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I won’t lie. I straight up was copying a very specific hamer for my final build. I owned the Camstone Junior for few years. It was a dream guitar I lusted after for years. It was an awesome guitar. I regret selling it. It had an ebony board, tortoiseshell binding, and an amazing top in a tobacco sunburst. The back was a very dark burgundy transparent color over the mahogany. My goal was to replicate this but with humbucker and I decided why not go with a sustainblock bridge while I’m at it since they’re available through Mann now? A single volume to keep it simple.

I like the little dip in Hamers versus an original Junior so I just straight up traced one of mine for a pattern. Decided it was time to try out binding.

Well the years had gone bY and I had a number of Hamers, some better skills and this old block of Honduran mahogany laying around. Checked the body which I free hand drew out back in 2009 copying a photo. It was just oversized enough I could cut an actual Junior shape out of it. The center line of the glue joint wouldn’t be centered though. But hey I why not cover it in some maple? It was 2” thick so I had my friend plane it down with his nice planer to 1.5”. This was about 1 1/2 years ago

About 4-5 years ago I bought some telecaster templates and attempted a guitar from scratch again. Figured I better start simple this time. Hey it worked out! Built 2 teles. One for me one for my pops. Never want to build and paint a maple fretboard again though. Pain in the ass to finish and then clean up the frets afterward and buff the finish.

It’ll all started since I was obsessed with dc Junior style guitars but couldn’t afford one of the late 90’s Gibson ones. I’ll admit I didn’t know much about Hamer guitars 20 years ago. They weren’t really sold locally as far as I know. Never saw them in any stores around here. Played a vanguard in LA once in 2000 and liked it, but I was broke that was my only experience with Hamers. After failing at the builds, a few years went buy, and more money was being earned. I stumbled upon Hamers again. Bought my first one locally from an HfC member. It was silver studio and it was awesome. I started doing more of my own work (had always done my own basic setups and soldering) and buying tools for such things I decided I needed to build a kit guitar from PGK to get my dream Junior dc guitar with a maple neck and ebony board. Iordered it with a neck pickup route. I figured I could hide it under pickguard if I didn’t want to install one. The control holes weren’t supposed to be drilled but they did it anyways. Which sucks cause I’d have never done a 4 pot setup. It’d have one volume one tone. This forced me into using a neck pickup. Funny thing is the guitar ended up great but I really started to migrate away from thin necks about the same time. Built a couple more kits after the first one. Really love them. Especially the explorer (err Standard!).

Gave up a couple months later. the body languished for years in my garage. Even was used as a motor prop block for my aircooled bmw to sit on. see marks on the body

Built a few necks. None of which made it very far.

Started life as this board in 2009. I had neither the skill, patience or tools to finish this guitar then.

Honduran mahogany Ebony board Maple top tortoiseshell binding sustainblock Gravelin custom Charlotte wind in a Dimarzio/Hamer style base Awesome.

Damn. I like that it’s wraparound bridge and ebony board. Very cool. Glws

Nice. I have a Gravelin I just had Josh build me going in a project that's almost done. Good luck with the project.

The grain looks great on that V. What are you gonna load it with for pickups? can’t wait to see this done

Worth it. Love my Junior from them. I have 3 of their kits. All stellar.

Always love ordering pickups from you. Charlotte is my all time favorite pickup, but this new custom blend on an old Hamer style base is going to be awesome to try out. 😈

Perfect. I was about to contact you anyways. Pm sent

Few of those forever on reverb guitars. &nbs https://reverb.com/item/544170-hamer-studio-custom-2007-trans-white?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=544170 This shop has had this for sale for 17-18 years. Been on reverb for at least 9 years. the clear coat has started to yellow and now it looks more creamy than it used to.

I’m excited to see the whole thing. I love black with multi ply binding and gold hardware. Cool to see another masterpiece.

What’s up with those recessed inlays? LED?