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Soo beautiful, I love it pickups sound great! Light, comfy, plays like a dream..Hamer made the best guitars ❤

Felt in love again with a Sunburst: # 8 0313 ❣️ Just purchased her from a nice German guitar luthier named Alexander Fiedler in Lohr, Bavaria. Looks like NOS, even the Hamer Logo has the fresh white like toothpaste.

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For quite a while now, I've wanted to load a cabinet with some of the organ speakers I've collected while tube hunting / scrapping a few junk organs. A couple of weeks ago an empty old Univox U4044 412 cabinet found it's way to me. I loaded it with: Rola/285, Magnavox/232, Consolidated/145, and Cleveland/433 (all 8ohms, and carefully tested with the 9v battery to make sure I had all the pos/negs right). I had a low wattage tube head built locally a couple of years ago, a bassman type pre and single octal power section, sort of like what you might imagine a Champ head should/could be (all vintage usa tubes, a GM labeled 6L6 GB for power iirc), which seems perfect for this cabinet. I admit to being biased, I really wanted it to sound good, -to me it sounds fantastic. Yesterday two friends happened to come by at different times and tested it out, both have had lots of good amps, and quite a bit of experience, - one a whole lot of global experience. Both agreed, that is sounds really great, with or without pedals. It was compared to a jcm800 412 loaded with the g1275t's, and also a smaller ported cab with a single V30. Great pop-metal tones too (my current favorite pedal for that, by a lot, is the tech21 Tri-OD). With the low wattage head, it's loud enough that I have just a little bit of ear ringing this morning. To be fair, the ear ringing is probably from running both 412s, a '68 Ampeg B25 into the Marshall (which is a great sounding amp for guitar or bass), and an old Electric Mistress to split the signal, it sounds so huge, so good... Now if only I was a good guitar player, instead of just a passable bass player! Several Hamers were involved: Proto ii, Cali, Centaura, and SSii, - the SSii is my all time #1 guitar. If you're tempted to try this, I highly recommend it, collecting organ parts for next to nothing is still possible. It is also relatively lightweight, due to the little magnets of course.

Here's a koa top one I have somewhere in storage...

Thank you so much for posting it! Things work out the way they're supposed to if we pay attention to those little voices.. I've passed by some things that in the past I would have been all about, actually just did it this morning on a car that I thought I wanted forever but now realize it just doesn't fit and is maybe a questionable motivation.. I had been looking for one of these in the back of my mind and I hadn't thought that one with this great of a top or with this great set of pickups would show up, but here it is.. facilitated by you, the hfc The seller is a nice guy and we did a private transaction, so the services didn't vampire off either side, I think he needed to raise some funds and maybe regretted selling the guitar, but he also told me it didn't get much play.. it will get lots of play here :)

I believe they started the top mount in '92. Of course, I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Here's an old Ranger Custom I had.

Not really much blacker, but darker though! With Made in Texas 1993 not quite as vintage, unfortunately.

Yes!! Topless with DD pickups!

I sold mine some years ago, and it was really dumb. I was going through a spate of just feeling shit on guitar all together, and my korina standard got scapegoated. Now they are too to dear to ever own another. Upside is I learned that lesson, didn't sell my Shishkov a few months back, and managed to score some Talladegas. They are the ultimate explorer IMO, I guess hence the name for that Shishkov run.

Better photographer than me! Haha. For me, yes. Something about that V neck is just perfect for my hand.

I think the Talladega was one of the best guitars Hamer made.

Here was the workaround I mentioned. Another Talladega courtesy of @lang. This also deepens the mystery surrounding the custom 'Dega that started this. The neck profiles are not at all alike. The V shape on the Custom Tally starts with a V but gets noticeably softer as it goes up the neck, turning into almost a modern C shape. I'd never have known that until this one came in today. I'm wondering if the Mahogany one was ordered with a Tally-Pro neck profile? So far what I know is different about the first one is the Mahogany top and the neck profile. I think I lucked into a pretty unique specimen with that one. The one Lang sent is quite rad too, and exactly what I was looking for - something that plays (more or less) like the initial Talladega but has more of a gibson thing. The WCR pickups in it are rowdy. Funny how when you start gigging a lot it really shakes out what is a great guitar for the house and what is a great guitar to play for three hours. I'll miss the Gibby I just sold, but this one is going to get far more work.

Yeah, it really was... Sick flame on the neck, bound body, ebony board... great player. So, of course I sold it.

Topless with DD’s is the one I want to get my hands on..

I should be forced to look at all bank and credit accounts before being allowed to complete guitar-related purchases.

I'm so confused.

Agreed!

Stopped by to see Matt Smith at the 6 String Ranch this afternoon and had the pleasure of playing a 12 String Duotone for the first time. What a fantastic guitar. Now I've got the itch.

How dare you, sir!

As long as it isn’t that gawdawful tort crap, I’ll allow it. 😉

No affiliation, none blacker. https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/2001-robin-ranger-jet-black.2553501/

I have always found that speakers are THE biggest tonal difference in the entire guitar-pedal-amp-cab chain. Changing speakers completely changes so much. Some amps just come alive with the right speaker. I love trying difference speakers. Even some of the less popular models from big names! Here's a few favs I've found. I love old Hiwatt era Fanes, Super clean JBLs for guitar. Duane Allman reportedly used both JBLs and Cerwin-Vega ER123 speakers) Love my Tone Tubbies too.

The cathode, grid and anode are electrically isolated from each other. Measuring with an ohm meter will show an open circuit. During operation, the voltages applied allow a current between the cathode and anode, controlled by the grid voltage. Like a knob on a water "valve" 😆 Contaminates inside the tube can cause current to flow where it is not supposed to and the will not operate correctly or at all. On an aged tube, material from the cathode will have evaporated (mostly to the grid) and provides a path for current to flow where it shouldn't. Can also be from loose particles that move around or poor vacuum. Hope this helps.

Just says "Talladega." I'll snap a pic later when I get back home.

I mean he does flip guitars as a hobby (or side gig). One should not make any mistakes there. But he isn't as knowledgeable about the stuff he has as a typical flipper. I agree that he doesn't know as much about this item as he probably should.

That's the impression I got as well. I didn't mean to imply that he's doing anything shady. It's just that he PM'd me to ask me to remove my first response to his thread because he didn't "want potential buyers mislead." by my statement - ironic since his FS post is inaccurate.

To cite the Robin website: „Dating your Robin, by the way, should be a piece of cake. As a former vintage guy, Wintz knew to start his serial numbers with the date of manufacture. The first serial number began with 88.“ 🍰!

Glad you picked it up! I was SOOO close to buying that one. In fact, the PayPal option glitched when I clicked to finish the transaction the night before I posted it here. That's how close it was. When going back through the payment gateway again, I asked myself, "Do you really want this to play, or is this just getting it to have it?" I slept on it and decided maybe I should I take that glitch as a sign, but I LOVED the top on that one. That wide flame and f-hole makes it look like a Stradivarius. At any rate, the fact that his selling history on eBay was non-guitar items and that it wasn't listed on Reverb made me feel like this might be a pretty sweet guitar at a very reasonable price. I was hoping someone here would snag it.

Nope. That’s an early Houston Robin. 1991 vintage.

Congratulations! Great looking guitar. Glad you were able to get it.

Looks great. Congrats!!!

Matt is one great and talented human! He truly makes it look easy, but explains things so well. I’m not sure, but that one if either 2 or 3 of the 3-hole Duotones that exist in the world.

LOVE the orange. Congrats!!!

That 85!❤ what are your thoughts on this bridge vs the sustain blocks on your others?

What a fantastic pick up! I tried it both ways, definitely prefer blade to the bridge, it also splits well you know it's good when you just start ripping and much time later still have that big smile Played it so much I got dirty fingers like Gary Moore 🎸❤

Seasonal Summertime Earworms don't necessarily have to have anything to do with Summer as a subject of the song...they just have to be so popular during the Summer that you can't get away from them, no matter how hard you try. Case in point was this song that was making the rounds in Europe a couple of decades ago during a Summer when I was stationed over there, a song which I despised long before it became a Listerine TV commercial in the U.S.:

Bad luck in Russia to throw banana peel away. Pud hedre by vindow.

And of course there's more than one photo from that weekend in 2006. This is BTMN onstage at the Minneapolis Eagles Club during the Golden Jam.

RS is what I have gone to for my T51s. The taper is very usable. Still, I wish people had just left well enough alone back in the day........................

I know I have one brand new one in my stash I bought from @BCR Greg back in the day (maybe a couple). That said, I'll take any anyone wants to send me after an "upgrade." The guy selling the replacements was Roy B at RS Guitarworks. I recall an epic HFC argument over some very technical concepts and don't recall seeing Roy around here after that. Shame, he's a really nice guy. The RS Guitarworks stuff was first rate in my experience - really helped an originally 300k-wired Gibson I still have - but I don't know how much of an actual upgrade it would be in the case of a Hamer. The RS pot values were consistently higher than the typical 500k, which is what you get into with the "golden era" Gibsons much of the time - many (Joe B, for example) find this favorable.

I love the HFC. Only here can we apply Hegelian dialectics to RNR. Nicely played, @LucSulla! So many YouTube virtuosos…I love the little Aisian girl who freaking nails Bonham’s kick drum on Good Times, Bad Times. The two things they seem to lack, as @LucSulla states, is creativity and emotion. Not all, ….don’t wanna paint with too broad a brush…but on average…here in Mid-Missouri about 12 years ago was a 17-18 years, local kid who could play Eruption note for note. Yet he had no swing, no feel, no fire..,it was just rote memorization…,,I tried to encourage him to take his skills and create something new, he just said “But dude, I can play Eruption!” I’d taker hear Keith riff in open G or listen to BB just lay a vibrato stinger on just one note with feeling. I mean I can play Bell Bottom Blues note-for-note but I don’t dare because I cannot play it like EC puri gnout his heart over his (at the time) unrequited love for Patti Harrison aka Layla. You can hear the pathos, the anger, the longing, the hurt in Clapton’s voice and guitar. That is what all musician’s need to feel and translate into music.

Have you tried swapping out the potentiometers?

It’s the topless one that I have always loved. I had been very close pulling the trigger many years ago, when it was available in the bay. One of the best existing. Holy congrats!