02. I'm searching for a Roland GP18/16 because I had a GP8 a they sound very well (great distorsions). Great with the PS02, I dislike 9150 in some patches because it sounds artificial, but it's a 9150 problem.

I bought it used and I changed strings immediately and adjusted action. Without effort it has now a very low action, just need to finish some frets (they were never changed) near 18, and it will be almost perfect. It's a solid black one, there is not a lot to say about finish or beautifulness of wood. Bridge is perfect and so are the pickups, but I think that the foam rubber under pickup is not a goood choice. Now I substituted the rubber under the middle pickup because it was finished, and I placed two pen springs :-). Now it's fine. Some screw are placed in the limit of the wood, or they are crooked (is it correct.. crooked ?).... I think Hohner should pay more attention in placing screws. But there are no compromised functionality. You can gig with it withiut problems.

As I said I think you can gig with it. The Steinberger Trem is a rock, controls are solid, there aren't unuseful parts. Everything is solid. After years mine some painting was removed from the back (it was the pants belt) and some from the top corner, where you can stand your right arm. Yes, you can depend on it.

I contacted Hohner in Germany by email because I want to buy some replacement parts such as bridge main spring and a new jack. They recalled me by phone some times and they gived me a lot of support. Infact now I have the replacement part, some other replacement parts whithout paying them (some parts of the bridge, springs, screws, etc.). But I'm still using original parts. I would like to change main spring because I were using non correct strings (010-046??), now I'm fine going with 009-042 and the original spring.

I love it. I've got it since 5/2003 but it seems it was with me since 93. For the price you pay (you can buy it new for about 3/400$) it a fantastic value.

on off pick up switches for all pickups- can have all 3 on at once if desired, 24 frets, thru nech maple(?) neck and body, emg passiveselect pups h/s/s,1 tone 1 volume knob, rosewood finger board, fold out leg support, lockable bridge (steinburger licenced), decent gig bag included, the size is a great advantage too, much better features than on many #2000 guitars

this is an excellent guitar, the tuning is very stable thanks to the locking bridge which does work, and gives the option to use the whammy. the bridge isnt as sensitive as a real floyd rose, you cant pull off the whammy bar flutters but ive only been able to do this on real floyd rose bridges anyway, still its stability of tuning is better than all other tremolo bridges. you can downtune all the strings at once using the big screw which changes the whammy spring tension but it doesnt give a even pitch change and you still have to tune with the normal rear tuning screws anyway to get it all tuned properly but overall even though its not accurate using the bigscrew to change tunings it is quicker than just using the tuning screws as on other guitars. sustain is good- better than most guitars. pick ups are either on or off and this gives a good blend of sound. access to all 24 frets is virtually entirely unobstructed- the best access to all frets on any guitar i have ever owned including some that are worth thousands of pounds. you must replace the pickups though, the emgs are ok but nothing like as good as proper pickups, i went for the excellent mastertone spa in the bridge, duncan hotrails mid position and shadow twin rails in the neck which is actually very good not cheap sounding at all, the only one i regret is the duncan hotrails which is mushy and unclear sounding and too expensive. ive changed the wiring too so the volume is the back knob and the tone the front this is because i use the volume more often than tone and one of the bad design feature of this guitar is the knob under the bridge pickup gets in the way so i also took the actual knob itself off that knob to leave the bit of metal underneath which now doesnt get in the way at all. soundwise i believe that this comes 95% from the pick ups not the guitar itself anyway thats why i went for the mastertone spa as its high output which would cover any thin sound from lack of body material which when you play with distortion isnt noticable. the sound with the mastertone spa is excellent and a very good match for this (and other guitars) guitar if you like to play heavier stuff.

one great thing about the bridge is you can replace the knife edges (as the screw in) for the tremolo for a few pounds so the bridge will never wear out, that gave me alot of piece of mind.
the neck is quite thick like a lp but i got use it it quickly.
not the best action in the world this is probably the down point of the guitar, but once set up right is pretty ok, i still cant get a really low action between the strings and frets though.
some frets dont ring out as clearly as others, but the advantages of this guitar (thru neck, sustain, bridge, pickup configuration, size) outweigh the negative factors by along way.
its well balanced when standing up and strings have a long life - a great deal longer than on regular floyd rose guitars, ive had the same strings on for 6 months without one breaking and i play for about 1 hour or more a day.

very strong and stablely tuned, big strap bottons no probs with hardware at all and at this price its expendable as long as u keep the pups. would use without a backup.

uk distributer was good, (some place in swansea or something) they took some knife edges off another guitar and sold them to me for a few pounds, excellent.

ive been playing 10 years and owned much more expensive guitars (#2000+) and this is the one i always play now. under distortion the size of body giving a thin tone is a nonissue but ive never tested it clean- i really dont think its much different to a full bodied guitar ive youve got a good pup in it. once youve change the pups (i cant reccommend the master tone spa highly enough for heavy music), set the action up right and taken off that annoying knob under the strings that gets in the way this is pretty much as good a guitar as you can get.
i could have any guitar i want but after having and trying many others the g3t is my choice, u dont have to spend loads to get a good guitar just as long as it stay in tune well. plays well and you have good pickups and the g3t forfills all of those and with loads of other features too, plus you wont be worried about scratching the paintwork or anything at the price it sells for.

Como yo no tengo ni puta idea de ingles lo cuento en spanish...

Nueva. Cuerpo y mastil que atraviesa el cuerpo de arce. tiene 3 pastillas, 2 simples y una doble EMG select(barata pero suenan bastante bien). No tiene pala y el cuerpo es peque?o, ideal para viajes o llevartela a donde sea para practicar (cuando digo donde sea es donde sea.. ya me entiendes). tiene 3 interruptores encendido y apagado, uno para cada pastilla. no tiene push/pull en el control de tono. las de ahora tienen el selector de pastilla simple para la humbucker del puente el el interruptor con tres posiciones: incendio apagado y simple.
el puente es licencia Steinberger y no puede ser mejor... puedes ponerlo bloqueado o como si fuera uno flotante con solo mover una palanquita (de puta madre). y la afinacion de la guitarra es perfecta.
diapason palorrosa con 24 trastes.
hecha en Korea.

Es abrumadora la cantidad de posibilidades de eleccion de pastilla y sonidos que puede sacar la guitarra. que mas se puede pedir.

el ajuste(set-up) no estaba bien de fabrica y los manuales son 2 hojas en ingles sin una buena explicacion. Busque en internet para arreglar el ajuste del puente y encontre esta pagina web:

http://www.steinbergerworld.com/Gbridges.htm

la ajuste y ahora esta perfecta.

llevo con ella 2 semanas.... pero parece buena.
ya os contare...

nada que decir...
la pagina web de hohner un puta mierda

DE PUTA MADRE TIO !!!! ...

si me la roban, mato al tio cabron que me la quite... y por supuesto me compro otra.

It was made in Taiwan and I had it specially ordered into the country. It features two excellent sounding single coil EMGs and a Humbucking EMG. This thing has no head on top because it uses the steinberger system. It is the most amazing system I've ever used or seen. The tremolo wouldn't kick out of tune if I used it as a trampoline all day.

Gives a very good sound. Like mentioned above, it is very good for bar heavy people which is a very good effect in rock guitar solos.

It takes a little getting used to with this weird body shape but it only takes a week or two and it will be your #1 guitar. Even if you already have a $4000 guitar. I think my neck might be a little off but not too noticeable.

I would never take a back-up with me if this was my first axe on a gig. It is extremely solid and everything is mounted with such strength on the body. A broken string is extremely rare on this guitar unlike my previous guitar where I would break a string every 10 days.

It took a little long for my guitar to come (3 months) , but then again, I had it specially ordered right off the production line from Taiwan.

If this thing got stolen, I would beat the guy that stole it off me and get it back. Otherwise I would get a new one.

Dunna when made. Its 24 frets, neck thru, mahogany body, rosewood fretboard, black finish. 1 vol, 1 tone with push pull function. 3 on/off switches for ur passive pickups. There a tiny electronic unit called "vintage tone" inside the electronics cavity. Got numerous wires going from and to it. It's activated by the push pull pot, wich also switches the bridge humbucker to single coil. When activated i can't really turn off the elements, somehow their signal leakes to the output. But phaps that was the meaning of the cirquit. Got a steinberger licensed tremblock with lock. 2 ball ended system. Switch a string in 20 secs. Came with the original case.

Fits my style just perfectly. I play all kinds a stuff. mostly with a choir. I find the humbucker a little weak for metal. Not noisy at all. Very strat sound. Can sound pretty bright. Very much variety. I really liked the sound. But am not over enthousiastic bout the humbucker. Phaps i'll put in a EMG SA/SA/89 set in it. If i can find room for a battery. Overall, i'm still amazed.

I cant set the action really low, but i'm not really good with setting action. Tho, it's a breeze adjusting all things on this unit. Very accessable. is looking very good. Plays really well in standing position. Perfect balance. U can make any angle u like with this paddle. At ur lap it aint such a queen to caress, seems to make u sit in very strange and tensionable position. Great access to the highest frets.

well, its second hand. so it got some dents, but evrything still works perfect i thing. So i'll be using this without backup. There hard to find anyway.

never tried them.

Well, this is quite something. I must travel a lot and this is a so very easy to take along. This is heaven for me.

Korea made copy of the 80's cricket bat guitar, 24Frets. Neck thru design / rosewood fretboard, One tone, one volume control, H/S/S pickup configuration
Came with passive EMG Select pickups (Branded "Hohner" but are EMG), individual selector switches which is a pretty cool function allowing non traditional pickup combinations. Humbucker coil tap via a push pull tone pot.

Steinberger "R Trem" bridge which can lock. AMAZINGLY stable!!!. I never need to retune my guitar. I tune it once and it stays in tune nearly always. After a few weeks of hammering on the guitar i check the tuning its just a puny little bit off the scale, nearly indetectable change in pitch. Also i hate floyd rose so much that i had to go on a trek around the whole of my city for a decent guitar. but the whole of hong kong is dominated by floyd rose tremolo guitars, and i don't like hard tail strats either. The tuning system designed by steinberger solved all the tuning problems... and also looks cool

I bought the guitar in Hong Kong, it didn't come with a gig bag. I went on a huge adventure around the whole of Hong Kong to find a bag. I actually went to all the music shops, sport shops for suitable bags, even went to chinese musical intrument shops. Yet still couldn't find anything. Even the air-gun shops didn't sell a bag that fits the guitar properly. Luckily just before i decided to order a bag of the internet, i stubled across a "Rockbag" bag at a local music shop, it was probably the last and only one in HK, and made in china, but was extremely extremely good despite it costing me only US$8. They should sell the guitar along with the bag because its such a hassle to get one, and bags are necessities anyway.

The strap buttons became a problem for me. The fact that the guitar is so small created that problem that the guitar strap kept on scraping against my nipple ring (which obviously hurt). So i decided to move one of the buttons from behind the bridge to the side of the guitar. So the strap wasn't hanging from teh back of the guitar anymore, this resolved the problem of the strap scraping against my nipple. but then the centre of gravity of the guitar was messed up. in the end i used the strap button on the back of the guitar but decided to change my posture. This was a bit annoying because it made me less mobile. I don't blame steinberger or hohner. its really my fault for having body piercings to begin with

The guitar also came with the crappiest lead i've ever seen in my life. I now use it to tie things together The manual was brief with interesting typos.

Overall a steinberger guitar has always been my dream guitar. it came with everything that i expected...except the bag, which gave me lots of trouble so i'd give it a 9

I play everything from classical stuff to extreme stuff. now focusing more on black metal and experimental electronic rock

The EMG select pickups were rather weak and muddy. the humbucker was louder than the single coils that it wasn't sensible to change between them during a song. In the end i changed the humbucker to a Dimarzio Super Distortion, everything was solved, the tone improved. But it meant that the volume difference between the single coils and the humbucker became greater. So i now never use the Singles. But overall the stock pickups are not bad for its price. i now rewired the unused humbucker to make weird homemade instruments

For playing live i keep eveything simple and only use a DOD deathmetal distortion. With my humbucker i get a nice warm clean tone and also get mentally agressive distortion from this thing.
At home and in studios i use a Korg AX1000, really the guitar does make a difference, i also have several other crappier guitars and man does everything sound better with the steinberger. I also tried the same setup with an ibanez 470, it sounded like shit. so for sound i'd give it a 10, but only a 7 if i didn't change the pickups

action was perfect. i am fussy about action and i alway fuss about the action on my friend's guitars. strangely enough the guitar was set perfectly when i bought it

I needed to treak with the intonation though, but that was simple

i like the thinner frets on this guitar. i don't really like jumbo frets, it makes guitar playing rather clumsy for me

The paint finishing was well done, i didn't see any problems

overall there were no problems

Don't look at it thinking that it will break in no time. its damn sturdy. maybe i can even play cricket with it. i can play live with it wihtout worrying about it messing up. the tuning is so stable that i sometimes enter a show without tuning the damn thing. I just need to worry about buying strings, but now Daddario manufacture strings, so it has solved the problem. Broken strings are replaced pretty easily

I use the cheap dunlop straplocks that go on top of the strap buttons, so i think i won't encounter any problems

The hardware looks like it will last. Nothing seems to be exposed so i doubt would rust easily

never contacted the company

really i am a drummer, and drummed for many bands
but i also play guitar, bass keyboards and i am also into mixing electronic music. I have played guitar for around 6 or 7 years now
I own a whole bunch of crappy cheap guitars, but i am familar with guitar overall because i borrow guitars a lot before

If it were stolen id get one immediately
my favourite feature is the R Trem, its so stable. also the cool shape

It looks like i'm now a hardcore steinberger fan. i think for the rest of my life i'll only buy steinberger type instruments. my next plan is to but a doubleneck steinberger, or a steinberger bass

when buying this guitar i compared it with everything else in the shops, but still decided this was the best.

All my guitarist friends now envy me, they had bought guitars of higher price, and now they discover that mine is better. (too late for them because i bought the last one available in HK)

I think steinberger should expand their product range. Since nowdays we only get crappy products. And steinberger seems to have the best innovative, practical quality instruments

This is an outstanding guitar. Black headless steinberger copy with H/S/S configuration. Made in Korea.

The Transtrem tremolo is beyond belief. I can't understand why people dig Floyd Rose types. The must be completely ignorant about Transtrem tremolos. I make divebombs such that the strings lie flat on the fretboard and they come back in tune!!! The Transtrem tremolo makes it possible to tune the complete guitar down to A in 2 or 3 seconds! Changing a string takes at most 30 seconds and the whole tremolo unit can be locked when not in use.
Tuners are excellent.

The stock pickups are a little bit weak. I replaced them for a used set Tom Anderson passive pickups I happen to find and that really made a difference. So a 10 out 10 for now. A 5 out 10 for the stock pickups, though the stock pickups have many usefull combinations.

I bought the guitar used and the set-up was completely ruined when I changed the strings since the previous owner didn't locked the saddles (with the small bold on one side of the tremolo unit). As a consequence I had to intonate the the guitar again. But the guitar is very well-thought designed and adjusting action and intonation is a piece of cake with this guitar.

Finish holds equal par with my american strat.

This guitar is build to last. High quality components. I certainly would gig with it (especially since strings can be changed easily and very quick).

I am not sure (never tried contacting Hohner) but I suspect it almost next to useless. There is hardly information on the internet about this guitar. I wouldn't even know who to turn to in my country. Sofar customer support wasn't necessary anyway.

This is my 8th electric guitar I own or have owned and played many more guitars as well. Play for 15 years. I wish however that I had started with this guitar. It has a very comfortable (Gibson-like) neck. Very fast too. My main guitar is a Fender Paisley Telecaster. I prefer it slightly over the G3T because it has more soul. This guitar however is the ideal backup and/or travel guitar. I use it very often in my homestudio too where I have limited space. Very handy. Don't let the uncool and 'nerd'ish look of the guitar turn you away. After I changed the pickups I have a better guitar than my MIA Fender strat with stock pu's for less money. Some more colours to choose from would be nice though. In short: this is an excellent designed and build guitar.
I 've played many guitars and never thought I would find a guitar that I like almost as good as my thrustworthy telecaster. This guitar however completely turned me on. It is probably the last one I would expect to end up with.

Bought this guitar two years ago. as a standard G3T. with all the standard features. Came with a gig-bag - fine for the back of the car, but not for the hold of a plane - since had a proper flight case made for it.

Sound is okay as a standard guitar - pickups are a bit weak, BUT - and this is pretty important - i added a Roland GK2a pickup to go with my VG88 and this guitar is just a dream for it. In conjunction with the VG88, it becomes the ultimate travel guitar - why? Cos ican take this guitar, the VG88 and a pair of multimedia speakers and get any (and I mean any) sound, from thrash metal to beautiful acoustic sounds.

Guitar build quality was fine - no complaints considering the price. Only thing I dont like is the trem and that's cos my idea of a trem is one that can be dive bombed seriously and let go - this makes one hell of a clank and then goes out of tune - oops!

Guitar is really very well made and i cant fault it overall. Strap wouldn't come off even if a freight train tried to pull it off.

Never dealt with customer support

Played for 34 years, own a Jackson RR1, Line 6 combo, VG88 and lots of other musical gadgets. If this guitar was nicked - I'd first of all killthe thief and then replace it - possibly with a real Steinberger - I am so impressed with the shape - it's so comfortable to play, standing, sitting and most importantly slouching!