Hondo Alien headless £180 B.I.N

[dyerseve]

Looks like it could be good value for money if you're in the market...

Look at this on eBay 
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202776756230

[prowla]

Hmmm, I recall one of these being up fairly recently and someone saying the bridge might be worth having. I'm thinking not at that price, though.

For me the whole thing is daft - the purpose of a headless is to save space, so just plonking a set of tuners at the other end of the instruments doesn't really cut it.

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, prowla said:

Hmmm, I recall one of these being up fairly recently and someone saying the bridge might be worth having. I'm thinking not at that price, though.

For me the whole thing is daft - the purpose of a headless is to save space, so just plonking a set of tuners at the other end of the instruments doesn't really cut it.

If it fits in a Hohner case it's no bigger than a standard Hohner/Steinberger.

But those look like guitar tuners, only one pickup and Hondo isn't a name to get over-excited about...

You might get a genuine Hohner for that price and they are very good.

[Bassassin]

These were crap. It's a cheap Korean knock-off of the Kramer Duke, which was in itself a cheapsh!t, bodged-up-in-an-afternoon attempt to bandwagon-jump the 80s headless market, whilst avoiding the inconvenience of bothering to design appropriate hardware.

But at least the Kramer had decent Schaller parts, which this doesn't.

[BigRedX]

At least the seller isn't trying to pass it off as a Kramer Duke.

As Assassin says the hardware on these is rubbish. They might look like Schaller parts, but are made from much softer metal. 

Also if you are interested check that it actually has an aluminium neck, some Aliens had wooden necks.