zenmindbeginner

I have no earthly idea how long a company can sell $4000 guitars that lose half of their value as soon as the owner leaves the store with it. I may be exaggerating, but the depreciation that Hamers go through is enormous and leaves one absolutely slack jawed. I think that Hamer just never had a good roster of players that would endorse their instruments. No offense to Rick Nielson, but he is not a first rate guitar player. Jack Blades played the hell out of Hamers but he is a lousy bass player. Martin Barre and Jeff Watson are amazing guitar players but they never really broke out into the world of "guitar gods". Rick is a guitar god, but he is more known for his song writing, stage persona and wild ass guitar collection courtesy of Hamer. And by the way, Hamer did everything right with Rick Nielson marketing wise in my opinion, it was their finest effort. Rick Savage and Kip Winger are the absolute bottom of the barrel when it comes to the top echelon of bass players. No offense to Def Leppard fans, I love pre-Hysteria Def Leppard a whole lot (Rick Savage's playing sold millions of albums and he is partly responsible for the birth of thousands of children and plus, didn't he use the whammy on his Blitz bass on Pyromania? How cool is that?). It just leads one back to the question in the OP of "why is there not much love for Hamers out there"? I want to believe that it was a marketing problem, but maybe we are all just biased and Hamers aren't as awesome as we think that they are? I have been always puzzled as to why Hamer guitars appealed to only a small portion of the electric guitar players out there. I mean, I absolutely love them, but maybe I have developed an attachment to the Hamer mystique? I doubt it because every rational part of me knows that Hamer makes breathtakingly amazing electric guitars. As a buyer, I love the low prices, but I am not really getting a good deal whenever I buy a cheap USA made Hamer, I am really just buying a guitar that has experienced a great amount of depreciation..