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Why don't you get a set of these for the guitar. They are specially made for the new Schiskov guitars. As close to a Hamer as you can get. I would definately be the coolest pickups for an old Sunburst, if you don't go with old Dimarzio's. http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/topic/67253-enola-and-grace-shlabotnik/

Just ask the seller if he can drive across the border and ship it from there. Or drive over yourself and pick it up.

This one looks very nice. And with original pickups etc. http://www.ebay.de/itm/Hamer-Special-USA-/321512864373?pt=Gitarren&hash=item4adba8fa75 I have no affiliation with the seller.

"Flitz" that is some sassy shit. If you are punk enough you'd just use a silver marker pen and paint over the damn bridge. A true punk does not even remove the strings. Hell, you want to change it to gold hard ware, just use the gold pen. And if you want to be really out there, you can even use pink. Works on your finger nails as well.

The seller knew guitars usually make U-turn with you and head out the door with in a few weeks. He just tried to correct that fact.

That is a great looking 4-digit. They are sought after, and rightfully so. What ever you paid for it you'll get back a couple of years down the road. The 4-digits were perhaps the best guitars made in the 1970's, and the quality was as high in the early 80's. Can't put a price on that feeling. Congrats! Can't own to many 4-digits.

A woman with the lower part of the body like an onion. What is NOT to like? You thought you had seen it all. The Unicorn. The Mermaid. The Yeti. You were sooooo wrong, you had completely missed... THE ONION WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Cramps should write a song about her. Wait, Lux Interior is dead. DEAD!

This ^^^^^^

Congrats. Wish Fender would have just licensed you the right to use the name "Hamer" for free. Bastards.

I'm going totally backwards. My bad luck I guess, always doing everything the opposite way of everyone else.

His playing is flawless. I was discussing his tone On the Dio albums he had a nice warm crunchy 80s Marshall tone. I love it. In this clip he's got a much colder, shriller tone. Guess it's the difference between German perfection and flawlessness, the Engl Wagner opera tone - meets the Brittish "hey lad, fancy a pint" soulful Marshall tone. Again, just a matter of taste.

I watched the clip now that I got home. Yes, he still rips. Can't say that I like his tone better now though. I think his tone back in the day was really special. Now he sounds just like any old schmuck with a high gain amp. Can't beat 80's tone!

He was good with Dio, and Dio made his two best albums with him. So, as much as he was good, so was the songs he played on. It was a win win. As for Leppard, I have no opinion, as they started to really suck when he came aboard. So, he might still be good, but the albums he played on with Leppard sucks.

There are some serious pinches 20 minutes in to this live clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuH8QZIAo-w

Very interesting. Where this line of Slammer pickups the same as the ones used in the US Hamer's? That is, were they OEM, wound by Dimarzio USA? Then I'd take it they are very good pickups. Love to try them out.

Depends on how much effort and resources they want to devote to swatting a fly. But yes, if the lawyer gets greedy, he's toast. WCM have inhouse lawyers. They are p.r.e.t.t.y. good at fighting these things. It's not like they turn up once a year.... They have about 1.5 million songs in their catalogue. Imagine how many times a year they get claims like this on songs they currently have on the charts, from every other kind of weirdo. They are experts at intellectual property.

Doubt they will settle anything. The Warner/Chappell lawyers will tear them to shreads. I'd love to read the correspondance. Lolz.

As a music publisher I say the case is extremely weak. They are makin' fools out of themselves. Then again, I'd hardly ever heard of the band Spirit. So the publicity they create by this may well generate some income for them when people are listening in on Youtube and Spotify etc. In the limelight again after 40 years, for fifteen minutes - then forgotten again.

The one big thing I hate about Strats. They are so sensitive to what pickups are in it, and you just can't mag swap them either. Changing pickups is a pain in the butt. And on the T62 it's even worse with all the little wires to the HEQ cirquit. I've changed them twice. Won't do it again.

What are those pickups? I had Antiquity Surfers in my T62, Texas Hot at the bridge. Never got them to sound right. Changed them recently to Texas Hot Ants in all three positions. Much better. Now it sounds like a strat should. No ice pick, just smooth smoky groove, with an edge when needed.

Seriously, we should do it.

Tone is not in your fingers, it's in your wallet. You want to sound like Hendrix, you must have this one. It's 50s tone after all: http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/topic/65203-psa-nik-huber-rietbergen/

Sad but glorious at the same time. A huge congrats. The last new "Hamer congrats" I will ever write I guess........

This one goes out to the bastids at FMC:

F*ck. That sucks big time. Now someone has to bend the Hamer brand out of Fenders hands and start small scale production agan. You guys could do it.