Product: Hondo H-1020
Price Paid: USD 50.
Submitted
04/05/2007
at
09:28am
by
Colin
Features
:
8
Satin walnut finish. This guitar is a bolt neck Gibson 'The Paul' copy. Single cutaway, gold plated stopbar/tunamatic/cheapo tuners/DiMarzio Super II's/2 vol/2 tone/I THINK it's mahogany.
Sound
:
10
I bought one of these in 1980 from 8th Street Music in Philadelphia. I paid a lot for it at the time, but it was a servicable guitar. I had proceeded in years following to install a Gibson PAF in the bridge, Shaller Tuners and a brass, LP style pickguard. Then as time went on, I stripped it, painted the top white and used Testors model paint to make enormous colorful paint splotches on the top. The back was painted black and small, 1cm size multicolored letters were placed all over it. It now resides as art in my studio but I found another on Ebay for $50.00 an d lucky me, I SAVED all of the hardware from my original (sans Gibson PAF that I sold like a dope). It now sounds like Johnny Ramones Mosrite on steroids. When I got it, my hand went around the neck like an old friend. It stays perfectly in tune. People had picked up my other one and claimed it played better than their Les Pauls.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
I remember getting my original and it played like butter. This one did too with just minor adjustment. Guitar was in good shape save for some time honored chunks.
Reliability/Durability
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No Opinion
The wood seems excellent and has held up well over the years on both of these I have. I'm not sure I would gig with this since I have other, more 'impressive' guitars that I own. I would seriously consider using it as a main in a punk band though. The hardware still has plenty of gold on it but as I said, I replaced the tuners with gold Shallers and they keep the guitar well tuned.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
This guitar is easily 25 years old... we don't need no stinkin' warranty.
Overall Rating
:
10
I have been playing 35 years now. I own a PRS standard 22, a Gibson SG jr P90, Ibanez SV470, Dean Caddy Elite... Flextone III, Carvin XT112, multiple effects, keyboards, PA system, recording stuff... you name it. I love it because my hand learned how to play a lot of stuff on this guitar and it's well built as far as I can tell compared to a lot of the stuff I've gotten since. I would have loved to have a set neck version of this. I had originally chosen this one because it was the best of the knocks (I couldn't afford the $500 or $600 for a Gibson or a Fender back then... I can't now either but that's beside the point). Even the Ibanez guitars of this era were beyond my price range.
