Hondo was an American guitar company and brand owned by IMC, and later Musicorp, that produced a range of entry level to high-end acoustic guitars, electric guitars and basses with designs primarily based on those of classic models such as the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul.

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Spaghetti Westerns. Justice by Clint. The Duke as Hondo. Cattle drives, horses, chaps, revolvers, rustlers, Rangers and the Red River Valley. It’s the image of Texas that runs through our blood like a celluloid river. But even though this Hondo II Longhorn hails from Texas, like Eastwood’s films directed by Italians and filmed in Spain, there’s a lot more behind the story! Here’s the beef.

1978 Hondo II Longhorn Electric Guitar

Calling this guitar a Longhorn is obvious because the cutaway horns are, well, long. Duh. But in fact, associating the Longhorn guitar with cattle (though perhaps not cowboys) has a basis in ancient history. Technically speaking, this two-horned body is the shape of a lyre. Lyres were in use in Mesopotamia—a region we know today as Iraq—at least by 2500 BC and probably earlier. Since some of the harps (a related instrument) that have survived from that time were outfitted with elaborately decorated bull’s heads, it is entirely possible that the lyre’s shape was also meant to bring steer horns to mind!

The lyre continued to be popular at least through the flowering of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and may have survived in one form or another into the early Middle Ages. The shape was actually rediscovered in the late 18th and early 19th as Europeans became interested in unearthing ancient cultures. By the mid-1800s guitars with lyre arms began to appear. Indeed, they may have been responsible for the invention of harp guitars, but that’s just a guess. Lyre guitars continued to show up in the hands of cute babes on postcards up until World War I after which they slipped from memory, until Nate Daniel brought them back in the late 1960s.

Most of us probably know this longhorned guitar shape from the legendary Danelectro Guitarlin. Indeed, this Hondo guitar was intended to be a tribute to that ‘60s beauty. Danelectro bit the dust in 1969, yielding to the beginnings of international guitarmaking. Ironically, it was in that same year that the Hondo brand was born, soon to become the first significant guitars coming from Korea. Hondo was owned by International Music Corporation (IMC) of Fort Worth, Texas, which was run by Tommy Moore and Jerry Freed. In 1969 IMC had a relationship with Tokai in Japan and in ’69 traveled to Korea and entered into an agreement with a relatively new company called Samick. IMC upgraded the Samick operation with technology from Tokai and began to import Hondos.

To be honest, the Korean Hondos weren’t all that great, but Hondo kept working with Tokai, and some of its deluxe models continued to be made in Japan. Which brings us to this Hondo II Longhorn, which was introduced in 1978. This is actually a swell guitar with a mahogany body and 31-fret fingerboard. It was probably made by Tokai. The active 12-hex-pole pickups were powered by an onboard preamp that let you kick this puppy into overdrive at the flick of a switch. Giddyup!

It’s not clear how long this model was offered by Hondo, but probably only a year or so. By the time this beast was history, so pretty much was the classic celluloid image of Texas, replaced by the post-modern cynicism actually introduced by those Spaghetti productions. Indeed, the Hondo II Longhorn itself was the beginning of a post-modern heritage of tributes that includes the early ‘90s hybrids assembled by Tony Mark and the excellent reproductions still made by Nashville’s Jerry Jones. Nevertheless, when you pick up one of these kick-ass, steer-inspired Hondo Longhorns and throw that pre-amp switch, you’re deep in the heart of Texas!

Vantage Dating and Serialnumbers

VANTAGE serial numbers (electric guitars/basses)

1978?/79:
V-100 model: “V-100”-sticker, no serial

1979 models:
VLP Spirit: six digit ser.nos. 05xxxx

Vantage Standard – VS: five digit ser.nos. 6xxxx

Vantage Performer – VP: five digit ser.nos. 7xxxx
700VP

Vantage Artist – VA: five digit ser.nos. 8xxxx
VA-800

Ghost (VP-750):
no or hard to read serial number.
1979 models: 4 digit serial number.

1979/1980 (until 4/80):
6 digit serial numbers: 0xxxxx

1980 (April) – 1984 (June?):
7 digit serial numbers
First digit = year of production (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984)
Digits 2 + 3 = month of production
VS-650
0040415 = 1980 – April – 0415

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1980/81:
VA-900 series: 6 digits:
First digit (0 or 1) = year
Digts 2+3 month
VA-900
006108 = 1980 – June – 108

7 digit # for late ’81 models

Hondo Guitars Serial Numbers And Dates

1981/82:
“Special” series of VP and VA models: five digit ser.nos: 71xxx or 72xxx(VP), 81xxx or 82xxx(VA) (following the number system of their ’79/ ’80 predecessors)

Ps 2 keyboard driver download. 1984 – 1988:
Letter prefix serial numbers:
(A-L)xxxxxx: letter=month
– A=January
– B=February
– C=March
– D=April
– E-May
– F=June
– G=July
– H=August
– I=September
– J=October
– K=November
– L=December
First digit=year of production (unconfirmed!)
33B-XF
J500338 = October – 1985 – 00338

Ford vcm obd focom download. 1990 – 1998 (Samick models):

Acoustic models (THis information is not verefied!!!)
Matsumoku didn’t produce any acoustic guitars themself. Their were set out to other factories.

Hondo Acoustic Guitar Serial Numbers

Here’s a list of producers with the code:
S = Samick
C = Cort
K = KWO
F = Fujigen
P = Peerless factory in Pusan Korea. PA = Acoustic and PE = Electric

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