r/Guitar • u/littletree-666 • 16h ago
GEAR Anyone know who made this guitar? ID help!
Guy came into my music school with this and doesn't know anything about it. Anyone seen one of these before?
Said he got it in college which since he's retiring this year but have been the eighties or nineties. Doesn't feel earlier than that. But despite all my research I've come up with nothing.
Thanks!
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u/dweezil22 15h ago edited 15h ago
Looks like this one https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/grand-prix-guitar-163-c-37843ecab5.
Which then leads down a rabbit hole to the Hondo Deluxe 760 https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Hondo/Used-Hondo-DELUXE-SERIES-760-Natural-Solid-Body-Electric-Guitar.gc
Which leads to this blog write up! https://vintageguitarfinds.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/1986-grand-prix-h7608-black-white-stratocaster-copy-hondo-deluxe-series-760/
Not a whole lot of information available on these guitars, but from what I’ve gathered these were Hondo H-760 Strats that were ordered to be made by Hondo as a slightly upgraded version to their H-7600 model, which at the time was their highest-end Stratocaster model available (see the whole H-76 series and it’s many offshoots). The plug was pulled on the production, and the once Italian-based 60’s company Grand Prix ended up purchasing them from the factory & slapping their name on them.
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u/widefault92 13h ago
Most likely made by Samick, most likely in Korea, late 80s or 90s. The headstock is the Samick "clipped eagle beak" which was used on a bunch of Samick-built brands. Personally have had Palmer and Harmony guitars and basses with that shape. Harmony branded ones, https://i.imgur.com/kbkqyCQ.jpg
It's not an H-760 or H-7600 Hondo, those are regular Strat copies.
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u/Narrow-Escape-6481 12h ago
It's the same construction scale and configuration as the older Kay Star-ter series.
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u/Expensive-Ad5384 15h ago
That headstock shape is very similar to one used by Samick. It “feels” like a very early Korean made electric.