I determined that if I got one, I would provide as full a review as I could – what you now see before you. ![]() And lastly, today’s Vikings are really, really cheap. Secondly, Hagström is a Swedish brand, originally producing all their guitars from Älvdalen in central Sweden until the early 1980s (a casualty, it seems, of the trashy Strat copy business that sprung up at that time). But just a quick glance at the Viking tells you how much character it has, and if Hagstöm cannot boast the heritage of Gibson, the Viking can at least call upon quite some pedigree of its own. ![]() So, why the obsession? Well, I tend to be a fan of semi-acoustic guitars in general, although very few ever seem to match original Gibson models. I think I first read that these instruments were being reissued in late 2008, but you don’t see many in the wild, nor indeed, many reviews. You see few 3/5s on, and I recently trawled all the reviews available on and found little that did not represent amazing value.įor all of this, I could find little online in the past year to feed what I freely admit was becoming something of an obsession with the Hagström Viking semi-hollowbody electric guitar. Most people that are compelled to write a review of something seem to do it out of a particular love for that thing, or conversely, because of a particular axe to grind. ![]() Online reviews, especially those solicited by Amazon and their ilk, tend to be pretty useless.
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