A couple of years ago, I started a thread about Hohner guitars. Since I have been a long time owner of a Hohner G-940 acoustic, when I started that thread I was thinking of acoustics, and so I placed that thread in the 'Acoustic Heaven' section. But since the name of the thread was 'Any Hohner love out there in TDPRI land?' Periodically TDPRI members would post about their Hohner (and Steinberger) electrics. So every now and then I would think about starting a Hohner club thread, and placing it in the Guitar Owners Clubs section. But I wasn't sure the interest was there, and so I never got around to it.
Well today something else occurred to me. At times I've caught myself thinking of my Hohner thread like a club thread. But since it's not, posting to it after long periods of dormancy could raise 'zombie' accusations. So, I'm officially starting a 'Hohner Owners' (say that five times real fast ) club thread. Acoustic and electrics are both welcome. I'll post pics and descriptions of mine a little later on, when time permits. But I just wanted to get this started.
If any other of you Hohner owners beat me to the punch, well, that's just fine with me. Okay, I'll post about my Hohners now. Or begin to, at least.
I have two and I'll probably comment on them in separate posts. As I said back 2009, many if not most references to Hohners I had read to that point were either apologetic or outright derogatory in nature.
I started 'Any Hohner love out there in TDPRI land?' As a means of correcting that problem. I wanted people to know that there are some nice Hohners out there. And I don't just mean nice entry level guitars, although that's certainly true as well. I mean nice, really nice, quality guitars on the higher end of the spectrum. My Hohner G-940 case in point. I've had her now for 28+ years, she's just great.
She's a part of that 900 Arbor series that David (bridgepinSr.) just mentioned. All solid woods, aged woods. These guitars were made in Japan from 1979 to 1985, IIRC. Bought mine in 1983 for $600, which is equivalent to $1,300 + today. I'll put her up against anything Martin or Taylor has in that price range today.
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The (my) 940 has an 'aged close grain solid spruce' top, solid select mahogany back & sides, solid Honduran mahogany neck and an ebony fretboard. The bridge is rosewood, the body is bound with maple, top and back. The neck and headstock are also bound in maple. Position markers are inlaid maple, as is the name on the headstock. The nut and saddle are bone. The only plastic on this guitar is the pickguard. Here are some pics of what I’m talking about.
The Hohner is on the right in the picture (in my left hand). The other acoustic is my Breedlove AD25/SM acoustic/electric, and my Logan Custom mahogany Tele is in the middle. An older pic, of me playing the Hohner for my grandson Corbin (he's 10 now).
My Hohner in action. That neck still plays like butter, and she has balanced tones and great projection, no doubt due to all the solid woods and the dreadnaught size. I don't take her out of the house much anymore, but she's the centerpiece of my meager collection of 7 guitars (4 acoustics, 3 Logan Custom Teles).
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I'll never part with her. My son inherits her when I'm gone. Here's the story on my second Hohner. Back on September 1st, I pulled the trigger on a later (albeit discontinued) model Hohner, the DR550.
All solid woods: solid cedar top, solid rosewood back & sides, 1 piece mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard, ebony bridge. Here's a stock photo from the Hohner website. I wanted to the get the DR550CE, the cutaway version with the Fishman electronics, but I couldn't find one. Libro administracion una perspectiva global 12 edicion pdf gratis.
The DR5500 is the (strictly) acoustic version. Here's my review. This guitar is built of all solid woods.
The top is a solid cedar top, the back & sides, solid rosewood. The neck is a 1 piece mahogany, and the fretboard is striped ebony, with a striped ebony bridge. The body and neck are bound in maple, and the top has some nice purfling. The fretboard abalone inlays are understated but attractive, as is the gold hardware. Speaking of which, the Grover 18:1 high ratio tuners are nice; they operate smoothly and efficiently. I de-tuned to double-drop D, then to an open G, then back up again to standard. Like I said, smooth and efficient.
The workmanship is very, very good. No sloppy glue residue inside or out, sanded well, etc. The matte finish is attractive. The frets are a little sharp, but not too bad. There is one flaw on the top of the guitar, a very small and shallow ding on the treble side of the soundhole. You have to look hard to find it. It could very easily have been done in the music store, not the factory.
Really no big deal. All in all, this is a really beautiful instrument. And as for sound, this baby is a cannon. She's plenty loud, and projects very well, good for strumming. At the same time, she has a nice string to string articulation, does a nice job of handling both fingerstyle and flatpicking. Man, just pluck a harmonic, set her down and walk off and get yourself a cup of coffee! This baby rings for days!
The action was just a little high for my tastes (I'm spoiled to my G-940), but definitely playable. I've used this guitar for experimenting with slide playing (something I've never done that much of). If I choose not to play it for slide, I'll probably get a tech to do a setup on this guitar to optimize playability. The street price for these guitars was around $600 when they were in production. As I understand it, they are now discontinued, and the music store from which I purchased this guitar bought up a lot of units of this and other discontinued models. Like I said before, I wanted the DR550CE model, w/ cutaway and Fishman electronics, but they sold out before I was ready. Definitely worth the money.
More pics to follow. Ok, for a sense of context I own four guitars and this is probably the worst of the four.
There's the Hohner, a Pacifica 604 (essentially a fat strat), a PRS SE Soapbar and a Schecter Ultra. I don't own a tele (oopsy!) but am working towards getting one. Advantages-wise - the construction is neck-through which is what it is. The guitar is 100% maple but is pretty light because of the design. The pickups have individual toggle switches wired in parallel (I think) so you can get some interesting variation.
Downsides - strings cost more because they need to be double ball ended. The pickups are not really any better than ok - They sound better through the line 6 software I used than my amps but the amps I own aren't really as high gain as the modelling software can go. The big downside (on mine only, maybe) is that the saddles are held still by string tension and the g saddle migrates towards the nut while playing. Tried to glue it in with nail polish but it has only worked as a temporary fix. I have some quite varied guitars in terms of pickups, fret size, neck size, radius, string gauge etc. But the Hohner feels harder to play than the others, even over the Schecter strung with 12s.
That said, Would I sell it? Would I gig it? I saw Bowie playing on the Brit Awards with Placebo in about 1998 with the Steinberger that this copies, and thought it was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen.
Mine has a very, very faint blemish in the finishing (on the back too) so I got it in 2004 for about £230. It was a deal I just couldn't turn down. Look on youtube for 'Hohner G3T' and you'll find that they have quite a unique honky tone unlike any other guitar I've heard. Cheers for the post Steincaster. I just picked it up for a fiddle and the saddle screws are raised 1-2mm already.
What's happened is that they (all of them to a small extent, but the g massively so) move towards the nut and the base of the screw carves into the metal. On the g it's more pronounced for whatever reason so it moves more easily as there's less resistance from the base plate. I tried clear nail polish knowing it can be removed easily but I googled recently and saw epoxy suggested by someone with a similar issue. Obviously, being able to re-set the saddles at a later date is desirable should I want to change gauges/tuning. Got a pic off the interwebs so you can see what I mean by the baseplate bit.
: Could annyone give me some information on the Hohner SE35 Professional, please. Reply: Our info on this guitar is - 335 (Gibson) style maple bound top/back/sides, black pickguard, mahogany neck (wow!), 22 fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlay, tunomatic-style bridge with stop tailpiece, pearl pineapple/logo peghead inlay, chrome hardware, 2 humbucker pickups, 2 volume, 2 tone controls, 3 position switch. A Gibson ES (electro Spanish) 335 knock-off. Available in black, natural, sunburst, tobacco sunburst and white finishes, manufactured 1990 -???? In 1994 black, white & sunburst discontinued.
Gold hardware optionally available. Andrew/Dwight Listmayer, RockItSciencelabs (Canada). :: Could annyone give me some information on the Hohner SE35 Professional, please.: Reply: Our info on this guitar is - 335 (Gibson) style maple bound top/back/sides, black pickguard, mahogany neck (wow!), 22 fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlay, tunomatic-style bridge with stop tailpiece, pearl pineapple/logo peghead inlay, chrome hardware, 2 humbucker pickups, 2 volume, 2 tone controls, 3 position switch.
A Gibson ES (electro Spanish) 335 knock-off. Available in black, natural, sunburst, tobacco sunburst and white finishes, manufactured 1990 -????
In 1994 black, white & sunburst discontinued. Gold hardware optionally available.: Andrew/Dwight Listmayer, RockItSciencelabs (Canada) I have one - red sunburst. Great guitar but I knew nothimg anout it as I bought it second-hand. ::: Could annyone give me some information on the Hohner SE35 Professional, please.:: Reply: Our info on this guitar is - 335 (Gibson) style maple bound top/back/sides, black pickguard, mahogany neck (wow!), 22 fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlay, tunomatic-style bridge with stop tailpiece, pearl pineapple/logo peghead inlay, chrome hardware, 2 humbucker pickups, 2 volume, 2 tone controls, 3 position switch. A Gibson ES (electro Spanish) 335 knock-off. Available in black, natural, sunburst, tobacco sunburst and white finishes, manufactured 1990 -???? In 1994 black, white & sunburst discontinued.
Gold hardware optionally available.:: Andrew/Dwight Listmayer, RockItSciencelabs (Canada):: I have one - red sunburst. Great guitar but I knew nothimg anout it as I bought it second-hand.
The HOHNER professional SE35 is -as already said in a precious post- a copie of the legendary GIBSON ES335. A friend of mine owns a guitar like this and it sounds ok, but I myself would prefer the original gibson (ofcourse) or if you have less money to spend, an EPIPHINE copie.
The EPIPHONES are manufactured in china, unlike the hohners who where being manufactured in korea (although, that friend of mine claims that the hohner professionals are USA-made). Both the hohner and epiphone guitars are in the same pricerange. But if you've got some experience in guitar playing, you can hear the knowledge of gibson sounding of the guitar. This friend of mine clames the price of the hohner prof. SE35 in Belgium (where I am from) is €1250 ($1500) well i really think it's not worth it!
I'd rather buy me an epiphone then, and that would cost you $750 (maybe even less) So if you're thinking on buying a ES335-like guitar, check out epiphone too, you'll be amazed! Musical greetings from Belgium, Izzy.
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::: Could annyone give me some information on the Hohner SE35 Professional, please.:: Reply: Our info on this guitar is - 335 (Gibson) style maple bound top/back/sides, black pickguard, mahogany neck (wow!), 22 fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlay, tunomatic-style bridge with stop tailpiece, pearl pineapple/logo peghead inlay, chrome hardware, 2 humbucker pickups, 2 volume, 2 tone controls, 3 position switch. A Gibson ES (electro Spanish) 335 knock-off. Available in black, natural, sunburst, tobacco sunburst and white finishes, manufactured 1990 -???? In 1994 black, white & sunburst discontinued. Gold hardware optionally available.:: Andrew/Dwight Listmayer, RockItSciencelabs (Canada):: I have one - red sunburst. Great guitar but I knew nothimg anout it as I bought it second-hand. The HOHNER professional SE35 is -as already said in a precious post- a copie of the legendary GIBSON ES335.
A friend of mine owns a guitar like this and it sounds ok, but I myself would prefer the original gibson (ofcourse) or if you have less money to spend, an EPIPHONE copie. The EPIPHONES are manufactured in china, unlike the hohners who where being manufactured in korea (although, that friend of mine claims that the hohner professionals are USA-made). Both the hohner and epiphone guitars are in the same pricerange.
But if you've got some experience in guitar playing, you can hear the knowledge of gibson sounding of the guitar. This friend of mine claimes the price of the hohner prof. SE35 in Belgium (where I am from) is €1250 ($1500) well i really think it's not worth it!(for as far as i know the prise of a hohner prof SE23 is somewhere around $750) I'd rather buy me an epiphone then, and that would cost you $750 (maybe even less) So if you're thinking on buying a ES335-like guitar, check out epiphone too, you'll be amazed! Musical greetings from Belgium, Izzy.