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Höfner Model 4575 65-3
Hofner Model 4575 65-3
This Höfner Model 4575 “65-3” guitar which dates to 1965/66 and I’ve just rewired it as the controls were unreliable. despite a good clean.
Alan at Project Guitar Parts supplied the switches and also a reproduction pickguard and bracket. The pickguard needed to be cut to accommodate the pickups.
Eagle-eyed aficionados will spot that the tremolo arm is not correct and the owner’s next job is to source one to fit.
Are u selling it?
It isn’t mine to sell!
Are you still looking for a Hofner 4575?
A Hofner just like this one fell in my hands in early 1979, from my music teacher Robert Barta who lived in Downey, CA. I played it throughout ’79, and it went into deep storage for a long time. When it emerged from the caverns in 1994, the electronics were shot, and I didn’t have the means to repair them, so I traded the guitar for some recording gear at a music store in Sherman Oaks.
I would be very interested to learn what became of that guitar after it left my hands.
@Davide – I have a 4575 Cherry Red for sale you are still looking ?
Mr 4575
How much for this Guitar Höfner Model 4575 65-3
Best regards Thomas Blangs
Is there a label inside the body cavity?
Geoff
http://www.verithingeoff.com
I can’t remember Geoff, it was seven and a half years ago!
Thanks for the reply Steve
The reason for my question is that the 4575 and 65-3 are different guitars. The 4575 was built for distribution worldwide, excluding the UK, and had no serial number. The 65-3 was built specifically for the Selmer Company for sale in the UK and had a label with the model and serial number
I had one of these (as it had the label it would’ve been a 65-3). That’s one volume, three tone controls there, you could get an incredible range of tones using various combinations of pickups and tone control settings, and I turned a switch on the main control plate into a phase switch for the middle pickup, which increased it again. Before I bought it the previous owner had had the neck slimmed down, so that was a natural finish, and it was a lovely guitar to play.
When I split up with my girlfriend and moved out she said she’d miss that guitar as she loved the look of it, especially the striped look of the wood on the back, so I said I’d leave it with her so I’d have something to ‘twing’ when I visited, as we were still on friendly terms. And that’s what happened. After a year or so she met a new guy, who I Iiked, and he eventually moved in. My visits grew fewer as I didn’t want to get in the way, but after a few years she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and a year after that, she died. As he’d just lost someone he loved I didn’t have the heart to ask him if I could have my guitar back, and so I lost it. He’s moved on now, I don’t know where he or the guitar is, or if he even still has it, but I miss it so much. It was a beauty, and a link to her.