Hohner professional L59

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Hi

I’ve just bought a Hohner professional L59
Serial number 8901097 can anyone tell when and where this was made and any other details thank you

Trevor

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Welcome, i hope you get the answer you are looking for.

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Made in 1989 in Korea.

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Built 1989 in S. Korea, here the available specs:

humbucker, designed by Kent Armstrong; vol/vol/tone/tone; 3-way toggle switch; standard bridge; deluxe machine heads; USA strings; glued i mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard; 22 nickel silver frets; Californian solid maple body; gold hardware; colours: black, cherry sunburst

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Hi Steve,
I just picked up an ST-59.
The serial number is C104340. Guessing it was made in 1991. It’s black and interestingly it has a maple fretboard.
I looked in the chart you copied here but couldn’t find a model with maple fretboard.
Any info and spec would be much appreciated.

Kind regards,
Aron

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I’ll ask Service and get back to you here,
cheers
Steve

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Thanks a lot. Sorry for messaging on 2 different threads, I wasn’t sure I’d posted this on the right one initially.

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Yes, C1 would be 1991. I’ve got a copy of the 1990 Hohner US catalogue which is when the colour range of the ST59 was expanded (and likely contains what was actually sold in 1991). Sunburst and Blue have a maple fingerboard, Red and Black have a rosewood fingerboard. By 1992, the ATN circuitry had been added to the ST59 with trans colour bodies but there was still a non-ATN ST59 available in black. Not sure what the fingerboard was for that model but I’d have thought rosewood as well. So unless yours is actually a very deep blue, it is an oddity. Which doesn’t equate to rare, the Hohner world is littered with oddities that never appeared in any catalogue. The catalogues I have access to also tend to be Hohner US so don’t necessarily show variations (or sometimes entire models) that were only available in Europe or other markets.

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