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By definition they would not be the same, since he is no longer in the band.

I'm glad I started this topic. It's great to see all the cool pics and hear all the stories. It's nice to say we all have this to enjoy. I don't think there's a more interesting company history when it comes to custom builds, stories, behind the scenes documentation and just plain fun stories, than what came out of Hamer in the last nearly 40 years. More firsts, innovative designs, ideas and custom guitars came from Hamer, than any other guitar company.

Can't remember who this one was for. Anybody?

I especially love the fabulous example of the looser/flimsy action of the vintage tremelo (versus Floyd) while he's dive bombing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzzGWK5F_Lk

It has what - IMHO (In My Hack Opinion) - makes him special. Chops sure, out the wazoo. But his playing sounds FUN, at least when he's having fun. It swings and bounces and jumps and dances.