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Received this 2024 Charvel Custom Shop DK 24 in 2025 but decided didn't really need 2 from the same run. Or did I? I put it up for sale and after no movement in 9 months, I took it down and took it out. Dayummmm! What was I thinking? Sweetest neck evah. But if I was gonna keep her she was gonna need mods. Her stripped down, built for speed configuration left me with no room for my array of overused and outdated fretboard shenanigans. So... A Gravelin Mongoose/Sustainiac Stealth/toggle switch and kill switch pot later, she's suitably armed to inflict maximum auditory damage on innocent bystanders via my back alley brawler style of playing. 😜

Simplified, I is water soluble (and the cheapest of the three formulas), II is considered water resistant, III is considered waterproof. Nitpicky as it relates to guitar repairs, sure ... until you have to clean up squeeze-out onto/into an old and/or checked finish (binding repairs and head breaks immediately come to mind); or redo a bond due to a re-break, an unforeseen misalignment (pieces drift, glide or slide during tape-up or clamp up, it happens to the best of us) ... or an aging joint's swell or "creep" over time due to environmental exposures, that may require a separate-and-start-over approach for best results. In all those cases, red label, wet or dried, can be compromised and/or cleaned up with hot water or steam and a toothbrush or a soft-metal-bristled brush, with little if any risk to the surrounding finish, binding, whatever. Green and blue label cleanups and removals are more delicate and intense, more time consuming, and includes a LOT MORE cuss words. I "can" drive a nail with a hammer, a rock or my forehead, but the consensus is the hammer is the best tool for the job. I can use any of the Titebonds to fix guitars, sure, but red is the consensus for guitar work. Just use red label, even if only as a favor to whoever may have to possibly revisit your fix years or decades from now.

Output jack is fine. It was operator and/or cable error. 🤔

That would be fun. I think you mean this one......Let it go a while ago. FWIW, the "acoustic" side of it worked less well than in other guitars. But certainly still good. I do regret selling my "Ultimate" custom order Duotone.....Sort of a mashup with the style of the Artist Ultimate and special pickups and wiring. Ah well...

Thank you. It's unmodified and comletely in original condition.

Disclaimer: all Barbie content is of course A.I. slop.

It's like, how much more pink could it be? And the answer is none - none more pink.

I just finished listening to Joe Bona-Mastuh’s Live From Nerdsville podcast interview with Bernie Marsden and have to admit to knowing very little about the guy beforehand. I like to say “I run the risk of learning something every day “. I thought I knew something about most of the late ‘60’s/ early ‘70’s British guitar players, but not Bernie. Consider: In 1974 Bernie bought his esteemed ‘59 Burst (The Beast) from Free’s Paul Kossoff, who got it in a prior trade with Eric Clapton. Bernie was a guitarist for UFO from Nov. ‘72 to June ‘73. When Bernie forgot his passport and couldn’t enter the country for a 1973 UFO gig in Germany in support of the Scorpions, UFO tapped then-Scorpion Michael Schenker to play the gig with them that night. And the rest, as they say, is History! When Deep Purple disintegrated in 1976, Bernie cofounded “PAL” with Ian Paige, Jon Lord and Tony Ashton (I need to check them out). In 1978 Bernie cofounded Whitesnake with David Coverdale. Together they co-wrote the global Whitesnake hit “Here I Go”. Two versions of the song were released on separate Whitesnake albums. The first version (That Bernie played on) appears on the ‘82 album “Saints and Sinners”, but at David Geffen’s urging, Coverdale recorded a second version (the HIT version for the ‘87 album “1987”. This version ( the MTV version) Features Adrian Vadenterd on lead guitar. see below for photos of THE BEAST and a very happy Bernie (guess I’d be happy too if I had a burst and #1 hit! Bernie wrote a biography (Where’s my guitar).which I’ve just received but haven’t started. There were some inexpensive like-new copies are available on eBay for @ $15- delivered. But they now appear to be sold out. You’re welcome.

Touch-up paint:

Sometimes the stars align, especially when you least expect it, and something special happens. I was browsing the classifieds of "Kleinanzeigen" (German "Craigslist") out of boredom in the middle of the night. I was already half asleep when suddenly ... I immediately contacted the seller by email. He was on vacation at the time, but after a brief phone call the next morning, he considered my interest in buying to be genuine and promptly removed the ad. After a short negotiation about shipping the guitars (which the seller initially didn't want to do), I received the two Vectors, undamaged, in one (!!!) cardboard box. And here they are:

That's a great deal. One piece mahogany body (no maple cap). Chugness galore.

Buck can still play and sing today as good as he ever did back then.

Oh My Hamer !!!! 🤩😇🥰 What a find!! Enjoy them Loudly!!!! 😎👍❤️🏁

Almost. Actually there are a few small dings and scratches on the back. Out of the time capsule are both warranty cards, a still sealed (!) envelope with the key for the case and a historic set of Fender DYNAMaX strings. And both guitars have received my usual treatment before being photographed.

Isn't all BOC old now?

I'll play..

+1 for "Where's my Guitar?" Very well & entertainingly written, astonishing facts and details about a very humble man amidst one of the most exciting times of musical history in his own words. Also, watch these 2 Anderton's interviews with Bernie

HO-LY shit. They’re both gorgeous, enjoy them in good health you lucky bastid!

Those are fantastic. Would love to hear the seller's story.

Thanks for the detail, Jeff, much appreciated. As with most things, haven't gotten to it as some house projects jumped out of nowhere and of course always take more time than you think they will.

@Ham Rex and I have been talking about @BTMN/Gene’s strange Vector which featured a weird paint scheme, a 67 Flying V body, and a pointy-yet-blunt headstock. As far as I understood, it was destined to Michael Schenker, who for some reason rejected it, so it ended up in a pawn shop somewhere (Jacksonville, FL?) and Gene purchased it eventually, but later on he wanted an amp, so he sold it to purchase the amp… and then he —and nobody else— never saw that guitar ever again. Given there are new HCF-ers since the last time we asked, we ask again: Is anyone here aware of the existence of this guitar, and of where it could be nowadays? These are the only two pictures of it I have —Gene might complete the story of the guitar, add the S/N (if he remembers) and tell us the entire story:

I think I’m all done buying guitars, but if the Monaco DuoTone ever hits the market again I might have to make an exception.

Love it! Great shenanigans as always!

Once upon a time, I had pondered selling it.....I had a long conversation way back when with Mr. Shishkov about building (one or two) variations on the theme, just a few little tweaks I had in mind for my personal taste. Well, it turned out that it would not be happening, so my one Shishkov will have to do. And it is actually a good companion to this one. 😉 Now I understand that David Myka has resumed building, so one never knows. But last I checked with him, he was not adding anyone to his queue.....And I am sorta past the "place your order and wait 3 years" stage.....🤨

Probably my favorite Hamer ever with @cmatthes's Cadillac green Monaco 3 is a very near second. (apologies for posting @django49's guitar, but I keep the photo always quickly available). 😉

Score of the year, I'd say! Good argument for not sleeping. Congrats and enjoy!

I've played the butchered Special and the Prototype 12 at the Rockford store. The Special is in rough shape, obviously modified, and not worth 1/2 what they're asking. The photos of the 12 string do not accurately reveal the condition of the guitar. I didn't notice any structural damage, but it's been very aggressively used and shows a lot of finish wear. If you're interested, I'd call and ask them for an in-hand description and close-up photos or a FaceTime once-over.

Congratulations. You own the two cleanest Vectors on the planet. Prick..!

That’s an Accutune Kahler knockoff on the Special.

So when I plugged it in nothing came out. Luckily it appears to be just the output jack. Works well enough after jiggling the cord to remind me that P90s are noisy. Going to try some contact cleaner on it today but new jack may be in my future. Some small dings but other than that no complaints and no initial obvious differences from other Hamer Jrs I have played.

She looks alone.

A slightly more rockin creed? I don’t see it. And I say this with all due respect.

Listening to this music today, it feels like a 100 years ago. Remember when bands like this were everywhere? An abundance of great bands simering just under the thin line of breaking through big time. So many you did not have time to listen to them all. And now, today, you search your ass of just to find one new band with just an inch of being the real thing - and just not a bunch of influencers posing as musicians. Damn, I hate what the "music biz" has become, (which is: there is no music biz anymore, it's just one thousand people uploading shit to Spotify, Tidal etc. every day without any kind of gate keeping or talent search).

The guitar is NOT A.I. of course. It seems to be a typical Korina Jr, just painted pink. It includes the very manly Seymour Duncan "hot" P90 pickup that many people love to hate. Different knobs and without the normal dogear-style pickup cover. Internet suggests it was sold once by L.A. Guitar Center "used" and then in a charity auction.

Reminds me of an SNL skit 😃👌

This one showed up at my place this morning. I could not pass up the flame maple on Korina and ebony board. It’s a good one.

Here are a couple more...

Maybe this is closer to what you were thinking.

Can confirm. He bought all of my guitars without haggling or asking any questions, and then he KEPT them!

Almost done...

🤘😝🤘