Love these 70s black beauty copies, inherited a hondo 2 one recently that belonged to a friend she had the guy who wrote tank girl put Wilkinson pickups on it as they were neighbour's, I love it
My very first electric guitar looked very much like that one . Can not remember if it had a brand name on it or what type of tuners it had or even if it was a bolt on kneck ? It was back in 1981 I think ,swapped it for a car stereo cassette player , did not play or sound too good but I had no idea about set up back then . Certainly brings back some memories .
@@theguitarmanifesto bought it in a guitar shop in bond st, Ealing 1988. £170 at the time. The Sidewinders had coil split and were a fiver cheaper but the colour I recall was yukky.
I had a "Memphis" Les Paul which looked identical (Plywood and Bolt on Neck). Great little guitar apart from the fact that the pickups were not real humbuckers. They were cheap single coil pickups made to look like humbuckers.
The single coil pickups on those earlier K-30s are utterly killer, and I’d Never swap mine out for humbuckers. If anyone who prefers humbuckers has any of the faux humbucker pickups lying around, they can send them my way.
@@theguitarmanifesto im sure youve had a colombus , there are two types , avoid ones with block marker at first fret, they are budget with fake buckers, the other have gotoh tuners abr bridge and maxon pick ups if they havent been robbed x
@@theguitarmanifesto i just bought one £175 of gumtree, it still had gotoh tuners , so i took a chance , the bugger had put epi dot pick ups in it!, bought a decent wiring loom and put wilkinson " cool tone paf clones, its fantastic,doesnt get played much , too heavy for me ,look out for arbiter, antoria they were the best jap 70s stuff
Nice one. Did you measure the output of the Pups? If they are in the 250 to 400 k range, then these are single coils in humbucker casings. A lot of Japanese bolt on knock offs had these.
That's an interesting guitar, I have an sg shape Kay with a microphonic pup. Looks like the same tuners as mine. I still have it, my old man bought mine for me back in '82 I just can't part with it.
I had a Saxon branded one that looked very similar to that Kay. The pickups were terrible but it was playable. I sold it a few years ago for not very much. Sort of wish I hadn't but I wasn't using it.
Love the old Japanese stuff. Its what we grew up with until we got jobs and could afford usa guitars. But remember there's at least 3 levels of inports. Bolt on and plywood are usually lower that all. Small necks, shabby pickups and such. I have a 77 Aspen set neck with stock DiMarzio pickups that rocks. There are some Ibanez guitars from that era that go for 2k. But we all know if it stays in tune and internates there's no problems!!!!!
My first electric guitar was exactly the same but with a Satellite logo. Bought 2nd hand, took an age to realise at least one of the neck bolts was shot 😢
I had a few Hondo guitars in the early 80's when I was a learner and looking back they were awful. One was a pink Les Paul that had real intonation issues and fret ends that would wound you regularly. Even after a setup it was still a horrible instrument. A friend at the time had one of the Hondo Pro series that had DiMarzio pickups in and it wasn't that bad but when I got my Squier in '84 I couldn't go back to those instruments.
Reminds me of my Korean made Satellite LP copy I got for Xmas '84. Still have in bits with broken headstock. Interesting, your saddles fell off.. mine has a retaining wire which was copying a short lived Gibson thing .
@@teddyboy9116 Dad payed £89 for mine and £55 for a Laney Mighty Eight ..could never work out if it was named because it had an 8" speaker or if it was 8 watts 😅
@shaunw9270 I had the laney mighty 8! I think it was what woolies were selling at the time, my Satellite was 80 quid, I remember my dad went nuts when my mum bought it gor me for Christmas haha
@@teddyboy9116 Got mine at Duck, Son & Pinker in Bristol, a real old fashioned music store but a nice bunch. Always had the expensive stuff (Heritage Sweet Little Sixteen, Gibson The Paul etc locked in glass cabinets!
All guitar tone is generated from *the strings* . Any guitar is just a delivery system for "the information" created by the strings, the vibration and note' ringing out. Am I wrong? Try playing a guitar with no strings. As long as the strings intonation is good, as long as the frets are decent, as long as the pickups work...most guitars these days function decently. Strings are where your tone comes from.
@@theguitarmanifesto thought you were coming back to the land of the inbreds! Yes still here mate... My dad lives in Lincoln so we pop up now and again. Hope you and team manifesto are doing well.
@raylooney1788 we thought about it but come to our senses 😜 we bought another house up here in Long Sutton with 1 acre of land. Lincoln is about an hour away 50 mile.
There's nothing wrong with a plywood body and bolt on neck. Just get the neck as tight as you can with the screws and put in a little time setting it up. If you have an open mind it could really surprise you. Anyway, just play the darn thing. Cork sniffing doesn't improve your playing.
My first guitar was a 70's made in Japan Kay. It was prettier than that with a lawsuit custom headstock and sealed tuners. Although it played well with a nice action you could not call it a good guitar. Non existent sustain, dreadful very weak and squeal pickups, plywood body and poor tuners.
Finding that a cool looking Les Paul has a bolt-on neck is about like going on a date with what you thought was a beautiful woman and then discovering her anatomy isn't female. I'm no Gibson snob. I love and own plenty of imports. But I hate bolt on LP's. Even the $200 market now gives you plenty of set neck options.
@theguitarmanifesto been there, done that, had it repaired easily and durably. Headstock breaks are rarely irreparable and they tend to be more prevalent with Gibson Les Paul's and SG's, due to the soft woods. I've broken an SG headstock and I cracked a Gibson Firebird V headstock. Repairs were done and life went on. I've dropped countless Epiphones and never broken a headstock. I've dropped other imports as well. The woods, while not as cosmetically cherished as their USA counterparts, fare much better to abuse.
@theguitarmanifesto once you've purchased a replacement. I own Strats and Telecasters, and I'm seasoned enough that I can tell by the overall feel that I'm playing a bolt on guitar versus a set neck or neck-thru. It isn't a deal breaker for me because it's expected for Fender instruments and those created in their style. I typically adjust the neck screws under tension or mess around with the pocket to make my bolt on guitars have more "connection" in the feel and sustain department, mostly because I have spent most of my years on stage with set neck guitars and I'm used to their feel. I play about 80 shows a year, and up until recently I played mostly LPs, SGs and PRS guitars. The older I get, the more I'm embracing my Fenders. The latest short uploaded to my channel is me quite enjoying my 70s Classic Vibe Stratocaster. Part of the solid feel for a Les Paul bad always been that set-in neck. Only as a compromise on the cost and quality end do you ever find an LP or SG style guitar with a bolt on neck. I just don't care for it. If someone else doesn't mind, that's wonderful.
20 something year ago I bought the first gen epiphone LP special. It too was made of plywood. LOL. It even said gibson on the truss cover. I bought it for 150$. It was a bit of joke considering I owned (and still own) a 1997 Gibson LP special.
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Love these 70s black beauty copies, inherited a hondo 2 one recently that belonged to a friend she had the guy who wrote tank girl put Wilkinson pickups on it as they were neighbour's, I love it
That's awesome, Hondos are great 💯👌
@@theguitarmanifesto thanks it naughtily has Gibson headstock shape and split diamond lol
Lovely looking guitar ..i stil have my vox standard 25 guitar in black and recently got hold of a zenta telecaster old guitars rock.
My very first electric guitar looked very much like that one . Can not remember if it had a brand name on it or what type of tuners it had or even if it was a bolt on kneck ? It was back in 1981 I think ,swapped it for a car stereo cassette player , did not play or sound too good but I had no idea about set up back then . Certainly brings back some memories .
My first electric is an old ply Columbus series 3 superstar HSS. Still have it.
@@greenslider solid guitars 💯👌
@@theguitarmanifesto bought it in a guitar shop in bond st, Ealing 1988. £170 at the time. The Sidewinders had coil split and were a fiver cheaper but the colour I recall was yukky.
@greenslider I've had a few Columbus guitars many years ago, always cracking axes
Nice find! My first amp was a little Kay Vanguard.
That's awesome 😁👌
@@theguitarmanifesto 🤘
Cool guitar. I love the old 70s and 80s lawsuit bolt on guitars.
Yeah they're awesome 🎸💯
I had a "Memphis" Les Paul which looked identical (Plywood and Bolt on Neck). Great little guitar apart from the fact that the pickups were not real humbuckers. They were cheap single coil pickups made to look like humbuckers.
All part of the charm 😁
The single coil pickups on those earlier K-30s are utterly killer, and I’d Never swap mine out for humbuckers. If anyone who prefers humbuckers has any of the faux humbucker pickups lying around, they can send them my way.
I have a kay sg, the neck heel has a date stamp 1969...that looks 75 ish too me, i had one the pick-ups were single coils under the covers
Yeah I was thinking that whilst I was editing the video, should have taken the darn neck off 😔
@@theguitarmanifesto im sure youve had a colombus , there are two types , avoid ones with block marker at first fret, they are budget with fake buckers, the other have gotoh tuners abr bridge and maxon pick ups if they havent been robbed x
Trouble people are wise to the good ones now
@@theguitarmanifesto i just bought one £175 of gumtree, it still had gotoh tuners , so i took a chance , the bugger had put epi dot pick ups in it!, bought a decent wiring loom and put wilkinson " cool tone paf clones, its fantastic,doesnt get played much , too heavy for me ,look out for arbiter, antoria they were the best jap 70s stuff
There are some awesome 70s Japanese LPs I've had a fair few in my time.
Check the pickups. Some of the old 70's and 80's import axes came with Maxons or even Dimarzios.
Yeah I was thinking I should of had a look, I did try it plugged into my Marshall amp today and the pickups did like the feedback 🤣
Nice one.
Did you measure the output of the Pups? If they are in the 250 to 400 k range, then these are single coils in humbucker casings. A lot of Japanese bolt on knock offs had these.
These are definitely humbuckers
That's an interesting guitar, I have an sg shape Kay with a microphonic pup. Looks like the same tuners as mine. I still have it, my old man bought mine for me back in '82 I just can't part with it.
Keep hold of that one 💯🎸
Nice...i wish it was mine...
Everything has a price 😅
I had a Saxon branded one that looked very similar to that Kay. The pickups were terrible but it was playable. I sold it a few years ago for not very much. Sort of wish I hadn't but I wasn't using it.
Still fun guitars.
Nice score 🤙🏼
It's a nice guitar 🎸💯
Love the old Japanese stuff. Its what we grew up with until we got jobs and could afford usa guitars. But remember there's at least 3 levels of inports. Bolt on and plywood are usually lower that all. Small necks, shabby pickups and such. I have a 77 Aspen set neck with stock DiMarzio pickups that rocks. There are some Ibanez guitars from that era that go for 2k. But we all know if it stays in tune and internates there's no problems!!!!!
Exactly if it plays well that's half the battle won 💯🎸
I have a Memphis like that. It has the make pretend humbuckers 😅
Fauxbuckers
Was that guitar also badged as a Satellite?
@@stephentazare9382 they wax all pretty much the same in that era
My first electric guitar was exactly the same but with a Satellite logo. Bought 2nd hand, took an age to realise at least one of the neck bolts was shot 😢
I had a few Hondo guitars in the early 80's when I was a learner and looking back they were awful. One was a pink Les Paul that had real intonation issues and fret ends that would wound you regularly. Even after a setup it was still a horrible instrument. A friend at the time had one of the Hondo Pro series that had DiMarzio pickups in and it wasn't that bad but when I got my Squier in '84 I couldn't go back to those instruments.
All part of the fun 😁
Still seen them sell up to 600
Some people are deluded
Reminds me of my Korean made Satellite LP copy I got for Xmas '84. Still have in bits with broken headstock. Interesting, your saddles fell off.. mine has a retaining wire which was copying a short lived Gibson thing .
I've had a few of them, shame your headstock is broken 😢 oh it has the retaining wire 🤣
I had one of them satellite ones when I was a kid, really good guitars
@@teddyboy9116 Dad payed £89 for mine and £55 for a Laney Mighty Eight ..could never work out if it was named because it had an 8" speaker or if it was 8 watts 😅
@shaunw9270 I had the laney mighty 8! I think it was what woolies were selling at the time, my Satellite was 80 quid, I remember my dad went nuts when my mum bought it gor me for Christmas haha
@@teddyboy9116 Got mine at Duck, Son & Pinker in Bristol, a real old fashioned music store but a nice bunch. Always had the expensive stuff (Heritage Sweet Little Sixteen, Gibson The Paul etc locked in glass cabinets!
All guitar tone is generated from *the strings* .
Any guitar is just a delivery system for "the information" created by the strings, the vibration and note' ringing out.
Am I wrong? Try playing a guitar with no strings.
As long as the strings intonation is good, as long as the frets are decent, as long as the pickups work...most guitars these days function decently.
Strings are where your tone comes from.
You're preaching to the converted, I even built a 2x4 scrap wood guitar on the channel to prove that point.
Hello matey! How are you all. Shane the posty!
Hi Shane, yeah we're all good up in windy Lincolnshire. Good to hear from you, you still in Rushden?
@@theguitarmanifesto thought you were coming back to the land of the inbreds! Yes still here mate... My dad lives in Lincoln so we pop up now and again. Hope you and team manifesto are doing well.
@raylooney1788 we thought about it but come to our senses 😜 we bought another house up here in Long Sutton with 1 acre of land. Lincoln is about an hour away 50 mile.
@@theguitarmanifesto excellent stuff.... Sounds like you're all doing really well bud!
I'd say the plywood body that probably will sound dead. Maybe I'm wrong but a plywood body is pretty unappealing to me.
Yes you're wrong 🤣
Only a Gibson snob would dislike this guitar. I love it.
@@Alan-wo9mi them pesky cork sniffers
When they throw plywood and screw on necks are scraping the bottom of the barrel to produce a guitar and sell it at a premium price is .
These definitely weren't 'premium price' 🤣
There's nothing wrong with a plywood body and bolt on neck. Just get the neck as tight as you can with the screws and put in a little time setting it up. If you have an open mind it could really surprise you. Anyway, just play the darn thing. Cork sniffing doesn't improve your playing.
Ahmen 💯👌
My first guitar was a 70's made in Japan Kay. It was prettier than that with a lawsuit custom headstock and sealed tuners. Although it played well with a nice action you could not call it a good guitar. Non existent sustain, dreadful very weak and squeal pickups, plywood body and poor tuners.
All part of the charm 😁
Finding that a cool looking Les Paul has a bolt-on neck is about like going on a date with what you thought was a beautiful woman and then discovering her anatomy isn't female.
I'm no Gibson snob. I love and own plenty of imports. But I hate bolt on LP's.
Even the $200 market now gives you plenty of set neck options.
@@freepressright that's cool until you break the headstock 😁
@theguitarmanifesto been there, done that, had it repaired easily and durably. Headstock breaks are rarely irreparable and they tend to be more prevalent with Gibson Les Paul's and SG's, due to the soft woods.
I've broken an SG headstock and I cracked a Gibson Firebird V headstock. Repairs were done and life went on.
I've dropped countless Epiphones and never broken a headstock. I've dropped other imports as well. The woods, while not as cosmetically cherished as their USA counterparts, fare much better to abuse.
Bolt on neck 10 minute job ✅
@theguitarmanifesto once you've purchased a replacement.
I own Strats and Telecasters, and I'm seasoned enough that I can tell by the overall feel that I'm playing a bolt on guitar versus a set neck or neck-thru. It isn't a deal breaker for me because it's expected for Fender instruments and those created in their style.
I typically adjust the neck screws under tension or mess around with the pocket to make my bolt on guitars have more "connection" in the feel and sustain department, mostly because I have spent most of my years on stage with set neck guitars and I'm used to their feel.
I play about 80 shows a year, and up until recently I played mostly LPs, SGs and PRS guitars. The older I get, the more I'm embracing my Fenders. The latest short uploaded to my channel is me quite enjoying my 70s Classic Vibe Stratocaster.
Part of the solid feel for a Les Paul bad always been that set-in neck. Only as a compromise on the cost and quality end do you ever find an LP or SG style guitar with a bolt on neck. I just don't care for it. If someone else doesn't mind, that's wonderful.
@freepressright the world is full of opinions, thank you.
20 something year ago I bought the first gen epiphone LP special. It too was made of plywood. LOL. It even said gibson on the truss cover. I bought it for 150$. It was a bit of joke considering I owned (and still own) a 1997 Gibson LP special.
Good old plywood 🤣🤣