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  1. SOLD In honor of its 20th birthday (Monday, 23 October), I offer for sale the Kiz' Senior. SOLD The guitar: As I understand it, @kizanski was placing a special order for a vintage orange Junior in a batch @BCR Greg was getting together. . Kiz placed a second special order for an 80's-style Special in matching vintage orange using a @hamerhead Sustainblock bridge. Kiz witfully dubbed the second guitar the "Senior," and that's how the guitar has been known since. So what is it? A slab of mahogany, (Hamerhead machined) Sustainblock bridge, two humbuckers, three-way switch, two volumes and a master tone - much like an 80's Special. The most significant difference is this has a vintage carve neck [1.76" nut width, 2.035" wide at the 12th fret, 0.903" thick 1st fret, 0.940" thick at the 12th fret]. The only thing I didn't like about my 1980 Special was the neck. This guitar fixed that perfectly. The legend of this guitar includes it being bought and sold by multiple HFCers (some, multiple times). The charge was the guitar was deemed "too bright." It seems everyone bought it, tried a pickup swap (or ten) and moved it along to the next owner who tried more pickups. I took delivery from @bubs_42 on 15 May 2012(!) and, IIRC, it had a set of PRS pickups that Kiz had put in it (in his second or third time of owning it). I plugged it in and yep, it was too bright. At the same time I had a phenomenal Special FM that had Rio pickups. I didn't care for the PRS pickups - the intent was to tame down the brightness - so I did a couple of things: 1. changed out the stock Hamer 0.015µF tone capacitor for a splendid 0.022µF capacitor I had gotten from @murkat; 2. I replaced the bridge PRS pickup with the Rio Genuine Texas out of the Special FM neck. Spectacular! Goldilocks tone clean or dirty. I then custom ordered a zebra Buffalobucker from Rio. Those are the pickups that have been in it since. The tone control is a push-pull pot that, when pulled up, splits off one of the coils on each humbucker for single-coil-ish sounds. The Sustainblock really helps with single-coil authenticity, especially in the bridge position. Here's the rest of it: It's mahogany, but not "lightweight" mahogany - the last time I weighed it (eleven years ago) it was 8.7 lbs (I'll try to weigh it again - I have access to the same scale. It will be interesting to see if it has dried out with any significance). So, on the heavier side for a Special, but not Norlin Les Paul heavy. Since there have been more than a dozen sets of pickups in and out of this guitar over the years, the neck Volume control can be a touch scratchy. The original Tone potentiometer is included, so that could easily be repurposed as a replacement volume pot. It just never bothered me enough to make the change. It hasn't been played regularly in quite a long time. It could use a set of strings and a fret polish (see photos). It's 20 years old. It's in really good shape, but it does have its bumps and what not. I'm easy on all my stuff but have seen myself more of a caretaker than owner of this particular guitar. I see nothing through the finish and no Hameritis. Thanks to the benevolence of Kiz himself, the original Warranty Card and hang tag are included (out of the blue Kiz mailed these to me a few years back - what a guy!). The case is in fine shape with all latches working as they should, just a bit tarnished. The color is Transparent Orange w/o Sparkle - due to the underlying hue of mahogany, in some light it looks orange, in others its brown. Beautiful grain in either case. The creme coil on the Buffalobucker is (oddly) more of a mint green (not quite early 60's Fender pickguard, but a nod toward). Not sure why that's the case, but that is the color they called creme at the time. It's fine. I just would have preferred it match the DiMarzio surrounds I bought for it. There it is. Happy Birthday to the Kiz' Senior. Here is a photo sampling taken today with my trusty iPhone. Let me know what other shots you'd like to see or what other questions I can answer. Kiz' real name is on the Certificate so I blacked it out in the photo (i.e., the black mark isn't on the Cert). Anyone who's owned it, feel free to chime in and let me know what I forgot or got wrong.
  2. PSA from TGP NOT MINE! wttf Les Paula tri burst custom is at the top of my list....but will consider any standard or above. I have the following items to trade: - Gibson ES335 Yamano - USA Hamer Monaco III - USA Hamer Studio Custom - USA Hamer Special - several USA Strats and tele's - several JW Van Customs - Koll Duo Glide - Anderson Cobra http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=1491850&highlight=hamer edit:for pre-coffee dyslexic problem
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