I would have preferred that the Telecaster neck was a wee bit thicker, but it’s still very playable. The neck pickup actually sounds a bit like the in-between neck and middle position on a Strat. It’s the same with the new Hohner Telecaster, pretty nice neck and great pickups. It’s not the best Strat I have ever played but the neck is really chunky and the pickups sounds really good. This was one of the first Japan made guitars I bought, I found it in a charity shop in Camden in London for £50 in 2009. This would have put me off if I wasn’t so gay for my old beat up Hohner Strat. Having said that, this Telecaster is extremely heavy so maybe they sandwiched a chunk of mahogany together with an ash or alder top layer. These old Hohner’s have a nice solid feel to them and good resonance even though the bodies are made out of plywood, or some form of wood sandwiched together. This weekend I received a 1970’s Japan made Hohner Telecaster. My new Hohner Telecaster, made in Japan in the 1970’s most likely by Morris in the Moridaira factory. I polished the frets and oiled the super dry fretboard and then put on a bone nut and saddle which improved the tone quite a lot. The previous owner had used a collection of random oversized wood screws to keep the machine heads in place so the first thing I did was to remove them and fill the holes. Maya F335G made by Chushin Gakki in Kobe, Japan Even though I really like this guitar I have it listed for sale if anyone is interested in buying it. According to my previous post about Japanese guitar brands Maya was made by Chushin Gakki in Kobe, Japan, during the 1970-80’s.
The only downside is that it feels pretty stiff to play so I will probably put 011’s on it next time I change the strings.
Having said that, there is something with this Maya that I really like, it has way more bass then the Suzuki’s and overall a pretty nice and full sound. There is a huge step up to my Morris WL-35 and Morris W-40 and my beloved K.Yairi TG-40, both in build quality and sound. I would say that it sounds better than the two Suzuki’s I used to have, the Kiso Suzuki WE-150 and Suzuki Three-S F-120, even though the build quality is pretty much the same. It doesn’t sound like a Gibson J-50, I didn’t really expect it too either, but it does sound pretty good. It was in a terrible state and strung with 4 nylon strings so I couldn’t test it but I trusted my gut feeling. As mentioned before, I’ve been after a Gibson J-45 or J-50 for quite a while so when I saw this Japan made Gibson J-50 copy I couldn’t resist.
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