HOFNER BEATLES Violin Guitars | G459VTZ REPAIR (Paul McCartney)
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2021
- A viewer of the channel recently alerted me to a new old stock, mint condition case for my 1967 Hofner G459VTZ Super Beatle 6-string hollowbody violin guitar that was being sold online. It inspired me to drag it out of storage and do some much needed work on it. We'll tackle some fretwork, shim the neck, restring, and demo it. We'll also talk about the history of these rare and fascinating models.
The 459 model series, included the 459, 459TZ, and 459 VTZ. They were introduced in 1967 and featured some of the earliest active circuitry for electric guitar. The active circuit, which runs off a 9-volt battery, has a Treble Boost and Fuzz built in.
Fuzzy psychedelic rock was all the rage in 1967, and in that respect, the Hofner 459 models should have been a success. But the soaring high price tag and stiff competition from better positioned American brands like Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, and Rickenbacker meant the models didn't sell well and were discontinued after a few short years.
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These men are nihilists. They're harmless.
A nice Persian is like a nice guitar no two really alike.
My late brother-in-law, my best friend, gave his Hofner to my eldest before he passed. He wanted someone to care for and actually play it. God I miss him. RIP Wayne.
@18:41 "It's ebony saw dust in a baggie, officer."
Thank you Brad, enjoyed that very much!! Including your take on the fretwork - much appreciated also. And the guitar did sound absolutely killer, too.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.
Good report. Congrats.
The chicks from the same time period came with built in fuzz.
this is what the Guitologist is all about!!! Giddy Up!!! lol my wife said she hears ELROY when you were crowning.
hahaha! Elroy, indeed.
Long ago and far away like '73, i stop by a local shop, ready to play a song,,,,year in.
There is a Fender Jag and a Hofner Violin Guitar.
The jag was SB which i loved but the Hofner was checked clear maple glow. Amazed me then.
Memory still does. Never saw another.
Yes, wanted to see 'er for a loooong time. Thanks for showing it to us, truly an amazing and unique token of the past, and also to inspire what's yet to come!
HEY MAN! So good to see you. Been a long time. Glad you dropped by. How are things?
@@TheGuitologist It's getting better slowly but on a steady pathway... Couldn't agree with you more on your "social themed" videos. It's like a f*ckin nazi country here, dudes like me gettin' expelled for not wearin' a mask, constant threats, people completely turned one on another. Just hope them govt' people ain't taking you down from RUclips... For a period in my life, your videos were a huge inspiration as well as help to get through some stuff in life. Thanks man.
Watching you do this stuff casually makes it look like something a normal person could pull off, starting with one of their cheaper guitars, without screwing it up bad.
I literally blew at the screen to try to get those fret filings off 🤣
The Hofner is packing some secret sauce for sure 👍
That Hofner you have has to be the best looking one I have ever seen. You have a real keeper Brad.
Thank you for another AWESOME and informative show!!!
Yessir.
Very interesting video thanks for sharing it
Great vid as usual, I wasn't expected a fuzz sound as good as that with this axe!! Keep on, thanks from France
Always love the little jams at the end. You rock!
That is exactly the fuzz tone i have been looking for.Thanks Brad. I learn a ton watching your vids.
, I wasn’t expecting that good of a sound. That’s what a hollow body’s supposed to sound like.
That was fun. Interesting guitar. Loved your riffage particularly at 38:35 onward!
First person besides myself I’ve seen into six-string violin shaped Hofner. So, I subscribed. That is a beautiful guitar. Fun video!
I really enjoyed this video, what a way to spend one's Sunday afternoon, the beard is coming along nice, thanks Brad. JJ
Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks to Brian from Oregon for the Super Chat I missed in the live chat.
Dude, that thing sounds sick! ....in a really good way!
When I was a teen, I used to jam with a guy who played a Hofner bass. I was a drummer back then and didn't know much about guitars, but we all agreed it was COOL!
Back in the day my brother had me play his Hofner bass to one beat over and over so he could jam lead guitar on his Les Paul he still has his Les Paul doubt if he has the Hofner bass since he plays 6 string guitar
All in all a fine and sympathetic bit of resto work brad, and
hang the critics ! i can see you know exactly what your
doing ," its alright now, i learned my lesson well, you can`t
please everyone ,so you`ve got to please yourself,"
Garden party !
Wow , it's the same age as me but in much better condition!
A beautiful piece of history being lovingly cared for and actually used !! Respect due Brad .
Peace and love brother 👍🏻☮❤
Hey Brad, just that ran across your video. I happen to own the exact same model guitar I purchased new in ‘67 timeframe. You are correct when yo say they are rare. I’ve searched the world in my travels and have never seen another, just a few on the internet. I’ve seen and purchased several sunburst versions of various configurations but no super Beatles.
Very cool blast from the past,Cheers.
Nice work on the history part, more vids like that would be cool.
Awesome!!!
very interesting that Hofner had Jean Ray Glover very cool folk princess, in the print ad holding a sunburst 459. Jean was later rumored to be Neil's Cinnamon Girl, crazy.
You always make me nervous when you take these classics apart and hit them with a hammer. But they are in great hands. CowBoy CowBoy can’t unhear that sound.
Man that thing is awesome!!
Great, now I'm going to hear "Cowboy" every time I crown a fret. LOL
cool old guitar buddy.
Thanks for sharing, really like the history lessons
All the best
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Hot damn that thing has some SERIOUS tone. And now I must track down my own... Thanks Brad!
Look for a standard 459VTZ sunburst. They are much more common. I've owned one of those too and they are fantastic.
Loved this. Had it on while I did my own guitar tinkering. Lot's of information that'll be useful for me as I become more competent servicing and maintaining my own gear, as I'm not confident to attempt fret work yet.
Just gotta take the plunge. It's intimidating at first, but it's not hard.
Now that's a pretty little guitar you've got right there. I love the inlays on the fretboard. Make sure you keep that one!
That guitar was a full month's teacher's pay around the time my dad was in college. I remember him saying that a couple years later than this, he got his first full time teaching job for $500 a month - before taxes.
There are several Hofner Guitars in San Francisco’s little kingdom of guitars
Real Guitars @15 Lafayette Street in San Francisco.
There, you’ll find a constellation of five shops crammed into one building, the oldest of which has been running for over 30 years. The owners and operators of this institution have held onto their lease and clientele by serving the local music community and maintaining a special vibe.
This little kingdom of guitars is tucked away on an alley off one of the busiest intersections in the city. Jesse Cobb grew up here and describes the place as “a nondescript building on a rather isolated, dirty street.” Jesse’s dad, Chris Cobb, owns a part of this kingdom.
Real Guitars co-owner Ben Levin says unlike other shops, this place is like a community center. “People just come by and talk politics and movies and TV with us and just hang out,” he says, “we’re like a corner store.”
The first thing you walk into is Real Guitars. Open since February 1986, it’s the oldest vintage guitar shop in the city.
Cobb walks me through the shop. We maneuver past stacks upon stacks of amplifiers. Guitar pedals and parts ooze out of what Chris jokingly calls the office. The place has so much character, Woody Allen filmed a scene for the film “Blue Jasmine” here.
“We need a bigger space but it just wouldn’t be right if we moved anywhere else but where we are,” says Cobb. “It’s the kind of shop I went to as a teenager in the ‘70s.”
Brian May’s great homemade Red Special guitar had a built-in fuzz effect on it at some point early on, but he soon removed it.
Wasn't it a Vox Distortion Booster, that plugged into the guitar/amp? It would have been like the Fuzz Face circuit. I like that he used stock Burns pickups, even though the guitar is totally homemade.
@@benjohnson4810 IIRC the Red Special has unknown pickups - as Brian described it those were the pickups they had on hand (his father and him) and they had no discernible markings.
@@pordzio Maybe he replaced them at some point? I seem to recall him saying Burns pickups, but he could be misremembering something. Cool sounding pickups.
You got a wealth of knowledge dude.keep at it.like your work.lovely instrument.
Great video
Awesome, can’t wait! ☠️☠️☠️🤟🏼
Cello guitar is something I keep meaning to make. Bowing something without a curved fretboard and.... damn it!! That just reminded I forgot to pickup my spinwinder: having something that winds around the bobbin in lieu of the bobbin being the moving item itself is so much better for equal tension around an irregular pickup coil that this would require
"I'm Paul McCartney, and I approve this message."
No your not he died in 66 please stop it William Campbell or is this that dastardly bastird Billy Shears either way Paul died 🚘🙃👥✌
I love mine... It is simply the most fun bass to play!.
I love Höfners. My uncle has had a black and gold ES-type semi-acoustic Höfner that's just beautiful and feels and sounds great. I've never found one online, even a pic like his.
grats on getting the case to close, i thought you were going to have to modify it. looks beautiful in there.
Really cool and interesting sounding guitar!
It's a nice guitar, I'll keep my 335 thank you. Enjoyed the video
Hey Brad I guess I missed this one but it was worth the watching thank you I love having the guitars and bases I guess although I don't know how to play bass LOL
Thanks for stopping by, as always.
I just picked up an Ignitor series violin guitar at a pawn shop a little while ago (Chinese-made, sunburst body). My wife got it for me for my birthday last year.
I initially wasn’t impressed with it as it was in pretty rough shape (frets needed some serious work, and it was grungy as heck, wouldn’t stay in tune at all), but I was pleasantly surprised when it was all done. The thing stays in tune really well and sounds pretty good.
No case, though. LOL
That's a wicked guitar Brad.
Brad,there is a guy who plays a Hohner similar to yours,named George Bernard. He is on FB,recorded on the Blind Pig label in the 70's with the."Silvertones".He plays around the Ann Arbor area .
I laughed out loud at the cut when you filed over the body.
Great information Brad
Kewl guitar
I can't believe you didn't do a full pocket shim on this beauty.
Cool video
Hearing voices from your file..perfectly sane...perfectly normal. Obviously it was saying.. Redrum Redrum...
Most enjoyable
Glad you found a case for that gem. Should at least double in value.
i had a vtz 459 g stolen back in 2010. and i miss it .
The 60s are back !
That is a fancy electric. I don't think you would see anything that detailed until Gibson released the Les Paul Artisan 10 years later.
Brad that's so funny I say that " CAN YOU DIG IT" all the time too funny
Hey Brad, just to let you know, I didn't get a notification for this video. Great channel brother, keep at it.........................
I know. You and everyone else.
cool what a fuzz
Watching fret end finishing listening to sitar music. Most ZEN I've felt in a long time.
nice video! I've a 1970 Hofner 4578-VTZ hollow body, with pretty the same picks-electronics-vibrato-head graphics, i can put it in the case just rotating vibrato arm to the back, but obviously its a different guitar shape
I fuckin blew on the screen after he filed that zero fret😂
The video deserves a 5 minute pause at 13.15 to take in the view of that beautiful flame! I assume no veneers back then? Great video, deserves to be included in the smithsonian archives for historical value
I guess that’s why the guitar case looks pristine. There are only a few guitars that will fit into it.
Good point. Nobody has yet found a guitar to fit it.
The indentations on the back of the neck may have been made by the neck support in a case that had the padding worn off and the wood exposed. Those type of marks are exactly like ones I have on a guitar I bought that had worn down the neck support in its case. But those marks could have happened just from leaning it up against an amp or something. I just can't see how a capo would make marks like that. Capos are designed a lot better than that. Maybe some kind of home-made jobbie. But I think there would be marks from the 1st fret up to about the 9th fret, maybe higher, if a capo WERE the culprit.
I sure wish there was an easy way to get the back of the neck smoothed out on my '82 Ibanez Musician 550.
That Höfner is one beautiful, vintage guitar!! I imagine it's hard to determine its worth, for insurance purposes only! I'd NEVER sell that guitar, except for maybe a trillion dollar bill!!
Love that axe
Powdered charcoal and super glue works great filling ebony.
How did you get it to fit at the end?
Sweet axe, Brad! 😎
I had one of these but it was TZ . So no vibrato but it did have the fuzz. The case looked the same with red inside, bit more scuffed up and a Chicago Music Shop sticker on exterior. Bought in the UK. I've got a theory day tripper was played on one with a wee bit of the fuzz. Used to get that sound .
Finished the vid, great guitar work, fuckin superb.
So how does a zero fret work? Do the strings lay on the nut and the zero fret? What are the advantages disadvantages?
A zero fret ensures the timbre of the open strings will match the fretted notes. It also makes more consistent string action possible from 0 to 1. It has the added advantage of being easier to build because you don't have to carve a nut perfectly, you just level a 0 fret to the rest of the frets and slot the nut with no regard to slot depth.
Will the spring on the vibrato unit not come off so you can close the lid? i'm sure you've already thought of that but just asking.
Oh boy I’ll have to do fret dressing as well on my 2015 Gibson after finishing the tuner swap.
Nice Hofner
I'm pretty sure Mark Farner's guitar from the early days of Grand Funk had a built in fuzz
Putting a sound posts in violins and cello is a real bitch. Good luck brad! I just did it to my violin last year.
@-1:20 sounds ready for The Green Manalishi. Peter Green. Fleetwood Mac
What makes these pickups different to regular humbuckers that use the mirrored positioning vs. them in the same orientation. Curious! Beautiful guitar!
i just bought a hofner ignition bass last week
You should use a tapered shim under the neck as a thin shim at the heel of the neck will cause the neck to drop just past the shim making the last few frets hump up and buzz out. It takes time for the hump to develop but without even support the neck will hump when shimmed with a thin shim at the heel, that’s what the paper was doing, kinda .
So it does fit with the vibrato arm?
Yep. Just gotta press it down harder than I was at first.
Can the vibrato arm be removed like the arm on a Strat?
No. It's attached like a Bigsby.
I built a DIY violin _"Beatles Bass"_ guitar kit, it turned out quite nice if I say so myself.
Great video. I used to have a guitar with a vibrola style trem, it used to be pretty easy to pop the spring out to put it in a case..I don't know if that would work.
I could probably do that, but the strings would likely fall out of the tailpiece on this and that would suck.
Brad how do you get it to fit in the case?
I angled the arm to the edge of the case and just pressed down. I was being too precious with it at first. It depressed the bar just fine when closing the case. They only made one case for these to my knowledge. You'll see pics of Rumble Seat Music who had one years ago for sale. They had this same case with their G459VTZ Super also.
Never knew of that guitar before this. Thanks for the vid.👍 I trust you in that there was no way to quickly remove it but, I would've liked to see some explanation of how that trem arm was attached. Many crazy things came out of the sixties lol.
BTW who was singing the song about "numb/or dumb on a plane"?? As usual Shazam was useless.
Nice version of on a plane. One of my favorite tunes. I really enjoyed this video as always. Guitar sounds incredible as always too. Is that a Peterson strobe tuner on top of your amp?
Removing those slots on the zero fret SEEMS it would have the same effect as lowering the nut on a guitar without a zero fret.
Any issues with the first few frets buzzing afterward, or did it not matter given your were working down those frets anyhow?
Nice video!...I have the non trem tobacco burst model here somewhere . Its all original and stays in its case. I seem to remember that it also had a phase switch. The original owner had the bridge set up for slide playing so technically it has NO fret wear.
Cool, man. Make a video on it and I'll post a link.
@@TheGuitologist I would if I had video equipment from this century lol If you ever get near Nashville , just let me know and I'll let you check it out....and 100 others and the guitar shop.