Hohner L 75

I know the bloke I bought mine off had changed the tuners (though not to particularly good ones - I will change them again) but I'm not sure how much else he has done. Assuming the rest is original, its mostly what other people have mentioned. Unusual looking finish turns a few heads.

I gave this a seven because I've not really stretched it. mostly I've been playing through practise amps as a mild Indy rock/acoustic (think libertines). That said, the tone is excelent and I've had no problems with the pickups at this level.

asside from a few minor knocks, which kind of come with the age, Its very hard to fault it. The actions good, everything is well fitted, nothing's loose or rattles. The only thing I can fault is that the pickup selector is a bit wobbly.

Well, good old fashioned parcelforce managed to drop mine on its strap button, causing a reasonable amount of damage to it, but not anyway near as much as you'd expect given the wieght of the thing. built like a tank. use it on a gig without backup? I'd use it to break rocks without a backup, paddle down the nile concussing crocodiles without backup and THEN gig without backup.

No idea.

basically, If you can show me a guitar as good for anything near the price I paid for it i'll be very very surprised. I prefer it to some guitars I've tried with pricetags seven or eight times the size. Probably only going to get better (it certainally wont break...) If you can find one buy it. I figure that by the time i've sorted its minor faults It will have cost me about ??120.

Brown woodgrain Les Paul copy. 2 humbucker pickups, 3 way switch, bolt on neck.

I play classic rock and blues and this guitar suits my style very well. My sons play metal and they like it also. This guitar sounds great acoustically the sign of a good guitar. The original pickups gave a lot of feedback so I changed them with Wilkinson PAF humbuckers and now I have a great sounding guitar.

I was walking down the road one day and spotted an Epiphone guitar case laying on the curb with some other things. I asked the lady if she was throwing the case out, eventually she said that I could have it and there was also a guitar in the case. When I got it home I opened the case to find this guitar. The set up was terrible so I adjusted the truss rod and bridge then changed the strings. This guitar now plays great and sounds the same. The finish is also very pleasing but I'm changing the plastics from cream to black(just a personal preference).

This guitar must be durable it was made some 17 years ago and is a nice instrument. As for reliability I believe it has already stood the test of time.

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I have been playing guitar off and on for 30 + years mostly rock and blues. I got this guitar for free so the price was right. If it were lost or stolen I think that I would probably replace it with something else.

If you love Les Pauls but can't afford one, then the L75 is the way to go. Got mine in about 1990 or so. It's completely stock. I haven't done a thing to it in 14 years and it only plays better than the day I got it. It's a dark woodgrain finish with cream pickups and pickguard.

rich, fat, bluesy. I can't say enough about this guitar's bottom end and midrange. I play through a Crate GLX212 with 16 onboard effects and an Ibanez chorus stomp box for a church band and the low end sounds are vibrating the drummer's snare wires. It's a little lacking on the high end though.

The guitar came well set up and I really haven't had to tweak it too much. The action is just a tad too high at the high end of the neck but it overall has the action, fit and finish of a Gibson Les Paul. If you didn't look at the headstock, you'd think you were holding a Gibson.

Not a problem in 14 years. Nuff Said? It has a small nick in the back of the neck, but that was my fault! A wipe with a soft rag across the body and it's performance ready. Service after service.

Never dealt with the company directly.

I began with a harmony acoustic when I was 8 years old. When I bought the L75 the guy at the music store steered me away from a LP to this guitar. I'm glad he did. I love the guitar and I can hardly think of anything bad to say about it.

It has 2 volumes and 2 tones and a 3 way switch from which you can go in Treble, Neutral and Rhythm modes. This is ordinary but pretty nice. I'm not really a "material" guitarist so i cannot use specific terme. But everyy features is pretty okay on that guitar.

The sound is wonderful! I play a lot of different styles (punk, rock, alternative, psychedelic, classical and this guitar always sounds perfect.
My friend told me that it sounds exactly similar to a gibson les paul.
But as everyone says, the problems is the original pick-ups. You need to change them cause on high distortion, high effets or high volume the guitar squeals too much. And as someone said here, this makes you wanna smash the guitar up.

It's a second-handed guitar. The guitar is still impeccable. The guy had it for 10 years and it has no scratch on it and everything is perfect. The guitar is black and brown, wonderful.

Built like a tank!

I don't know but i think this company is bankrupted. At least, the section which made this guitar.

This is my second guitar and i'm sure it will last a long long time.
The only thing you have to do is to change the original pickups.
Perfect guitar for everyone.

Same as the rest, nothing fancy. Basically the same as a Gibston Les Paul with 3 way switch.

The guitar sounds wonderful on low and medium level distortion, possibly the same or better than a Gibson. However, for my style of music(Metal) on high level the uncontrolled feedback is terrible. That is actually why I went to this site, to see if others had the same problem, and everyone does. Needs new pickups. For metal, the original ones will not do.

Action, Fit and Finish is amazing. My uncle has a Gibson Les Paul and in my opinion, the Hohner felt beter and had the same, if not better finish. I think that this guitar was well built. When you play on it, you dont feel aukward. It kinda fits perfectly. No flaws at all. This opinion is probably amplified by the fact that I got the guitar in mint condition.

It is built like tank. Very well built and the finish will last for decades to come. The stap buttons are very solid. The only reason why I would use a backup in a gig is if a string broke, because I tend to punish the strings quite bad. But, string aside, I would not need a backup guitar. The only thing that has happened to the guitar is that the 3 way switch has warn and does not click in to place sometimes. And the plastic plate where you put your cord into the guitar broke, but I replaced it with a nice stainless steel one.

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I have been playing for 5 years and play metal / hard rock. Metallica,Black Sabbath,Iron Maden,Pantera,Guns 'n Roses, etc. I own a Boss ME30 multfx, Boss MT-2 Metal Zone, Jim Dunlop Cry Baby and a 1970 something Heath 2 x 60watt solid state amp.

I am from South Africa, male and 22 years old. I am going to change the original pickups because the feedback terribly. But on the whole, I think it is a wonderful guitar. I would recomend it.

Les Paul style

Its unamplified tone is not that bad.
I've played two L-75s in my life. The first was original, I guess. Its pikcups lacked everything. They sounded like the tone knobs where all the way down. Absolutely no trebles! It's amazing how bad it was...
The other one is highly modificated, the neck PU was replaced with a single coil (I guess something from a cheap strat copy) and the bridge was rewound I guess (I don't know these modifications were made by the previous owner). It sounds amazingly good!

It is not really comfortable. I don't like its feeling. Perhaps it is because I don't really like the Les Paul guitars as they are. I only like their tone and outlook... but I guess, noone cares about this :-)

Not a bad guitar if you replace some stuff (PUs needs to be changed). It can be even better than an Epiphone. If you can get a L-75 well under the cost of an Epiphone, why not?

Asian LesPaul copy.
The facts:
When purchased new (1st owner) the guitar had a "made in japan" sticker that I eventually removed. Paid ~350$ CDN at steeve's music store in ottawa. 22 frets. Plywood contruction for body with bolted neck, standard lespaul electronic configuration. Satin black finish with chrome hardware. Mother of plastic inlays.
The opinions:
Extra cheap tuners. OK bridge/tailpiece. Inadequate pickups. Very nice fit&finish. Extra good playability.

Original pickups were too prone to uncontrolled feedback. If you toned down, you could get a somewhat controllable feedback (the edge kind of thing) but the sound wasn't there. It did not take me too much time to change installed pickups. Went for dimarzio's wich gave a more balanced sound. Can't tell you how it originally sounded tonewise since it was a while back and i've had it set-up like this for years. Now gives an very bluesy tone with reasonable sustain and resonance. I actually prefer it to a true gibson's sound. I dunno why or how but that plywood assembly really vibes... Changed electronics 2 years ago (pots/wires). (Modified circuit now gives me crazy tones on neck p-u.)

Action was originally extra-low. Got sick of it and hightened it to ~3mm with .11 strings for a stronger tone. Bolted neck eventually got loose and had some sort of cracking sound when neck was used as vibrato element (pete townsend style) Fixed this with gluing neck to body and filling bolt holes with sawdust & glue the tightening the lot & adjusting neck rod. As mentionned tuners were a pain. Changed them to some fancy german-made tuners I paid 100$ for & changed nut -> Quite stable tuning from then on.

Dropped it a few times/hit cymbals/whacked amp cabinets. I gave this guitar quite a bit of servicing and it has been through hard times. Changed Tuners, pickups, nut, moved the bridge saddle as adjustment was maxed out, strap buttons ripped out/re-installed. (body's wood is poor quality) Switch is still good. Neck is still outstanding, finish is still near perfect. Through all of it this guitar is still one of my favorites and you feel like servicing it (that says alot!) I'm now looking for a hohner L59 (real wood!)

Never tried it...

I've been playing since I heard Hendrix's star spangled banner at woodstock 12-13 years ago. Have a bunch of other acoustics (12str lys, citation, ...) have had my hand on a few cheap electrics, let them go kept this one. It's a steady player and you don't feel paranoid gigging with it. Borrowed a gibson les paul standard from the 70's (sung like a diamond! but way overpriced...) Looking for a wooden hohner now.
Ampwise -> Garnet rebel through celestion greenbacks, fender princeton.

Made in themid 80's i guess, 3 way switch etc.

I bought this guitar new in the 80's and only used it at home since I never played in a band.
When I did start to play in a band it turned out to be useless because of the feedback of the original pickups. I replaced them with a Dimarzio Evolution wich obviously solved the feedback problem, it sounds great now.

What I love most about this guitar is the neck, it very slim (especially compared to my Ibanez RG570!) wich suits my rather small hands fine.

Like others said its been build like a tank.
One day far far from now when we are all long gone, other species that visits earth wil find my guitar...

Besides this guitar I have the mentioned RG570, and a Yamaha R121.
I play on every amp build after the invention of electricity.

Completely original apart I replaced the pickups about two years ago coz the old ones started to squeel too much.
I use Seymour Duncan pick ups now and they howl like a bitch on heat.
It's black with mother of pearl inlays on the head body and fretboard
everything alse is just as I bought it from new 15 years ago.
It ways a ton so then it's real wood not MFI shit and for the #175 my old man bought it for back then was a really great buy and I will never part with .... god forbid the unsuspecting fool that ever picks it up trying to be clever..... they will die very soon after.

Before I changed the pickups it was just the average then with the Seymour Duncans they made a great difference with out the squeeling.
All beit now with the coming of Line 6 guitar port the sound isn't such a great deal but all the same it still gives a fantastic tone through the Marshall valvestate.
I go on and off but will allways return to my L75 and when I do I'm amazed that it never loses that great tone.

A few of the frets needed work and I had a top guy take it in for a couple of day's(this guy actually builds them for top artists believe or not)and he did the work ,the action after that was tops.
So I would have to say the factory setting weren't brilliant but still good for the price and if your serious about this guitar get it to someone who knows what their doing ..... don't do yourself if you don't know how !

I've done alot with this guitar and it has with stood so much of my shit and has allways been reliable I can't fault it.

Never needed to .

Ok now I might sound like an old fart but I am only 28 and I've been playing for around 17 years .I started on a AXE from the Kerrang! magazine and that got me started copying Metallica riffs but it was really shit so then I got L75 ...... good choice.
I had a B.C.Rich warlock ...... that was shit.
I also have a Aria Pro magna ....it's alright but I've gone back to the L75 .The Aria is my back up just in case that bloody string goes but even then I will want the Hohner straight away.
Anyone who say's that this guitar is rubbish needs their heads checking and obviously does not appreciate it.. if you don't want I'll have it before you destoy it...
I think these guitars will be worth money in years to come allthough not many artists use that doesn't mean anything there great.

Made in 1987 (i think) les paul copy... Blah blah.

Shockingly, (considering its sound) its made of plywood (possibly mahogany & something else) with a hollow laminated top. Got it in 1995, it's been sanded down from black (and i was very surprised to find nicely bookmatched grain) and resprayed with car paint 3 or 4 times. It's now matt black, which turned heads until gibbo brought out their gothic series. Now people think i copied them, doh!

Makes people i've known with expensive guitars look a bit sick. And then go, "Ah, well i don't like Les pauls anyway..."

I reckon the pickups were nasty raspy when it was new. Now they're 16 years old, they've mellowed to fat and rich, but LOUD!

Grunts like a bar steward, can also do a passable acoustic impression with some nice EQ and reverb. Does jazzy clean, not too good at fizzy scooped. Feeds back without squealing except on <i>really</i> high gain loud fizzzy metal amps. Bluesey, White Stripes, Load-era metallica, Slash...

When i got it, the neck was loose, and wouldn't tighten, so i flooded the holes with superglue, and glued the top to the neck, and used the fabby neck-tilt bolt to tilt it back a bit. Instantly louder, and more sustainy. (I'd recommend this with any cheap bolt on. Don't say i told you to if you do it on yer vintage strat and it goes horribly wrong...!)

Pickups are a bit out of line, i've corrected this by bending the mounting plates so that they move diagonally. Neck's nice, i have the action a la Slash, highish (2mm & 1.5mm), with big (Ernie ball skinny top heavy bottom) strings. I like to have to fight it a little! Pickup switch goes clonk, but i like that!

I rewired it and put in new pots a couple of years ago. I've thought about new pickups, but i don't want to mess with the balance of it. Disconnected the tones, cos i never use 'em. Its a FAT sounding guitar...

I filed the string saddles smoother, and broke less strings. I might put a nice bridge in at some point, but the one in there is chromed brass, which i am led to believe is a Good Thing.

3 when i got it, 7 now...

Lasted me so far. The strap buttons have had big washers put on to stop it falling on the floor. I break strings a lot, cos i wack it too hard, so i'd like another as a backup. But i risk it. Might need a refret one day, but they are expensive, i'll probably be able to afford a new guitar by then...

I'd seriously hurt anyone who nicked it. Its my baby...