1980s Hondo Chiquita Electric Travel Guitar
By Trish K. Magill
The Hondo Chiquita electric travel guitar was designed by Mark Erlewine of Austin, Texas in 1979 and with input from Billy
Gibbons of ZZ Top in 1980. Hondo manufactured the guitar under a license from 1981 to 1985, in collaboration with International
Music Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas, and Samick Musical Instruments of Korea.
The short 19-inch scale guitar has a mahogany through neck construction and a rosewood fretboard and measures just twenty-eight
inches from end-to-end. The Chiquita is quite light weighing around 4 lbs.
The Hondo Chiquita travel guitar has a three-piece body, a Schaller bridge, DiMarzio Humbucker pickups, and a single volume
control with no tone control. The guitar has an "H" on the truss rod cover.
Mark Erlewine wanted to fashion an instrument which could be brought on buses and planes as carry-on luggage. Despite the
guitar's small size, the 23-fret guitar was designed to be a quality instrument.
The Chiquita guitar was made famous in the movie "Back to the Future" when the character played by Michael J. Fox, Marty McFly
turns up the amplifier and blows himself across the room playing a yellow Chiquita at full volume.
The Hondo Chiquita requires heavy gauge strings to tune to standard tuning and intonation, however, because the guitar has a
short scale the strings are quite easy to bend. Hondo printed the recommended string gauges on the back of the headstock as
follows: E string .013, B string .017, G string .022, D string .036, A string .046, and low E string .056.
Hondo discontinued the guitar in 1985 making the guitar quite rare. Assorted colors and styles of the Chiquita were manufactured.
The production of the Chiquita guitar ended in 1985, the same year the movie "Back to the Future" was released in theaters.
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