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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
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That's my brother Tim and he is so happy with your wonderful work, so thank you kindly. I remember that guitar fondly from many decades ago and often kid Tim that I wish it was a lefty!
Great job... Tim's going to love it!
Oh that's one lucky guitar to have found its way to your workshop, after such a long life. This is just gorgeous all around. I'm looking at a few 60s "Verithins", not sure what I'll end up with, but it's going to great no matter what, I'm sure.
Sounds awesome
What an absolutely gorgeous sounding guitar…Stunning
AGREED. Love me a nice open, low-output guitar.
Hofner Verithins and their variants are very comfortable to play. The bodyshape, narrow along the edge, but still fairly deep in the centre, is a like having an all-round comfort cut, and tucks under the arm very nicely. Highly under-rated guitars!
What a rich sound!!!
Love my reissued Hofner and It was a fraction of the price as my Fender Strat I bought the week before and I like playing it over any guitars I have I been missing out! Better quality and strength string are stellar on mine totally different
Thanks for sharing!
Well that guitar sounds damn good..
It’s model Verithin. Cheers.
Hofner Verythin
I stand corrected. MMcC
Actually it's Verithin. ;) Only the newer models are called Verything, because Höfner lost the trademark for Verithin. But the old ones, or as some like to call then, the real Verithins, are called Verithin. :)
Pretty cool guitar...and the intonation does sound great. If the owner had been waiting to do something with it for a while, it seems totally ready for whatever that might be.
Well said! MMcC
Those pickups seem like the "staple" humbuckers (which are actually mini humbuckers) just like the one I have. Hofner used the staple humbuckers around the early/mid sixties. My vintage Hofner Verithin is the 3-pickup version. I don't have the serial# but it should be from around 1965/66.
You can get a nice bright jangly sound by strumming right over the bridge pickup while in the bridge pickup position
Thank you for the info !
@predeem1629 But they are a little larger than mini-humbuckers right? Definitely don't seem to sound as trebly as mini-humbuckers?
@@ltvddvtl I've just measured the pickups on my Hofner, and they come out as 65 mm by 31 mm. I don't have any guitars with Gibson minis, but looking them up on the net they would seem to be 70 mm by 33 mm, similar to the filtertrons on my Gretsches (though neither the Hofners or Gibbos are as tall - 'trons go a long way down!).
It might be the double set of polepieces - the screws and the staples making them look bigger than they really are.
@@BackToTheBlues Ok so they are even smaller than mini-humbuckers? Interesting. So technically that would make them still a mini-humbucker type. Do you find they sound a bit thicker than mini-humbuckers or P90s?
@@ltvddvtl the only guitar I have with P90's is my Gretsch 5210 (which is a lovely guitar, especially considering the price!) - those sound fatter than the Hofner staples, with a high end 'ping' at the top the staples don't have.
That's not to say the staple pickups don't have any high end - they do, as you can hear in the video, but it's a different 'scoop.'
I can't speak for any similarities between them and Gibson minis as I don't have any guitars with those, but tonewise the staples are not dissimilar to the black top filtertrons Gretsch currently offer - not exactly the same, but similar, with a similar output.
They sound good for bluesy stuff with a bit of drive!
Its closer to a super thin custom Epiphone Casino in its fretboard/neckjoin
It is feather weight too ! The neck is heavier than the body.
Very thin/ Verithin. Just shows you don't need compensated nuts etc to sound amazing
The "0" fret and .010" - .052" strings helped this one line up better than usual . Although there was still some room for improvement. Lot's of guitars sound amazing without a compensated nut .... they just don't tune as amazingly.
@@StringTechWorkstations Mike, what dimension would shoot for on a zero fret? Should it be the same height as the other frets?
OK Steve : To put it in perspective; this Hofner has a .115" x .058" "0" fret. The rest of the frets are a .055"x.090". If you have enough room on the "0" fret .... you can "coax" the crown centre slightly towards the first fret ... not as good as an actual compensated nut ..... but it does help. Cheers \m/ ! MMcC
Nice sound - nice playing! Are the pickups 'mini' humbuckers?
No Bernie. The customer sourced these out. Apparently, they are "to spec", to the originals.
Sort of - they are humbuckers, and about the same dimensions as Filtertons; In millimetres the Hofner pickups measure 65 x 30, whereas Filtertrons come up about 67 x 30. As you can hear, they're a nice sounding pickup, with a bit of bite through a driven amp.
You do have to watch it with old Hofner pickups; they also did another one this size that looks like a humbucker - with six pole pieces along one edge - and the Hofner logo etched on top inside a rhombohedron (commonly called the 'diamond logo' pickup, perhaps because it's easier to spell), which are actually single coil. They're not a humbucker shaped con job though, they have a bar alongside the coil and magnet to spread the magnetic field, similar to a Gretsch Hilotron. I knew a guy who had a Hofner Colorama with those pickups, and he got a great blues sound from it.
Confusingly, they also made 'diamond logo' pickups with 'Super' also stamped on the top, which WERE humbuckers.
They're a fascinating company with an equally fascinating seemingly ever-evolving line-up of guitar models - they even made one in the 60's with a built in wah-wah, operated by a little arm on the scratchplate!
@@BackToTheBlues Interesting. So they seem to be slightly wider than mini-humbuckers? They sound more like minis than full sized humbuckers though right.
Excellent old guitar, I’m sure that the work you carried out has made it a better playing instrument than it ever was. Those old Hefner’s were well made using good materials but were sometimes let down by poor playability, for instance the original fingerboard radius on this one sounds ridiculous. I’m sure that you checked the neck/body joint, the glue Hofner used can become quite unreliable with age and can result in separation in this area. I don’t know if the bridge was an original Hofner design but they used it on many different models and it does seem to work quite well, I have seen the same style bridge on a few guitars made by other European manufacturers.
Thanks for speaking up Henry. The customer sourced the bridge / the machine heads and the pickups; to match ( as he re-called ) the original parts. Yes ... that bridge was an "industry standard" for a while ... way back then. Cheers . MMcC
@@StringTechWorkstations I live a short distance from Bubenreuth, where most of these traditional German instrument makers settled in the 1950s (to get away from the Soviet union which was threatening to make their businesses state-run). The pool for materials was small and the manufacturers for the various components that weren't made in-house by the instrument makers delivered to all of them.
There's a lot of interesting history behind the brands like Höfner, Framus, the various Hoyers, Hüttl, etc. They were mostly violin makers but when rock and roll, and at the same time, TV, entered the pop culture, the demand for guitars exploded.
Elvis!
The American guitars weren't available in Europe, so the German luthiers, who were business people at the end of the day, made instruments that at least visually mimicked the instruments from across the pond.
Truth is, the craftsmanship and the quality of materials were of a higher standard than the USA instruments. They were also more experimental with their crazy electronics and quirky options.
Thank you for thew History lesson ! Very interesting. MMcC
@@motioninmind6015 Very interesting. Would you say Hüttl is of the same quality as Höfner then?
For sale?
No. He loves this guitar.
@@StringTechWorkstations I'm not surprised. I've had four old Hofners, and still have two - a 1956 President, and a 1966 4575 (similar to the guitar in the video, but with three pickups and a banana shaped control panel on the bottom edge that should look horrible but somehow doesn't). They have a lot of charm.
@@BackToTheBlues I think those controls look so cool. :)