Product: Hondo 66 Deluxe Series
Price Paid: US $25 bucks
Submitted
11/23/2001
at
07:17am
by
Joe
Features
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4
Guitar is on the smallish side. Gloss black body, kind of a cross between a strat and tele. Has a Tele-like chrome plate control board; one volume, one tone and a 3-way switch. 2 dull sounding single coil pickups in thier own mini-pickguards. 22 frets. Very poor tuning machines that slip out of tune easily. Hardtail bridge. Adjustable truss rod.
Sound
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4
When played through my practice amp, a Peavey Audition 110, it has a cheap hollow sound quality. It helps to add a distortion pedal to liven up the pups(the heavier the distortion the better the pups sound). I also plugged it into my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe and it sounded much better but wouldn't stay in tune due to the crappy tuners.
Action, Fit, & Finish
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1
This is the biggest problem...the action is built too short to properly set-up the intonation. The bridge saddles run out of adjustment. I did remove the saddle springs to get a little more length but it's not enough. If I keep this guitar I will need to lengthen the action somehow? or install a longer neck.
Reliability/Durability
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1
The only reason I would gig with this guitar is if I was going to do a Peter Townsend and smash the hell out of it.
Customer Support
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1
Yea right!
Overall Rating
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1
The only reason I bought this guitar is that I'm a compulsive tinkerer and thought I could fix it up and give it to a young musician that wanted to try guitar. If it were stolen I would laugh my ass off.
