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I believe Hohner discontinued this guitar a few years back. They used to have a really good lineup of guitars. I especially liked the Hohner "steinbergers"Why, my Hohoner of course! Beautiful mix of solid maple, thick paint and a sparseness that would make an Amish person blush.
Do stainless steel frets affect the tonality of the guitar or is that not as big of a deal as people make it?2008 Carvin DC150. I paid $425 for it. Mahogany body and thru neck, maple top, ebony fretboard, stainless steel frets. Great sound and playability with incredible ergonomics. I won't say how I feel that it compares to a Les Paul except to say that I sold my Les Paul after buying this guitar 8 years ago (and it still has no fret wear).
There are two I swear by and one might be my favorite all time guitar. Both are Fenders and stupid high bang for the buck fully pro quality. Both are first run early issue as I grabbed 'em up as soon as they hit the HOG.
I love 50's maple neck Fenders. Blackguard Teles and two color burst Strats. I like bigger soft V profiles, 9 1/2 radius and med jumbos and little modern improvements like 5 way switching rwrp middle pup and tone connected to bridge so the Jimmy Vaughn Strat is perfect.
The Classic Player Baja 50's Tele is my favorite though, same perfect chunky soft V neck and the most versitile and simple control scheme that is genius. My go to.
Do stainless steel frets affect the tonality of the guitar or is that not as big of a deal as people make it?
Well, I’ve got loads of non Gibson guitars but non of them are exactly what I would call cheap, but this one was and really is fantastic. I'd had a 70's Japanese copy back 20 years ago and always kind of regretted getting rid of it so when I saw that the Chinese had started doing these I was just too tempted.
From a playing point of view I just buffed out the frets, touched up the nut and that was that. Thanks to the generosity of Melvyn Hiscock I got hold of a late 70's Schaller bridge which was the perfect upgrade for this, not only is it the same dimensions as the original Dan Armstrong bridge but it's saddles sit in the right place relative to the studs to intonate properly and it strings from the back which is advantageous with the front of the bridge close to the pickup. The pickup is now replaced with a Gibson 498T and the ring replaced with a taller one.
What else did I do, kill switch instead of the dopey single/parallel/single switch it came with, brown pearl Grover style buttons on the tuners, and I still had the original Rosewood topped knobs from my 70's copy (why?!). Of yeah replaced the pots as well!
Speaking of Rosewood, anyone who knows this model will remember that they came with a "woodgrain effect" formica pickguard, trussrod cover etc. Well, apparently these resources are never ending in China, the pickguard (trussrod cover etc.) on this is a solid slab of rosewood. I kid you not. This is a slamming guitar, it's WAY nicer than the 70's copy I had before and weighs a totally dealable 9.5 pounds.
I have a suspicion that when they started producing the reissue guitars in the east the CNC code kind of entered the public domain there. The body and neck are identical to a real one (other than the removed pickup scoop). In fact the dimensions (checked with a calliper) and feel of the neck are identical to an early 70's example. Anyway, loads of fun!!
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