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I have that effect on forums.

Love that color!

I dig the checking!

that was fast - sold within hours of listing

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I don't like this thread.

Modifications: - Head conversion - from 3x3 to banana headstock. It looks like they did a good job, unfortunately serial number and original logo were lost. There also questions about stability as upper strings are now pulling from the section added to the headstock - Some hardware replaced - Repainted to white (based on video it used to be blue) - Checkered pattern added on front only. IMHO it looks off, they should have painted the sides as well. Seller's asking $2600 (no affiliation) Hamer USA Blitz Explorer w/ case Get your Cheap Trick on! | Reverb

1969 - Let It Bleed - I'm an old fart...

And big gloves and shoes...

Yeah, chicks are weird like that. You know, dumping a poor schlub for a guy with money. And fame. And cool friends. And hair. And.....

Just rub it in, why don't ya.

I listened, and watched, the entire video. First song the singer couldn't sing on key. I was disappointed after watching your first video of them, "The Dress." I figured she couldn't sing live. Then the second song she was pitch perfect. So either her monitors weren't working (yet) or she was doing it on purpose which is hard to do. I'm impressed.

Nobody's picking on Nigel.

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A Titebond Saga I’ve never repaired anything, barely survived shop class in grade school, and became leery of any implement that could injure my hands, especially when performing nightly fed self and wife. But still, I know about Titebond. In ‘86 my band’s opener was a cover of the Hooters’ “And We Danced.” I played the intro mandolin part but had only one beat to get rid of it in order to slam the opening guitar chord. Seemed impossible until our road man, John, suggested he stand at the back of the stage to catch the mando as I threw it hard behind me. Just in case of mishap, I bought a marginally playable bowlback mando at a pawn shop for this maneuver. Sure as shootin’, one night I hurled the mando backwards a little too high and hard. Our lighting dude said he saw John leap for the mando but it sailed past. No surprise, the mando was in pretty rough shape. But, road crew being what they be, John said he could render it playable by the next night with the help of Titebond and a handful of rubber bands. He did, “and we danced,” and that’s how I learned to revere Titebond. Epilogue: Road guru John became a respected sculptor in New England. Years back when I last spoke to him he had just designed an installation for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. And another postscript: The music directors/accompanists for the Chad Mitchell Trio have included Jim McGuinn, the 12-string wizard of the Byrds, John Denver when still named John Deutschendorf, and Paul Prestopino, later on guitar, banjo and mandolin for Peter, Paul & Mary. When Paul invited me to sit in at a Chad Mitchell Trio reunion gig we traded mandolin and guitar back and forth. His mandolin was an ancient Silvertone I found all but unplayable due to sky-high action. But I gave it my best shot, and only then realized that that’s the very mandolin Paul played at the beginning of the original 1985 video of the Hooters’ “And We Danced.” I haven’t thought of any of this for decades until I read this thread about Titebond.

I'm still taking great care of it. I didn't resell it. I haven't sold a single Hamer I purchased. I gave a beautiful Early Korean 3 piece neck Californian to my niece. I replaced the tuners with Hamer Branded, the bridge with a Rio Grande BBQ and the neck with a SD 59, CTS pots. I had a luthier respray the Neck in Nitro because it was sanded. I wanted to put a Hamer Schaller on it but the luthier said the one on it was fine. Also a Spark 40. I wanted to be the uncle to her that I didn't have. She took up golf and rarely plays. The OBLs are amazing. I hope you're really not upset with me. We messaged to and fro and you seemed ok with letting it go.

Bummer. They are awesome basses, especially the glue in necks.

no such thing....

That's a good call. I can hear what you mean.

Has a No Quarter vibe to it.

And our girlfriends would have dumped us every minute of every day for the guy.

Haha, you may be correct, but trust me, I can be awkward as hell if I don't want to be awkward as hell.

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'79 Sunburst [img]https://i.imgur.com/HEx4Kzi.jpg?2[/img]