1953 HOFNER COMMITTEE ARCHTOP GUITAR

SERIAL No: 2008

Body Date: 29/08/1953

 

COURTESY OF PAUL SMITH,  NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND:

 

 

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Note the tortoiseshell pickguard which was fitted to the very earliest Committees. It would appear that around 20 were fitted with this type of pickguard before Hofner adopted the clear perspex type.

 

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Detail of the edge binding around the single layer pickguard. This is very unusual for Hofner.

The fitting of individual tuners on a Hofner Committee of such an early date is unusual. The majority were fitted with 3-on-a-plate classical style units.

 


 

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