cmatthes
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3 hours ago, RobB said:
I know that guitar. Purchased new at Haight/Ashbury Music Center in ‘97. I was a millstone, but not too bad both a wide, leather strap.
That Standard/TS9 into a JCM800 2204 was pure magic.The one I played was in Annapolis, MD in 1996-97 at Garrett Park. I recall that it had some streaks in the Korina, but it wasn't quite "Black Korina". It was gone the next time I stopped by a couple months later.
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On 6/29/2025 at 5:33 PM, crunchee said:
One of the main reasons I eventually got rid of my full-sized Hamer Standards over the years was that I was in constant dread of hitting something/anything with the guitar(s) and dinging it up. Weight was never an issue, though.
I've owned a fair number of Standards - almost all have been feathers, weightwise.
The absolute heaviest Standard I've ever played was a '95 Korina LE - I wouldn't be surprised to learn that one weighed 12 lbs!-
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And Atomic will deal on it because it's been there for over 3 months...
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Always a good time, Stike!
Great rehab!!
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7 hours ago, The_Cali_Kid said:
I see ChatGPT is quoting ME.
Weird.
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Angus is closer to 5'2" than 5'10"!
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Brad's Mini Standard, #0138 ^I owned Brad's old matching Standard, #0137:
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2 hours ago, hamerhead said:
Forget the guitar - Perry had some of the worst plastic surgery I've ever seen.
Seriously! He looks like an entirely different dude in that video!! 😂
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#0138 in action:
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Mick was a badass.
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I'm a big Daytona fan. @mirrorimijsold me one he had lying around and it reawakened my love for Strats...but it's better than any Strat I've owned. I think I've had 4 of them and am down to one now, but I did put together this out of the wreckage of two '96 Daytonas and a super light Musikraft Korina body:
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22 hours ago, Ham Rex said:
My Custom ordered 89 Californian Elite Glue In Neck bound and boomers came in from Hamer with a SD JB not F-spaced and it sounds fine.
I don't understand why they didn't put in a F-Spaced SD?
It may have been right before Seymour Duncan F-Spaced JBs were available. I think they came out in either very late 1989 or early 1990.
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Besides, it was 100% not a 1997 Standard!
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As kids, Serial and I did what every unsupervised kid under 10 did back in the '70s, and ordered a bunch of albums through Columbia House's entrapment ads, where you taped a penny to the card, added a stamp and a few weeks later, got 13 records, 8-Tracks or Cassettes. "Endless Summer" was in that mix, and got worn out!
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I did it.
Damnit.
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4 hours ago, hamerican gigolo said:
It didn't speak to me, so off it went.
If a guitar ever spoke to me - in any language - I'd freak the fuck out.
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Intrigued...
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I've known Jay since the very early days of the HFC way back in the 20th Century. We hung out a fair bit over the years and I fondly recall a couple lunch breaks from work when Jay, Turdus and me got our greasy fingerprints all over a bunch of guitars at a nearby Northern VA Hamer dealer (good ol' Russ...). I caught him out playing in a band or two, and I think he probably struggled with the urge to throw a beer at one of my bands from the crowd over the years as well.
Quite possibly, the funniest and smartest muthafuckah I've known, and I managed to stay out of the receiving end of his sometimes caustic wit for far longer than I didn't. I was probably his primary supporter behind the scenes on the board for many years, and more than a few times, talked things out with him in order to prevent a Chernobyl-quality meltdown here, but I wasn't always successful. Not sure what turned, but we're all human, I guess.
I tried to reach him via FB a little over a month ago, but haven't heard back, but I know he has far more important things on his plate right now, and I totally understand.
Jay - I wish you nothing but the best, and you've made more people laugh - and some even cry - around here, but at the end of the day, you're a fucking LEGEND.
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It IS original.
Blitz Basses were available in many colors and graphic finishes, and this appears to be a one-off Custom factory finish.
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I can confirm that is Brad's old Standard in DarkHammer's post above. It's still selling for more than Brad let it go for a few years back, but the current price is less than half what that guy WAS asking for it when he first listed it.
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There's usually a reason they don't list the weights on those...
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Help ID this Hamer for me please
in Hamer Fan Club Messageboard
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