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zorrow

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  1. Is that the Centaura with the two boomer inlays and active pups that used to be Nick’s? If it is, I played that guitar and I found its tone a tad harsh, but it was a powerful riffing machine. 🤘
  2. There you go! As you can see, nothing fancy, just a production 1984 Vector with its paddle-like headstock and its useless (at least for me) sustaiblock tremolo. On the positive side, it was all original, including the hideous radio-like knobs, and it’s whammy bar —which always stayed in the case, because I fixed the tremolo with a wood block (not glued, just placed there to keep it fixed). The pickups, I don’t remember if they were Slammers or other type of DiMarzio’s, but they SCREAMED. This guitar was a tone monster and, in the long term, it’s the only guitar I actually regret selling. 😢
  3. These are my two skinny-necked ladies I won’t get rid of. The Camo Vector, I never play it, but my wife doesn’t want me to sell it. She wants my kid to “inherit” it. It’s also a guitar that has a story, so at least for now, it stays. The 4-digit Standard “from HELL” has sentimental value for me, as it was Kev’s. It’s a tone monster too, plus a piece of rock history. I’ve used it to play many rhythm parts in my recordings. This one is therefore a keeper, in spite of its skinny neck. 🤷🏻‍♂️
  4. Ha! These are two of my guitars which are gone because of their skinny necks. No Judas Priest hate though! 😉
  5. I like chunky/beefy necks. Hamer are great guitars, but they generally feature necks which are too thin for my tastes. For example, my Schenker Custom Vector and my recently-acquired Korina Standard have thick-enough necks, but my other two Hamer guitars (the Camo Vector and “the Standard from HELL”) have skinny necks. That’s why I don’t play them often. I also got me once a Phantom (from one of the Matthes bros) whose look was irresistible, but as cool as it looked, I couldn’t stand its shredder-friendly neck, so I sold it. My KK Vector also had an insupportably skinny neck, and that’s why she’s gone and I don’t regret selling it at all. In contrast, a blueburst Vector I once had, which I got from Peter Fung, had a neck perfect for me, but I stupidly sold it, maybe to buy me something I shouldn’t have liked that much, because I forgot, while to this day I still regret selling that guitar. I’ve played many Hamer’s along the years, including some from several friends I’ve made here. As sacrilegious as this might sound, I even strongly prefer the necks of the import Hamer’s. Most of them have necks very satisfying to me, while US-made Hamer’s rarely feel chunky enough. Now my question: are there any specific models featuring chunky necks? Something like old LesPaul guitars would be perfect. PS: By the way, if someone here has a Standard or a Vector with a thick neck and wants to move it, please let me know. 😉
  6. This has been very probably already discussed here, but I would like to know how Blitz and Standard guitars differ. Aside from the obvious differences, such as the preferred hardware each model tends to use, is there anything else making a Blitz a Blitz, and a Standard a Standard? Dimensions? Construction methods? Choice of wood? TIA!
  7. Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing. My side, it tickles all the right spots. Going to get me this album for sure. The release date is may 17th! https://gazette.gibson.com/news/slash-unveils-new-blues-album-orgy-of-the-damned/
  8. I don’t know, as the guitar was listed as having “Seymour Duncan humbuckers”, but according to people here, that should be the case —JB bridge and 59 neck.
  9. Nice guitars! And for the woman, you also had her and now she’s gone… and that’s quite a standard too! 😉 Cheers! 👊
  10. Ah, I also used the Mayday V for some rhythm parts that day, specially for the Chuck Berry-like intro. I actually indulged in rock star geekiness in that song, playing four different guitars —the Standard and the Mayday for rhythm, and a Hoyer Arrow and a Gibson Voodoo V for my solos. My friend used his B.C. Rich for the fills and a Gibson SG for his solo. So, six different guitars on a single song! 🤪
  11. I sadly have no Standard regrets, as the Korina I just got is my second one, and my first one was Kev’s 4-digit Standard from HELL, which I still own and used to record most of my rhythm parts in “Wax Museum” —here is a sample: But I do regret having discovered the magic of the Korina Standard just now. And I also regret not having ordered a Standard with a sustainblock and a beefy neck from Shishkov, when he offered us here to build that run several years ago. 🤷🏻‍♂️
  12. I call dibs on the Hoyer, Dirk! 😜
  13. Thought the pic was taking some time to load. You got me! 🤣🤣🤣
  14. Prices are going crazy. Vintage Hamer guitars are getting close to 10K, or even more. But I guess us, upper middle class people who can afford quite expensive instruments, are the ones to blame, right? 🤷🏻‍♂️
  15. Not sure I made the right face, but the tone is great, even when tapping —not that I’m a tapping king or anything, but sometimes I do use that technique:
  16. I paid 5.4K, which is on the steep side —it was listed at 6K. I had however received some extra cash from a consulting job I did, so I said to myself that it was now or never. In short, my GAS got me! 😜
  17. I don’t know. They were listed as Seymour Duncan humbuckers, no model specified. I like the way they sound.
  18. This is me after listening to the new album from Judas Priest and then grabbing the new Standard: 😜
  19. @BTMN (Gene) beat you on that one. 🤣
  20. It looks more like a bullet to me. I also have the 4-digit Standard from HELL, and haven’t even noticed what’s the shape of the truss rod cover. 🤷🏻‍♂️ By the way, I like the neck of this one better. Kev’s Standard has a thinner neck and probably was refretted with jumbo frets. This one is very comfortable to play, rounder and beefier. I like the feeling better. It also resonates differently, as if its natural sound was more brilliant. I’m in the process of recording the last five songs of our album. I’m going to use this one for most of my rhythm parts, I love its sound. Gonna try it for leads too, but I already have a configuration I love for my solos and don’t want to mess with it.
  21. Ah, thank you for clarifying. I tried to date it myself, but visibly didn’t understand how to do it. So, a Hamer from the nineties… That’s cool!
  22. I’m not totally sure, it has no COA. The serial number is: 541866 004 That’s 2005, right?
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