gmf1a Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Purchased pre 1970 in Germany No serial number or ID someone said it wasa Japanese made Plywood top and neck Great condition and sounds nice thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewjunior Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 that's freakin amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmf1a Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 that's freakin amazing! Someone trying to sell it to me Any clue what it is? Not played in 30 years and stayed in tune when I tuned it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmf1a Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 One more try anyone have an idea how to find an ID? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Summerisle Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Lovely looking guitar. Musik-Schmidt (as I'm guessing you know), was the dealer not the manufacturer they're still in business in Germany today. Never heard of Allround guitars, and a Google search turns up nothing. Have you thought of sending the photos to a specialist in Japanese guitars for an opinion? Such as: http://www.guitarsjapan.com/index.html If you do find out the answer please post it at this forum, I'd be fascinated to know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vomer Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I've no idea what this is. None of the parts look familiar, except the pickup selector switch looks exactly like the one on my EA250; I tried googling "two bolt neck" which I thought might narrow it down; "allround guitar" doesn't help; tried images too. How much is the seller asking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vomer Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I had a feeling Lord S. wouldn't be able to resist a challenge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Summerisle Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I had a feeling Lord S. wouldn't be able to resist a challenge! Ha! You're too kind Vomer...But I'm falling down on the job these days (I still haven't found the answer to that 1996 Epiphone poster question from a few days back which someone posted in the lounge). As regards obscure Japanese guitars... Everyone presumes that information is best found online these days...but I still spend a huge amount of my working day dealing with print sources. I reckon that the answer is probably to be found in an encyclopedia like this: ...but my catalog tells me there isn't a copy in any library outside Japan, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vomer Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Magic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smips65 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Amazing Peter, just amazing What would we do without you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strumbone Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Peter, you 'da man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deflepfan Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Ha! You're too kind Vomer...But I'm falling down on the job these days (I still haven't found the answer to that 1996 Epiphone poster question from a few days back which someone posted in the lounge ). YOU' date=' TOO!?! I must have spent at least five or six hours on that already! Driving me nuts! One would think that being the EPIPHONE forum that someone from Epiphone would help us out with that! BTW, Sweet looking guitar GMF! No clue what it is, sorry. Sheila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianh Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 At least you're still trying to find oddball guitars. I'm still trying to find out who Stacie Jones was.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deflepfan Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 At least you're still trying to find oddball guitars. I'm still trying to find out who Stacie Jones was.... THAT'S exactly what we are talking about!! Driving me up the wall, it is! Sheila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midiman56 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Isn't that what the "Osterhase" does ... "hopf allround"? Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vomer Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Could Stacie Jones be a made up name, just a "Joe Bloggs" to use for a chick in an ad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Vomer wrote: Could Stacie Jones be a made up name, just a "Joe Bloggs" to use for a chick in an ad? JoeBloggs JoeSoap JoeSamick........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmf1a Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 Your guitar seems to be "made in germany" made in the 60s Do a google search for "hopf allround" and you get some answers There was one on Austria-ebay' date=' sold for under 500EURO http://cgi.ebay.at/Hopf-Allround-60er-Koffer-Case-Jazzgitarre-Thinline_W0QQitemZ250550295600QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGitarren?hash=item3a55f61c30 Peter[/quote'] WOW Great find thanks so much Any idea what a good offer should be Needs maybe $100-$150 to make it right I should add that I don't want to pay too much however the owner is a brother of a friend so I don't wish to make an insulting low offer either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Isn't that what the "Osterhase" does ... "hopf allround"? Jim Nah! They're kangaroos Jim! Dig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rewddawg1 Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Here's one for sale the only difference I can see that it's red instead of natural & the pickguard. http://cgi.ebay.at/Hopf-Allround-60er-Koffer-Case-Jazzgitarre-Thinline_W0QQitemZ250550295600QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGitarren?hash=item3a55f61c30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmf1a Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 Wonder where the Hopf prestige sits with respect to other guitars of the same era? Since the Allround has no markings does it represent the lower end of Hopfs? Some say that the Allround was a Glassl design - he designed some other higher end Hopfs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmf1a Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 You probably get the information about this guitar by the "gurus" over there: http://www.euroguitars.co.uk/ Peter I have tried to register there but it keeps saying I did not ID the code correctly Frustrating - seems to be a lot of recent Hopf talk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammybstard Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 I have tried to register there but it keeps saying I did not ID the code correctlyFrustrating - seems to be a lot of recent Hopf talk You probably know this, but if you've been to a page with one of those codes on it and then you use the back button on your browser to go back to that page it dosen't refresh the image properly.It's caught me out a few times before; it always pays to Refresh/reload the page before you start filling in the boxes. I just registered there no problem. Also they might have been having problems yesterday, who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmf1a Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 You probably know this' date=' but if you've been to a page with one of those codes on it and then you use the back button on your browser to go back to that page it dosen't refresh the image properly.It's caught me out a few times before; it always pays to Refresh/reload the page before you start filling in the boxes. I just registered there no problem. Also they might have been having problems yesterday, who knows.[/quote'] Thanks It finally took it last night Must have been a site problem Just waiting on email authorization to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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