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This guitar is fore sale in Germany and is advertised as a early 1970's no-brand guitar from Japan.
Plywood body, full maple neck, no truss rod?? Any estimate regarding value?

Fake maple-neck Mustang, sexy. Could sound and play like crap - how much is it going for?

EDIT: wait, no truss rod? hmmm, think that would make it no deal for me.

I'd pay $50 to get those parts.

Does it actually say it has no truss rod? It could be on the heel of the neck and only accessible/visible with the pickguard removed, like an attempt at the style of older fenders/acoustic guitars.

Though if it is just a cheap no-name jobby from the 70s it's highly possible it doesn't have a truss rod.

Could be a Zenta, Fresher or Orion... There were a lot of Mustang copies at one point, especially Jap, they have been popular over there since the 70's. A lot of early Jap copies were ply as well. Looking at the bridge i'd say Zenta, very similar to early Satellite.

it looks like a Dangleberry POS to me.

ive seen a red hondo that looked exactly like that, down to the skinny comp stripes.

william wrote:ive seen a red hondo that looked exactly like that, down to the skinny comp stripes.

You mean this one? Indeed it looks much like it, but Hondo is Korean not Japanese.

This thread makes me

GEISHA wrote:

william wrote:ive seen a red hondo that looked exactly like that, down to the skinny comp stripes.

You mean this one? Indeed it looks much like it, but Hondo is Korean not Japanese.

ah, my memory has failed me, it doesnt look as much like it as i thought.

is that the only stang hondo ever made? that one looks alot fuglier than i remembered.

The Hondo looks like if they made a Wallace and Grommit where he played guitar, that's the claystang they'd make him.

paul_ wrote:The Hondo looks like if they made a Wallace and Grommit where he played guitar, that's the claystang they'd make him.

that actually made me WANT a little bit more, say 5% from 3%.

Curious mish-mash.

Hondo in Korean sort of means "(my) soul, also". A good translation of that into normal English would seem to be "not really it", especially judging by that nontonation bridge and diet stripes.

It looks bloody awful.

Well, it looks good as an object, but I doubt it's any good as a guitar.

ultratwin wrote:Curious mish-mash.

Hondo in Korean sort of means "(my) soul, also". A good translation of that into normal English would seem to be "not really it", especially judging by that nontonation bridge and diet stripes.

hahhahahahha, srsly? Hondo translates to "not really it?"

aen wrote:

ultratwin wrote:Curious mish-mash.

Hondo in Korean sort of means "(my) soul, also". A good translation of that into normal English would seem to be "not really it", especially judging by that nontonation bridge and diet stripes.

hahhahahahha, srsly? Hondo translates to "not really it?"

Not quite, but the word hon plus suffix do enables the presence of a negating verb to follow (and occasionally doesn't require it, especially in colloquialisms), which means the word can be defined as "soulless", or more accurately "doesn't even have a soul" or "is not (even a) soul". A bit of a stretch de la lexicon, but you get the idea. A intrasearch yielded a number of cultures who have a usage of the name "Hondo", so...so much for teh exclusive ultrafunnies.

I haven't ever seen one with a cool trem like that. Here's one I sold on ebay last year. It was pretty much SHIT, but would be great for BLACK LIPS style stuff.

Haha those stripes are pretty whimpy, never seen one like that before

More of that stuff

GEISHA wrote:

These don't look half bad.