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I do get that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sounds great, loyal to the original, but it’s still Judas Priest. Thanks for sharing!

I find it chaotic having some strings wound differently. I care much more about consistency and functionality than about how the guitar looks. By the way, I love both headstocks, but I like the chunkier headstock of the more recent Standards better. It’s more Hamer, less Gibson, and looks sturdier to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Unintentional click bait 🤷🏻‍♂️

WOW! That’s what he said —asked him few minutes ago. This is totally new to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I haven’t asked him yet, because I just noticed, but I think he was trying to keep the high E string inside the area of the headstock. But from a functional standpoint, I don’t know if there’s any other reason. Why do you think he did so?

A close friend of mine kept one my Standards for a while, so he adjusted it and tuned it to his tastes. Now, this is new to me: The high E, the B and the G strings are now wound “the wrong way”, so the machine heads turn clockwise to rise the pitch, and counterclockwise to lower it. So weird! Of course, I have seen and played many guitars featuring six-in-line headstocks, but this is the first time I see the strings configured this way. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Is this something some of you guys also do?

Awesome! I moved from Montreal to Florida three years ago, but Canada remains a great place —both cool and cold 🥶 Wish you guys a happy new home.

Bumping it once again, to give just another chance to the opportunistic sellers around to make some cash on my GAS attack. 😜 By the way, a couple of gems have popped here, but for me it’s a must to have a bound body, no floating tremolo (no Khaler, no Floyd) and no pickguard. For the rest, I don’t care much —dot, block, trapeze, boomerang inlays… I don’t mind! Bound or unbound neck, I don’t mind! TOM with stoptail or string-through-body, sustainblock… I don’t mind! Year… well, I prefer 2K, 90’s and then the older ones, in that order, but I don’t mind much either. Just PM me if you have one. You won’t regret it! 😛

Well, I just mean that a GAS attack for a Hamer cannot be treated by buying something else, no matter how good or how similar to a Hamer that “something else” might be. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m not unhappy with them, but I barely play them and they don’t feel either like “collector items”. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Doesn’t look bad at all, and I know how playable the imports are. Yet, I’m looking for an American Hamer. 😉

I don’t dislike this one, but would prefer bound body and no pickguard. In addition, signed by Nielsen should make it expensive, right? I guess I will wait a little, at least for now.

Let’s bump this. You owners of black 2000’s Standards may take advantage of my current GAS as of right now. I don’t know how long it will last, so sell me yours NOW! 😜

I love the look, but my next purchase will be a black Hamer Standard, preferably from the 2K’s. After compulsively buying two guitars from Paolo Salcuni, I realized that it’s not worth the money if what one wants it’s a Hamer and nothing else.

Crowned? Nah, I don’t care. Dot inlays, unbound neck and unbound headstock are okay. Just bound body is preferable to me… though I generally dislike pickguards. Yet, is this baby FS? What year?

Older bones dislike colder weather. 😜

Yeah, I know you guys are attached to your guitars, but it’s always worth trying, so here we go: I want a Black Standard, preferably from the most recent models. I you have one for sale, please PM me. I live in Florida, in the Fort-Lauderdale area. Thanks in advance! PS: No Floyd or Kahler, please.

Hey! Thank you! But in all honesty, designing that solo was pretty arduous; the rhythmic figures of the run at the end are quite challenging for me to play cleanly and in time. That run starts with two quintuplets, then it follows with two triplets and then it ends with a straight rhythmic line. I actually didn’t play it too well in the video, though it’s a decent approximation. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Also, I had to do several takes of the solo, stack them up and then cut and paste the best sections of each take. That’s why the studio version will sound neat and tight, but « live » I don’t think I can do much better than what I did in the video. Hum… the angry guy kinda looks like me, but I won’t take it personally 😜

I guessed you guys would like to see that our Hamer axes are getting played, so here’s a new guest solo I recorded for BLINDER, for a song on their next EP. Now, here’s something you might NOT like: I DID record the second lead voice you hear in the background with this guitar, but I ended up recording the main leads with my home-made white Vee. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Yeah, I know, sacrilege; but that’s how it was. As weird as it is, that no-name Vee which was built by a friend of mine using leftover materials, still is my main guitar for playing solos. I just have a good bond with it. So, for the record (pun intended), here are the tools of the trade: Cheers!

FYI, @Jakeboy and I are already working together. BTW, the same way @Steve Haynie was expecting more metal from me, my bandmates are now wondering what’s wrong with me. 🤣🤣🤣 I’m having soooo much fun!!!! 😜

The lyrics: “Ashes On My Keyboard” I was trying to be there for you, my friend Just wanted to see you laughing again So I started to play with fire Oh what a mess I’ve made, ashes on my desk! Got ashes on my keyboard While you got ashes in your heart Oh, ashes on my keyboard But you got ashes in your heart. You go for a walk by the lake And your inner war goes on and on and on and on I go for a walk on my side Walking beside you in my mind while I’m still alive. (solo) You go for a walk by the lake And your inner war goes on and on and on and on I go for a walk on my side Walking beside you in my mind while I’m still alive. Got ashes on my keyboard While you got ashes in your heart Oh, ashes on my keyboard (oh no) But you got ashes in your heart Burning down your life Within your mind But you're a dragonfly.

Ashes_on_my_KBD-raw-demo.mp3 Here's the song. It's just me playing and singing to a click. This is at its very early stages and I'm not very good at singing and playing at the same time, so I beg your indulgence. By the way, I've only shared it with my bandmates, so please don't share this thing around, it's extremely raw. I also overdubbed a guitar solo, only to figure out what to play in that section. Nothing definitive either. The slide parts go after the turnaround in the intro and right before the guitar solo. The chords are A, Db and D. Once again, huge thanks. The HFC is the best guitar crowd in the world. ETA: 75 bpm

That sounds awesome. Tone wise, I’m looking for some authentic slide tone. I don’t know much about slide tones, but I don’t want it to sound like me playing slide, because I cannot play slide. I’m going to share a raw demo in short here.