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...understatement of the year.

Funny thing is they had a similar Special but in worse shape for $1300 for a spell - it's gone. Also, they have been trying to sell a very nice Superpro for about a year @ like $2250 - gone! Either they came down on the price or finally found someone to pony up. I used to work there and will say that Nate is a very fine gentleman who REALLY knows his stuff, but they seem to have changed recently. They used to be a Hamer dealer back in the day, and know a fair mount about them, but tend to be all over the map with their used prices. I was set to buy a used '81 Special there last year that had just come out - tagged at $899 and it was VERY nice. I remember telling them that I had been looking for a clean original Special and they were somewhat hard to find in that shape. Went home, called back and asked about layaway, and was told the price was now $1200! I probably should have kept the old pie-hole shut.......... Have been back only a couple times since.

...understatement of the year. But it's WILLIES!!!!! Do you not understand the fact that this is a VINTAGE guitar store? With pictures of famous people on the walls? And stuff?!? I have been in Willie once about 5 years ago. They had some nice stuff and rotten customer service. I was ready to buy a 1995 Hamer Artist they had for $1500 then they wanted $200 for the case! Walked out with out saying a word and haven't been back since.

For a second I was worried I was getting priced out of the used Hamer market.

...understatement of the year. But it's WILLIES!!!!! Do you not understand the fact that this is a VINTAGE guitar store? With pictures of famous people on the walls? And stuff?!?

It makes the boards flat. Simply running a board through a planer, flipping it, and running the other side through will give you a smooth finish on both sides- but it is not necessarily flat. You can't create a flat surface unless you have a flat surface to begin with. The Newman makes things flat. Once you have one flat side, then the boards go to the planer to create a flat side that is parallel to the side that passed over the Newman. From there you can plane, flip the board, and then plane the other side of the board until you reach desired thickness. An important step that gets skipped in a lot of places. Actually, the Hamer shop is full of vintage woodworking machines. The old stuff is 1000 times better than the stuff built today. No plastic pieces on that stuff ANYWHERE! It's built like a Sherman tank. It has VERY sharp blades spinning in close proximity to the operator. The thing would send your hand up the dust collector before you knew what the F just happened. Just about every Hamer board passed over that thing. Good screen name for Dave since just about every Hamer built in about the last 25 years passed through him at some point. Isn't that fucking priceless. Old school machines and processes always work fucking awesome. G***d has $5,392,742.67 worth of cnc and tooling, plus fucking stupid new wave processes and there shit is fucked up all over the place. Someone shoot me. Let me have my Peanut Butter Ben + Jerry's first. Bm

Shout to pirateflynn !! He might like this thread well, is all about local beer these days (except for Belgian beer, which is to beer what France is to wine) I've met a few good beers when i visited Bruges with my husband (who comes from the French border, Lille), the thing that i love is that in Old Bruges, every restaurant has a brewery (as i recall), so i cannot name them. Jump the pond, come to Quebec and Quebec city, and you have a huge French and Belgian communities, ready to show us their "savoir faire", and Quebequers have learn a few tricks as well, so here are some of the beauties of this corner:

According to the Texas Chainsaw movies... young girls.