Hi, new to this website. I just inherited this cool guitar and I am trying to find out what year and where it was made. The number on the back of the headstock is 14218. Also, wondering how much it is worth? It’s in excellent condition. I cleaned it up nicely and put new strings on it. I also have the case, also in good condition. I’ve included a photo. Sorry, but I was only allowed one as a new user. I can follow up with others if necessary. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Jerry
Hi Jerry, it would be great if you could tell us the model name and post a photo of the number, I’m not certain if the number you quote is actually a serial number. Most of these older Hohner guitars aren’t especially valuable, but they often offer great quality.
Cheers, Steve
From my research online I think it might be a 1970’s Japanese made HG-430L?
Thanks for the identification, here the available infos on that model:
Your guitar was built in Japan in 1977 for Hohner UK, probably in the Moridaira factory
Mahogany body, neck and headpiece, fully bound. Bolt on neck. Rosewood fingerboard, perloid markers. Tune-o-matic style bridge. Stop tail piece. Gold plated hardware. Scale 24 3/4". Deluxe humbuckers with adjustable posts. Individual volume and tone controls for each pick up. Ebony black, tobacco sunburst, cherry sunburst, natural grain maple;
We don’t have any information on what it may now be worth, best check online,
cheers
Steve
Thanks so much! I really appreciate your help!
There’s an interesting progression going on here. The Hohner bolt-on neck Les Paul copy started as a Japanese made model called the HG-130 in the early/mid 1970s. When the model numbers were re-organised around 1976, it became the HG-430 (which wasn’t just a UK model Steve, it’s more common in the US if anything), still Japanese made. These will often have a 5 or 6 digit serial numbers on a gold sticker on the headstock. But then at some point (presumably late 70s or very early 80s), a Korean version was produced which was called the HG-135. This is one of those because the “baseball” inspected by sticker is unique to the Samick factory in Korea.
That’s for the information. I appreciate it!
The tuners and headstock inlays look more modern to me, but there were quite a few variants as they moved production to Korea.
