Valuation Reports for Used Hondo Guitars Musical Instruments Products. To narrow your search results, enter the model number in the Search box above.
![Guitar Values By Serial Number Guitar Values By Serial Number](http://www.fatendfirst.com/guitars/image-les-paul/law-hondo2.jpg)
I need some help from someone, who really knows about the old Hondo ll Les Paul copies, made in the period of 1977 to 1983 ( made in Japan at this time). I bought one for $50. It needs a new nut (bone is $40 installed), a set-up with new strings ($20 for neck set up, intonation and string height) and new electronics ( LES Paul rebuild kit from Guitar Electronics is $34 plus shipping). Pickups are DiMarzio humbuckers and are working fine. Roughly, I need to know if this guitar is worth spending $160 bucks on it to get it up and going again.
I'm a 25 year experienced player, who is now just playing for fun. I can afford the upgrades and repairs. The neck is bolt-on and my luthier says the neck and body are OK. The body is tobacco sunburst and visually, the guitar is an 9 on a 1-10 scale. I'd appreciate anyone's opinion, or who can supply some information about the guitar in general, who is familiar with specifically the HONDO ll LES Paul copies.with the bolt on neck. Thank you for your time. Well, I don't know how much this applies, but I got a Hondo II model 732 around Christmas for like $50.
It needed a new nut, tuners, and a pickup, but I ended up giving it my first fret job and setting the neck foreward about 1/8 inch due to some intonation issues. I also made a pickguard, refinished the whole thing and added new electronics and GFS Mean 90s. Why did I do all this crap to a $50 guitar? Like you I knew it had potential, and 'good bones' and now I couldn't be happier with it!
Hondo made a gajillion LP knockoffs back in the day and some are great and many are crap. Hell, your model sounds better than mine from the get go!
All the parts makers got their sea legs modding Japanese seventies guitars, so do your best and have fun. I need some help from someone, who really knows about the old Hondo ll Les Paul copies, made in the period of 1977 to 1983 ( made in Japan at this time). I bought one for $50. It needs a new nut (bone is $40 installed), a set-up with new strings ($20 for neck set up, intonation and string height) and new electronics ( LES Paul rebuild kit from Guitar Electronics is $34 plus shipping). Pickups are DiMarzio humbuckers and are working fine. Roughly, I need to know if this guitar is worth spending $160 bucks on it to get it up and going again. I'm a 25 year experienced player, who is now just playing for fun.
I can afford the upgrades and repairs. The neck is bolt-on and my luthier says the neck and body are OK. The body is tobacco sunburst and visually, the guitar is an 9 on a 1-10 scale. I'd appreciate anyone's opinion, or who can supply some information about the guitar in general, who is familiar with specifically the HONDO ll LES Paul copies.with the bolt on neck. Thank you for your time. Do you know the model number?
Do you know if it is a solid wood model? Got any pics?
Question: are you sure it needs all that work like a new nut, electronics, etc? YOu might want to spend as little as possible to get the guitar in playing condition and then after playing it a while decide if it needs further 'upgrades'. I personally would use it to learn how to do this stuff yourself. You can't make it worse, right? And fixing it yourself will make it YOURS. That's true but you CAN make it worse a lot of hondo's that stood the test of times are great players,( after a good setup) and with those dimarzio's you can't go wrong. But all the things the TS says that has to be done he can do it self easely only making an nut from bone can be tricky to get it right.