Is This My Old Guitar From The 90s?!! - Radioshop Hohner SE400 Story

[@skyking2815]

I bought this same guitar new in 1993 at a small neighborhood music store in Folsom, CA. I paid $600.00 for the guitar and fell in love with the sounds it produced. For a long time, I was contemplating buying a Gibson L-5 guitar, but it cost almost seven times as much and when I compared the sound it wasn't that different to warrant paying that much. I own more expensive electric guitars, but I keep coming back to this guitar, I like the sound. I still have the original Kent Armstrong pickups in it. The main thing that I can complain about it is the wiring harness and pots never worked well from day one. The pots are of inferior quality. I recently found a highly rated luthier in Sacramento and will have him install a new wiring harness for me, but the Kent Armstrong pickups, I like them. The guitar neck is undeniably top notch for me as it has very good action and I have medium size hands. I just play it straight through a Fender Twin reverb or a Fender Performance 650 amplifier without pedals. The three pickup settings are good enough for any style of music. Now, that I am 67 and lost a lot of muscle, the guitar feels really heavy. I actually get a neck and shoulder ache from playing it too long, but I will play this guitar probably as long as I live. Your background story is a good one for guitar players wishing they never got rid of their first guitar. Mine wa a Gibson SG with Bigsby vibrato bar which I copied after Terry Kath when I saw him play in Sacramento Memorial Auditorium around 1969 or 1970. But, I like the SE-400, better.

[@bluesjmoon]

thanks for sharing your great story🙏🎸🌈

[@civiprepper]

Great Story there. I have owned a Hohner professional SE35 in black which I purchased new since 1988. Its been re-fretted and Pleked recently and has a Bigsby B7 installed. Totally in love with her and play her more than my Gibson LP standard double cut.

[@tonybrooks476]

I still have my first electric guitar. It’s a Hohner Arbor Series S type. It’s a tired old thing but I am glad I kept it. My youngest started learning on it about 3 years ago.

[@bluesjmoon]

Simply great story. Thanks much🙏

[@RadioshopPickups]

Thank you Aliguitar!

[@andrewsmith7543]

Good story to read right as I'm considering buying one, but keep thinking there's a bird in my house :D

[@sophiehayes7254]

Lol, we shazamed you playing waterfall, and it said "Waterall, 12 inch remix"

[@bamboosa]

...and thanks for the soldering lessons. Best in KZbin by a country mile.

[@dancygibbon9717]

Hey, ive been looking at a se-400 on reverb and am so close to buying. Haven’t got any experience playing such a big bodied guitar, how big is the difference between playing this and say a strat sized guitar? Would you also recommend the se-400 for dirty distortion as well?

[@RadioshopPickups]

It's quite a different experience. I probably wouldn't recommend for heavier styles. It'll feedback a fair bit. It's a jazzer really - great for fingerpicked and rock n roll too 👍

[@dancygibbon9717]

@@RadioshopPickups thanks man, you’re not selling yours on reverb atm by any chance? ItS from the uk haha

[@jazzydog]

Very nice video & beautiful guitar & sound. Cheers.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

Yeah, sadly we've all been there. 😢

[@bamboosa]

Dude. I am 66. I have owned, maybe, 21 guitars in my life. Supro Ozark before I found out that Jimi's first electric was a Supro Ozark. There is no way in heaven and earth that I would not know if I was holding my old guitar. No way - even that horrible Peavy solid-body, second worst electric ever made and I have owned Tadesco's. "Sadly I don't think it's my old guitar." Tough life. Give ukuleles to the street people kids, you'll feel better and when they say "we have no food - no food in the bins!" you can throw the peace sign and say, "let them eat music".

[@seamanjive]

You got the guitar...now get some proper strides. Great story.

[@RadioshopPickups]

Haha 🤣 Love it!!