H101 - anybody?

[bigfatarthur]

So,

I bought a H 101 about 30 years back. I played around with it for a bit and has ended up in a cupboard for a long long time.

Before there's any castigation about that being irresponsible behaviour, I've found it again and thinking about treating it to a new set of strings.

Does anybody know anything about these? There are some old threads about them being rare and some time back I called the factory whereby some guy said something like ' oh yeah, I remember them, didn't make many'  almost as if the H101/104 were forgotten.

Anyhow, I bought the thing in 1987 (or thereabouts I think), never seen another in the flesh, whenever I ask guitar shops about it, I get blank faces, or 'it looks like a Kramer'. If that is the case, were these made up from bits and pieces that were laying about ?.

Don't get me wrong, I'd like to use it more, but

I never found it the easiest of guitars to play....

Any information gratefully accepted.

Fat Arthur

 

[TalismanRich]

There's not a lot of info out there on the 101.   There was a thread on it from 10 yrs back.

 

 

[DetroitBlues]

I may be mistaken, but here is what I remember/assumptions:

• Mahogany Body with a Strat-like body
• Bolt-On Maple Neck
• Banana Headstock
• Bill Lawerence Humbucker Bridge Pickup
• Single Volume Control Only
• 24.75" Scale
• Maple Fretboard
• Fixed Tele-like bridge
• Some weird fuzzy like paint finish.

Does that sound about right?

I believe this is bare-bones student model like guitar. 

My guess is this developed from the short-lived idea of Heritage building Fender guitars.

[bolero]

It's all about the bananas baby. Too bad the Andy Warhol signature model never saw the light of day.

Come Mr Tallyman, tally my bananas.

Day-oh. Daayaayay-Oh. Daylight come and I want to go home.

 

[bolero]

apparently if you duct tape the headstock, the gtr is worth more money to collectors