If you see a "Hondo Paul Dean II" on tour with Loverboy, it's actually one of these guitars, as the script on the headstock is identical. At least 2 were Paul Dean's own guitars used on tour with Loverboy, a handful more were given to friends/family, and the remaining lot of them were split in half - one half going to promotions, charities, and raffles, and the other half going to local Vancouver music shops for sale. Trademarkia, Inc.The production of these guitars was limited to 50. Musical Instruments, Namely Guitars, Basses, Banjos and Mandolins. HONDO ALL-STAR by International Music Corporation - Musical Instruments-Namely, Guitars.HONDO II by International Music Corporation - Musical Instruments-Namely, Guitars.Player instruments which replaced Hondo in 2005. " Hondo celebrated their 25th year of manufacturing electric guitars in 1997. The Hondo Guitar Company was purchased by the MBT International (now Musicorp) in 1995. However, Jerry Freed started the Jerry Freed International Company in 1989, and acquired the rights to the Hondo trademark in 1991. The Hondo trademark went into mothballs around 1987.
In 1985, IMC acquired major interest in the Charvel/Jackson Company, and began dedicating more time and interest in the higher end guitar market. All guitar production returned to Korea in 1983. In 1979, over 790,000 Hondo instruments were sold worldwide. 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. Hondo was one of the first overseas guitar builders to feature American-built DiMarzio pickups on the import instruments beginning in 1978. Hondo also began limited production of guitars in Japan in 1974. However, two years later the product line took a big leap forward in quality under the new Hondo II logo. In 1972, the first crudely built Hondo electrics were built. The original Korean products were classical and steel-string acoustic guitars. " 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.
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