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Hamer Blitz case for a blitz with a 3x3 headstock configuration. The Hamer logo is there, barely, but there. Case is in good shape. Packed in a new uline box and padding, ready to go, you buy the label. $300. paypal okay, you fees.

This is not my wife, but she's "just like" this one 😂

1978 B&C. it's all there. Blem around switch area. Neck is straight, no twist. $4000. I will ship in a new uline box, packing materials. Paypal okay, you fees. You supply shipping label. questions? More pictures? Get a hold of me.

I don't think that's the one for sale. The OP says his is "Just LIke" this one.

Yeah, he's really the "father of the superstrat", or at least an uncle. Even though I think he sold the company to Grover Jackson in 1978 after bankruptcy, he'd already changed the landscape.

Birds Eye Maple body and neck.

I purchased a custom shop SG from @santellavision a bunch of years ago. It has the Alnico 3 Custom Buckers in it and has THE sound. Playing it immediately turns me into a five foot tall schoolboy.

If it was across town, I'd go get it. Across the ocean, I'm not so quick on the trigger. The thought of having nearly 2% of the entire Graphic production is enticing, though.

Good grab! It was in my cart for a minute.....

Or the birth of the "superstrat"

Shaking the tree for a Korina Newport Pro or Korina Newport. Let me know if you have one or see one for sale please.

Oh man, that's sad to hear. The importance of his shop to the guitar community in the LA area cannot be overstated, and without Charvel, there very possibly would have been no Jackson. The list of people who had worked with his shop, from just getting work done to getting a full custom guitar, reads like a Hall of fame for LA guitarists of the 70s and 80s.

Thanks for posting. While it did pique my curiosity. It just sold. (Not to me)

What @diablo175 said. Taking this TDC to heart, it sucks. When I was in grade/middle school, Wayne's shop was up on Arrow Highway in Azusa, CA. I wasn't playing guitar yet, but I have fond memories of riding my BMX there and just staring at all the guitars on the walls. Wayne and his employee were nice enough, mostly ignoring me as it was a business. First time I ever saw a Marshall full-stack...it scared me, lol! A few years later when I did start on guitar there were shops all over SoCal with Charvels, and they were expensive! Could never afford one then, and original PrePros are going for upwards of $10k these days. RIP, Wayne. You were a talented builder and a visionary.

Just a quick update. 1) I posted earlier that it came with the unfilled warranty card which also stated that the guitar shipped with .009s. I restrung it with .009s and the floyd is set up perfectly! I was literally wondering if the strings on the guitar were the original?? 2) The strap button is on the upper bass horn and there was never a strap button not the rear neck heel, I've also seen the placement in both places and wondered when/why it shifted? But it obviously came from the factory this way as the back is pristine. 3) No Hameritis here but the headstock does worry me .... it's fine now and honestly I doubt I'll take this on many gigs but it sits in my studio and looks great ... and I'll play it when I need that kind of thing. I think many of those headstocks suffered damage as many people crank down the nut way tighter then needed, it just has to be tight enough to stop string movement but people really overdo it. Let's hope the headstock holds up but I don't see any reason why it won't. 4) I've figured out the switching system .... I think it's very versatile but also way more complicated than I would like .... I could easily have lived with a simple 5 way but ... it's fine.

The only shredder guitar / only Floyded guitar I have ever owned was a Charvel. I much preferred the aesthetic of the Ibanez Jem guitars, but it came down to what @diablo175 said, the neck. 1987 Model 3 (bought in '86) with EMG SA/SA/85 and SPC control I soldered up in my dorm room. I wish I had it back!

I am not a fan of the 57's. I have a set in a CS ES339. Same kinda deal, muddy, no expresivness. Just gets muddled together and lost. Tell Josh what your looking for and he'll deliver. Has several times for me. I don't know how much time he has for winding between running the Bar/dancehall and being on the road gigging. But give him a shout.

It's funny, that same 72-ish SG (that I completely destroyed through "modifications") had for a time an interesting neck position pickup. I had, at the same time ('86 or so) an original '56 Danelectro Silvertone U1 (that I sold here around 2008 to @GusS, but I digress). If you've been into one of the originals, the pickup and mount look like this: The bracket just screws to the bottom of the lipstick tube. If you take the pickup off the mount the pickup is the exact length of the ears of a humbucker route. So I removed the bracket, placed the pickup in the route and screwed the empty humbucker ring into place. This held the pickup snuggly in the route and viola! A single coil in the neck position. It actually sounded very good (IIRC - it has been forty years...). The only reason I took it out was to put the Danelectro back together. Not suggesting you do anything of the sort. I bring this up only to point out, there are lots of options other than another humbucker, especially if you're looking for chime. Don't forget about the DiMarzio EJ Custom that is, according to Mr. "I can tell the difference between an Energizer and a Duracell in my fuzz pedal," is "almost as clear sounding as a Strat pickup."

Words cannot express what Wanye accomplished! Just a straight up good guy! The world just lost a good one RIP Wayne

Wayne’s passing came as something of a kidney punch. Charvel Guitars were peppered throughout my formative years as a guitar player, and what eventually drew me away from my beloved Hamer Californians!! A lot of that came down to the neck. Charvel has always had really comfy necks! From the lower end, Mexi-builds all the way up to the Custom shop, masterbuilt’s- they’ve excel in their comfy and fast neck, profiles, even when the front work didn’t quite measure up.