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Got this yesterday £31 every bit of ply is a tone wood (only joking) the one working pickup (the neck) does sound decent enough as long as you don't touch the pots cause they crackle like bacon in a frying pan. Neck feels nice and the body is in pretty good nick. Going to do an 'old black' on the cheap... Stick the X-trem on and order a GFS firebird pickup to replace the knackered bridge pickup and a mean/dream 90 for the neck.

I want one of those Hondos with the bolt on neck and tummy cut. I saw one at Guitar Center I really liked, but the neck was warped/twisted.

That's a sweet Hondo! And a sweet deal as well!

Been playing it a fair bit tonight (with a set of strings i got free with a magazine) not a bad guitar. bridge pickup is totally dead, have ordered the new pickups pots and switch. Don't get why these are slated so much for having a plywood body (good green credentials) sounds good and is quite resonant, feels a bit like danelectro have build a Les Paul... Looking forward to the new pickups and getting the X-trem on it.


Ps: sounds fuck all like a real Les Paul...

Looks like a good project

Continued... I think this must be why they get a bad press. I used to own a CSL Les Paul and it did a far more convincing take on the Les Paul sound, still had a bolt on neck but was solid wood and had better pickups, but if you accept the fact that a cheap plywood guitar isn't going to sound like an expensive lump of mahogany but has a pretty good sound of it's own quite jagged/spikey they're not bad at all. I mean a danelectro U2 is vaguely LP / telecaster shaped but isn't going to sound like either... Oh and it stays in tune something that can't be said of every guitar I've bought.

I had one of these and loved it

DEM HONDO II's

The LES MIKE they called it. I don't think mine was plywood though, it was heavy as shit.

Mike wrote:I had one of these and loved it

DEM HONDO II's

The LES MIKE they called it. I don't think mine was plywood though, it was heavy as shit.

pretty sure this is ply checked the control cavity kind of hard to tell through the finish,or maybe it's just the grain in the wood? I shall inspect more closely when I'm replacing the electronics. It is Les Paul heavy though.

Having snooped around teh internet, it would seem these were made by samick (or Tokai according to this site: http://www.music-trade.co.jp/otherhistory2.html)

Definitely ply...

Mike wrote:I had one of these and loved it

DEM HONDO II's

The LES MIKE they called it. I don't think mine was plywood though, it was heavy as shit.

glue is heavier than mahogany

IGNORANCE ALERT... What do the caps do, and do all pots need them? As I haven't ordered any.

dezb1 wrote:IGNORANCE ALERT... What do the caps do, and do all pots need them? As I haven't ordered any.

im also ignorant for the most part but i think u need capacitor if u want a tone controlllll

On lesters, they're usually wired across the pots rather than from the lug to the back of the tone pot.

finally got round to sorting this out, full rewire new pickups and a new nut.



Full cost including parts £53

Looks tidy. How was it to set up?

love it!

Thomas wrote:Looks tidy. How was it to set up?

Set up with a set of 10s and was no problem after I got the nut sorted. Got a neck like a baseball bat, sounds pretty good definitely more than £53 good.

Old nut:



New nut:

Nice. It's like one of those before and agter pics for dental caps:



I'd still love to get a Les Paul. One day...