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  1. This guitar should sell for well above $4k. Dot Standards are in the $5k plus range depending on finish, serial number, etc (assuming that they're all original). Four digit Standards haven't been $3000 guitars in more than a decade. Today? Only if it's been Kahlered or butchered. Speaking of original, I've got an original four digit case for sale if you're looking...
  2. Sweet-thanks!! That's a great looking Virt and I'm one of the minority who digs Kahlers, so even doubly good.
  3. Have had several questions about how/when I got this one. One thing that I think makes this one even cooler is the fact that I got whole history of the guitar from the time it was originally purchased. Original owner was the road manager for the 1976 Winter Brothers Summer Tour and they were in the NYC area for a show. During the day, they hit, what else? Music shops. On a run into Pastore Music in NJ, this guitar is hanging out of reach of the unwashed masses on the wall (because it was probably as much as a few new Les Pauls cost). When you are touring with a guitar legend, people put things in your hands, so the guy plays the Hamer, digs it and buys it. #0017 then proceeds to accompany the tour, spending a lot of time in the case. In November, 1978, he decided he wanted bigger frets on the guitar, so he had a tech put in larger ones (date and signature is inscribed on the underside of the control cavity cover). A string tree was installed then too, but later removed so a screw hole remains-the only real blemish on this beauty. Original owner gets back after some time on the road and no band anymore, he goes back to school. I don't recall if he was going back to college or med school, or both, but after that, he understandably didn't get to play it much. Fast-forward to early 1997. I had recently become an HFC member and since no one had the internet, we didn't mind that pages loaded so slowly because there could be days without another soul showing up to post (likely because there was no boobies thread). I had bookmarked a regional Craigslist-type Classifieds that had a musical instruments section and I was on a serious Hamer Standard hunt. FINALLY an ad shows up (I literally bookmarked every guitar classified page on the Internet) for a Hamer Standard, so I call right away-a day too late. A NYC/NJ guitar player (also a columnist for several guitar mags and fairly well-known in regional guitar circles) had scooped me. The good doctor chatted with me for a decent amount of time telling me all about the guitar and how it came to be his, etc. at the end of the chat, I joked that if the guy ever decided that he wanted his money back, he should call me. About two months later, I got a call out of the blue. I had finally scored an old '78 Standard, but had the bug big time. The guy who bought #0017 was starting a magazine and was looking to raise some cash. I was happy to oblige, although I did have to sell off my beloved '75 Ibanez Destroyer to come up with the cash. The buyer very generously drove the guitar to my in-laws' home in NJ and I picked it up at the Shore (don't recall if it was Labor Day or Memorial Day... I've enjoyed having it ever since. This one is a stupid rare under-the-bed, no back worming beauty from the very earliest days of Hamer. This is one of the Monty basement guitars (before John McHugh came on board) and even before they had settled on the distinct double cream bridge and zebra neck pickup combination. Not for any other purpose, but that I think it's a cool story that hopefully some HFCers will enjoy.
  4. I'd be interested in adding the serial number to the Hamer Registry-I don't believe I have that one!
  5. Well, the guitar I had my sights set on is no longer available, so I'm more flexible on a deal now that the trade part isn't as limited.
  6. A little porn... http://smg.photobucket.com/user/serial/slideshow/0017
  7. What logic drives one person has no relation whatsoever on what another person, using their own opinions or beliefs and having not the slightest inkling as to what motivates the former, might think. I might very well get more enjoyment from a new Porsche than a vintage Ferrari. Why is that for anyone else to question? And I would never use FedEx!
  8. Well that takes me out. Too far to walk. Talking to a few people and nobody has to walk. Most of the people most interested are out of the USA, so walking would be, well, impractical.
  9. The covered neck pickup was likely there for a while since Greco kept that detail when it copied #0000 in 1978.
  10. I know of two 1pickup LPs for sale (on TGP by an HFC member actually) in the $2500 range. Wasn't looking for a koa BCR necessarily-I know the market on those!!
  11. The price is not $10,500 though. It's cash plus a guitar... ;P The biggest thing I'm wrestling with is shipping this one. It would certainly be better all around (and a LOT cheaper) to avoid shipping if possible, although I'm certainly able to ship.
  12. I don't think for a second that there was ever a thought of misleading of any sort. Anyone who knows Elduave knows he's a class-A straight shooter (and a fantastic player)!
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