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Adding a couple of higher resolution photos. These were taken with my iPhone. No filters or retouching.

With the authentic second fret inlay.

And the strings still have tension on them.

I expect he will catch some crap for that part, from wheelchair users and their advocates. I don't remember who it was and therefore can't give credit for the quote, but it was memorable enough that I have remembered for a long time: "I'm not confined to a wheelchair. Confined is what I would be if I didn't have a wheelchair."

RIP... Loved her voice.. ❤️

No regerts.

TDC.

Manchester CT is the next town over from me; email me at stongemon@aol.com and we can discuss what you need. Thanks, stonge

Props for the newbie using "IBS" to properly annoy Kiz. ETA: Hell, when I saw your "Bill Ward IBS" title, my first thought was that Bill had died. 😂

Thanks, man! Who doesn’t like a good Fireglo? Was talking with the Real Guitars guys and we all seemed to agree Ric had the most stylized guitars of the 60s. They weren’t usually employed in surf music, but they really have that cresting-wave, SoCal vibe. I think they’re beautiful.

The first song I heard was You Could Have Been A Lady, a Hot Chocolate cover, I believe. It didn’t do much for me. Imagine my surprise when they came roaring back some years later. It blew my socks off! I ended up digging them after all!

SOLD Great playing and sounding Artist Custom. Rosewood fretboard, frets are in very good condition with some slight wear, but probably 90+% of original height. Weight: 7lbs. 6 oz. Neck depth: 0.87" @ 1st fret, 0.95" at 12th Original Seth Lover pickups and (I assume) original Tone Pros locking bridge and tailpiece. I'm pricing this well below market for a perfect similar model because of the following: There is a professionally repaired binding separation in the top waist curve; There is a small unrepaired binding separation in the lower cutaway; There are tiny indentations on the back behind the upper horn. these are shallow and slightly larger than pin pricks. Photos of these imperfections are attached. No COA, but it includes an interesting vintage Hamer merchandise order form. Price: $1,750.00 plus $150.00 shipping, Continental US only. Sorry about the shipping cost and limitation, but that's just the reality of the market at the moment. If you're in the Chicago or Madison, WI area, I'm happy to arrange an in-person hand-off and waive $100 of the the shipping.

That's my favorite song of theirs.

"Forgetting what I was about to ask Google" is the new "walking into a room and not remembering what I went in there for" for me.

I see what you did there.

I still have your Anniversary Mira with the P-90s. It's still great.

NSRIBS

With guitar center still around, it’s as if Daddy’s Junky Music never went away. (Overpricing, underpricing, mis marking, losing the case, getting a case that wasn’t listed, getting a guitar with another guitar’s COA, never cleaning the grime off a guitar which would reveal a pretty much mint guitar) Never gets old

I got the guitar from Steve many years ago. Went a bit heavy with pen back then.

It's not uncommon for threads to spin off on semi relevant tangents. SuperD's and JB's were mentioned by others and I was continuing that subset topic. I don't really need a video to remind me why I play Gravelins.

Sorta New Former Guitar Day. I snagged the Ha Ha Cali body and the accompanying Butala neck a week or so back. I put this together about 10 years ago or so and was especially pleased with the graphic I designed for it. It bothered me that somebody had parted it out. So, I put her back just as she was. Not sure I'll hang on to her. She plays and sounds great but I sold her for a reason and not sure anything has changed. I guess I just wanted to have her whole again and put her in the hands of someone who will actually value and play it.

I'm half tempted to buy it, and part it out again... Just to watch him lose his mind 😂

You do realize that when a new owner takes possession, after you sell it or even give it away, they can do what they want to with it?

Thirty-ish years ago my brother came home from college and went and had a beer with one of his buds who'd not gone to college. The friend said he had a surprise and pulled up his shirt sleeve to reveal a tattoo. It was a Confederate flag with a banner below that read "Rebal" My brother asks (loudly and obnoxiously, no doubt). "REE-BALL? What the hell is a REE-BALL?" To which the friend argued, "no, no, it's REB-ull." "That's not how you spell that..." This was met with prolonged silence.

As my coworker says, "If it is important you will remember what it was." I hate him. 😉

This was on clearance at my local GC. I traded an Ibanez GB10 and cash and came home pretty satisfied with the deal. The 1993Plus was reissued years back with a wider nut (1-3/4") and an F-hole which was a hallmark of the original, 60's Rics imported to England by Rose Morris. Compared to my (since sold) 626/12, this one has it beat, hands down. No neck dive, and the hollow body gives it, "THAT sound." Hard to explain, but it sounds, “chimey-er”, than other solid Ric12s I’ve played. The wider neck makes it easy for me to arpeggiate chords without muting adjacent strings. Makes for a great playing experience! I'm sending it to Brawer for a few hardware upgrades from Winfield Vintage. I'll repost after the mods. Enjoy!

Fryin' bacon tonight.

I'm Learing, I'm Learing.

Props for the newbie using "IBS" properly.

Those early Starla and Mira guitars punch well above their weight. And speaking of weight, they're light as a feather and perfect for whiney old bastards. And speaking of bastards... Shorter scale (24.5") on at least some of them.

As much as I love boomers, they look wrong to me on that Korina vector. Very cool guitar nonetheless.

That one looks to have had some minor retouching. 🫣

…does it count if I put it there? I had been chatting with Mr. Dave Hill (NOT the dude from Slade, the one from Cleveland) over the last year or two about various guitar geekery and Hamers have come up here and there. I sent him a copy of “The Book” a while back just so he could see what he’d been missing all of these years. He was intrigued by the purple Prince Studio Custom, and I offered to let him check it out and play it when he was passing through the area sometime. Dave, Stike, my son and I had gotten a chance to hang out for an afternoon back in April and he was raving about borrowing a new Veleno for the Charlotte show the previous evening and dug it (but had to give it back). I brought up the Prince guitar again and he said he’d be honored to play it sometime. I had tickets to see Dave opening for Bill Murray at The Warner here in town a few weeks ago, and had also picked up a house concert at a really cool venue in North Baltimore’s lovely Roland Park neighborhood (Club 603). Friends of ours had just been there to see Rhett Miller and couldn’t say enough good stuff about it and also let me know that tickets were going on sale the next day - they don’t advertise, really, and the 30-40 seats usually sell out right away. I scored two, and right after, Bill postponed his DC show for the second time. I wasn’t sure if Dave was going to take the train down for just the smaller show, but he’s a man of his word, and did. My son and I trucked the purple guitar up and handed it to Dave for a soundcheck. He totally wailed on it for a solid half hour with a giant smile, and he showed it off to the hosts and sound team, who totally dug it. Dave had just scored a new Dunable V, which was super cool, and similar to the ones he usually plays, but he opted to sling the Hamer instead. It sounded great for the first part of the show and unfortunately, during his EVH interlude, he hit something (mic stand) and the middle string lock at the nut somehow loosened and the guitar went hopelessly out of tune mid solo. He was in the middle of a bit, so started riffing about having broken the guitar, but it was all planned payback for Prince trashing Capt. Kirk Douglas’ treasured ‘61 Epiphone Crestwood Custom. The audience started an unprompted “Prince! Prince! Prince!” chant as he switched to the Dunable. He didn’t get to play the Hamer for the rest of the set, but felt awful that he had broken the guitar. After the finale, he headed to the merch area a few rooms away so I hopped up took a quick look and in about 5 seconds had the guitar perfectly back in tune. We chatted later and he felt awful about it all, but honestly, there was zero harm done. He definitely wants to play it next time he’s in the area, like at the Enormodome or something. He definitely did it justice while he was playing and clearly dug it.

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My thing is to sound good on the crappiest gear. That hasn't worked, either.

Hamer in the front, Peavey in the back - me like this. And he is absolutely right. If it comes to guitars or to photography, the gear rabbithole should not matter. But it dies, if course. It took me (like anybody else, I guess) several years to realize that more or „better“ gear doesn‘t make me a better player or photographer. It just makes you a player/photographer with less money…

One weekend evening RUINED!! At least you still have both of your legs.

It took me years to find one. Still happy with it.

This video wasn't about that. It was about the philosophical differences in the two companies. At least that's what I got from it.

Any argument on which pickup is superior needs to be couched in the disclaimer that it's all subjective. I have tried both, time and time again. While I've found a few JB's that were more palatable to my ear, the vast majority were not. SuperD's just never grabbed me. Full stop. It's kinda funny because I don't think of myself as being particularly discerning in my audio preferences; I'm not a tone chaser to the extent that I have seen on here and elsewhere. But I know what I like when I hear it.

I might add.....Things like this do make you think about mortality. And all the more so as I did have a bit of a health scare myself 2 weeks ago. Released and sent home with no restrictions, but the 30 hours in the hospital with very little sleep did sorta "concentrate my mind". I really DO need to think about why I have so damn many guitars and other gear. WAY too much money tied up in all that stuff......Pretty sure I will be identifying many pieces and upping my efforts to move some along. I expect I will be posting some things here, as well as calling some folks that have asked for dibs.....I just don't want to get ahead of myself as a "teaser" until I have a definite list and can set asking prices.

I think Syl would have laughed out loud if he had seen that poster. 😆

I remember going to Arnold & Morgan Music in Garland TX in the late 70s, they had this poster and one of the employees had scrawled across it BARBARA STRIESAND PLAYS IBANEZ!!!

And....you'll keep it for 6 months😀

Unless you’re a dog, a dolphin or maybe Eric Johnson, the answer is “No”.