umph Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 This is a hondo II les paul guitar, i've set it up properly etc and it plays very nice. I've upgraded the pick ups with a pair of iron gear rolling mills pick ups and it has a coil tap on both pick ups. it's in pretty good nick with only a few nicks two of the knobs have come a bit loose but that can be sorted with a bit of super glue. these go for around 120 on ebay so if i can get around that i'll be happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurcatovium Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Shame it wasn't here month ago... I'll still ask our guitarist if he might be interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umph Posted March 19, 2010 Author Share Posted March 19, 2010 ta dude, just realised how dark and mysterious the picture i took is, i'll try and get some better pictures today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chappers Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 I bought one of these back in 1979 For £40!!! classic and a good tone. Just wish I'd learnt to play it back then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 [quote name='umph' post='779590' date='Mar 19 2010, 11:27 AM']ta dude, just realised how dark and mysterious the picture i took is, i'll try and get some better pictures today![/quote] Make sure you show the edges & all those laaarvly plywood layers! Seriously, I've had a couple of these and they can be pretty decent planks. Mid/late 70s & made by Samick in Korea who went on to make MIK Epiphones, amongst other things. BTW [b]never[/b] superglue your knobs on! As soon as anyone uses switch cleaner on them, the acetone will melt the glue & make it run inside the pot - where it will then proceed to harden again & glue your pots solid. Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umph Posted March 20, 2010 Author Share Posted March 20, 2010 [quote name='Bassassin' post='780659' date='Mar 20 2010, 11:54 AM']Make sure you show the edges & all those laaarvly plywood layers! Seriously, I've had a couple of these and they can be pretty decent planks. Mid/late 70s & made by Samick in Korea who went on to make MIK Epiphones, amongst other things. BTW [b]never[/b] superglue your knobs on! As soon as anyone uses switch cleaner on them, the acetone will melt the glue & make it run inside the pot - where it will then proceed to harden again & glue your pots solid. Jon.[/quote] ahh didn't think about that i'm sure there are better methods it might even just be cheaper to buy a new set of knobs really. I've been quite impressed with this guitar but i picked up a 80s b.c rich which while being a bit to pointy for me is far superior in almost every way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 [quote name='umph' post='780675' date='Mar 20 2010, 12:06 PM']ahh didn't think about that i'm sure there are better methods it might even just be cheaper to buy a new set of knobs really.[/quote]Wouldn't have occurred to me either if I hadn't experienced it first-hand! Someone had SG'd the knobs onto a nice old 335 copy I had - I didn't notice the pots had seized until guitarist picked it up at practice, forced them and tore off half of the wiring! Twat! Lots of fun & games cleaning, resoldering & re-fitting the pots through the f-holes on that one. Best way to fix loose knobs is to insert a screwdriver into the split-shaft & gently rock it from side to side - this will spread the halves of the shaft so they grip the inside of the knobs. J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HONDO II lespaul Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 [quote name='umph' post='778652' date='Mar 18 2010, 03:53 PM']This is a hondo II les paul guitar, i've set it up properly etc and it plays very nice. I've upgraded the pick ups with a pair of iron gear rolling mills pick ups and it has a coil tap on both pick ups. it's in pretty good nick with only a few nicks two of the knobs have come a bit loose but that can be sorted with a bit of super glue. these go for around 120 on ebay so if i can get around that i'll be happy! [/quote] Hi ! A friend of mine has given the same Hondo II les paul guitar to me. I would deeply appreciate to try to play with it but the trusq nut has been changed and it seems not to be the good one. It's impossible to tune the guitar properly. I would deeply appreciate if you could measure the nut which is on your guitar for me (length, width,height and string spacing). With these measures, I could command one on graphtech web site. Thank's a lot ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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