Hohner L 59

All this stuff is covered in the previous posts. Archtop laminated. 5-ply I think. Gloss finish, transparent, natural wood finish, zebra grain, two piece top, but niecely matched. Les Paul all the way, but on the petite side. Thin neck (don't know scale). Thin body, but still heavy. Korean made. Nice tuners. Extra nice inlay on the headboard. Looks really good from a moderate distance.

Full, deep humbucker sound. Lots of overtones. Sustain is great. Sound swells nicely. Very smooth even through my electronic Laney GC-50A. Great lows, well defined. Total jazz sound. Very little highs and I've tried everything to squeeze a little more--light gauge strings, thin pick, tilted pickups. No bite for rock and roll. Can get better balance from the EQ on my effects box. Still, sweet sound with lots of interest. I'm shopping around for new pickups, though. The instrument is worth it.

Guitar set-up isn't much of a concern for me. Adjusting the neck, bridge, pick-ups, strings... well, that's just part of playing an electric guitar. Frets were poorly filed, bridge was a little loose and contributed to some string buzz, some extraneous glue at the neck joint. Hardware is good quality. The instrument has been around and the pots are in good shape and no rust. It's not solid--top and back are glued on. Interesting "routing" job... they saved some work by leaving channels from the pieces pressed together. It does make it easier to run wire. The pots are small--they look like the 250k strat pots. Huge amount of room in the "electronics compartment". Good pickup switch, very quiet.

Good and solid. I just hope the body pieces don't decide to start coming apart at some point.

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I've been playing guitar for 20 years, but just picked up the electric a year ago. I've purchased several electrics since then. I had a different les paul copy but it got stolen. I bought the hohner to replace it. The body is not as solid, but the overall look and sound is equal or better. It plays great, very fast and smooth action. If it were stolen I'd replace it with a les paul style guitar, not necessarily a Hohner. I own a couple of strat style guitars, but they can't produce the beautiful sound and harmonics of the les paul. Strats are more fun, though. For one thing, they're not as heavy. Bright tone gets you over the drummer and organ player with greater ease. I love the harmonics and full body of this guitar. I love the way it shakes the house with lows. I love the beautiful inlay work. I love the feel of a quality wood musical instrument.

This guitar is actually a model LT 59, differing from the L 59 only in that it has a trem system. Otherwise, its design is exactly like a Les Paul Custom, the quality of hardware on a par with an Epiphone, rather than a Gibson.

When I got it, used, the guitar sounded very bassy and very muddy. I don't know what the pickups were, but the bridge was a bit better than the neck (even given the difference in sound that the different positions provides); I moved the bridge pickup to the neck position and had a Pearly Gates humbucker put in the bridge position. The sound now is vastly improved, but the lows are still very prominant--in any chord involving the low E string, the lows dominate everything else. The brightest sound from this guitar is none too bright. Mid-range sounds, though, are great.

This guitar plays extremely well, better than most "real" Les Pauls I've played. It looks great, too, with no flaws that I've discovered. Looks just like a Les Paul, plays just like a Les Paul--if it had a brighter sound, it would be a great guitar.

Seems solid as a rock, although the strap buttons were tiny, so I put on lockinig buttons.

Overall, this is a decent guitar and a great value for what I paid for it. If it were stolen, it would be replacable but only for a much greater cost.

An exact lespaul copy. Two volumes, two tones, threeway selector, tune-o-matic bridge, two humbuckers, and a glued in neck The guitar is cherry sunburst with a laminated top and sides. It also has twentytwo frets with ivory block inlay. I'm not sure what wood it's made of, or what year it was made, but it looks and feels like a les.

The guitar has a big full rich sound, even with the stock pickups. I play heavymetal through a MesaBoogie .50 caliber, and it sounds great.

The finish, the frets, the neck, everything was perfect. The nutpiece was plastic, so I changed it for bone.

I play it live alot. The hardware is great.

Never talked to them.

I bought this guitar used at a great price. When I first saw it, the finish really caught my eye. I ran it through a couple of amps, and loved it. It looks great and sounds great. When I asked the guy how much it was, he said how about $250.00 dollars. After that my money jumped out of my pocket. I love this guitar and think it sounds as good as a lespaul. I would hunt the guy down if it got stolen, because they don't make them anymore, and I will probaly never find a deal like this again.