Category:Hondo (guitar company)

**Hondo**
	American guitar company and brand
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Location	United States of America;
Inception	1969;
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Hondo guitar company — formerly in the United States.

Bibliography

Hondo. Acoustic Guitar Values, BlueBookOfGuitarValues.com. Blue Book Publication, Inc.
- Tom Malm, MBT International
- Michael Wright, Guitar Stories, Volume One.
Hondo. guitar-list.com (2006-09-06). Retrieved on 2014-06-10.
"The Hondo guitar company was originally formed in 1969 when Jerry Freed and Tommy Moore of the International Music Corporation (IMC) of Fort Worth, Texas, combined with the recently formed Samick Company. ... The original Korean products were classical and steel-string acoustic guitars. In 1972, the first crudely built Hondo electrics were built. However, two years later the product line took a big leap forward in quality under the new Hondo II logo. Hondo also began limited production of guitars in Japan in 1974. ... Hondo was one of the first overseas guitar builders to feature American-built DiMarzio pickups on the import instruments beginning in 1978. By this year, a number of Hondo II models featured designs based on classic American favorites; these copies were very good instruments and have become highly collectible. ... In 1979, over 790,000 Hondo instruments were sold worldwide. All guitar production returned to Korea in 1983. ... In 1985, IMC acquired major interest in the Charvel/Jackson Company, and began dedicating more time and interest in the higher end guitar market. The Hondo trademark went into mothballs around 1987. However, Jerry Freed started the Jerry Freed International Company in 1989, and acquired the rights to the Hondo trademark in 1991 ... The Hondo Guitar Company was purchased by the MBT International (now Musicorp) in 1995. ... Hondo celebrated their 25th year of manufacturing electric guitars in 1997. Musicorp also owns and distributes J.B. Player instruments which replaced Hondo in 2005. "