The pickguards usually had chamfered edges. The clear pickguard featured on the top models was now routed for a wide pinstripe and a Hofner logo, filled with gold detailing. Hofner attached its pickguards at three points, so the plastic never came into contact with the guitar tops.
Common finishing nails were used to attach pickguards at two of those points: a small hole was drilled at the side of the neck and another on the base of the bridge. The nail was sandwiched between the pickguard and a small piece of pickguard material glued underneath. This wonderfully shoddy approach is part of the charm of these guitars. On the top of the line guitars, the clear pickguard was attached to the neck and bridge with neat little pins drilled right into the side of the pickguard.
A bent metal bracket was attached to the guitar side with a single screw running through a countersunk hole in the bracket. With most pickguards, the bracket was friction fit to the underside of the pickguard through a slot made of glued-up pickguard material. With clear pickguards found on the fanciest models, the bracket was attached to the pickguard with a single nut and countersunk bolt.
Originally mounted like the older pickguards, they were eventually mounted directly onto the guitar face with countersunk philips head screws, with small risers to raise the pickguard off of the face of the guitar. Plating Hofner generally used nickel-plated metal parts except for its top of the line guitars, which used gold-plated parts. Pick-ups Pick-ups went through several changes manufactured by Fuma in Berlin; single-coil, with six multi-slot screws on chrome-plated metal bodies riveted to matching non-adjustable chrome-plated bases Hofner single coil pick-ups with rosewood bodies and black plastic caps, mounted on matching rosewood bases with height-adjustable knurled aluminium rings on aluminium posts Hofner single coil pick-ups with all-plastic cases, usually black, sometimes white, mounted on matching bases with height-adjustable knurled aluminium rings on aluminium posts Hofner single coil pick-ups with slotted metal covers, nicknamed "toaster" pick-ups, mounted in thick black plastic rings.
Height adjustment was through double set screws threaded directly through the bass and treble sides of the plastic ring, directly holding the pickup.
The rings were attached to the guitar body with two countersunk screws through two tabs on the treble and bass sides of the rings, hidden from view by the pickups themselves. This meant that the rings had to be attached to the bodies first, then the pickups installed. No holes were cut into the guitar faces as a result, but for small holes drilled to allow pickup wires to pass through the guitar tops.
Hofner single coil "super-response" pick-ups with six exposed slot-head screws and the Hofner logo in a rhombus stamped on the faces the Hofner logo facing either toward or away from the screws depending on whether it was a neck or bridge pick-up.
These were larger than the "toaster" pick-ups, and were mounted in thinner-walled black plastic rings. Height adjustment was again through double set screws threaded directly through the bass and treble sides of the plastic rings, directly holding the pickups.
Different ring heights were used depending on pickup placement at the neck or bridge, and different pick-up heights were also used, particularly on the "Verithin" model guitar. The rings were attached to the guitar bodies with two countersunk screws through two tabs on the treble and bass sides of the rings, hidden from view by the pickups themselves.
No holes were cut into the guitar faces as a result, but for a small holes drilled to allow the pickup wires to pass through the guitar tops. Hofner "nova-sonic" humbuckers with chrome covers. These had the same six slot screws as the "super-response" units, but opposite each screw was an exposed rectangular "staple", hence the nickname "staple pick-ups". These pickups had the same dimensions as the "super-response" pickups, and were mounted the same way on early examples, but were introduced right around the time when Hofner changed its pick-up mounts.
The new humbucking pickup-style system had the pickups suspended from Gibson-style black plastic rings by two spring-loaded, slot-head machine screws with squared-off tops. The rings were attached to the guitar bodies with four black countersunk Philips head screws at each corner of the rings.
This meant that tops of the guitars had to be cut under the mounting rings to allow the pickups to hang properly. This affected the construction of Hofners in that the struts, which had previously been glued to the underside of the top in a v-shaped configuration, converging toward the neckblock, were eventually replaced with parallel struts, spaced widely enough apart to accommodate the holes in the top now required for proper pickup installation.
Hofner bar pick-ups with a solid blade in a black plastic surround set into the chromed cover. The blade was notched below the B string and there were six adjusting screws set in the chrome cover near the pick-up edge.
There were two versions of this bar pick-up, one of which fits into the existing Hofner pick-up mounting rings, the second of which was longer and narrower, and fit into very cheesy-looking oversized mounting rings.
These were followed by humbuckers which increasingly came to resemble Gibson pick-ups. Bridges Hofner used several bridge assemblies. They had wooden bases, with knurled aluminum wheels on aluminum posts, on which sat wooden bridges. This was the basic bridge. The "fret" or insert was set in diagonally across the top. I have also seen ebony and rosewood versions of this style. Ebony or rosewood, with moveable fretwire, height adjustable with 2 screws.
This was the classic Hofner bridge, with four open slots, separated at the ends with white plastic, into which were friction-fit pieces of fret-wire that could be moved between slots to optimize intonation.
Ebony, adjustable, with celluloid and mother-of-pearl inlay I have yet to see one. Standard rosewood or ebony two-piece bridge, similar to those found on Gibson or Guild archtops Guild used a lot of German hardware - their wooden bridges were probably German as well Several other good quality bridges were subsequently used as well.
Hofner also introduced some really stupid bridges. One design used adjustable white plastic inserts which slid along channels in the top piece of the rosewood bridge. This bridge was not so bad, but the design was subsequently copied in black plastic, and appeared on many cheaper Hofner archtops.
It stained the top black under its feet, and had extremely poor tone transmission qualities. Hofner also introduced a distinctive chromed or gold-plated metal bridge with adjustable clear plastic inserts that could be intonated by being slid along a metal channel, all on a solid black dyed maple base.
Necks Hofner used maple for its necks. Neck cross-sections were typically two piece, three piece with a center seam of beech, or five piece not including any additional wood glued to either side of the headstock. Hofner always used volutes on its instruments, which varied from hard, defined edges to soft edges.
Necks were always attached to bodies at the 14th fret, using simple tapered mortise joints. The fingerboard tongues extended over the bodies in a violin-like manner, with clearance underneath the board. Early Hofners had this tongue supported by the maple of the neck, which continued underneath the board and tapered up to the end of the fingerboard.
This was because the tongue tended to warp upwards during the dry winter months, dangling as it did over the guitar top with nothing to keep it in place. The soft, high moisture content spruce was much more stable and less susceptible to seasonal humidity changes. The rationale behind this design was based on avoiding contact with the vibrating guitar top to optimize its acoustic properties. Oh, well. Hofner archtop guitars were built with Fingerboards were always rounded at the body end, except for the Club 60 models.
Frets were of varying styles, with brass frets on the least expensive models, and a tendency to increase fret size as the models got fancier. With a few exceptions, the tendency was to bind the necks before fretting them, and to cut through the bindings to accommodate the frets. To American eyes, this makes the guitars look like they have been improperly refretted, but they were mostly built that way. However, specific models were fretted without cutting the binding.
There was little standardization of neck shapes on pre-truss-rod Hofners. They ranged from boxy and narrow to clubby and narrow to clubby and wide my favourite. These "c-shaped" necks tended to vary more in terms of mass than in shape. Or is it their upper end? Messages 4, Jun 30, 2 late 80's Strat knockoff with a Kahler or something similar. Hohner guitar serial number lookup on Meal Planning hot trello. How Old Is My Guitar? Use the Serial Number!
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