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Hagstrom HJ500 Semi Natural Finish

Hagstrom HJ500 Semi  Natural Finish

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  • Contoured North American Maple Body

  • North American Hard Maple Set Neck

  • 2x Hagstrom HJ-50 Humbuckers

  • Every inch a jazz masterpiece.

A jazz masterpiece ... the HJ500 from Hagstrom

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£399.00

was £479.00

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Gig

This is a first class guitar from Hagstrom and resembles one of those guitars that appeared on the cover...

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Hagstrom HJ500 Semi-Solid Guitar Natural Finish

A relative newcomer to the Nevada Music Warehouse is the newly re-launched range of Hagstrom guitars. These were popular back in the 70’s and early 1980’s until prohibitive manufacturing costs forced a closure of the factory in 1983.

Thereafter Hagstrom became a much sought after instrument and were cherished by collectors and guitar lovers alike. The brand has now been re-launched and are now made in a brand new state of the art factory in China which has helped to reduce the retail cost to enable the brand to compete in today’s modern market.

The HJ500 is a semi-solid wide bodied guitar that will appeal to jazz, rhythm & blues and Rockabilly guitar players. This is a very elegant guitar and the body is made from contoured Canadian Maple with a Canadian Hard Maple neck. The famous resonator fret board is essentially a wood composite material that has qualities that make it more stable than any standard wood product and eliminates wolf tones and hot spots. Sound wise it is comparable to high quality Ebony – but obviously without the problems or the cost associated with Ebony.

It also uses the famous H-Expander truss rod that allows for a very thin neck and a very low action. It runs the entire length of the neck and is a rigid yet lightweight alloy truss rod that resembles a letter “H” but turned over onto its side. The pick-ups are the Hagstrom HJ-50 Hum-buckers and have chrome covers set into black plastic housings and are managed via two tone and volume controls – one set per pick-up, whilst on the lower shoulder of the guitar is a 3 way toggle switch for pick-up selection.

At the base of the guitar is a very beautiful Ebony “Jimmy” bridge with an ornate Hagstrom Trapeze tailpiece, the HJ500 also features two “f” style sound holes on the left and right hand side of the main body. Adjacent to the pick-ups is an attractive Tortoise shell floating scratch plate and the Resonator neck has Pearl Block fret position markers. The review model was in a Natural wood finish however this model is also available in Cherry Sunburst and Black Gloss.

by Gig Stig

This is a first class guitar from Hagstrom and resembles one of those guitars that appeared on the cover of the “Mel Bay play a tune in a day” tuition books from back in the 1960's that featured a smiling Mel Bay on the cover playing a beautifully ornate wide bodied Jazz guitar not unlike the HJ500.

 

Considering this guitar is made in China I am astounded by the quality of the finish which is superb. The sound of this guitar acoustically is very nice which bodes well for the up-coming test of connecting it to an amplifier.

 

The amplified sound is rich and warm with the neck pick up giving a thick creamy Jazz/Blues tone whilst the bridge pick-up is a little snappier and probably great for soulful R&B. The neck is extremely comfortable to the hand and there’s plenty of room for swift chord changes or rhythmical jazz chords.

 

When the HJ500 is cranked up a few notches it also produces some very nice blues tones that have plenty of sustain and resonance that would delight many blues guitarists.

 

This is a great come-back from Hagstrom, like a Phoenix from the flames they have turned it all around and now have a very good range of quality instruments at very reasonable prices. Give yourself a treat and come down to the Nevada Music Warehouse to try them …

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