Höfner Shorty BL 3-stars Reviews
Nice travelling guitar with some bearable flaws
Bought exclusively as a trevelling guitar.
It is quite nicely built, fretboard is nice and neck is just fine. Hard to balance when sitting; after a series of experiments, including attaching the strap to the head, I found that it sits on your lap the best if you attach the strap normally and hang it on your right shoulder ONLY (!).
As for build quality, intonation adjustment screw fell off after a few days (guess it was not properly fixed), and tuners are very poor quality, you need to tune the guitar almost every time you play it, even several times a day. But the neck is full size gibson, and it is just fine for travelling. This little broomstick went with me to several places in Europe and to the States, and was always fun to play. And it's cheap. But if you have some more money to spend, take something more solid, especially in tuners department.
Was hoping for better
I should start by saying that my main complaint with this is quality control. I seem to have got the one with the dodgy nut and uneven frets. If I had been thinking properly I would have asked for a replacement within warranty but I didn't so there...
Machineheads are pretty rubbish and bridge is not the best although innovative.
Other than that the pickup is great as is the portability. You will need a good strap as the thing is impossible to position otherwise. Good quality gigbag.
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