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I was dissapointed with my Laney & sold it on quick. I used my Peavey combo for 15yrs, always reliable

I'm a huge Hofner fan. I started a thread yesterday on them as I found out the factory in China is exclusively for Hofner. The QC has been extremely high from the fair few I've tried.

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That'd be awesome Clarky

I'm very happy with mine. Being tall it looks better than a traditional Hofner hanging off me. It doesn't feel short scale either. Mine is well set up & strung with flats. No sharp frets or dead spots. It's light, well balanced & a lot of tone from the German pickups. Something a bit different too & it doesn't feel in any way budget

Mine is the B series Hofner so around the £230 mark. The Verithin is Contemporary Series so around £550. Both great and I've yet to see a duff one. My mate has started stocking them in his shop & the QC has been high. Were these recent examples you tried? Perhaps I've just been lucky then The ones you've seen would have been Chinese

London in 10 days and I haven't bumped this thread in a while. See new dates I've added Our new album "Every Dirty Mirror" will be out this summer

[quote name='clauster' post='1169858' date='Mar 20 2011, 07:34 PM']I've just had a quick look at the Hofner website and googled some prices. Are these chinese made models the CT series?[/quote] Yes they are. I'm mainly sporting the Verithin as opposed to the Beatle bass. Re Johnson's post, I don't doubt it [b]but[/b] my Beatle Bass was the same price as the Epiphone and is well made. I expect it was just an unlucky example. All my experiences have been very positive

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1169416' date='Mar 20 2011, 12:49 PM']Keeps your fingers cool when you're playing.[/quote] and trim your nails if you can get it going fast enough

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I stumbled across this on another forum & wanted to share it. I've been staggered by just how good the Chinese Hofners are & this goes some way towards explaining the Hofner ethos. [font="Arial Black"]It is worth bearing in mind that the Chinese production plant is wholly owned by Hofner, a most unusual situation, that few other manufacturers have bothered to achieve. They have done a huge amount of work developing the plant and training the staff, often in Germany, to ensure that China has become an extension of Hagenau. Many other manufacturers just put the work out in China to whoever offers the lowest tender, something that Hofner has completely avoided. The Chinese plant is one of only a handful to have received both a grade A production certificate and a grade A export certificate from the government. The fact that Hofner is building bodies and necks in China and then taking the components to Hagenau demonstrates their faith in their own manufacturing processes while allowing them to offer you a first class instrument at a reasonable price. True there are still a lot of cheap poor quality instruments coming out of China, generally aimed as beginners guitars and sold in packs around Christmas time, but these have nothing to do with Hofner and what they have achieved over there.Hofner has definitely entered a new era in manufacturing and brought the company alive with a good range of interesting guitars at prices to suit everyone. We need to get used to this and worry less about exactly where parts were made and concentrate more on the models they make, encouraging them to explore further with both retro and new models. They have the capability to do this now but will be hampered if we all keep on about where the body was made or who screwed the pickups on etc. Personally I applaud them for taking the difficult route and setting up a wholly owned and tightly controlled Plant of their own when they could have taken the easy option and just subbed the work out to any old factory. This really is a new era for Hofner and I think it is going to be at least as exciting as it was back the early 1960s.[/font] Well, I'm loving mine!

I'd heard about this listing. Even with his very generous 95% charity donation he'll still be doing ok out of this

I own one too. I bought it to go with my Orange rig (poser that I am) but I rarely take out effects. If I do start using effects again it'll be right in there

Absolutely to all of that I had flats on my Ricky which was a bit different. Sounded great!

I didn't use a plectrum with my Rickenbacker & now I wish I had. I think some basses lend themselves to that style - my Hofner Verithin springs to mind. I used to just rest my thumb on the pickup surround and got used to that after a short time. Ultimately though it wasn't the bass for me so I sold it on but more because it was a lot of money to have lying around on something that wasn't getting picked for gigs.

Best of luck

I think my influences put me in the right ball park without me wanting a direct copy of what they play. Fenders are pretty common but I've never wanted the same paint job and always wanted my own stamp on things. Equally my Hofner Verithin is based on a lot of 60s players who had semi acoustic basses but they tended to play Epiphone. It's subtle but it's enough for me

I owned both a few years ago & the Custom Shop one did feel nicer to play. There wasn't that much in it from what I could tell though