This is a superb German vintage offset guitar, with a great clean tone that also gets along with heavy distortion and fuzz. It has a mahogany neck with super-awesome inlays. It is a great player, very light and resonant with lots of tonal possiblities. It comes with the original very special case. The cracks on the back of the headstock are only in the lacquer (my luthier inspected it, I played lots of times on stage, countless in the studio andit is probably like that for decades). I tried to capture the in the last pictures the fac that the cracks just dissipate in the laquer, there is no continuation on them.

The neck is a 'forever straight' one.

It weights 3,7 kg which makes it the lightest offset guitar with tremolo (and 3 pickups) that I have ever played.

Hopf was one of the biggest luthiers in germany during the golden age of german guitars from the 50s to the 80s. They are known for their creative and unusual electric guitar designs and their very good and long lasting craftsmanship. The "Telstar" Model was named "Telstar" to pay tribute to the famous NASA saltelite "Telstar" wich was launched in 1962. The guitar was produced between 1963 and 1966. The Telstar came in two variants: The "Standard" and the "International" edition. The International edition always had a golden hardware and 3 pickups and is way more rare than the "Standard" edition. There are some other differences, like the higher quality wood they used on it.