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I’ve always loved the JEL Charvel. Great color combination, pickups slanted the “correct” way (Jol says so, and I understand why) and string-through-body hardtail bridge. Please, more porn featuring that guitar. Please!

Finally going for this look, more or less: Getting quite there, though the knobs are amber, and I’m still waiting for the cream tip for the toggle switch: I think it will look great.

Thanks a zillion! He’s actually getting into blues and jazz improvisation at his school, as he also plays trumpet and he’s going to a music summer camp. I think these are great recommendations. Thanks again! 🙏

I was going to ask the HFC experts, but I don’t think there are many people answering there. So here it goes: Since my kid started playing piano, he has been learning classical pieces and doing exercises using scales, arpeggios, etc. He’s got good fluidity and has a great rhythmic ear. However, he still has a limited understanding of popular harmony. He’s now 13 years old and wants to play more songs —“Jump”, “The Final Countdown”, “Highway Star”… Is there a good book or DVD on chord progressions aimed to piano/keyboard players you guys would recommend? Thanks a lot in advance!

Korina looks alright with gold pickups, I think:

I love this look. Thanks for sharing. The double-cream and zebra humbuckers aren’t for my guitar, as the hardware will remain gold, but I’ll replicate the cream tip for the toggle switch and the amber knobs. Thanks again!

Sadly, I had the golden pickups and jumped on the guitar because it had “original” gold hardware —now I question its “originality”, but won’t make a drama out of it. At the same time, it’s entertaining playing with aesthetic options. Most of us like that kind of stuff. So, little follow up: I ordered a set of top hat amber knobs and also asked a vendor if I can get extra amber and cream tips with their golden right angle toggle switches, as these come stock with black tips —no reply yet.

One thing at a time. The black knobs don’t disturb me. The switch does though. Firstly, the switch has to be gold. Secondly, the tip can be either cream or amber, if I get amber knobs; or black, if I keep the current black knobs. I need to explore my options. The toggle switch has to be the Gibson type, they call it “right angle”. The “metric” ones seem to be easier to find. If it only has to do with the threading, that shouldn’t be a problem. Any recommendations?

OK, so cream remains —with the gold screws. Now the guitar looks like this: What do you think? By the way, it had the quite-safe-but-generic JB/59 combination, which I don’t even think were the original pickups, so I got a pair of used Sephtone 6T8 humbuckers and went with that… and it suddenly became ALIVE. Such a rich tone now! In all honesty, I didn’t expect such an improvement. Also, it was sold to me as featuring original golden hardware. Strangely, the toggle switch isn’t golden. I don’t think Hamer would make such a sloppy aesthetic choice, I find that strange. So, I tried to “fix” it, as I had a spare golden switch, but it didn’t fit. I’ll be therefore hunting for a proper golden toggle switch. Any recommendations or code or anything that would orient me to find one fitting to this guitar? Once again, thanks in advance. 🙏🙇‍♂️ To be continued! 😉

Blondes wearing black look AWESOME, I agree. 😉

That’s what I also thought. But the cream rings go well with the binding, I think. 🤷🏻‍♂️

OK, here are my thoughts: I would leave the cream rings and just put gold screws on it. However, the black tip of the toggle switch, the black knobs and the black headstock (not shown in the picture), made me wonder if black rings would look better. Please look at the following picture:

I was kidding. Your opinions matter. That’s why I wanna hear what you have to say.

Of course I will do whatever I want at the end, but still would love to hear your opinions. Let’s say I have a guitar that looks like this: And let’s say I would like to install a set of gold humbuckers on it, which look like this: Would you leave the stock cream rings, or you would replace them by black ones? Thanks in advance! 😉 PS: @velorush, I moved it here. 👊😎

@Feynman buddy, I missed you around here. I’ve recently gone on a very expensive Standard/Explorer buying spree, so I feel you. Now I have several astonishing guitars that sound, play and look fantastic, but that I don’t need at all. Here’s the one I know you won’t feel jealous about —see how compassionate I am? 😜

Queen got popular again after the “Bohemian Rhapsody” movie. That’s how timeless they are. Their music is a product that will be sold and resold in multiple ways, until our extinction as a species. And while I don’t know what’s the ROI plan for Sony, I bet Brian, Roger, John and whoever is getting Freddie’s chunk are rubbing their hands.

Yes, I’m already working with him on this guitar, as per my specs, as no flametop Standard actually popped. It will take some time, but my order got accepted and it’s moving forward. Thank you for letting me know Paolo existed! And if I like the first one, I might order a second one a bit more… different. 😉

If you wanna watch Joe playing that guitar (well, I don’t know, but it’s a Standard) for almost 15 minutes, just watch this video:

Yes. Install roller saddles and then you can push down the strings behind the bridge for some cool tremolo effects. This is an example of what I do, and this guitar has just a fraction of exposed strings before the bridge, compared to “The V”:

I stumbled upon this while Googling: https://hamerworkshop.wordpress.com/2010/03/ It goes from March 2010 to April 2012. Several cool stories there of Hamer beauties getting built. I remember vaguely that at some point we talked about this blog here. Thought about us all when I started navigating it. Hopefully it will bring back some great memories. Have fun!

Gorgeous guitar, in addition sustainblocked. It deserves sharing a picture:

Well, I’ve been discussing with Paolo. 😉If he finally builds me a “Standard” to these specs, I will put this post to sleep for a while —or even delete it, if I finally find out how to do it. Nonetheless, here’s one last bump, just in case. 😉

The title says it all, but I repeat: WTB flametop Standard with chunky neck, preferably Y2K’s —because these ones tend to have beefier profiles, apparently. By “chunky”, I mean C-shaped and around .880” on the first fret and .950” on the 12th, though will consider from .840” (1st) to .900” (12th) and thicker. If you want to sell one, please let me know. Thank you!

It makes me think of Frodo, which makes me think of Gollum: It has the G of Gibson, right? But it could also be re-named “G-spot”: 😜

@DaveL, that’s a great guitar there. ❤️