Name That Plank

Tim · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:24 am Post subject:

You sure its not the V3-RY/5H-1T version, or is that paint job decieving me?

Gordy Smiff · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject:

For the briefest of seconds, I was expecting a serious reply to this thread.
The entertainment value offered so far has (for me at least) made it all worthwhile.

Oh by the way, the owner of the plank has just told me he inherited it from a dear departed friend. Which begs the question, who needs friends like that?

1bassleft · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 12:25 am Post subject:

Without wishing to be flippant (somebody died and all...) I can just imagine when the will was read out, like a scene from Brewster's Millions:

"To my friend, I leave a substantial sum of money but with one proviso. He must also take this Hondo guitar, restore it to full working order and gig with it at the Friday Night Open Mike Jazz Club for a whole month".

Unless that's a really substantial sum, I'd have passed on the deal and made the lawyer keep it.

glw · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject:

There's another one of these for sale here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/80s-HONDO-H-1-STAR-MIJ-JAPAN-SET-NECK-ELECTRIC-GUITAR_W0QQitemZ260240398614QQihZ016QQ

Perhaps your friend would like to buy it and have a pair of horrible looking guitars? (Are they worth more as a pair?)

Unfortunately, no case with this one, although that could be a blessing given the size of it.

Did they make a bass version? Can you imagine how big the case for that would be?

1bassleft · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject:

So the model # is H1? Lee was half-right; the guitar is semi-5H1T after all. BTW, that Hondo on Fleeb must have the nastiest looking rosewood fingerboard I've seen in a long time. Pop it straight into the ugly 50 please, Mike.

Gordy Smiff · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the LOL's guys, and a particularly big thank you to glw for finding the info I need to shut the poor guy up.

SB · Jammin' Hot Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 163 Location: USA

I am obviously way behind on this thread and all the entertainment value may be exhausted but I do have this bit to offer.

GLW, they did make a bass version cleverly titled the "B-1".

The H-1 was not the most radical guitar design Hondo was offering in 1984-85. Check out the UFO, Hondo's "Unidentified Fretted Object".

Besides the guitar, Hondo obviously spared no expense in hiring their Wonder Woman model. Gordy, if you puked in your mouth at the H-1, I suggest you avert your eyes now.

I may be old, but I recall Wonder Woman pushing the frontiers of the costume a bit more than this willing lady.

Gordy Smiff · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject:

^Now that was a worthy bump, thanks for that, oh and ''Ze goggles, zey do nothing !!''.

glw · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject:

Seeing as their shapes complment one another, did they actually fit together to form a doubleneck?

Tim · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject:

Please don't....I was desperately trying to avoid visualizing that.....hard with such a tempting little gap! But no! they're 2 seperate guitars!!!

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