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OK, you talked me into it:

Love me some Albert Lee! Although there's plenty of red-hot chicken pickers around, He pretty much made the mold and broke it, at least to a wide audience, with this one from 1971. On Jerry Reed's electric classical, no less.

Aaaand safely arrived at Casa Del Mrjamiam! Thanks, James!

Back in the day..................

... at least at my home: Recently I discovered this beautiful neon sign (not LED!). I suspect that it is from the 80s or 90s. I even had to buy a step-down transformer to be able to use it. Amazing that it survived all these years unharmed. With more than 40 Hamer guitars in my collection, it seemed to me to be the cherry on top. I hope you like it too.

Never tried the Vega-Trem, but it should fit since it has the slotted mounting holes. If interested, I have a Super Vee that's been in a drawer waiting for something, though it briefly lived on a partscaster and worked decently. Just the bridge and arm, nothing else.

Gotoh calls it "Cosmo Black" Schaller calls it "Ruthenium" Genuine Schaller Germany Lockmeister/Floyd Rose Trem/Tremolo Arm, RUTHENIUM https://reverb.com/item/82904549?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=82904549

I love it...

That looks like the Cosmo Black I remember from my '87 RG550.

I have a friend (!) who has had a Rainsong grand concert sized as his main gigging/touring guitar for easily a decade, maybe more. He lives in Upper Michigan but tours all over the country with it. It sounds decent, maybe even good for a grand concert but he uses a mag soundhole pickup live so, hard to say. Seemed nice enough the few times I got to fondle it but it was always in a noisy environment. One thing's for sure though, it's amazingly rugged, the tone never changes and he leaves his more exotic/wood guitars in the studio.

I was the person who was working on buying the guitar. I've since changed my mind no fault of Zorrow. Super nice person.

Do it.. do it ..do it..do it..do it... you spent your whole life making due. Now you can finally get the one you really want... age does have some privileges!!! Doooo IT !!!! PS: Try out their Sitka topped and all the others. I bought a Santa Cruz that day. I wish I would have bought the McPherson! Same money.....

Yeah, but they're made in Wisconsin. so waaaay worth it. Hmmmm....about 2 hours from here....and about 30 miles from Dave's in La Crosse......world's most expensive road trip......

10 pack of Jackson Brand (I don't know who the actual manufacturer is) 09- 42 gauge nickel steel strings- $55 shipped CONUS 3 pack of Fender 09-42 gauge strings - $25 shipped CONUS

Thanks but his brain is set on the Vega-Trem and there's no changing it. F***in' guitar players.

Quite a few hits on "rainsong" if you search the forum, back to 2008. Uniformly positive impressions, from what I saw.

Agreed 👍

I hated playing that song, and usually I hate seeing others play that song. If the singer cannot nail it, do not even try. Brent Smith is one of the few people who can pull it off.

Also check and maybe see if this one fits, it's a Gotoh: https://www.philadelphialuthiertools.com/bridges-and-tailpieces/gotoh-f3-replacement-tremolo-arm-for-ge1996-bridge/ or just replace with a Gotoh.

Suppose I gotta try one......🤔

You may just have to settle for black. Try sending an email to Ibanez.

When Albert Lee played a show in March he mentioned that he is the only member of Head Hands and Feet that is still alive.

I was wondering about that, but I didn't know how to comment without somehow pooping on someone's FS post. You clearly state who made the guitar. No misrepresentation there. It's of interest to me because just today I received a gen-yew-wine Fender baritone conversion neck for a Tele body I've had lying around for quite some time, almost certainly a copy. So when I put them together, it's a lowdown partscaster. But the neck is Fender and it has a Fender serial number, which is all I think any all-Fender guitar has in terms of individual identity. I don't do much selling, and I don't expect I'll ever sell it online, so I don't know how a case like that would fly. Also just today I learned that Made In Mexico is now Made In Ensenada, although the serial number still begins with MX. Anyway, good luck with the sale and contending with the powers that be.

I believe Cosmo Black is their term for that color if I remember correctly.

and really really heavy to be authentic I just watched that the other night too, I though it was good. The truss adjust nut is probably the best clue, the fakers would really have to go to some effort to do a Gibson style truss rod nut. Whenever I see one at a pawn shop, I always start by assuming it's a fake

Headstock repair?

Bought my J-45 there

Got a friend in high humidity Houston who has played his more than a decade loves them,

Hi Folks, First off this is not a plea for money, I appreciate all the support that people send, and I plan to keep the HFC going until it doesnt makes sense. Feel free to read as much or as little of this as you like but I wanted to be transparent on whats going on. As many of you may be aware we have been struggling over recent months. Our hosting company was sold last year and things continual are getting worse. The service being the most obvious as you may have noticed frequent 503 errors due to them reducing the amount of resources available. They have also increased our hosting prices by over 300%. furthermore, the plan we are on no longer works for us due to the resource demands from the board and the only option for staying is Virtal Private Server which cost exponentially more than of a traditional shared hosting account or offloading the board to invision cloud hosting but that alone is over $1000 per year and I dont want to lose the other pages. This really maked me miss the old days when I hosted the HFC on a throw away 386 running linux and apache in the basement of my inlaws office. Anyway, over the last few months I have been trying to find a situation that was reasonably affordable. I am planning to move hosts and am close to narrowing down my choice. The initial costs are reasonable as they give you a deal for a year then increase your monthly the next year. One of the issues is the size of the database as I have been retaining ALL posts from when we first moved to invision 20 years ago. I like the idea of having them available to search and revisit. However, I might need to drop quite a few or them. If I do, I will keep a copy and maybe bring it back up under an archive site. We'll see. I am working on keeping the recent stuff going first. What you need to know is this migration is going to happen soon, likely in the next two weeks. The site may be down or unavailable for a while as I migrate data. maybe days but I am hoping to avoid that. Please give me some grace on that as I do have a real job as well which has been very heavy. Lastly, I want to thank each and every one of you for being here. YOU are the HFC not that site and I am going to do my best to keep this clubhouse going as long as I can. your friend Ted Martin

Death to the traitor! How dare you ... 😉😉😉

What do you want to know? I was assembling them at the cs in 2009, 2010. They're nice. (Big necks)

Two things of note: 1: Explorers/Vs with that upper-bout, strap button location hang strangely. Much prefer it on the back of the body. 2: That is one beautiful, solid chunk of mahogany. Woof.

*Pfft!* I got WAAAYYY more records than that!

I like it... It looks like they used nice woods... I like the whole entire room as well~👍

…if anyone wants to stop by and mock me and/or Jon Kammerer Customs guitars.

Did Gene go to stomp on a pedal and stomp on your foot by accident? 😁

Right now, they're "proprietary", but very much in the "G" realm. I have them in another Hendrick and they are really like a lower wind PAF. They remind me of the pickups in my purple sparkle Gretsch Jet that were designed by Tim Shaw.

Ting Ho Dung has confirmed the Monaco Elite has landed and zenmindbegginer is a very happy dude right now. Hopefully he'll stop by the HFC sometime soon to share a quick pic or video of it in action. Thanks to Thorn for facilitating this transaction and to the HFC members who contributed to this effort. And congrats again Geoff on reacquiring that badass guitar! Hope to see it in action soon 🤘🤘

Hey Tom, I sent you an email. Hope you're well.

Nice pair of Chicago made cuties. My 1979 Hamer Standard and 1979 Dean Z. Post up some vintage goodness for all to enjoy! 😎👍❤️🏁

I got to hang out with him and he took us through his touring guitar racks and let us monkey around with and shoot pics of his gear for the Hamer book. He couldn’t have been a nicer guy, nor more generous with his time. I saw him at a NAMM show 5-6 months later, and he remembered me without any prompting and wanted to know if the pics came out okay or if we needed anything else. Super talented guy, and he is so much more than just “that guy in Gwen Stefani’s old band”. I am hoping for the best for him.

Been a minute since I've posted but thought I would drop a post to recognize our awesome HFC community. Our very own zenmindbegginer is being reunited with his former Hamer Monaco Elite, which you might've seen him making sonic love too in various clips for Seymour Duncan. Another member, Ting Ho Dung organized an effort on Facebook to raise over $1300 in donations and several from our great community jumped in to help. As you can imagine, Geoff is beyond grateful and stoked to be getting his axe back. Congrats to Geoff on reacquiring this beautiful instrument and hats off to Thorn for his generosity and the amazing anonymous members here for their donations! This is how it's done 👌👌👌

I posted a while back I had bought a beautiful 1994 USA DuoTone. Inititially I was suspect, I could tell this guitar had been cased for a long time. Electronics didn't work, fret board and bridge where super dry. I gotta say after giving this guitar some love a clean up/fix up full set up it's one of the finest guitars I own. Incredible playability and tone. What a fantastic job Hamer did building these in the mid 90's. I absolutely love it!!!

(Photo stolen from Graffiti Yellow, 2019)

I always liked that crunchy sound they made when you step on them.