| Free shipping on many items! The MONO M80 Vertigo Ultra Dreadnought Acoustic and Semi-Hollow Guitar Cases come complete with a range of game-changing design features, including the patent-pending attachable FREERIDE Wheel System, premium water-resistant and reflective materials, shockproof shell structure, and improved ergonomic features. United States. Eschewing the fine-tune bridge and stop tailpiece of the Standard, Sunbursts featured a one-piece bridge/tailpiece assembly similar to that found on a stoptail Strat, with adjustable saddles and strings passing through the body. Martin Barre of Jethro Tull (VG, October 97) also ordered an early Hamer. Dantzig left Fender in 2010 to build instruments under the Jol Dantzig Guitar Design name. Serial number 0001 went to Ted Turner in 75. This came with a special alligator hardshell case. Questions about older Hamer made in Korea | The Gear Page In December 2012, Fender announced that Hamer would no longer produce guitars and the company would cease to operate. C $853.11. In 97, the name changed again to just plain Artist. The third new style introduced in 82 was the Blitz Guitar and Bass. Beginning in late 1987 serial numbers were again stamped into the wood. Kahler flat-mounts were used on the Phantom, Scarab, and early Blitz models. Hamer, Monaco and Slammer are registered trademarks of KMC Music. However, this first version did not survive through 84. Finish was a brownish-red called Cognac. When asked why Hamer was chosen as the brand name, Dantzig replies, Well, we just thought Hamer sounded more like a guitar name than Dantzig. instrument. I couldn't find any local to try. Basically, the Blitz guitar was an Explorer with a glued-in Hamer neck with the tapered three-and-three headstock. 92 Hamer Slammer humbuckers and single-coils (black, DiMarzio) After all, a late-50s Les Paul was just a little more than 10 years old.. Also beginning in 87 Hamer began using Seymour Duncan pickups. The headstock was the split-V three-and-three with a black face. Production was reportedly around 10 guitars per week. The Artist Archtop was an equal double-cutaway (as with most Hamers, upper horn slightly extended) with a mahogany body and ivoroid-bound carved flamed maple top. The Hamer factory was very inconsistent with custom requests approving for some and denying the same requests for others. By the 90s, virtually all other vibrato guitars featured Schaller Floyd Rose systems, cast with a Hamer logo. Indio, CA. This looked like the old model, complete with pickguard, but was now made of solid maple with a glued-in neck and scimitar headstock. There was a small black pickup, three-way select, volume and tone controls. Except for the V-shaped bodies, these conform in all details to the original Standard including the Explorer-style headstock. There were six tuners on each side of the head, in two sizes, with smaller ones for the octave strings. The Import Echotone and Stellar 1 did not have USA equivalents. Mine was made at the Cort factory in 92 but I can't say for sure if all Slammer Series were made by Cort. Guitar #8 21416 was made in 1988 and was the 21,416th guitar so numbered. dovetail neck joint and fitted with a Hamer Dog Eared P-90, the SPJ provides resonance galore. Color options were Cherry Sunburst, Purpleburst and Blueburst. The Standard The original version also had a Wilkinson Wrap Around bridge, although by 97 this had changed to a finetune bridge and stop tailpiece. First was the Phantom A5 guitar. However, the truly deluxe features were 25th Anniversary engraved sterling silver truss rod cover and back control plate, a line of sterling silver purfling on the inside of the body binding, and a special silver-colored hardshell case! Off Broadway John Ivan Sunbursts (4) Only a 3 way tangle and 1 volume and 1 tone control. Dantzig controlled 60 percent of the stock, the rest was split between Hamer and Untermeyer. It had a British Honduras mahogany body with a glued-in mahogany neck, the droopy banana or scimitar six-in-line headstock, an unbound fingerboard with dot inlays (243/4 scale), fine-tune bridge, and stop tailpiece. With the influx of cash, the company relocated to Palatine, Illinois, to a larger space with some new equipment. cond. Through a friend, guitarist Gary Gant, Dantzig met another guitar player named Paul Hamer, and the two struck up a friendship. By late 98 the logo treatment on the Indonesian Slammers changed to a more contemporary italic typeface. It met the same specs as the original, with a one-piece mahogany body, bound bookmatched flamed maple top, glued-in mahogany neck, droopy six-in-line headstock, twin humbuckers, finetune, stoptail, three-way, volume and two tones. The Hamer Archtop The Archtop is based on the Hamer Studio body, the third classic Hamer design introduced in 1977. Paradise Derek St. Holmes Standard The Eclipse (Model GECS) was a new asymmetrical offset double-cutaway design with short horns, the upper somewhat larger and rounded, the lower more pointed, and a rounded lower bout. The company's early instruments featured guitar designs based on the Gibson Explorer (The Standard) and Gibson Flying V (Vector), before adding more traditional Gibson-inspired designs such as the Sunburst. Many guitars built between 86 and 89 came with OBL pickups made in Germany. Unlike many, I believe Hamer never dyed their tops to make maple pop, but yet the maple always 'rolled'. Roy Buchanan Roy Buchanan Standards (2) Hamer Guitars Inc. was incorporated in Illinois in 1976 by John Montgomery, Jol Dantzig, Paul Hamer and James Walker. By 1930, and already known as a banjo maker, Epiphone was offering its Masterbilt guitars, and it went on to rival Gibson as the top jazz guitar maker of the era with its Emperor and other archtop models. The first order was from Ted Turner (VG, June 92), bassist for Wishbone Ash, who ordered an Explorer Bass with serial number #0001. In the late 1970s to the mid-1980s Def Leppard used Hamer guitars and basses.
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