Although very nicely appointed, Hofner actually made quite a few significantly more elaborate guitars, even than this. The headstock flower motif and Hofner logos are inlaid in pearl. The body binding is 6-ply black and white (b-w-b-w-b-w), whilst the neck features the famous striped neck inlays. This guitar is finished in translucent Cherry (nitrocellulose), rather similar to the fore mentioned Gibsons, with a fully bound body and neck, including front, back, headstock and f-holes. The vast majority were fitted with two pickups, as shown here, but some three pickup Verithins were also produced, along with examples with stereo wiring. The earliest examples were produced in mid/late 1960, but by the end of 1961 the pickups had already changed from the toaster style units, to the 510 'diamond' pickups shown on this example, which comes from early/mid 1962. Like other Hofner guitars produced in the 1960s, the Verithin changed somewhat over the years it was produced, most notably with regard the pickups fitted, and associated controls. It was a time when new American guitars like the Gibson ES-330TD and ES-335TD were highly desire able but largely unobtainable for the vast majority of UK guitar buyers. The Verithin ( not Verythin!) was a thin semi-acoustic electric guitar produced by Hofner in Germany, specially for distribution by Selmer in the UK and beyond.
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