Hondo Chiquita Early 90’s - Red

I listed this as ”very good” because of the mods and the current bridge. Both originals will be included.
A 90s Hondo “Chiquita.“ I’m assuming this after reading a date on a tag that came with this guitar. It’s an excellent shape and it’s had a few upgrades. It is metallic red, in light gold and orange hues pop out.

My goal was to make this Guitar stage worthy. The frets were completely wonky when I received this, It has had a lot of fret work done since and now plays very good. Original tuners were changed to old Grovers, the pick up has been swapped out with a cream bobbin, square bracket 1972–1973 Demarzio PAF that has some wear on the bobbin but sounds excellent. The brackets were trimmed down a bit, who knows why? A 500k CTS pot was installed as well as a 1970s BadAss bridge that I’d had laying around for some years. years ago I scraped the majority of the gold off when I was considering it for another project, that didn’t happen so it shows some wear. Although this guitar has been set up, the saddles were never actually notched. I’m a light handed, loud, player, so this doesn’t bother me and considering the string length it does fine as it is.

I do have the original bridge and pickup (black bob Dimarzio) that will be included with the guitar. It currently has 10 gauge strings on it and disc tuned up to G. If you check online, you will find that I am not the only one who is curious why this tuning wasn’t part of the original design. It plays great. I would recommend some 11s if you’re planning to tune it to standard E.

This comes with its original Chiquita gig bag as opposed to the hard case, which could be ordered from Austin, Texas. original Chiquita gig bag as opposed to the hard case, which could be ordered from Austin, Texas. If this is the first time you have considered buying one of these guitars, or a travel guitar, you don’t have to make the same mistake that I did, when I received this Guitar, it played like a cheese grater and barely held tune/intonation for even “cowboy chords.“ These guitars were made in Korea for the most part, and this one fell into the category of a second rate Korean guitar. I imagine there other Chiquititas out there they have similar negative characteristics that this one did. If you’re looking for one of these and aren’t buying this one, I would suggest asking about the condition of the frets, It’s overall playability, and the internation at the 12th fret. There is lots of basic information about these on other listings. Please ask all questions before buying. If you have negative feedback or less than 10 Reverb transactions, please contact me first before buying this guitar so we can talk.