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Höfner Shorty Deluxe RD

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Electric Guitar

  • Classics from the eighties
  • Basswood body
  • Bolt-on neck: Maple
  • Blackwood fretboard
  • Scale: 628 mm
  • Nut width: 42 mm
  • 24 Frets
  • Pickup: 2 Höfner humbuckers
  • Fixed tailpiece and bridge in one
  • Total length: 82 cm
  • Colour: Red
  • Bag included
Available since July 2019
Item number 462983
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Colour Red
Soundboard Basswood
Neck Maple
Fretboard Blackwood
Frets 24
Scale 625 mm
Pickup System HH
Tremolo No
Incl. Case No
Incl. Gigbag Yes
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Design Miscellaneous
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Body Limewood
Top None
Saddle Width 42 mm
Pickup Configuration HH
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Good things come in small packages

The Höfner Shorty is a classic travel guitar that was launched back in the 1980s and has been available again since the early 2000s. What makes this instrument special is that it combines an extremely compact body with a full-size guitar scale length. The basswood body is finished in red, and the bolt-on neck, which is made from a single piece of maple for enhanced sustain, features a blackwood fingerboard with dot inlays and a bone nut. Adding to the features offered by the Standard model, the Shorty Deluxe also has extra dot inlays on the upper edge of the fingerboard and a reversed headstock adorned with a large Höfner logo as well as a second Höfner open-coil humbucker in the neck position. The scope of delivery additionally includes a matching gig bag.

Small guitar, big fun

You can't play full-on guitar solos on a travel guitar, right? Wrong. The Höfner Shorty Deluxe features a full 24-fret register, and its scale length, at 628mm, is the same as that of classic single-cut electric guitars, so lead guitarists can get their mojo working here in complete comfort. The neck is 42mm wide at the nut, meaning that it also has a comfortably slim "vintage medium" profile, and as players have long come to expect from guitars played with a pick, the Shorty Deluxe has a large screw-mounted scratchplate that covers and protects the guitar's circuitry and houses the controls and selector switch for the two pickups.

For frequent travellers

The space-saving (one might even say "pocket-sized") Höfner Shorty Deluxe is the perfect budget-friendly guitar for players who love to travel but don't want to be without a high-quality instrument with a "real" guitar scale length when they are on the road. The only feature that is truly missing here is a whammy bar. The Shorty Deluxe features a fixed, one-piece wraparound bridge/tailpiece unit, which needs to be completely removed when changing the strings, as these are anchored on the underside of the bridge. Players who opt for this guitar should therefore allow themselves plenty of time when re-stringing. Allergy sufferers should also note that the machine heads on the Höfner Shorty Deluxe are nickel-plated.

About Höfner

The Höfner company has a long tradition and was founded by Karl Höfner in Schönbach at the end of the 19th century. Initially, the product range consisted mainly of bowed string instruments, and the first guitars were added around 1930. After the Second World War, the company was relocated to Möhrendorf in Bavaria. In the 1950s, the company flourished thanks to new musical trends, and basses were now introduced in addition to guitars. Legendary models were created during this time, such as the President, the Committee, and the 500/1 short-scale bass, which made music history a short time later with the Beatles. The subsequent boom in Beat music quickly brought Höfner enormous demand and enduring world fame. Today, Höfner is one of the best-known and largest manufacturers of bowed string instruments and of archtop, semi-acoustic, and solid-body guitars, as well as a wide range of basses.

From practice session to party performance

The Höfner Shorty Deluxe measures just 86cm in total, which makes it easy to transport and thus the ideal travel companion for everyone who can't NOT play guitar while on vacation. It will fit diagonally into a standard XL hardshell suitcase, and the included gig bag mentioned above will keep it safe on shorter journeys as well. The Shorty Deluxe's scale length also makes it ideal for practising scales and exercises while watching TV at home or while colleagues are out of the office. Combined with a small battery-powered amp, it can also provide the perfect musical accompaniment for garden parties, barbecues, and even around the campfire - time to ditch those hiking songs in favour of some good old Rock classics.

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In my opinion the best of its kind
Bartok01 25.06.2023
I did an extensive review before buying my first travel electric guitar. The double humbucker was the reason I went for this one and I don't regret. It traveled with me a lot and its sound even ended up in records with celebrity artists from my country with whom I collaborated with. I recommend it.
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Just true to what it is.
TomTom51 29.06.2021
Wanted a travel guitar with a full scale (even if it's a short one 24.75") and not over-expensive (so I basically don't care much). There is not much choice in this area, and I think this product is adequate quality/price ratio-wise... Maybe a little overpriced, you can have better quality for less money when it is about regular guitars. The 1-picjup version has the correct price I would say, but I still wanted the 2-pickups version for versatility. But it comes with its gigbag which is nice (although not super quality, let's see how long it lasts..)
At arrival, relatively suprised in the good way: the guitar was perfectly set-up (a first for me with an instrument bought here), the slits of the head nut look quite ok, and frets are relatively even all along the neck. PIckups height was not really set-up properly ok. But the strings were a 10-46 to swap (to loose on this scale according to me and don't know what brand or their age but they didn't sound anyway), and a feeling very rough to the touch on the wood of the neck and the frets. Very strange, like it was not polished all the way?
When playing, well, as everybody says, huge neck dive... That is I think really annoying and could be a motivation to send it back. But I am not sure other brands of travel guitar have solved the problem anyway? Would need to try them beforehand... I solve it when playing standing by using a second strap going in between my belly and the guitar and over the opposite shoulder from my back. I use this technique to carry more evenly my heavy instruments, and it has the avantage to keep the neck perfectly set. But it doesn't solve entirely the problem: because the very small body and the position of the strap lock, the guitar still tilts forwards and the neck is facing the floor somehow... Strap lock should be on the side of the body not on the rear, there is not enough weigh to balance it properly... For playing sitting, then it is in between the legs like a classical position, and one gets use to maintain it with both legs and picking hand... Not too bad then. But I cannot play it at all on the right thigh it always dives it is really annoying...
After playing a little, the roughness of the neck seems to fade away? Maybe it is just kind of a layer of dust? Or maybe cleaning it with oil can help also, It doesn't bother me anymore anyway.
So today I tried to swap the strings for a 11-50, and I obviously had to set it up properly. So first of all I don't understand the tools furnished with the guitar. The trussroad Allen key is very short and impossible to use almost, not enough leverage, and there is a second small Allen key but everything else at the bridge are all different kind of screws. Bascially needs 3 different screwdrivers. Regarding the strings it is not super easy, there is nothing to keep them in track when tightening it from scratch and they can get stuck in the bridge or the pots very easily. Regarding the set-up of the bridge it is kind of a nightmare, it took me almost the entire day. My mistake was to remove the long screws holding the bridge for the set-up. I though it was just to maintain it. But it actually sets the overall scale!! So I had to restart from scratch when I understood that and I could not make the intonation correct before that. And then, because you have to untighten all strings before each move (intonation or action) and tighten them again after each move to check where it is... Very long and painful. But I finally did it.
Now I am quite happy with this gauge and the instrument correctly set-up. Soundwise, It is not the best pickups of course, but I think it is entirely satisfying for the purpose of this instrument.
So yes, the instrument has some issues, direct consequences of the design for compacity and light weight and there is not much to do about it I believe... But once one learned to tame the beast, I think this is quite OK and it serves it purpose well: travel or couch guitar...

Update:
I have moved the strap lock on the side front of the guitar. There is still the huge neckdive, but not the tilting forward anymore. And now I can use only one strap in reverse (opposite shoulder looping in the back and betweeen belly and guitar) and the guitar holds perfectly by itself when playing standing!! Have taped some rubby-foamy/rubber tape bands on the sides (even above the strap lock) and it is very helpful to help hold it when playing sitting. It is perfect now, I considered the Sonic L-22 as a compromise for replacement, but I would always choose the Shorty now it is a little customed, it is just perfect in combination with an amplug like the blackstar for versatility for example.

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I used it to try and test a new electronics design with rotary switches instead of potentiometer, and I realized the potentiometers installed from factory are 250k. That could explain the sound a little dull as these are humbuckers, maybe change it to 500k would already better satisfy some...
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Zwergenteil mit Riesenpower
Thunderic 24.04.2020
Dieses kleine Zwergenteil ist der absolute Hammer. Eigentlich habe ich die Gitarre lediglich als Übungsgitarre für den Urlaub bestellt.
Angestöpselt über einen Marshall DSL 100 schmeißt das Ding einen Sound, dass ich mir ernsthaft die Frage gestellt habe, aus welchen Gründen ich so viele teure Gitarren dieser amerikanischen Superfirma gekauft habe. Optimal eingestellt vom Thomann Gitarren Service, absolut bundrein, kann man ohne Probleme auch mit einem geschraubten Hals leben. Die Lackierung ist astrein, Mechaniken super und es gibt absolut nicht rumzukritteln. Vor lauter Begeisterung habe ich mir gleich eine zweite bestellt.
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Pequeña Pero matona
Oscar Manuel de Melero 02.05.2020
Pequeña gran guitarra.
Tengo una steinberger para viajar y la cambie por la Hofner.
Las pastillas estan bien , no hace falta cambiarlas.
El diapason solo le falta un poco de hidratacion.
Con el tiempo le cortare la pala y le pondre micro afinador Steinberger.
Para apoyar en la pierna, ya los venden con ventosa de quita y pon , o el mismo de la Steinberger fijo atornillado.
El tema de el balanceo, hay gente que pone muñequeras de pesas en la correa..
"YO" descubri que si pones un tercer tornillo de correa en la pala, ya no balancea..
El tema de la cambio de cuerdas, con un poco de paciencia y punteria, se puede hacer sin necesidad de desmontar el puente (Yo lo cambiare por el sistema Steinberger).
La funda mejor comprar una extra con doble bandolera, pues la original solo trae una y no sirve de mochila, aparte redondeas el precio y te sale el porte gratis + otra funda.
Yo no lo hice por despiste y no se cuando volvere a comprar, pues comprarla sola cuesta el doble por los portes
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