Hondo Explorer bass

[Denis]

This is kinda cool.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Hondo-880-Deluxe-Explorer-Bass-John-Entwistle-/110627135758?pt=Guitar&hash=item19c1e4210e#ht_1262wt_194

[Dave W]

A must for any Entwistle collector! 

It's nothing like Entwistle's.

[nofi]

but it's a "vintage" hondo. 

[TBird1958]

As Tom (Heslin) would say " '80s Hondo Def Leppard thing" 

[Droombolus]

but it's a "vintage" hondo. 

Using "vintage" and Hondo in one sentence defies any grammatical rules I've ever learned ....... 

[Highlander]

There's a lot of us round here that could be considered "vintage"...

[FlatEric]

Oooooooooh

I wonder if any Royalties are due to the maker of the Original ExplorerBird. . . . . . . 

Mmmm

Peter. . . . . .  . ?

[Highlander]

You'll p*ss Carlo off by mentioning the "R" word...

I'd probably say, "in the style of..."

[godofthunder]

For import stuff back in the day these were not bad....................not great either. They went for about 100 bucks or so. I saw a unmolested one in black locally for $119.00. I passed nothing to get all worked up about unless maybe for sentimental reasons.

[Dave W]

I've never been impressed by any Hondo although there are worse basses out there. It just floors me that something that's nothing like anything JAE played would claim him as a selling point.

For his next act he'll probably offer a basswood-bodied bolt-on EB-0 copy with a P pickup and skulls painted all over it as a "must for any Jack Bruce collector."

[Denis]

When I saw Man...Or Astroman? recently the bass player, who's played Danelectro Longhorns for years was playing a Hondo Longhorn this time. After the show I asked him about it and he said that the old Danos were rather fragile and sort of rare to be played they way he plays them so he put an original Dano lipstick pickup in the Hondo and it sounded great.

[Dave W]

Was it a hollowbody? The only Hondo Longhorn I've ever seen in person was a solidbody. More durable than a Dano, for sure, but there's no way a lipstick pickup would make it sound like any Dano.

[nofi]

i played a bronze colored hondo longhorn with a p bass type pickup. it was heavy and solid body. i have seen a few more over the years so i know it was not a one off.

[ilan]

12lbs., pass.

[Droombolus]

There's a lot of us round here that could be considered "vintage"...

Hell yeah but no one here is called Hondo .......