HNGD: 1950 Hofner 457 blonde

[Hotpepper01]

HNGD: Hofner 457 uit 1959. Begin deze week gekocht en nu al is deze schone blonde Duitse dame "zu Hause". Na wat onderhoudswerkzaamheden zoals schoonmaken, poetsen, toets in de olie zetten, topkam gangbaar maken, stemmechanieken smeren ed zijn er nieuwe snaren opgegaan. Daarna moest er eea worden getweaked. De brug moest worden verlaagd.



Iets over het model 457 van Hofner :

Hofner's most popular mid-range guitar, with a very long production run from 1952 to 1994, a record only just beaten by the 463 model. The equivalent Selmer-distributed version of the 457 was the President model.

The 457 had a medium 16" wide body with flame maple back & sides, and (initially) a solid carved spruce top. This desirable feature had generally changed to a laminated spruce top by the end of the 1950's. Non-cutaway and cutaway bodies seem to have been available for the acoustic version, but the electric models all had cutaways. Up to c1960, the 457 seems to have only been offered in brunette finish. Blonde finishes appeared from them on.

The five-piece neck was a maple/mahogany laminate, with a good quality rosewood fingerboard. During the early 1970's however, the neck was changed to 1-piece maple, which is how it remainded for the rest of the 457's production life.

Various headstock fascia and fretmarker designs were adopted for the 457 during its production period, including pearloid/tortoishell, treble clef, inlaid dagger, and inlaid double rhomboid designs for the headstock and celluloid strip, triple dots, and single dot fret markers. Likewise, various pickguards in several shapes and materials were fitted at different times.

The 457 was initially available only as an acoustic guitar. From 1954 however, electric options were offered with one, two, or three pickups together with the possibility of active circuits for the more adventurous from 1957 onwards. In 1960, an electric thinline body version was introduced which was designated the 4570 model. This was produced up to 1992. To complete the line-up, a comparatively short-lived 12-string version was made between 1966 and 1970, called the 457/12 model.

As one would expect with such a long production run, there have been numerous types of pickups and electrical controls fitted to the President over the 40 years.

The 457 tends to be confused with its close cousin, the 456 model. The sure way of differentiating them is by checking the type of timber used in the body tops - the 457 has a spruce top, the 456 has a maple top.

De mijne heeft de dunne solid carved spruce top. Een ongelofelijk akoestische gitaar. Hopelijk is ze luid genoeg om onversterkt in een bigband mee te kunnen spelen. Freddy Green deed dat ooit ook...Binnenkort ga ik dat eens uitproberen.





Mother of Toiletseat/Tortoiseshell op de headstock

[Gert2015]

Mooie catch Hotpepper01,
Hoe ben je daar tegen aangelopen, geen alledaagse gitaar?
Prachtige kleur met al dat flamed maple, de tijd lijkt geen invloed te hebben gehad!

Enjoy!!!!

[terrasbeest]

( Geen trussrod ??? ).

[Tupelo]

HEE, nice one !!!!

Ik heb zelf een latere 457, en heb daar een Kent Armstrong minihumbucker op laten maken door mijn luthier.
Zo laten doen dat de gitaar weer origineel gemaakt kan worden.

Congrats.
Mijn 457 is mijn main guitar, echt waar.

Fijn type brug trouwens, met die stukjes fretdraad.