Hohner Professional ST59 model specs

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Hi,
I just bought a Hohner Professional ST59 with serial number: C210329
Can you please help me with any specs you have for it like:

  • Year of manufacture
  • Place of manufacture
  • Does C from the serial mean anything (Cort factory?). I asked for another serial of an LP75 and the first two digits represented the year of manufacture.
  • Does it have ATN System?
  • Any other details on this model will be nice to know.
    Thank you!
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Dear Robert,

Thanks for posting here again. So you are a big fan and collector of Hohner guitars or do you deal them?

Have you checked the list in our service area on our web site for the specs?

As for the year of manufacture the serial number C210329 indicates that this model is from 1992. It’s not always the first two digits representing the year. With some models and some decades, the digit representing the decade is missing. So its a result of mix and match I would say. Place of manufacture is Korea. Regarding the Cort or Cortek factory origin its hard for me to make any comments as there has been some confusion over the last years and my knowledge is not 100% founded.

Thanks for your understanding
Kristin

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Hi Kristin,
I just picked up an ST-59. The serial number is C104340. Was it made in 1991? It’s black and interestingly it has a maple fretboard. I looked in the chart copied in the forum, but couldn’t find a model with maple fretboard. Any info and spec would be much appreciated.
Kind regards, Aron

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Kristin ain’t here any more Aron, your query landed with me. I’ll let you know what they say,
Steve

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Hi Steve, I appreciate that.
Aron

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Hi Aron,

your ST59 was indeed made in 1991, presumably in Korea or Indonesia, and then cost around 600DM or just over €300. Below the available specs, though they don’t mention a maple fretboard. Hard to tell whether your one was an outlier, or whether someone later put a different neck on it.

3 HP single coil GS 1S; vol/tone/tone; 5-way switch; bolt on Canadian rock maple neck with rosewood fingerboard; 22 nickel silver frets; deluxe machine heads; graphite nut; USA strings; Californian solid maple body; colours: transparent blue, 3-tone sunburst (RN), black (MN).

Hope that helps,

cheers, Steve

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Hi Steve,
Thanks very much for the details. My assumption is that they initially started manufacturing St-59s with maple fretboard following its predecessor the St-57 which had maple fretboard all the way according to the model history chart.
Then, maybe they quickly shifted to rosewood at some point in 1991. (For whatever reason, probably cheaper)
I’ve now discovered a couple more St-59s with maple fretboard on the internet, but not many for sure.
Anyway, that’s just my theory.

Thanks,
Aron

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You’re welcome Aron. Your assumption may well be right, though Service says they have no record of this and assume this could be either a special edition, or that the maple fretboard was a later modification,

cheers
Steve

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